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Geocaching Scooter

I have always been a big fan of Scooters — I currently own a moped but I am considering getting a scooter instead. When a friend sent me a link to this scooter I knew right away it would be the perfect Geocaching scooter!

This scooter has it all! Of course it has a Garmin GPS - that will get you close to the cache. It also has a full computer under the seat with a 8″ touch screen monitor mounted up front — log your finds on route! The big antenna on the back is a 30db gain antenna giving you up to 3 mile wireless range! If that isn’t good enough the computer has a wireless cell internet card.

There is so much more to this sweet ride - swing by and have a look for yourself…

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Milestone - Cache #200

Milestones are great! —they give you both something to work towards and something to celebrate. We have been Geocaching for about ten months now — we haven’t gone too nuts with wanting to get a large number of caches done — we did however want to get to 200 caches before the end of the year.

For some people 200 is not that much and for others it seems crazy — for us I think it was a good goal!

Last Saturday (April 26, 2008) we successfully accomplished our 200th cache! The cache (Scanlon Creek Passport OfficeGCV51K) was a great Letterbox Hybrid placed by The Mighty Canadian Juicepig in 2006. We chose this cache because it looked like a great adventure (and it wasn’t an LPC ;)). We had recently done another great cache by Juicepig (GC1AMC5) and was ready for a great adventure.

To complete this cache we had to find 6 points through out the conservation area were there were hole punch plaques — once we found these we could punch a hole in the paper and compare the pattern with the decipher code printed on the cache page. The patterns lined up with numbers. Once we found all six punch plaques we were able to determine the coordinates for the starting point of this Letterbox.

Once we got to the starting point we followed clues to get to the final cache location. We had a little trouble at first but were able to figure it out. Once at the location we found the cache pretty easily.

It was great to push towards the goal of having 200 caches by the end of our first year — and it was even greater to celebrate this milestone together as a family!

Hey maybe we should call this in to the Podcacher show? « yah… a shameless plug with great hopes of publicity :)

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