Monday, September 30, 2013

OCNA Pathtag winners announced!

We're a little slow in posting the winners of our Pathtag contest, especially since all three winners responded within 3 1/2 hours of the drawing on Friday night, Septermber 27th, but we're busy, busy, busy at the Blog. We assure you, the fix was not in! Because the Grand Prize winner, of five of our Pathtags was Chaz AKA SFC Chaz (sfcchaz), from Glen Burnie, Maryland. He just happens to be the number 2 cache finder on our website. If we were Geocaching.com, it would be like Bobcam won! The number one cache finder on our site is an Admin, and was ineligible to win. He was required to buy some though.

The 2nd prize winner, of three Pathtags, was Rebecca AKA The Fossillady from Borrego Springs, California. The 3rd prize winner, of two Pathtags was Jenn AKA TheBergstromClan from Aurora, Colorado. Congratulations to all three of them!! Don't worry, we will give away more of our Pathtags in the future, at random. Thanks to all who entered the contest as well.

Sunday, September 29, 2013

The HikerJamz Geocaching Talk Show: September 28th, 2013



Now call in with Skype for free ! 60 minutes of geocaching comments and stories. 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.

Thursday, September 26, 2013

(The GCDoc Video) GEOCACHING Deadwood!


Published on Sep 25, 2013
While in the Black Hills of South Dakota, the Doc stops by the infamous town of Deadwood to find one of South Dakota's favorited GEOCACHE!

THE VIDEO LINKS FOR MOBILE USERS!
http://youtu.be/nxMBFjSGUaU
http://youtu.be/gH4TaRUzkQk

OTHER VIDEOS BY THE DOC! ---- http://www.youtube.com/thegcdoc

CONNECT WITH THE DOC!
http://facebook.com/thegcdoc
http://twitter.com/thegcdoc
http://instagram.com/thegcdoc
http://pinterest.com/drjbroke

THE GEOCACHING NETWORK ---- http://www.youtube.com/geocachingnetwork

Music by Jelly James (https://soundcloud.com/jellyjames/grew-so-older-unfinished)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Saturday, September 21, 2013

The HikerJamz Geocaching Talk Show: September 21st, 2013


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 !

Thursday, September 19, 2013

OpenCaching North America Pathtags have arrived. Win some!

Pathtag Blueprint
After many false starts the last couple of years, the OpenCaching North America Pathtag, 1st Edition, has finally been manufactured, and is on sale now! They can be purchased in lots of 20 for $20 from TheGeocoinStore.com under a "club fundraiser" program. You'll note the page for our tag on their website references us receiving $5 for every 20 pack sold. However, that applies only to registered non-profit LLC's, one of which we are not (although we have, and still are considering, that legal status), so that $5 is payable only in Pathtag cash. The OCNA team will of course use this Pathtag cash to buy more of our own tags, which we will generously distribute to promote the website.

(The GCDoc Video) 31-in-31 GEOCACHING Contest - FINAL RESULTS!


Published on Sep 19, 2013
The WINNER of my 31-in-31 GEOCACHING Contest is....

Entries into my contest
Newk82 - https://twitter.com/Newk82/status/374...
David Rule - http://youtu.be/svFZQH7ohpg
peter97silva - http://youtu.be/r0PiUDg5fBQ
Ignas Kalnietis - http://ignasdidysis.wix.com/forgcdoc
Geo-Dave - http://youtu.be/U-K4lqH7v9U
GeoBadging - http://youtu.be/GdIKOZOH8rA
bdyoung8 - http://youtu.be/pgviEeSrOiQ
GeoHakliva - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7xVZy...
GirlsGoneCaching - http://youtu.be/gIUfeAejgdw
GeoJewels - http://youtu.be/jawmVS4TQs4

OTHER VIDEOS BY THE DOC! ---- http://www.youtube.com/thegcdoc

CONNECT WITH THE DOC!
http://facebook.com/thegcdoc
http://twitter.com/thegcdoc
http://instagram.com/thegcdoc
http://pinterest.com/drjbroke

THE GEOCACHING NETWORK ---- http://www.youtube.com/geocachingnetwork

Music by Josh Woodward (joshwoodward.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Saturday, September 14, 2013

The HikerJamz Geocaching Talk Show: September 14th, 2013


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 !

Friday, September 13, 2013

Author Sara Murray talks with us about GeocacheBooks


As can be seen on the banner above, Author Sara Murray writes children's fiction books set in real parks, and GPS coordinates will lead you to landmarks in the books. Like so many other interviewees on this blog, we first became aware of her when she made herself known in Geocaching social media circles. The blogger made an immediate note of this; future interview subject! We were originally going to wait for the interview until her first full length book came out, but upon seeing (on social media) that she attended the recent Geocaching Block Party as a vendor, we decided a concept and orgin interview was in order now, and another when the first full length book is released. Clicking the banner takes you to her website, and you can follow Geocachebooks on Twitter and Facebook. On with the interview. 

Thursday, September 12, 2013

(The GCDoc Video) 31-in-31 Days of GEOCACHING: COMPLETED!



Published on Sep 10, 2013
The Doc finishes his 31 days of GEOCACHING on top of a mountain (really just a big hill) and celebrates his 2nd Cachiversary!

31-in-31 GEOCACHING CONTEST VIDEO! ---- http://youtu.be/X868jSBWLDU
---- PART 1 WINNERS! ---- http://youtu.be/pBDXs-jcPkw

VIDEO LINKS FOR MOBILE VIEWERS 8.26.2013 ---- http://youtu.be/ewS2PG8uNyg 8.27.2013 ---- http://youtu.be/89LxMJsSVyI 8.28.2013 ---- http://youtu.be/986yTzYuYlo 8.29.2013 ---- http://youtu.be/w-1WDSfuRGM 8.30.2013 ---- http://youtu.be/stEZPIdyZM0

SEE 1 YEAR AGO ---- http://youtu.be/svLjBenVU3E

OTHER VIDEOS BY THE DOC! ---- http://www.youtube.com/thegcdoc

CONNECT WITH THE DOC! 
http://pinterest.com/drjbroke

THE GEOCACHING NETWORK ---- http://www.youtube.com/geocachingnetwork

Music by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com) and Tristan Scroggins
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

An Interview with The Geocaching Doc

The GCDoc Logo
If you're a regular reader, you've probably noted we threatened to post the weekly content of a YouTube Geocaching Vlogger here as a guest blogger. We are thrilled to announce this Vlogger is none other than Justin, AKA The Geocaching Doc, AKA DrJBroke on Geocaching.com! He is a member of The Geocaching Network YouTube Channel, and is the member of that network with the second most subscribers to his own YouTube Channel. Although he needs no introduction to many Geocachers out there, we would like the introduce The Geocaching Doc (sometimes shortened to The GCDoc) via an interview, which he was nice enough to take the time to do with us. We will embed a couple of his more popular videos into the post to break up the text, and we will back date his very latest video (released late last week) to the day before this blog post, as his first "guest post".

Monday, September 9, 2013

Sunday, September 8, 2013

The HikerJamz Geocaching Talk Show: September 7th, 2013


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 !

Friday, September 6, 2013

Updates to The Blog

We didn't get an interview done this week, but we like to do at least one written (as opposed to media) blog post a week, so we'll give you some updates on some goings on with the design of this blog. You'll notice a new "woods" banner on top of the blog. You may have noticed we had a Desert scene banner up there for a few weeks. These are just two of five blog banners we have right now, and you can see them on the OCNA Blog board on our Pinterest page.