by xpunkx on November 11, 2010
As many of you know we mostly talk about geocaching.com on this site and this podcast. That is mostly because they are the dominate player in the field of geocaching. They were the first and there are the most players on their site.
However that doesn’t mean that they are the only player on the field. When I started geocaching as far as i know geocaching.com was the only site, then I heard about TerraCaching where they promote quality geocaching. And then there is also Navicaching These sites had some players but not nearly the same.
Now there is a new player in the game. the opencaching set of sites. in the us there is opencaching.us From what i can tell this will maybe be a good competitor for geocaching.com so far there are 333 total caches listed on the site. the graphics a pretty good. The great thing about opencaching is that there are types of caches that are not on geocaching.com like the new cache type Dead Drop Cache or The Guest Book Cache and yes they allow virtual caches.
Do i think that any of these sites are going to overtake geocaching.com, NO but a little competition is good. There may not be many caches listed on these alternative sites but just think about it, When geocaching.com started there were not many caches listed but now look there are 1,237,174 active caches.
by xpunkx on March 15, 2010
This past week on Thursday evening I (xpunkx) saw a geocache published. The cache was GC24VZ4. I decided to wait until the morning to try and find it. So i hopped in the car and headed to work. I got to the location and parked. I hoped out of the car and walked to ground zero. Found the cache real quick. However this cache had a log that was just a pain to get out. so i took the log book and the ziploc back to the car to try and not draw attention to me.
While signing the log i noticed a van that drove by slowly and then parked on a side street. Well i signed the log and decided that i would just drive up to near where Ground Zero was. When i got up there i saw a girl walking down the street in the same direction that the cache was so i just decided to drive around the block and then put it back.
When i got around the block i saw that the other van was gone and was parked in the parking lot and the man was headed for the cache location. So i walked up behind him waited till he found the cache and told him i still had the log. We chatted a little bit and then parted ways. I got to work signed the online log noting my FTF.
A few minutes later another log came in stating they were FTF and that they didnt see any names on the log when they signed it. Could it be did i just miss his name on the log. or did he miss mine. So i emailed and asked what time he logged the cache he said 6:50 and i wasn’t there until 7:10 so i guess he did get there first so i changed my log so it didnt say FTF. Oh well i was so close. You can read my log here
You can also listen to some audio i recorded when out in the field trying to find the cache
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