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Monday, February 3, 2014

The HikerJamz Geocaching Talk Show: February 1st, 2014

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Hikerjamz Geocaching Talk Show has a new episode every Saturday at 3:00 pm. Eastern (New York) time here on Blog Talk Radio. We will discuss news, events, different types of caching tips and tricks and from time to time we will have a special guest visit our show. Hikerjamz Geocaching Talk Show is sponsored by CacheFace.com which is a dedicated social network for geocachers to connect and share in their caching passion globally and in real time. All Geocachers are welcome to join for free. To learn more about Geocaching, go to geocaching.com/guide and find the Q&A's on what geocaching is all about. Thank you in advance for listening to our show. Host: Hikerjamz from Ohio and Co-Host: KandB from Arizona USA. Don't forget to like us on our show page !

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Sunday, February 2, 2014

(The GCDoc Video) Name My GEOCACHE

Published on Feb 1, 2014

The Doc wants YOU to name his next GEOCACHE!

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Music By
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Chinese GPS Manufacturer BHCnav

OpenCaching North America is an alternative Geocaching website, so this Geocaching product certainly fits the bill for a blog post. Above you see the four handheld GPS units suitable for Geocaching use manufactured by BHC Navigation Co., Ltd., of Zhongguancun, China (suburban Beijing), which is considered the Chinese Silicon Valley. There are rumors among GPS bloggers that BHC is interested in the North American market, and the popularity of Geocaching is the most likely reason for that. After all, they have an English language web site. Which has surprisingly few translation and grammar errors, although it is authored in HTML, uncommon in this day and age. By all accounts, this English website appeared in the later half of 2013. As of press time, we have not heard back from BHCnav as far as interviewing anyone from the company, or even (probably unrealistic) hopes of getting our hands on one of the units, but decided to do a post about them anyways, as we're confident very very few Geocachers knew of their existence. Who knows, if we hear back, there may be another post in the future.

The HikerJamz Geocaching Talk Show: January 25th, 2014

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Sunday, January 26, 2014

(The GCDoc Video) Daydream GEOCACHING

Published on Jan 24, 2014

The Doc is fed up with wintertime GEOCACHING! Join him as he daydreams of warmer GEOCACHING ADVENTURES!

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Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Sporadically featured OpenCaching Network cache: Der Laputische Gruß

The observant reader might note we've had a few Sporadically featured OCNA caches on the blog, but the title of this post references the OpenCaching Network. That is because this strange cache, although it's posted coordinates are in the USA, is actually listed on sister site www.opencaching.de. We have mentioned in the past that Opencaching.de is by far the world's second largest Geocaching listing site, and actually has listings in over 40 Countries, mainly placed by German cachers traveling abroad. There are currently 7 caches listed in the United States, including a virtual at Disneyland.

19th Century depiction of Gulliver and Laputa

The cache name is in German, of course, and translates to "The Laputian Salute". Laputa is a floating Island, approximately 4.5 miles in diameter, from the 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift. (The book is in the public domain, and the link takes you to a free downloads page). The residents of Laputa were gifted in Math, The Sciences and Music. They were a rather strange bunch, but you can read about that yourself, this is a Geocaching Blog, after all! This cache is actually a Locationless Cache, and one with a very strange logging requirement, where you have to figure out what a Laputian Salute is, and render the Salute to the last finder of the cache. You do this by projecting a Waypoint 2 miles and 500 Metres from your home coordinates in the direction of the last finder, going to that location, and rendering the salute, with photo proof, of course. Alternatively, (for privacy reasons, I imagine) you can project the waypoint from the nearest bakery to your home, of all places. Just when you thought this cache and the circumstances behind people finding it couldn't get any stranger, it does.....

The HikerJamz Geocaching Talk Show: January 18th, 2014