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Geocaching Secrets
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Two years ago, my wife told me about a new outdoor activity she'd read about in the newspaper called geocaching. “It's kind of a treasure hunt with global positioning systems," she said. I rolled my eyes "Yeah, how geeky is that," I smirked.
Geeky enough for me, apparently. I love gadgets, so I’ll find any excuse to acquire a new one. This was as good an excuse as any, so I bought an inexpensive GPS on eBay and started exploring some nearby areas. To my surprise, nearly every search took me to a place I'd never been before. All around my eastern Massachusetts home there were parks and nature preserves minutes away from me that I had never seen, even after 30 years in the area. I was hooked.
So was my wife, and as we started taking our geocaching excursions on the road, we got an idea. You see, it seems that there have been no new books about geocaching since 2004. Geocaching for Dummiesand The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Geocaching are both good books, but the sport has changed so much in the last four years that there is much they don't cover.
We aren’t the most experienced geocachers in the world, but we’re experienced editors. So we pitched an idea for a book and next spring will publish Geocaching Secrets under contract with Clerisy Press. It’ll be the first geocaching how-to book in nearly five years.
Our approach to writing Geocaching Secrets is quite different from previous efforts. We’re tapping into the vast experience of the community of enthusiastic geocachers, expert hiders, equipment providers and group leaders to find out their best stories and advice. We’ll pick and choose the best material from these many interviews to create a book that’s really written by the community.
In the process, we've tapped into a wellspring of enthusiasm that frankly amazed me. I've been a professional journalist for more than 30 years, but I have never witnessed the kind of passion, generosity and positive energy that I've seen from geocachers.
Over the past two months, we’ve interviewed more than 20 of the top 50 most prolific cachers. We’ve also talked to people who are known for their devious hides as well as people who have incorporated caching into everything from weddings to corporate events. Some of the folks we’ve interviewed have embellished our discussions with pages of written background and photos. Several have invited us to join them. In fact, this Thanksgiving we’re heading to Texas to accompany The Outlaw and some friends on a power caching excursion.
Now we’d like to ask for your help. We’d like to share your best stories and secrets with the community. The easiest thing you can do is to take our survey to tell us about your caching style, other interests and basic tactics. You can complete the form in as little as five minutes, although there’s plenty of room to tell stories if you want to share!
Or e-mail us with either or both of the following:
If you don’t have time for anything else, please take our survey. And ask your geocaching friends to take it, too!
Paul Gillin
paul@geocachesecrets.com
So was my wife, and as we started taking our geocaching excursions on the road, we got an idea. You see, it seems that there have been no new books about geocaching since 2004. Geocaching for Dummiesand The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Geocaching are both good books, but the sport has changed so much in the last four years that there is much they don't cover.
We aren’t the most experienced geocachers in the world, but we’re experienced editors. So we pitched an idea for a book and next spring will publish Geocaching Secrets under contract with Clerisy Press. It’ll be the first geocaching how-to book in nearly five years.
Our approach to writing Geocaching Secrets is quite different from previous efforts. We’re tapping into the vast experience of the community of enthusiastic geocachers, expert hiders, equipment providers and group leaders to find out their best stories and advice. We’ll pick and choose the best material from these many interviews to create a book that’s really written by the community.
In the process, we've tapped into a wellspring of enthusiasm that frankly amazed me. I've been a professional journalist for more than 30 years, but I have never witnessed the kind of passion, generosity and positive energy that I've seen from geocachers.
Over the past two months, we’ve interviewed more than 20 of the top 50 most prolific cachers. We’ve also talked to people who are known for their devious hides as well as people who have incorporated caching into everything from weddings to corporate events. Some of the folks we’ve interviewed have embellished our discussions with pages of written background and photos. Several have invited us to join them. In fact, this Thanksgiving we’re heading to Texas to accompany The Outlaw and some friends on a power caching excursion.
Now we’d like to ask for your help. We’d like to share your best stories and secrets with the community. The easiest thing you can do is to take our survey to tell us about your caching style, other interests and basic tactics. You can complete the form in as little as five minutes, although there’s plenty of room to tell stories if you want to share!
Or e-mail us with either or both of the following:
- Your best geocaching war stories: That amazing hide you found, that amazing hide you made, that incredible challenge you faced and overcame;
- Your best Geocaching Secrets: These are the unique tips and tricks that you’ve developed to geocaching experience more productive, more rewarding, safer and more efficient.
If you don’t have time for anything else, please take our survey. And ask your geocaching friends to take it, too!
Paul Gillin
paul@geocachesecrets.com