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

Friday, July 31, 2015

Pathtag Graphics Tutorial 101 - GeoSnippits Reboot Podcast: Ep. 122

In this episode of the GeoSnippits Reboot Podcast: Geocaching Insights hosts Andy HeadHardHat Smith and Wife Amy the HeadHardHatress discuss the very basics of computer graphics and how to create them. All this so you can design and submit your own pathtag creations.

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.

If the video is not seen above. Please use this YouTube Link:
https://youtu.be/J-NQM66-1do

For All the show notes, audio and video version of this episode please come visit here:
http://geosnippitsreboot.com/pathtag-graphics-tutorial-101-geosnippits-reboot-podcast-ep-122

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Friday, July 24, 2015

July 2015 Mish Mash Episode - GeoSnippits Reboot Podcast: Ep. 121

In this episode of the GeoSnippits Reboot Podcast: Geocaching Insights hosts Andy HeadHardHat Smith and Wife Amy the HeadHardHatress discuss a little bit of everything in regards to GPSr basics and other projected interests.

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 8:00PM ET with the actual podcast starting at 8:30PM ET. Come join in the fun!

YouTube Episode Link: https://youtu.be/WGldvbtSD5E

Show Notes, Audio Podcast and Videocast Here:
http://geosnippitsreboot.com/july-2015-mish-mash-episode-geosnippits-reboot-podcast-ep-121

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Friday, July 17, 2015

Conducting A Geocaching Class - GeoSnippits Reboot Podcast: Ep. 120

In tonight's episode of the GeoSnippits Reboot Podcast: Geocaching Insights hosts Andy HeadHardHat Smith and Wife Amy the HeadHardHatress discuss a great way of mentoring fellow geocaches by giving geocaching classes. We give suggestions from our viewers on different topics and some basics you might want to consider.

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 8:00PM ET with the actual podcast starting at 8:30PM ET. Come join in the fun!

YouTube Link To This Episode: https://youtu.be/4_RHwziDoNk

For All Of This Episode's Show Notes, Audible and Video Podcast content:
http://geosnippitsreboot.com/conducting-a-geocaching-class-geosnippits-reboot-podcast-ep-120

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Thursday, July 16, 2015

Headhardhat's Geocaching Quiz IV- GeoSnippits Reboot Podcast: Ep. 119

Streamed live on Jul 9, 2015

In tonight's episode of the GeoSnippits Reboot Podcast: Geocaching Insights hosts Andy HeadHardHat Smith and Wife Amy the HeadHardHatress find out your geocaching knowledge with another fun geocaching quiz. We are giving away Thor's Hammer tonight to some lucky Patron and a GxProxy grab bag to some lucky viewer live on the show. All this and more tonight.. See you there...

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 8:00PM ET with the actual podcast starting at 8:30PM ET. Come join in the fun!

YouTube Link --> https://youtu.be/Z1n1qkT81k8

All of our show notes for this episode, audio podcast and videocast can be found here:
http://geosnippitsreboot.com/headhardhats-geocaching-quiz-iv-geosnippits-reboot-podcast-ep-119

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Wednesday, July 8, 2015

A Geocaching Adventure In HELL

Yup I can honestly say that I have seen Hell Freeze Over. No the Detroit Lions did not win the Super Bowl and i am not speaking the place of sulfur and brimstone. Hell, Michigan is a tiny little town not to far from where I lived in Dexter, Michigan. Yes anytime there was a good snow or ice storm news crews would come out for the photo opportunity of shooting Hell frozen over.

For the longest time it was a one light town without the light. In fact the only thing was a bar. Now it is not quite a booming metropolis though it has expanded to an ice cream / putt-putt / Halloween store.

Hell does have geocaches and wife Amy and I took a little trip to see what we could find.

The pickings were pretty slim in Hell but we managed to find three geocaches.

You had to keep moving otherwise you might be overtaken by Michigan's state bird - the mosquito.

Very cool cemetery nearby. We spent several minutes checking out the gravestones.

Had fun driving around my old stomping grounds and showing Wife Amy the sites. Then we had just enough time to meet up with family for some dinner and conversation. A really fun day.

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Good Food, Family and Fudge - Frankenmuth, Michigan

On Saturday (7/4) we spent some time with my sister Vicki, brother Scott and his family.

What better place to meet up and eat up than Frankenmuth, Michigan. Home of Bronner's Christmas Store (largest in the world) plus Bavarian Inn and Zehnder's World Famous Chicken houses.

Paddle boat in Frankenmuth

The feud of the chicken houses go back ages. It is a true Coke/Pepsi rivalry that will split families in two when deciding where to eat. Even though both are now owned by one family the divide is real and both take great pride on who is best in this town.

Do you prefer Zehnder's

or do you prefer Bavarian Inn?

Bronner's Christmas store has been my North Pole since I was a kid. Mr. Bronner who owned Bronner's was a very respected representative of Michigan and catching a glimpse of him during working hours was like a Santa sighting. I finally caught up with him years ago for a photo opt, it is one of my prized shots.

Wife Amy and Amanda inside Bronner's Christmas Store

There is tons to do at Frankenmuth. From horse drawn carriages to home made fudge. It very much a tourist place to go but if you are from Michigan and beyond you still take time to drop on by every now and again.

Wife Amy and Headhardhat at one of Bronner's many parade floats.
Note my patriotic t-shirt matches the Fourth of July float.

The famous Silent Night Chapel

Bavarian Inn Hotel and the river front next to it.

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Photos From Our Michigan Trip - Wall Cloud at the Virginia-North Carolina Border

Driving home from Michigan on Sunday (7/5) was mostly uneventful until, dun, dun, dunnnnn.

The mass flooding and torrential rain we had to drive through the West Virginia and Virginia mountains on I-77. It really came down to the point the car was easily spinning it's tires (hydroplaning) with very little effort. Felt very much like driving through the winter months except it was July. This added several hours to our trip home.

As we were coming up to the North Carolina border we saw this wall cloud in the valley below. The thunderstorms were pretty violent.

Wall cloud near North Carolina border - Photo by Andy Smith

Luckily things cleared up as we drove closer to Raleigh, NC. Though I have to admit, what ever adrenaline I had left was spent after our 18 hour trip.

Maybe next time we will fly to Michigan instead of drive...

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