Tag: geocaching
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Building a truly waterproof geocache
A friend whose family has access to a fairly large pond invited me and a group of friends out for a day of swimming and boating. While out enjoying a lovely Kansas day, I found a spot on the pond — an island — that I thought would make a perfect spot for a geocache.…
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A cache on a peninsula
Today I found a geocache wayyy out on a peninsula on Milford Lake: It was a really difficult hike (at times — one commenter described it as “by far the most rigorous cache I’ve found”) but I think it was worth it — the view from the edge of the peninsula (a sandy cliff maybe…
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Scheming
I recently found myself with some free time in Topeka, after the final appointment for my “subepithelial connective tissue graft” (aka gum graft) got done early. That whole process is probably worth its own post, but the short version is: some gum tissue had to be moved around in my mouth, and everything went fine…
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More Geocaching!
I've been doing quite a bit more geocaching recently. None of the places I went to or things I found were worthy of their own blog post, but a list of them probably is: The smallest geocache ever (watch for scale): A neat statue from a cemetery: An interurban railway bridge: A cool stone bridge:…
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Geocaching!
So, wanting to get outside (but not get lost, as has happened before) I decided to take up a new hobby called geocaching. It's explained really well in this short video, but the short version is that geocaching is like a global treasure hunt. Someone places a container (usually a tupperware-type box) and records its…