Technology in the game of Geocaching

Yesterday, we were able to find this unique cache, NFC2 Hidden Treasures here in St. George, UT. 

This one requires the use of a NFC capable smart phone. Since getting the Samsung S4 about a month or so ago, it provided us with a phone that we were able to go find this cache. 

The cool aspect of this cache it that once at the location we had to tap a NFC wireless device that set a picture to the phone of the area in which the cache is located. 

It didn't take long to locate the cache and make the find. it was an awesome cache to find, one that we really hadn't found before. 

Each week I like to listen to a geocaching related podcast call, podcacher which is a great family oriented podcast that has lots of great tips and tricks about the sport and game of geocaching. 

Occasionally podcacher podcast have contests that are worth entering. They are giving away a Garmin 64 GPS unit. You can find out more about the contest here, Win a Garmin GPSMAP 64!

I hope to let other geocachers know more about this great podcast. 

It has been awhile since I have written on this blog. Since the last time I wrote on here we purchased a new gps. It is the Garmin Oregon 450t, and it is an awesome gps. 

1st Day of January 2011

Today has been a good day. We went up to Orem to go bowling with some of the other cachers we know in the area. We had a great time. It has been awhile since we last went bowling. Allison and I actually did pretty good considering we haven't bowled in a over a year. We need to go more often. Allison got three strikes during the game, and her finaly score was 97, I got three spares and one strike during the game and my final score was 125.

After we went bowling we went as a group and found a cache together. It was fun. Here is a list of the cacher's ids that were at the cache; Toja7, Rfurguson527, Toja's son, Goblincamper2004, DrJay, RootieSart, firennice, BlueRajah, Kristie, JAC0B, Resident Evil 5, BRADY!!!, T-Y , Tinkerbell!,Supertbone, Geoseph, PeanutsParents

We were able to find a total of 4 caches today, that also include the event. It was a great time to spend the first day of the new year.

It is New Year's Eve

Today is December 31, 2010 and we are watching throught a webcam the ball drop in New York City, just clad we aren't there in person due all the people. This year has been a adveuture. We have experienced lots of changes this year and we will experience more next year. We hope for a brighter more productive year for 2011.

Our geocaching adventures

When we are out geocaching we go to various places to find caches. We sometime go hiking in the mountains, or along some of the trails in the foot hills of the area, or some of the local bike paths, all in all we have fun at it. Here is a video that we made of us finding caches and our adventures that we had. Enjoy the video and the scenes in the video.

One of the geocaches that we found earlier this year

Here is a video we made of us hiking to and find a geocache that we were able to find in May of this year. In order to find this cache, we had to find a series of caches that led up to this one. It was an awesome cache to find. Have fun watch the video of us find the cache.

Travel bugs and Geocoins

We go geocaching we like to find geocoins and travel bugs. We have some of our own that are in different area of the country. We have made a couple video showing how to log travel bugs and geocoins, so that other cachers that are new to geocaching have an understanding on how it works. Here is one of the videos that we made. Have fun watching it.

Cool video

The other night we were watch some videos on youtube and this was one that we thought was awesome. It would be cool to find out how to do a cache like this here in our area.

Last week of the year

Its hard to believe that this is the last week of the year 2010. It is already 10 years into the new century and things just seem to going the way they were 10 years ago. I guess life has its ups and downs for all of us these days. Well, I would have to say that if we had known about geocaching in the year 2000, we would have a lot more caches than we do. We have been actively geocaching since the 23 of March 2008, and we have found 2,543 caches. We realize that there are a lot more we can find, and we will eventually cache in other states. We have only really been caching in Utah, and a few caches in Arizona, just south of the St. George area, throught Nevada along I-15 down to Las Vegas, and we have a lot more that we could find in those states as well. We wish there was a way that we could travel the US and sight see and go geocaching. That would a trip of a life time and could take months to do.

For now it is dealing with the issue of looking for employment figuring out what we are going to do come next week. We are hoping and praying that things will work out for us here, although, it we need to, we might move to St. George to live with my parents until we are able find employment and get back on our feet. We have been doing things here as far as applying for employment, without any luck, we do know that things will work out though.

The Swamp Mash Cache

We have a geocaching that is right out our front door. This cache is called The Swamp M*A*S*H Cache TB/GC Hotel . We use it to put travel bugs and geocoins in it that we plan on moving to another cache. The name of the cache is from the T.V. series MASH. We enjoy watch MASH when we are able to. We have all eleven seasons on DVD. We also have other caches named after either MASH characters of episodes or a theme we thought was good for the cache. It is a fun way to express ourselves. Geocaching is a great way to get outside and anyone can have fun with it. We enjoy it a lot.

Wow a new Blog!!!

It has been awhile since I actually wrote something on a blog, and I am hoping that I will be able to do better at writing on this blog on a daily basis in the coming year. Lets hope anyways.