Thought Provoker #3

Junxiao Shi

2020-02-23

The title comes from a geocache named Thought Provoker #3. Inside the container there is a thought provoking question:

If you could travel across the United States of America (and had no other obligations, financial or time constraints) what mode of transportation would you use and why? Walk/run, ride a bike, ride a motorcycle, hitchhike, drive a car, drive a RV/motorhome, take trains, or something else?

Here are my answers.

First Choice: Geocaching Express 6000

The Geocaching Express 6000 GPS Receiver is a powerful GPS receiver, as shown in Geocaching International Film Festival (GIFF) 2019:

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Geo-snatching

You Might Be A Geocacher If......

2020-01-13

Geo-snatching is the act of finding loopholes instead of geocaches.

This includes:

armchair geocaching;
hacking your smartphone's location so you can log Adventure Labs or solve Whereigo cartridges without visiting the location;
logging an FTF on a friend's cache that you helped place;
finding your own caches by adopting it to a sock puppet account (aka rule 52612);
other general tomfoolery.

The term geo-snatching was invented by gsmX2 on this Facebook post. This article explains what geo-snatching or geosnatching means in geocaching, and how a geo-snatcher or geosnatcher differs from an honest geocacher. Content of this article does not necessarily reflect blog owner's views.

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