Choosing a Headlamp

TweetI’ve been answering questions on a few threads lately so I decided to write a post about choosing a headlamp.   As with most of my technical posts these days they are being posted to the blog over at Cache At Night.   The gist of my post is that there is more to selecting [...]

How To Use FireTacks

TweetI have posted a FireTacks Usage Tutorial over on the Cache At Night blog.  It seemed to make more sense  to post it there.  The tutorial offers tips on where to place FireTacks.  Of special note is the safe implications of taking people of the trail using FireTacks. teamvoyagrI have been writing the cachemania blog [...]

Planned Outage at Geocaching.com

TweetI wonder if the planned outage for this Wednesday is related to the site responsiveness yesterday? From the geocaching.com website: Geocaching.com will be going offline temporarily for a site update on Tuesday, March 08, 2011 at approximately 11am PST (GMT -8). We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. teamvoyagrI have been writing the cachemania [...]

Any Geocachers About?

TweetHave you ever rolled into an out of the way trail-head parking lot and found another car there?  Did you wonder if they were also geocaching?  Just last weekend we walked back to our cars from a 1km hike on a frozen lake only to find a geocacher’s car parked between our vehicles.  Brendah from our group [...]

Backpack Modification for Garmin Clip

TweetI was talking to a geocaching friend the other day and he mentioned that he finds the new Garmin mounting system a bit frustrating.   He is used to the mounting system from the 60 series of GPSr.  He has a GPSMAP 62s now and has to deal with the carabiner clip as an attaching [...]