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 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
By Kryptic on April 17, 2010
With so much hoopla going on right now surrounding Geocaching’s 10th Anniversary events and Geowoodstock VIII, it is easy to forget the April is also CITO month. The 8th Annual “Cache In Trash Out Events” are scheduled for April 24th & 25th, which is the first weekend following Earth Day. When I first learned about [...]
Posted in Event Cache | Tagged CITO, Events, Geocaching
By Kryptic on March 23, 2010
July 3rd, 2010 and Geowoodstock VIII are fast approaching. Many of us here in the Pacific Northwest have been gearing up for this event since last year! We are very excited to be hosting the largest geocaching event in the country during the 10th Anniversary of Geocaching. We’ve held awareness and fundraising events all over [...]
Posted in Geowoodstock VIII | Tagged download, Events, geowoodstock, Puzzle
By Kryptic on May 10, 2009
The GPS Adventure Maze event at Seattle’s Pacific Science Center was an eye-opening experience. I had never seen so many geocachers in one place! Even Jeremy seemed quite surprised by the turnout. There were lots of people snapping lots of pictures. The best ones belong to Jeremy. You can view Jeremy’s flicker photo set of [...]
Posted in Event Cache, Geocaching | Tagged Events, Geocaching, Geocoins, Seattle
By Kryptic on March 19, 2009
On March 28th 2009, at the “Pacific Science Center” in Seattle, WA, the GPS Adventure Maze Exhibit will be on display. This will be a first for me on three fronts: first time in Seattle, first time at the Pacific Science Center and my first time in the maze. I can’t decide over which thing I am most excited!!!
Posted in Event Cache, Geocaching | Tagged Events, Seattle, WA
