So what is this 'geocaching' thing anyway?
Simply put, geocaching is treasure hunting for the 21st century.
Armed with a GPS receiver, a set of coordinates that tell you the location of a cache,
and a healthy sense of adventure, players go out and look for
caches of goodies...
(Read more...)
Geocaching News
24 June 2003: Geocaching: la chasse au trésor par GPS
(Nouvo [Swiss Television])
Entre chasse au trésor high-tech et course d’orientation, le geocaching
débarque dans les campagnes suisses. GPS à la main, les «géocacheurs» sillonnent
le pays à la recherche de mystérieux trésors enfouis dans plus de 140 cachettes....
(Watch video...)
9 June 2003: Internet-Guided Offline Recreation (IGOR): Geocaching
(TidBITS)
Sitting at a glowing screen for hours on end, with little or no live human
interaction - this is the typical Internet experience. But some areas of
the Internet compel users to leave the keyboard, go outside, and interact
with the real world. This category of Web sites, hugely popular and
usually non-commercial, doesn't have a name yet...
(Read more...)
2 June 2003: MINNESOTA: GPS treasure hunt under fire
(Twin Cities.com)
Ian Stevens checks his GPS unit, as rain drips off the end of his ponytail.
The GPS arrow points to the east, and Stevens begins another session of
geocaching — a sport like a high-tech scavenger hunt — in Cottage Grove's
Ravine Park. Three park officials walk up. Will they kick him out?
(Read more...)
April 2003: There's a new game in town: EcoScavenging
(ecoscavenger.com)
EcoScavenging is a new alternative to Letterboxing and GeoCaching. It's played
the same way except the "destination is the cache", meaning there's
nothing to hide. This is a great way to share interesting and beautiful
places.
(Read more...)
February 2003: Buxley's Geocaching Waypoint featured in Discover Magazine
(Discover Magazine)
The February issue of Discover Magazine's "Emerging Technology" column,
written by Steven Johnson, has a very interesting article on future uses of GPS.
Not only is geocaching (and this web site) prominently mentioned, he also goes
on to mention future uses of GPS technology. For example: what if you could get a
message (email, voice, etc.) when you went to a certain latitude and
longitude? It's a very highly recommended article which you can read online by
clicking here:
(Read more...)
27 January 2002: Buxley's Geocaching Waypoint Announces "Top 50" Maps
(Buxley's Geocaching Waypoint)
With the completion of the map of Vietnam,
this web site now has maps for every country in the world containing eight
or more geocaches. Another way to look at this is that each of the top fifty
countries, in terms of
the number of geocaches they contain,
now have their own maps.
(Read more...)
2 December 2002: Buxley's Geocaching Waypoint Announces Alaskan Maps
(Buxley's Geocaching Waypoint)
The entire state of Alaska can now be explored as easily as the lower
48. As of today, over two hundred new maps of Alaska are available for
your geocaching pleasure....
(Read more...)
9 November 2002: Buxley's Geocaching Waypoint Announces New US Maps
(Buxley's Geocaching Waypoint)
I'm very pleased to announce the addition of 925 (yes, 925!) new geocaching maps
covering the entire continental United States in one degree increments. Each
of these "tile" maps covers approximately 3,600 square miles--that's big
enough so that eight pixels on one of these maps represents a distance of
about a mile....
(Read more...)
23 July 2002: Geocaches on Pennsylvania State Forest Land must be Registered
(Pennsylvania DCNR-Bureau of Forestry)
Geocaching Guidelines have been developed and placed into effect for the
Pennsylvania DCNR-Bureau of Forestry on July 23, 2002. Existing geocaches
on Pennsylvania State Forest lands will be given 30 days, starting Monday,
July 29, 2002, to be removed by the geocache's responsible person for placement.
The responsible person must then contact the appropriate local State Forest
District Office to obtain and complete the Identification Form and Agreement
to place and maintain a geocache.
Those geocaches not removed by TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2002, shall be treated
as abandoned property and confiscated by Bureau of Forestry personnel.
