By Kryptic on June 22, 2010
Yeah! We found the medallion! Very, very early on Friday morning, PJ and I finally found the Lakewood Treasure Hunt’s Treasure chest! You geocachers out there probably guess it… It was a clear plastic Gladware container. It seems that even local municipalities have gone clear! Considering the final location of the medallion, it was a [...]
Posted in Tupperware Tuesday | Tagged Lakewood WA, treasure hunt, Tupperware Tuesday, Washington
By Kryptic on June 15, 2010
We have been using a very short break in the regular Washington weather pattern (yes it is raining right now) to go Geocaching and Treasure Hunting. The last two days here were beautiful, full of sunshine, crisp clean air and lots of spring green popping up everywhere. It was heaven. Did you catch the “was”?! [...]
Posted in Tupperware Tuesday | Tagged Gadgets & Gear, Geocaching, Lakewood WA, treasure hunt, Tupperware Tuesday
By Kryptic on June 10, 2010
The U.S. Forest Service and the American Recreation Coalition have partnered with other federal, state and local agencies, recreation businesses and outdoor enthusiast organizations, including, Groundspeak Inc., Leave No Trace, Tread Lightly!, Cabella’s, REI, and more, to host, National Get Outdoors Day or “GO Day”. GO Day is a relatively new effort to encourage Americans [...]
Posted in Odds & Ends | Tagged Events, families, Groundspeak, recreation, State Parks, U.S. Forest Service
By Kryptic on May 30, 2010
Watch as two newbie geocachers hunt their first geocache. They do a great job explaining the basic aspects of geocaching and the looks on their faces when they discover it is going to be a puzzle cache are priceless! Found this YouTube Video on “Jon’s Adventure Vlog: Geocaching For Buried Treasure!”
Posted in Geocaching, Puzzle Cache | Tagged Geocache, geocacher, Geocaching, Puzzle, video
By Kryptic on May 24, 2010
Google has released their source code for the “My Tracks” program which let’s users record a track log of where they have been, upload it to Google Docs, and then post their trip maps online. Now that the source code has been released, I’m sure the Groundspeak Lackey’s are going to be very busy figuring [...]
Posted in Gadgets & Gear | Tagged Android, GPS, Groundspeak
By Kryptic on May 18, 2010
Geocaching at Ft. Steilacoom Park in Lakewood, WA is one of my favorite things. So I have been saving my last un-found geocache in the park for a Spring day. Today, May 18th, an intermittetaly sunny/cloudy day complete with light spring rains and two rainbows. Also today is my little Sister’s Birthday and the Anniversary [...]
Posted in Tupperware Tuesday | Tagged Geocaching, GPS, Lakewood WA, Spring, treasure hunt, Tupperware Tuesday
By Kryptic on May 17, 2010
Two videos of interest to geocaching and outdoor recreation enthusiasts everywhere. Sally Jewell of REI and geocaching.com founders featured.
Posted in Geocaching | Tagged Geocaching, Groundspeak, National Parks, Outdoors, REI
By Kryptic on May 15, 2010
A creative geocache found in an unusual place is a one of a kind treat. Created by a clever geocacher, this cache is a delight. Come and see what we mean.
Posted in Creative Caches | Tagged creative, Creative Cache, Geocache, geocacher, Geocaching, video
By Kryptic on May 13, 2010
Geocaching and Letterboxing in Washington State Parks fall prey to Anti-Caching. How this is counterproductive and ways to better protect sensitive areas discussed.
Posted in Geocaching, Washington | Tagged Geocache, Geocaching, Letterboxing, Washington State Parks
By Kryptic on May 8, 2010
I was looking at my geocaching stats and admiring my new icons, (3 new cache types! But I’ll get to that in a minute…) when I had a question pop into my head. “Why do I have so many Events caches and so few actual Geocaches showing on my last 30 days of activity page?” [...]
Posted in Event Cache, Geocaching | Tagged Events, Geocaching, Washington
