Nighttime Geocaching

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?!
 (This was taken during one of our nighttime geocaching adventures last year w/ friends.)

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.

Trackables Updates: Where are they now?

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