17 May 2002: Geocaching discussed on Minnesota Public Radio's The Savvy Traveler
(The Savvy Traveler)
It started out as a travel game for gadget geeks. The gadget, in this case,
is GPS, or Global Positioning System. Using several satellites, GPS allows
you to pinpoint your location to within a few feet. When the government gave
civilians access to the technology, some folks made a sport of it. A
high-tech treasure hunt called Geocaching. Correspondent Jeff Tyler has this
peek into a growing subculture...
(Read more... or
Listen in RealAudio...)
26 April 2002:High-tech treasure hunt gaining fans
(El Paso Times)
Once known for chaining people to their computers for countless hours, modern
technology and the insidious Internet are breaking their shackles and turning
people loose for a new and exciting outdoor adventure: A treasure hunt for
the 21st century.
Thousands of people around the world, including a handful of El Pasoans,
have discovered "geocaching," an activity so new, nobody is sure
whether to call it a hobby, game or sport....
(Read more...)
6 April 2002:Hide-and-seek goes high-tech
(Erie Times-News)
Steven Przybyszewki wasn't looking for sun and surf on a Florida beach during
his family's recent vacation.
He was looking for a hidden cache of toys — using satellites.
A Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver guided Steven, who led his father
Robert, mother Darlene and 6-year-old sister Elaine to the cache, a small
container that contained a number of trinkets.
Steven took a trinket, and left one in return. Later the family logged the
discovery on a Web site....
(Read more...)
19 March 2002: Pinpoint GPS Spawns A Global Treasure Hunt
(Wall Street Journal)
Geocaching, the international pastime that got its start in a bucket
hidden in the woods here, has reached (at last count) 111 countries. There
were a mere 105 countries involved when I went cache hunting for the first
time on a recent Saturday morning, but things happen fast in geocaching,
which is what you'd expect from a sport based on satellites and the
Internet....
(Read more...)
11 March 2002: US National Park Service issues morning report
regarding "Geocaching Incident"
(National Park Service)
Rangers recently conducted an investigation into geocaching in the park.
Geocaching is a sport in which individuals or organizations cache materials
at particular locations, then provide the GPS coordinates via the Internet
so that other people can attempt to find them. Some times caching entails
digging, which presents obvious problems in national parks.
[The report incorrectly talks about caches being buried
in parks which, of course, is always discouraged. -Ed.]
(Read more...)
7 March 2002: Groundspeak announces "Charter Membership" program
(Groundspeak)
The Groundspeak company, owners of the geocaching.com website, today announced
a subscription program for its users. For a $30 a year (or $3 a month) fee,
members can hide and find "Member only" caches. Discussion on the
Groundspeak forums has been brisk, to say the least....
(Read more...)
27 January 2002: On a high-tech scavenger hunt --
Searchers make the globe their game board with GPS receivers
(The Dallas Morning News)
A century ago, exploration was defined by specific goals and clear
destinations. The world's highest mountains had not been climbed. No
one had stood at either pole. The moon seemed unreachable.
With those achievements behind us, this century brings a novel idea:
Turn any place on Earth, even a randomly chosen spot, into a worthy
destination. The object is getting there, wherever "there"
might be, by whatever means are necessary....
(Read more...)
25 January 2002: Geocaching by Brian Cheyne
(BMW Motorrad [South Africa])
It's all the club's fault. You see, when the BMW club of Pretoria put on an
excellent presentation on GPS, I realized that there were other people with
more toys than me. And that, frankly, had to be rectified. So off I went into
the weird and wonderful world of GPS with a brand new dictionary of jargon
that goes with it.
It goes further back than that, though. I once got hopelessly lost in
Magoebaskloof...
(Read more...)
25 January 2002: Geocaching featured again on TechTV's "Call For Help"
(TechTV | Call For Help)
I guess the good folks over at TechTV's "Call for Help" show didn't think that
once was enough -- Buxley (known as Ed Hall when not logging caches or making maps)
appeared again on TechTV's "Call For Help" program today. As with last August's
appearance, the segment
ran about seven minutes and covered the basics of geocaching: what a GPS
is, how it works, how to go about finding a cache and what to do once you
find one. To get into the spirit of the story, the "Call For Help" team even
hid
another cache
in the San Francisco area.
