The HikerJamz Geocaching Talk Show: August 31st, 2013

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Join us as we discover new adventures in the field of geocaching every Saturday at 3:00 pm. EST on Blog Talk Radio with your host - Hikerjamz and co-host -Kenny Gibb.

Have a caching story to share? Want to learn more about geocaching? This is the place to be. Call in or use the chat to experience the great outdoor adventure of geocaching !

P.S.: During this show, Mr.Yuck calls in live from a Canoe Cache in Amherst, N.Y.
P.S.S.: Mr.Yuck is a much better blogger than he is a caller to an internet talk radio show.

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"Guest Blogger" number 1 announced

You'll note the phrase Guest Blogger is in quotation marks in the post title. There's a reason for that, which we'll get to shortly, after a little background information. When this blog was in the planning stages, we thought it might be pretty easy to lure guest bloggers into the fold, and we even mentioned it in the very first post. That wasn't really the case, in the classic sense of guest blogger, meaning getting people to write posts on a certain topic. So not too long ago, we had noticed that an older, much more well known Geocaching Blog has the owner of a very popular Geocaching Video Youtube channel as a guest blogger. In other words, all the Geocaching videos he makes and posts to Youtube are embedded into a new blog post on that blog, and the videographer is considered a "guest blogger". Well, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. A light bulb went off in our heads, giving us the idea that we too could pursue "guest bloggers" from an audio and audiovisual perspective. We have reached agreement with not one, but two Geocachers in the audio and audiovisual Geocaching community to embed their content into this blog as guest blog posts! This will almost triple the content of this blog. We too will be embedding the content of a Geocaching Video Youtube channel, but we'd like to introduce the owner of that channel with an interview within the next couple of weeks. The other guest blogger, whom we'll call Guest Blogger number 1, has already been introduced to the readers of this blog via an interview, so we will announce our relationship with that Geocacher, who is in the audio spectrum, right away.

The HikerJamz Geocaching Talk Show: August 24th, 2013

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Join us as we discover new adventures in the field of geocaching every Saturday at 3:00 pm. EST on Blog Talk Radio with your host - Hikerjamz and co-host -Kenny Gibb.

Have a caching story to share? Want to learn more about geocaching? This is the place to be. Call in or use the chat to experience the great outdoor adventure of geocaching !

• HikerJamz Website: http://www.midwestohiogeocaching.webs.com
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Sporadically featured cache: OCNA's oldest cache (sort of) - The Truth Is Out There

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We have a very unique cache listing for this installment of the sporadically featured OCNA cache; this cache was originally placed in early March, 2001. Which was less than ten months after Geocaching was invented, and almost ten years before our website was launched! The cache is located in Charlotte, North Carolina, near the campus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (parts of which can be seen in the upper right corner of the Google Sat View above). To find out more about this cache, and why it's so old, you'll have to read beyond this conveniently placed page break.

Happy Birthday to us, Happy Birthday to us..

We at OpenCaching North America turn three years old on Sunday, August 18th, 2013, as our official public launch was on that date in 2010. Although we were founded as OpenCaching.us, which is still our primary domain name. We re-branded ourselves as OpenCaching North America in 2011, after "merging" our site with the then new domain name owner of OpenCaching.ca (more on that later) and purchasing the name OpenCaching.mx. Go ahead and try those two, they work also. Since this is the first anniversary date since the Blog was founded, we figured a little history on our founding/about us post was in order. It's also interesting to note that Geocaching.com has arbitrarily assigned the third Saturday in August as International Geocaching Day. So, (and the Blogger had to do a little math here) our anniversary can never fall more than 3 days from International Geocaching Day. As a matter of fact, the 2nd annual IGD fell on August 18th itself.

Bad Ideas, Bomb Scares, etc.

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It's no secret that many, many Geocaches have caused bomb scares in the U.S. and Canada since our game was invented in 2000. Elsewhere in the world too, of course, but we are a North American based blog, and the majority of these incidents occur in the United States. We doubt that anyone keeps statistics on the number of bomb squad incidents, but the Blogger, who has checked in and read the Geocaching.com forums several times a week for almost 10 years (where almost every incident is reported), would estimate the average to be between two and three per month.

A Google search of the phrase "Geocaching Bomb Scares" generally returns two Geocaching.com bookmark lists in the top results, both of which we at the blog have been aware of for several years. Bomb Scares and Other Fun Stuff, is the older of the two. However, this list has essentially been abandoned, and a quick scan of it tells you it hasn't had any new caches posted to it since 2007, although the adopted owner of the list is still an active Geocacher. The other top result, Bad Ideas, Bomb Scares, etc. is a very well maintained and regularly updated bookmark list, and is is the subject of this Blog post. The bookmark list owner, David Brierley (Geocaching.com Username: dbrierley), has graciously agreed to be interviewed by this Blog.

Sporadically featured OpenCachingNA Cache: Ohio's First Dead drop!!!

Xenia Station, hub for 5 bike trails

As mentioned in the last post, the Blogger recently went on a little Road Trip to the great State of Ohio, where he attended Midwest Geobash 2013 in Wauseon, Ohio. That was not the focus of his trip, however, and he spent only about 2.5 hours at the event, and most of that finding caches and capturing Munzees. Zero of which, for either game I might add, were very challenging! After the event, the Blogger, and his two traveling companions (his 13 yr. old son and 14 yr. old nephew), headed 3 hours south to the greater Dayton, Ohio area, for a two day stay at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, where he hoped to find some of the 16 Opencaching.us listings in the greater Dayton area, with a focus on Ohio's First Dead Drop!!!, the sporadically featured cache.