GeoCache: I'm NOT Obsessed... Right? HeadHardHat's Geocaching Insights

HeadHardHat's Award Winning Geocaching Blog is a geocache treasure trove of geocaching information. Years of searchable geocaching insights await you here. HeadHardHat's GeoSnippits Geocaching Videos series can be seen on You Tube. You can also find him on his new GeoSnippits Reboot Podcast series and the Geocaching Podcast. Geocaching the outdoor treasure-hunting game which the participants use a GPS receiver to hide and seek containers called "geocaches" or "caches" anywhere in the world

Thursday, July 24, 2014

GeoSnippits Reboot Podcast: Ep. 072 - Geocaching Boy Scout Merit Badge

Would love to have all new geocachers who start in our activity to go through the same requirements as the Boy Scout Merit Badge... Watch the show and you will see why..

In tonight's episode of the GeoSnippits Reboot Podcast: Geocaching Insights hosts Andy HeadHardHat Smith and Wife Amy the HeadHardHatress discuss the importance of the Boy Scout Geocaching Merit Badge and how going over it can help geocachers of all ages learn fundamental basics.

Plus this is the last week for getting your entries in for the Cache-Advance.com give-a-way of an Garmin Etrex 10 GPSr and a hint for our Patron Contest starting in August. This and a whole lot more coming at you tonight...

Meet up at http://geosnippits.com/gsreboot-podcast/ or go to geosnippits.com and click the GSREBOOT PODCAST option in the menu to see the LIVE viewing area to watch as we record the show and also join in our world wide chat room with geocachers from around the planet.

Pre-Show starts about 8:05PM ET with the actual podcast starting at 8:30PM ET.

Come join in the fun!

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Wednesday, July 23, 2014

The Geocaching Podcast - Episode 361 - Travel Bug Hotel Etiquette

Streamed live on Jul 23, 2014

In tonight's episode of the Geocaching Podcast:

Geocaching Travelers and Travel Bug Hotels have become a hot geocaching topic recently and the gang thought it would be a good time to go over some Travel Bug Hotel Etiquette thoughts with retrospect from the TB Geocache owners, The TB owners and the geocaching finders.

Come on by and see what Darrylw4, Scott Berks, Corey Stevens and me The HeadHardHat bring up on the air waves in regards to geocaching.

Be sure to check it out!

We meet on Wednesday nights at 9:30PM ET at http://www.geocachingpodcast.com/live so you can see us record the show live and join in the chat room. See you there!

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Friday, July 18, 2014

GeoSnippits Reboot Podcast: Ep. 071 - Building A Geocaching Bird House

In tonight's episode of the GeoSnippits Reboot Podcast: Geocaching Insights hosts Andy HeadHardHat Smith and Wife Amy the HeadHardHatress discuss some creative bird house ideas you can use for making your own unique geocaches.

This plus our extra give a way for the GeoSnippits Cache Stash and we are half way into our Cache-Advance.com Etrex 10 GPSr Giveaway.

Don't forget our ever growing pre-show and more tonight on the GeoSnippits Reboot Podcast.

Meet up at http://geosnippits.com/gsreboot-podcast/ or go to geosnippits.com and click the GSREBOOT PODCAST option in the menu to see the LIVE viewing area to watch as we record the show and also join in our world wide chat room with geocachers from around the planet.

Pre-Show starts about 8:05PM ET with the actual podcast starting at 8:30PM ET. Come join in the fun!

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Geocaching Podcast: Episode 360 - The Glympse Geocaching Experiment

Streamed live on Jul 16, 2014

With the latest episode of the Geocaching Podcast:

The guys try an outdoor experiment LIVE by having Scott Berks and StevensAdInfinitum try to find geocaches while using Glympse and being directed in studio by HeadHardHat and Darrylw4. We have no clue what is going to happen but it should be fun to see what does...

Be sure to check it out! http://www.geocachingpodcast.com

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Friday, July 11, 2014

GeoSnippits Reboot Podcast: Ep. 070 - Tick Awareness / August Challenge ...

In tonight's episode of the GeoSnippits Reboot Podcast: Geocaching Insights hosts Andy HeadHardHat Smith and Wife Amy the HeadHardHatress discuss more in-depth with the Geocaching Trackable Challenge, Tick Awareness and prevention and the brand new Geocaching.com's Earn The Seven Souvenirs of August. It is going to be a fun filled, entertaining and hopefully enlightening show tonight.

Meet up at http://geosnippits.com/gsreboot-podcast/ or go to geosnippits.com and click the GSREBOOT PODCAST option in the menu to see the LIVE viewing area to watch as we record the show and also join in our world wide chat room with geocachers from around the planet.

Pre-Show starts about 8:05PM ET with the actual podcast starting at 8:30PM ET. Come join in the fun!

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Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Geocaching Timeline Trends: Sizes of Geocaches Based By Date Placed

In a very interesting fact filled episode of the Geocaching Podcast: Episode 359 - Shrinking Geocaches. Hosts Andy HeadHardHat Smith, Darrylw4 and StevensAdInfinitum discussed some fascinating revelations with regards to the entire geocaching timeline and the trends of geocache size at placement. The data was collected from Project-GC.com for the countries of Australia, Canada, Germany, U.K., and the U.S. Note - Data is only available through June 2014.

Below are the graphs for each country. Special thanks to Darrylw4 for the data correlation and graph creation.

We recommend to watch the video-cast or listen to the podcast for all the insights and observations given by the show hosts.

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Current Active Geocaches

Australia: Geocache Size % By Date

Canada: Geocache Size % By Date

Germany: Geocache Size % By Date

United Kingdom: Geocache Size % By Date

United States: Geocache Size % By Date

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The Geocaching Podcast Episode 359 - Shrinking Caches

Streamed live on Jul 9, 2014

In tonight's episode of the Geocaching Podcast. Darrylw4 gets his hands on some interesting geocaching data leading from the very beginning of recorded geocaching to present day which includes all the geocache sizes and how many of each existed during the entire timeline. This gives all of us a rather interesting understanding of geocaches within the entire time line. Be sure to check it out!

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Friday, July 4, 2014

GeoSnippits Reboot Podcast: Ep. 069 - Telling Your Geocaching Story

In tonight's episode of the GeoSnippits Reboot Podcast: Geocaching Insights hosts Andy HeadHardHat Smith and Wife Amy the HeadHardHatress discuss the ins an outs of telling your own geocaching story. We live in an age of information and digital sharing so how are you telling your geocaching adventures? Want to know your options plus ideas of lettings others know what you do when geocaching? Tonight is your night.

Meet up at http://geosnippits.com/gsreboot-podcast/ or go to geosnippits.com and click the GSREBOOT PODCAST option in the menu to see the LIVE viewing area to watch as we record the show and also join in our world wide chat room with geocachers from around the planet.
See you tonight - Hurricane Arthur permitting :)

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Episode 358 - July Cacher Coffee

Streamed live on Jul 2, 2014

Tonight's episode of The Geocaching Podcast the guys do what they do best in our Cacher Coffee episodes and find interesting off the wall subjects about geocaching and then hash the concepts out. Tune in and find out what the discussions will be about this week.

We meet up at 9:30PM ET on Wednesdays at www.geocachingpodcast.com/live to see the show recorded LIVE and join in the chat room.

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