(Read more...)
3 January 2002: The 'Caching' Hunt Is On
(iKnowRochester [New York])
It's a treasure hunt, but don't let the "treasure" part mislead you--it's the
"hunt" that counts when you go geocaching. This new hobby didn't exist a few
years ago, but now it's gaining in popularity every day--around Rochester and around
the world....
(Read more...)
18 November 2001: High-tech treasure hunt gets computer buffs out in the woods
(Rutland Herald [Vermont])
I went on a treasure hunt. But instead of following a map with "x" marking
the spot, my companions consulted newfangled gadgets.
Our recent trek to Little Rock Pond was my initiation into a technocult activity
called geocaching, a term that comes from the Greek word for earth and the French
word that means concealment. People hide stashes, often in remote areas, and list
the longitude and latitude on the Internet so others can search for them using
hand-held Global Positioning System receivers.
The two-year-old craze swept the nation after...
(Read more...)
7 November 2001: Geocaching is catching on nationwide as an adults' version of a treasure hunt
(Omaha World-Herald)
In August, Omaha resident Jeff Dasenbrock returned home from work, his head full of
steam and a foggy idea. Dasenbrock had just heard about this new adventure called
geocaching. In geocaching, Dasenbrock breathlessly told his wife, people hide
boxes in fields. Then other people use Global Positioning System receivers to
find those boxes. And gee, honey, he asked, doesn't that sound like a blast?
"At first, I thought, 'Oh, no...
(Read more...)
Older News and Stories
23 August 2001: Chat rooms now available on Navicache.com
(Navicache.com)
22 August 2001: Geocaching.com adds state maps to their website
(Geocaching.com)
16 August 2001: Geocaching the wave -- High-tech treasure hunt using navigational software growing as techno fad
(Times Union [Albany, NY])
13 August 2001: Cache me if you can -- Electronic scavenging
(U.S. News & World Report)
11 August 2001: Cache-'n'-carry treasure hunts
(New York Post)
9 August 2001: Geodashing.org opens its doors
(Geodashing.org)
3 August 2001: Geocaching featured on TechTV's "Call For Help"
(TechTV | Call For Help)
5 Jun 2001: Buxley's GPS Geocache Maps Offline, Now Back
(Slashdot)
6 Jun 2000: Introduction to Recreational Geocaching
(Spatial News)
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Geocache Maps
Upcoming geocaching events and parties:
- Friday, 10 September:
1. Villinger Geocaching Stadtrally (Germany)
- Saturday, 11 September:
Wedding of Beckerbuns & Nurse Dave (California, USA)
- Saturday, 11 September:
The Last Cache Bashe of Summer (Maine, USA)
- Saturday, 11 September:
Talkin' about Geocaching (Texas, USA)
- Saturday, 11 September:
Sept Dog Days (Texas, USA)
- Saturday, 11 September:
Metroparks Picnic Cache - F (Michigan, USA)
- Saturday, 11 September:
Metroparks Picnic Cache - E (Michigan, USA)
- Saturday, 11 September:
Metroparks Picnic Cache - D (Michigan, USA)
- Saturday, 11 September:
Metroparks Picnic Cache - C (Michigan, USA)
- Saturday, 11 September:
Metroparks Picnic Cache - B (Michigan, USA)
- Saturday, 11 September:
Metroparks Picnic Cache - A (Michigan, USA)
- Saturday, 11 September:
JAKES Event Cache (Arkansas, USA)
- Saturday, 11 September:
Hammonasset Beach Event (Connecticut, USA)
