Friday, March 28, 2014

GeoSnippits Reboot Podcast: Ep. 057 - How To Host and Attend A Geocaching Event

In our latest episode, Hosts Andy HeadHardHat and Amy HeadHardHatress address some viewer feedback and discuss How to Host a Geocaching Event and also if you are new to geocaching, How to Attend a Geocaching event. Tons of great insights plus prize surprises and more.

Meet up at www.geosnippits.com to watch the live feed and join our world wide chat room with geocachers around the planet.

We get together for the pre-show around 8:10PM ET and the actual show starts at 8:30PM ET.



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Thursday, March 27, 2014

The Geocaching Podcast - Episode 344 - Multi-Caches Vs Puzzle Caches

Streamed live on Mar 26, 2014

Tonight's episode of the Geocaching Podcast goes back to the basics of geocaching to disucss Multi-caches versus Puzzle Caches. What are the differences? Are there pros and cons of each? What can make these geocaches great or not so great? This and so much more...

You can meet up with all of the hosts on Wednesdays at 9:30PM ET by visiting www.geocachingpodcast.com/live. There you can view the show as we record live and also join in our chat room.

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Monday, March 24, 2014

Geosnippits Geocaching Videos: WVTim Interview (+playlist)

This was an amazing one on one interview with Geocacher of the Month and gadget cache creator extraordinaire WVTim. HeadHardHat and Wife Amy recently drove up to Martinsburg, WV to attend a geocaching seminar and the opening of a Gadget Geocache GeoTrail. Had some amazing fun and great geocaching insights on why you want to put Martinsburg, WV on your geocaching bucket list.

Enjoy.


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Sunday, March 23, 2014

Unknown Size Geocache and Approached By A Geocaching Muggle - vLog

Wife Amy and I (HeadHardHat) started out doing a vLog about geocaching for a geocache of unknown size. Not only did we find our smiley but encountered a muggle who was interested in what we were doing. This is a real time and compelling example of what to do when approached by a muggle while geocaching. It's going to happen. Why not be prepared with what to say and keep it a happy experience for all.

Special thanks to Shady-Grady for permission to show this geocache.



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Sunday, March 16, 2014

Doing Some Tunnel Geocaching In West Virginia and Some Amazing Geocoin Discoveries

Wife Amy and myself had a great time geocaching on Wednesday after we attended a geocaching seminar earlier in the day. One of the many highlights was attending a Flash mob event which then turned into a nice two mile hike on a bike trail with a dozen or so other geocachers. Finally ending the day with a tunnel geocache. 

HeadHardHat and Wife Amy starting down a tunnel in search of a geocache.
It was a lot of fun and another first for the HeadHardHatress with it being her first tunnel find. All in all she obtained Icons for an Event, Puzzle, Letterbox and Traditional in one day. She is starting to really get into our favorite game, sport and obsession with every new discovery...

Geocacher lpyankeefan and HeadHardHat
Speaking of discoveries we bumped into geocacher lpyankeefan  who had an amazing story about how he obtained an actual Moun10Bike geocoin. I was allowed to discover this highly prized geocoin.


I was also allowed to discover WVTim's Geocacher of the Month Geocoin and there are only a few of those types as well. Amazing finds.

Will go over more of our adventures coming soon...

-HHH

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Saturday, March 15, 2014

On The Way To The WVTim Geocaching Seminar and Gadget GeoTrail Opening

This past Friday, wife Amy aka the Headhardhatress and I headed out for West Virginia from Raleigh, North Carolina. It was very pleasant to not be rushed with a trip for once. We could take our time and just enjoy being with each other on a long road trip. Something we so far have had very little time to do. How we both were enjoying some series us time.

The place we were going to was near Martinsburg, West Virginia. A Geocacher of the Month with Geocaching.com known as WVTim invited us up for this 6th Annual Geocaching Seminar. We had WVTim on earlier in the year with the Geocaching Podcast and found him to not only be a very personable geocacher but also an absolute wonder for making gadget geocaches. So much so he was directly involved with the creation of a gadget geotrail. So this was going to be a fully packed weekend of geocaching fun.

The first part of the adventure of course was getting there and part of the fun was her getting her first Virginia and West Virginia geocaches.


