Happy April, geocachers!!

It's time to thaw out from our lonnnnng winter hibernation & start geocaching once again! Yep, it's finally here...Spring has officially sprung!

The temps here in Milwaukee have been rather decent the past few days, so there is little-to-no snow left on the ground, but still lots of mushy muddy ground to stomp on which can make for some messy caching avdventures.

Yesterday, the boyfriend & I took our dog (Bella) on a 2 mile walk on a nearby walking trail and did 4 new geocaches. A couple nights prior to that, we did a last minute nighttime geocache on the same trail (the 1st one as you enter in the trail). While it was muddy to say the least, it was still not that bad to get to by foot.

There's still a couple more along the same trail we need to find before moving on further south on the walking trail, so those will be on our to-do list this Spring.

Here's a satellite map of what we did recently (the smiley faces are "found" caches we found).

While geocaching is all about the hunt, I was rather disappointed that the caches contained nothing but a log to write down your geocaching nickname. (We skipped that since we had Bella with us, just wanted to keep walking.) I had our geocaching backpack with us in hopes that we could trade some swag (see whats in our our geocaching backpack here). But nope, nothing but logs to write your name down.

With Chris & I working different days, it's hard to have a day off to do some caching together, but I'll keep blogging about our geo adventures as they happen! :)

Spring is here, so dust off your caching gear & get out there!!!

It's the end of February, which means that March (and Spring) is right around the corner! Yayy!! Last night and into this morning, we've had one hell of a snow storm here in Milwaukee. Perfect sled riding weather, but horrible geocaching weather! lol ;)

Since I have some downtime between now & Spring, I've been tooling around on Geocaching.com looking for local geo-events & adding some more "To Do" geocaches to my to-do list once the caching season hits.

This GEOCACHE is on the top of my list! It's a night-time only cache that requires a flashlight in order to see reflectors on trees to point you in the direction of the cache. I LOVE nighttime geocaching all year round! (Even ones that aren't meant for nighttime caching.) Honestly, I've had some of my best memories from nighttime hunting with friends. What's better than hiking through woods at night with friends with a flashlight looking for hidden treasure?!

Though I will admit that you have to be careful because if you're hiking in a park after hours, cops will stop you & ask what you're doing and eventually kick you out. (This happened to us last year lol) The cop was super nice about it though, so we lucked out. ;)

Another cool nighttime geocache adventure we did was when we hiked through the woods to find this tree & climbed to the top...(Chris & 2 friends climbed it. I don't do heights! lol)
If you're interested in doing a nighttime geocache, all ya gotta do is go to Geocaching.com & make a "New Pocket Query" (click on Your Profile--Pocket Queries--New Pocket Query) & from there, you can custom your search for what kind of geocache(s) you want.

Say you're looking for a nighttime geocache, then you'd click the Night Cache symbol only.
Or maybe you want a Night Cache that requires a flashlight, then you'd click on the Flashlight Required symbol.

You get the idea.

Well, that's it for this post! If you guys & gals have any questions/comments, feel free to post'em below! :) I'll be blogging our geocaching adventures when the weather is a little more cache friendly.

While the boyfriend and I are anxiously awaiting Spring to arrive, I decided to do a "Trackables: Where are they now?" update.

Trackables/Travel Bugs  are things that travel around from cache to cache. If you discover one in a cache, you take it, log it on Geocaching.com, then move it along. Most trackables have "goals", as per their description on the website.

So, let's take a look at the ones Chris & found and see "Where are they now?" :)

The "Hot Cold Travel Tag" trackable:

Released: March 2011
Goal: "I want it to travel anywhere but it must travel at least 3,000 miles. DON'T KEEP IT!!"

We found this one on October 28th, 2012 in a Cemetary during a nighttime geocache adventure. (It was around Halloween time, so we mixed geocaching with a dash of spooky ;) ) After we found it, we placed it in our favorite cache at Milwaukee's Safehouse (an old Milwaukee speakeasy). Since then, it has traveled to Texas, then to Honduras, Belize, Mexico and..back to Texas, where it seems to be stuck. It's just traveling all around Texas at this point.

Next up, we have...

The"Web.DE Club Geocoin 2010" trackable:
Released: Oct 2010
Goal: "I want this coin to reach New York and from there to travel to San Francisco. In case it really arrives in SF, I hope it makes its way back to Dresden (Germany) somehow."

We just found this coin last night (at our fav spot again, the Safehouse in Milwaukee), while out with a friend for Valentines Day. This morning I logged it on Geocaching.com and found that this little coin is quite the traveler!! It started in Germany over 2 yrs ago & has traveled to Belgium, Taiwan, Switzerland, then to a few states (so far): Florida, Illinois and now here in Wisconsin.

Amazing how far 1 coin can travel, and especially without being lost! :) We will be placing this in another cache soon to keep it moving along. Since it needs to head West, we will head West to find a good spot for it to keep it going on it's westbound journey.

Well it's mid-February and Spring is right around the corner! Whenever the weather gets nicer, our geocaching adventures will continue. Can't wait!!! :D

With Winter here, I'm finding myself (1) not wanting to geocache in below freezing temps and (2) sick all the time!! I have officially been sick 3 times, back to back..to back. Flu, cold, flu. Fan-freakin-tastic! Tis the season!

Oh, and HAPPY NEW YEAR to y'all!! :D

I'm hoping for a whole new year in geocaching experiences!! I'm comfortable with doing Traditional Caches, now I wanna try Muti-Caches, Series Caches, and higher levels of difficulty caches. As soon as the weather starts becoming more geocache friendly (which is anything over 40 degrees!), then I'm gonna start my 2013 geocaching adventures!! CAN'T WAIT!!!

Alrighty, that's it for now.
I guess in the meantime, I can answer questions or maybe I'll do new tutorials on geocaching basics, so that I have something to do for the next 2 months. ;)

As we wait for a new post, try searching YouTube.com for all kinds of different videos on geocaching! There's some videos that range from learning how to cache, to the most unique finds you couldn't even imagine! :)

I'll start ya off....

Intro to Geocaching:

A Unique cache:


Ta-ta for now!!