- Saturday, 11 September:
Go and Get Em 5!!! (Ontario, Can)
- Saturday, 11 September:
GLIN Fall Campout (Nebraska, USA)
- Saturday, 11 September:
GeoLuau (Washington, USA)
- Saturday, 11 September:
Cloak and Dagger: The Amethyst Murder (Ohio, USA)
- Saturday, 11 September:
Cache Valley Cache Event (Utah, USA)
- Saturday, 11 September:
Back to School with RCGDS (California, USA)
- Sunday, 12 September:
The Demon Shepherd's Birthday Bash (West Virginia, USA)
- Sunday, 12 September:
Potatos Pizza Luncheon (Nevada, USA)
- Sunday, 12 September:
First Annual Super Hydro Wet Cache Event! (Mississippi, USA)
- Sunday, 12 September:
CITO day is September 11th (Minnesota, USA)
- Tuesday, 14 September:
Cache and Drinks (Ohio, USA)
- Friday, 17 September:
Camping and Caching in Columbia (Missouri, USA)
- Saturday, 18 September:
UTAG's Fall 2004 Meeting (Utah, USA)
- Saturday, 18 September:
Tied Up Like A Knot (Oregon, USA)
- Saturday, 18 September:
Snowdon Easy or Hard (United Kingdom)
- Saturday, 18 September:
Shady Cove Group Campground Kash (California, USA)
- Saturday, 18 September:
SEPAG's First CITO Event (Pennsylvania, USA)
- Saturday, 18 September:
Second annual Capital Region Geocaching Picnic (New York, USA)
- Saturday, 18 September:
Second annual Capital Region Geocachers Picnic (New York, USA)
- Saturday, 18 September:
Picnic on the Tundra (Wisconsin, USA)
- Saturday, 18 September:
Operation Oceola (Florida, USA)
- Saturday, 18 September:
National Public Lands Day Cache (Florida, USA)
- Saturday, 18 September:
Moravian Fall 2004 (Czech Republic)
- Saturday, 18 September:
Haßberg Stammtisch (Germany)
- Saturday, 18 September:
GHAGAFAP III - Third Time Lucky (Ontario, Can)
- Saturday, 18 September:
Georgia Geocachers Assn 2004 Sept Meeting and CITO (Georgia, USA)
- Saturday, 18 September:
Charlotte Geocacher Event (North Carolina, USA)
- Saturday, 18 September:
2nd Hampton Roads Geocaching Picnic/Cache Dash (Virginia, USA)
- Saturday, 18 September:
2nd Hampton Roads Geocaching Picnic/Cache Dash (Virginia, USA)
- Saturday, 18 September:
2nd Annual Greater Iron Range Geopicnic & Campout (Minnesota, USA)
- Saturday, 18 September:
2004 In-Geo Fall Picnic (Indiana, USA)
- Sunday, 19 September:
Projecte "Capture-the-Flag" (Spain)
- Sunday, 19 September:
Høstevent 2004 (Norway)
- Sunday, 19 September:
Grannylani's 1k cache (Tennessee, USA)
- Sunday, 19 September:
GPS-O Event (Highland Park) (New York, USA)
- Sunday, 19 September:
GPS-O Event (Highland Park) (New York, USA)
- Tuesday, 21 September:
INKY-Geo Italiano Especial! (Kentucky, USA)
- Wednesday, 22 September:
Dearborn MI Get Together #1 (Michigan, USA)
- Friday, 24 September:
Geocaching-Stammtisch Fall 2004 (Germany)
- Saturday, 25 September:
Tri-Cities Cache Machine (Washington, USA)
- Saturday, 25 September:
The DLRR End of Summer Epicurian Caching Event (Idaho, USA)
- Saturday, 25 September:
The Collector Of Souls - Fall Fest 2004 (Oklahoma, USA)
- Saturday, 25 September:
Test Your Skills(fall fest 2004) (Oklahoma, USA)
- Saturday, 25 September:
Rowdy Billy & Slim Face Lilly - Fall Fest 2004 (Oklahoma, USA)
- Saturday, 25 September:
GeoCache for Conservation (Pennsylvania, USA)
- Saturday, 25 September:
Fall Geocaching Cookout (North Carolina, USA)
- Saturday, 25 September:
Fall Fest 2004 Hide and Seek Septmeber 25 - 26 (Oklahoma, USA)
