Northeast Geocaching

SEUSA Great American Travel Bug Race

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:59:29 -0500

Soaring Eagles USA Travel Big Race Publicizing

The Soaring Eagles United States Geocachers Association will be hosting the first annual SEUSA Great American Travel Bug Race in the upcoming months. A date currently, in not set. There are a few ways to apply to race. To track "racer bugs", apply to race and so much more you can go to www.seusa-geocaching.org. There will be prizes for the winners and much more. The race will start at Lilac Park Cache in Stillwater, New York and continue to San Diego Overlook Cache (Double Peak Summit) in San Diego, California. The first bug to the end cache wins! For more info you can log on or e-mail me at seusa@seusa-geocaching.org. We hope you will join us and race! Thanks!

EagleO-10,
SEUSA President

Upcoming Northeast Event Caches

Sun, 07 Jan 2007 00:50:24 -0600

Below is a list of fifteen upcoming events in the Northeast region.

(GCZMYH) Caching and Coffee (Event Cache)
Location: Connecticut, United States
Date: 1/6/2007
Posted by: Barefoot

(GCZGCA) Cache Outback in Hunt Valley (Event Cache)
Location: Maryland, United States
Date: 1/7/2007
Posted by: S A M

(GC101NG) CCC's Nite Out #16: "(2)007- Licensed to Cache." (Event Cache)
Location: Connecticut, United States
Date: 1/9/2007
Posted by: paddlehikers

(GCZZFK) Pre Awards Dinner Event (Event Cache)
Location: New York, United States
Date: 1/11/2007
Posted by: Reisfield

Geocaching becoming hottest craze in Poconos

Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:39:59 -0600

If you have ever dreamt about hunting for treasure, you might be surprised to learn that there are nearly 2,000 hidden treasures within a 50-mile radius of Stroudsburg. If you\'ve been to Wal-Mart in East Stroudsburg, you have walked near hidden treasure without knowing it.

Thousands of people across the country are hunting for and hiding treasures through geocaching. Still in its infancy, geocaching is a well organized sport. It was developed in May of 2000, shortly after the U.S. government improved personal GPS reception. ....

Local enthusiasts Kathy Sadowski, known as StellerScape in the geochaching world, and her daughter, 12-year-old Michelle, of Stroud Township in about two years have found more 300 nearby geocaches and hidden a number of them as well.

Click Here to read the whole article.

NEGeocaching.com Looking for Regional Authors

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 10:59:25 -0600

NEGeocaching.com is looking for authors from each region represented on this site. Tell us what's going on in your area, and help other Geocachers stay updated about Geocaching in different parts of the Northeast.

Submitting news is easy simply login into the site and click the "Submit Article" link in the Main Menu on your left and your all set.

If you are a member of a local Geocaching group add your news here and we will provide a your logo in the post and a separate topic category for your group so Geocachers can find your news easily and stay updated with going on inside your group. Posting your groups news will not only increase awareness of your group, it will also make it easier for Geocachers to find your site by providing a link back to your groups site.

If you are interested in getting your groups logo and category please contact us at webmaster at negeocaching.com.

Geocaching Card Game is now available

Mon, 04 Sep 2006 09:52:23 -0500

Press Release for all Geocachers!

First card game about Geocaching is for sale!

First To Find! (FTF!), the first card game based on the international GPS sport, Geocaching, has been released from production and is now for sale online at www.ftfcardgame.com or on in the In-Gear Store if you click here - Groundspeak Store - \\\"First to Find!\\\".

FTF! is a family-friendly, two to four person treasure-hunting-themed card game that can be played in 15-30 minutes. The game has been designed to capture the excitement of the family sport, Geocaching, using stunning and vivid illustrations. The game can also be used as a regular deck of cards and comes in a blue collector\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s tin.

Object of the Game: FTF! features cards suited to the seasons - fall, spring, summer, and winter. Players then use a combination of Gear (e.g. bug spray), Movement (e.g. 4x4), and Obstacle (e.g. spider webs) cards to out-trick other players and race to become the first person to find the cache.

Independent game outfit, Solid Wood Productions, LLC, created and pitched the game idea to Groundspeak, parent company of the Geocaching.com site. Groundspeak granted Solid Wood Productions the license to produce the official card game for the increasingly popular sport, finding it to be a great product for the Geocaching community. Ryan Thiegs led the development of the card game in partnership with artist Eric Smith.

The game retails on Geocaching.com for $9.95.

Visit www.ftfcardgame.com to see the card artwork or visit www.Geocaching.com to buy the FTF! card game.

