Posts Tagged ‘geocaching’
Reverse Geocache: Best. Wedding. Present. Ever.
Big claim, I hear you say. I suppose that unless you are some variety of technology geek, it’s not the best wedding present ever. Nevertheless, If I ever get married — and just let me say, “PERISH THE THOUGHT!” – this is what I expect someone to get me and my hypothetical spouse. Yes, this will be at the top of my list, trumping everything on the registry (do Best Buy and REI even have wedding registries?): a reverse geocaching puzzle.
D’oh! Colorado Springs ‘Cachers Flee Campus Cop, Bomb Squad Blows Up ‘Cache
This is a D’oh File of a different stripe: the first one (here) involving geocaching. It seems some ‘cachers were hiding a cache in Colorado Springs, Colo. outside Pikes Peak Community College’s Rampart Range campus when they were spied by a campus police officer. Rather than rationally stopping to talk with the office and explain what they were up to, our would-be ‘cachers jumped in their car and sped off. You can guess what happened next: blocked off streets, and local police bomb squad called in to destroy the now suspicious package.
Review: Apisphere’s Geomate jr. Is a Lean, Mean GPS and Geocaching Handheld Machine
Well, I was beginning to think that the fates were conspiring against me. Right after my Geomate jr. review unit arrived, I took it outside and it guided me to a couple urban geocaches within walking distance of my house — but these I had found before. A true test, I figured, should involve at least one cache I had never found or tried to find before. But this would involve a car trip out of the city, and every time I planned a day for it, something would happen: a meeting I couldn’t skip would get scheduled for that day, a torrential downpour would occur, things like that. As you can see from one of the photos below, one time I decided to hell with the rain and went out anyway, improvising a rain cover for the unit. Another time, I stubbed my middle toe — how does anyone stub their middle toe? — so bad it swelled up to twice its size and turned the most amazing shades of purple and red. Finally, I got to take the Geomate jr. out for some real caching. The quick and dirty verdict? I love this little guy.
GPS Handheld for Geocaching … for $70? Really? Apishere Makes it So with Geomate jr.
Reluctant to give Junior his own Garmin Colorado? The one that cost and arm and a leg? Leery about letting little Meg hold onto your precious Magellan Triton 2000 while the family heads down the trail? Well, if you’re taking the kids geocaching, now you can give them their own GPS unit for $69.95 courtesy of a company called Apishere. The Geomate jr. is no Cheap Charlie of a unit, however; it’s built around a SiRFstarIII receiver and strips away the fancy stuff, giving the user just what they need to find the cache — and, bless ‘em, it has a gear loop.
Space Machine's PND-428A