Metro NY Geocaching Society

... Park on the steps of the American Museum of Natural History, near the statue. (I'm offsetting the co-ords a bit so not to overlap on the map with another event, but I'm sure we'll all find each other, we'll be the ones with the GPS ) All geocachers are invited, local cacher or tourists - everyone ...

... The date was chosen for the easy pun on the catchphrase "May the Force be with you"—"May the fourth be with you". As another way of celebrating Star Wars Day this year, we will have a limited number of trackable lightsaber coins available for sale. The coins, which ...

... total distance to be run would be about 5K (3.1 miles) or more if one has difficulty finding the hide? The only problem I foresee is what to do if another participant sees someone else accessing a hide?

I got this feeling this morning when I went out to check on one of my caches that a cacher I saw in the vicinity as I rode by the site on my mountain bike had left some cans of bug spray at the site but he himself was not there. When I initially saw him, I just continued to ride by and as far as I k...

... I was a kid and then re-solved it on my Treo as an adult. I totally dig on puzzle hunts. Have designed two of them for the munchkins' school with another coming this spring. John, where are you seeing the info about a NY kickoff?

Once again I find myself not pointing out one of my own hides, but another Metro area hide that I liked a lot. Ellapops has a new multi-cache out that takes folks on a quest through Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, called "Can You Help Me?" ...

... coords are about 1/4 mile away from the archived GC.com coords). I think the oldest active "real" (non-virtual) cache on Manhattan is another CN cache, 4quA5 GC12AF. Oldest in the Bronx is (again, I think, not 100% on these) Vanny Cache GC1382. I ripped my best jeans hunting that one ...

... where they're coming from on that. I think this is why the caches in the subject line were retracted rather than archived - I've never seen another retraction before or since. Every other cache I've seen that later turned out to be in violation of guidelines has simply been archived, but ...

Another puzzle by G.O. Cash - . It's a good one. As difficult as the puzzle is, there have already been close to 10 visitors in less than a month - pretty good sign that New York puzzlecaching has a heartbeat.

... obviously there is still work to be done. Haven't really picked it up and hacked at it in a few weeks. I might have to dust off my notes and take another look and see if a fresh perspective helps. Hopefully there will soon come a day when I will be more qualified to discuss the pros and cons of ...

Hmm. I seem to recall similar resistance from the same non-Metro-er/geo-tourist/vacationing/etc. cache owner when a cache in another part of Central Park became part of an area the Central Park Conservancy was trying to repair, suggesting from hundreds of miles away that people go around ...

... the kids to mark their positions, and they recorded several of their own points of interest during their outing. We're assembling that data into another .kml file that the teachers are going to open in Google Earth for Monday's class, so the kids can see that the GPS information can flow in two ...

... out the coordinates of hidden stages they couldn't find the normal way. "You can't list the cache there, it's in conflict with the final for another cache." "Oh really? Wow, that's a huge surprise. Why don't you give me the coordinates so I can be sure to avoid it..." It was ...

... are hiding in an urban area where most of the hide locales are an easy walk, but it wouldn't work out in the rest of the world where it would add another (sometimes lengthy) hike to the process. I'm not sure I followed what you were getting at. In the rest of the world why would it add another ...