Contact: For more information, please contact Eric Thiegs at eric@ftfcardgame.com

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SOUTHERN MAINE AUG. 19th, M.G.A*. GEO RALLYE

Tue, 11 Jul 2006 20:47:32 -0500

Come out for a full throttle day of wild geocaching excitement, with prizes and awards to boot.

The game: MGAs first Annual Geo Rally. (*MGA is the newly formed Maine Geocaching Association)

The objective: Find as many of the 24-30 newly placed (legitimate) caches and 20 plus locationless caches and other geo targets that you can.

The playing field: 250 to 300 miles and 5 counties in Southern Maine. All the cache placements are in back country areas to help keep you out of congested city traffic.

The time: The event starts at daylight on the 19th and ends at 4:30 pm for a BBQ steak dinner at a lodge on Sebago lake in southern Maine.

Lodging: If you want to come up, we can help make arrangements for you at a motel in a starting area near one of the rallye coordinators which will help make it easy for you to get the co-ords the night before.

The Rules: Start anywhere you want in Southern Maine at sunrise the morning of the event, lay out your own route from the cache co-ords you received the night before, and find as many of the caches and geo targets that you can before the finish time at 4:30 pm.

The Prizes: The entire entry fees collected will go towards buying awards and prizes for the contestants. The higher you score the better chances you have of taking home the gold.

To those of you that may be interested in having info on Rallye, please check out GCW21T on the geocaching website or email me at johncall@adelphia.net

Once the word gets out about this event Im sure well see more of them across the northeast.

You can also check out mainegeocachingassociation.com after the evening of July 15th

Geocaching Weekend

Thu, 18 May 2006 17:50:39 -0500

Hi All,

I'm excited to be a new member of this community. Though our family is south of your direct area, you all seem to be very active and that's great.

I just wanted to let you all know about an event coming fall to our neighborhood. Deer Valley YMCA Family Camp is offering a Geocachers Weekend, October 13-15th at the camp on Mount Davis. There isn't much of a marketing budget for the program because they are non-profit. But, we are hoping that it's a big sucess. So please consider registering for yourself or passing on the word to fellow Cachers. For more information or to register, call 1-800-YMCA-FUN or visit www.deervalleyymca.org. Hope to see you there!

Carrie Weigley
theweigleys

Treasure hunt or terror threat?

Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:02:47 -0600

Here is an article that was in the Allentown Morning Call, one very scary comment by the Fire Commissioner would make you think twice about hiding a cache.

Bethlehem will absorb the cost of Tuesday's response, said Fire Commissioner George Barkanic, but if calls about suspicious packages continue to come in, the costs of investigating them will be paid by the people who hid the caches.

Visit our poll and let us know what you think...

Geocaching game triggers bomb squad alert in Bethlehem.
By Pamela Lehman
Of The Morning Call

A PennDOT worker salting roads about 5:30 a.m. Tuesday saw a woman in dark clothes walk down a Bethlehem hill, pause at a tree along Hellertown Road near the Interstate 78 overpass, turn around and get on a bus.

Sidney Reph followed the woman's footprints in the snow, and beneath the tree found a tarp hiding an ammunition box with a combination lock.

He told police he ''got away as fast as possible'' because he thought it could be a bomb. Firefighters, police officers and bomb squad technicians secured the area while investigating the mysterious box with ''This is a game'' written on the front.

Link to the full article.

PA Geocaching Trails

Sat, 12 Nov 2005 23:43:55 -0600

Dear Friends:

With the advent of the bookmarks on the geocaching.com website an idea was spawned by some Philadelphia area cachers. Why not list the caches in some sort of logical order to assist newbies or those from out of town who may not be familiar with the area.

Look at this page to see what we mean:

http://www.geocities.com/pageocachers/trails/philly.html

We want to expand this idea to cachers from across the state of Pennsylvania. If you would like to contribute, or have any questions, contact Bruce Andersen at bgandersen@gmail.com.

Happy Caching!

Geocache player broke all the rules of Internet treasure hunt

Sat, 01 Oct 2005 08:53:33 -0500

BOISE -- Tuesday?s closure of Highway 55 has brought a lot of attention to something called geocaching.

Idaho State Police

Police say this green bucket beneath the Rainbow Bridge contains trinkets for a popular Internet treasure hunt game known as geocaching. It did not contain explosives as first feared.

This was not the first time that a geocache has been mistaken for a possible bomb.

Police say it was the third or fourth time the Boise bomb squad has responded to a false alarm.

Here is a link to the full article.

Geocache player broke all the rules of Internet treasure hunt