- Saturday, 25 September:
Fall Cache Dash Event (North Carolina, USA)
- Saturday, 25 September:
EIGA Hike N Seek (Iowa, USA)
- Saturday, 25 September:
Cache & Dash at Claude Moore Park (Virginia, USA)
- Saturday, 25 September:
3rd Annual Fall Fest (Oklahoma, USA)
- Saturday, 25 September:
2nd Annual Centenial Park Geo-BBQ, Poker Run & AGM (New Brunswick, Can)
- Sunday, 26 September:
WELCOME FALL & TRAVEL BUG SWAP (New Hampshire, USA)
- Sunday, 26 September:
LVGC “BRINGING IN THE FALL SEASON” PICNIC (Pennsylvania, USA)
- Sunday, 26 September:
Kasseler Cachetag (Germany)
- Sunday, 26 September:
2nd Annual Colorado Geocachers Event (Colorado, USA)
- Sunday, 26 September:
10th Annual Lake Travis Cleanup (Texas, USA)
- Saturday, 2 October:
Potawatomi Wild-cache (Indiana, USA)
- Saturday, 2 October:
LAMPPJ (Texas, USA)
- Saturday, 2 October:
IGO Rendevouz III *Charmed* (Idaho, USA)
- Saturday, 2 October:
Heartland's October Fest @ Windy Rock (Indiana, USA)
- Saturday, 2 October:
Heartland's October Fest @ Windy Rock (Kentucky, USA)
- Saturday, 2 October:
Cache In! (Ontario, Can)
- Sunday, 3 October:
Renegades, Rebels, & Rogues (Nevada, USA)
- Friday, 8 October:
The Great Sub Chase (Wisconsin, USA)
- Saturday, 9 October:
Wickerbach Quellen (source of the Mühlencache's) (Germany)
- Saturday, 9 October:
Michigan Geocaching Organization Fall Fun Day 2004 (Michigan, USA)
- Saturday, 9 October:
Louisiana Fall Campout 2004 (Louisiana, USA)
- Saturday, 9 October:
1st Annual Beatty Geocaching Rendezvous (Nevada, USA)
- Sunday, 10 October:
Columbus Sails to Cachestrop (Texas, USA)
- Friday, 15 October:
Mrs. SuzyQs Ladies Night Out (Florida, USA)
- Saturday, 16 October:
Weiner Roast (Iowa, USA)
- Saturday, 16 October:
Tri-State Geocachers Meeting (Oklahoma, USA)
- Saturday, 16 October:
SLAGA 2004 Fall Picnic (Missouri, USA)
- Saturday, 16 October:
Letchworth Fall Gathering III (New York, USA)
- Saturday, 16 October:
Letchworth Fall Gathering III (New York, USA)
- Saturday, 16 October:
Fall Festival at Fernwood (Michigan, USA)
- Saturday, 16 October:
Burralow Swamp Camp (New South Wales, Aus)
- Sunday, 17 October:
AGAs 1st Anniversary (Alabama, USA)
- Saturday, 23 October:
The Maryland Geocaching Society's 2004 Fall Picnic (Maryland, USA)
- Saturday, 23 October:
Geocaching 101 - #4 (Missouri, USA)
- Friday, 29 October:
GEOSET-Halloween Spooky Campout (Tennessee, USA)
- Saturday, 30 October:
The Halloween Monster Cache Bash (United Kingdom)
- Saturday, 30 October:
NE Michigan Halloween Weekend Spooktacular (Michigan, USA)
- Saturday, 30 October:
HHE2004: "Elementalen" (Netherlands)
- Saturday, 30 October:
Caching and Camping at Montauk State Park (Missouri, USA)
- Sunday, 31 October:
Halloween III (Germany)
- Saturday, 13 November:
Fumble At Dark II [Event Partille] (Sweden)
- Friday, 28 January:
GeoWoodstock III - NEFGA Style! (Florida, USA)
- Saturday, 16 April:
Rio Rancho Geo Cache Challenge! (New Mexico, USA)
- Thursday, 9 August:
Mangart 2600m (Slovenia)
Geocaching Discussion Forum
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earliest days, when it was known as the GPS Stash Hunt.
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Geocaching Links
The following web sites list caches and their coordinates.
You can use Buxley's maps to find
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