Because geocaching and travel is usually a delicate balance of timed searching and actually getting to your destination we didn't find too many geocaches. Though the ones we did were fun and again Amy's first ones in Virginia made it priceless.

After several hours we finally made it into West Virginia. In this part of the country Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland intertwine with each other. The first geocache in West Virginia did not disappoint.


The geocache we found was fairly obvious but what we found inside made it awesome. Back in a large amount of trees we found a large birdhouse. Now the tell tale sign that it was not indeed a birdhouse was due to the painted on bird hole. There was no way a bird was going to get in. Geocachers on the other hand had free range to what was inside.

We won't spoil all the contents but lets just say the distribution of the log was very old school and the goodies inside inspired a swag exchange of us giving a mag flashlight for Amy's new friend shown above. Sometimes it's cool to give better than what you take.

So in one day Amy picked up geocaches in multiple states and we made good time getting to our hotel and the continual explorations of geocaching in Martinsburg, WV.  More to come.

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Friday, March 14, 2014

Wife Amy's First West Virginia Geocache!

The weather is holding up nicely but a bit on the cooler side. Can't wait for tomorrow's festivities. Way to go Amy!

On our way to WVTim's Gadget Geotrail

Searching for Amy's first Virginia Geocache.

Thursday, March 13, 2014

GeoSnippits Reboot Podcast: Ep. 055 - Maker Madness with Eric Schudiske ...

Tonight on the GeoSnippits Reboot Podcast we have Eric from Groundspeak as our special guest. Were we discuss the up coming Maker Madness souvenir and what it takes to make a creative geocache. Plus tips and suggestions for how to make your Maker Madness event a success.



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Episode 342 - Geocaching CITO Event Things To Know

Streamed live on Mar 12, 2014

Tonight we have special guest and fellow geocacher Denise Vajdak aka NativTxn. Who will be giving her insights into CITO (Cache In Trash Out) events and other helpful ways of keeping our gameboard clean. Meet up with HeadHardHat, Darrylw4, TheCarolinaCacher, Scott Berks and Corey Stephens for a very entertaining half our of geocaching discourse.

We meet up at 9:30PM ET at www.geocachingpodcast.com/live for the LIVE recording and chat-room.

See you there!

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Monday, March 10, 2014

Our Official Maker Madness Geocaching Event : GC4ZQ09

HeadHardHat and Wife Amy Invite You To Our Event
Wife Amy - The HeadHardHatress and I the HeadHardHat are so extremely excited about having an official Maker Madness Event on March 30th in Cary, North Carolina. I mean let's face it, GeoSnippits and creative geocaches are like Forest Gump's "peas and carrots". Having the chance to talk about creative geocaches is one of the most fun things I love to do. Which makes this such an amazing opportunity.

We are going to have so much fun. There will be a competition with prizes for creative caches brought in by fellow cachers, good food, great discussion and much more! Check out the details by going here:
http://coord.info/GC4ZQ09

Hoping to see you earn your geocaching souvenir and your creative geocache ideas.

-Andy HeadHardHat Smith and Amy HeadHardHatress Smith


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Friday, March 7, 2014

GeoSnippits Reboot Podcast: Ep. 054 - Geocoins, Pathtags and Geocaching ...

In last night's episode your hosts Andy HeadHardHat Smith and wife Amy (aka The HeadHardHatress) go over the fundamentals of geocaching travelers. An in depth look at geocoins, pathtags and their differences. Plus Travel Bugs and Travel Bug Hotels including how to make them. This and a whole lot more on this episode of The GeoSnippits Reboot Podcast.

We meet each and every Thursday at 8:30pm ET (8:15 for the pre-show) at www.geosnippits.com to see us record the show LIVE and join in our world wide chat room with geocachers from around the planet.

You won't want to miss this episode.

 See you there.



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Thursday, March 6, 2014

Episode 341 - March Cacher Coffee

Streamed live on Mar 5, 2014

In tonight's episode of the Geocaching Podcast the Hosts with the Most get a bit philosophical talking about how will geocaching survive in the onslaught of fancy smartphone augmented reality games that keep appearing. This and a whole lot more.

We record the Geocaching Podcast LIVE on Wednesday Evenings at 9:30PM ET. Meet up at the GeocachingPodcast.com/live website to watch the video stream and participate with our chat room.




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