I recently “discovered” FTF Magazine, a Print Magazine for Geocachers. It looked interesting enough to spend a few bucks to get a subscription. With the subscription you get a nice Geocoin that is trackable.
They also send a Discoverable tracking card. I had never seen these until I did some caching down in Ohio where they seem pretty common.
Well I was not able (yet) to be awarded a Doctor of Geocaching, but I was successful in getting my “Bachelor of Geocaching“.
Just a little fun thing that “Folboter JAF” does as part of his challenge hides.
You can look them up on Geocaching.com.
GC5CRR1 Bachelors = Got it okay.
GC5CRR2 Masters = Might be possible, at this time I have 29 of the 50 “credits” needed to graduate!
GC5CRR3 Doctors = This is a real challenge for sure. One I possibly will never qualify for… but then who knows.
I saw a notice on the Geocaching home page about a program called “Snag the Tag“, so I investigated. On the home page was a link to purchase the “Hider Kit”. There was originally two types available, a large and a small. Since the large was sold out I grabbed a small right away, which was good since they sold out shortly afterwards. This project seems to be in a limited state so far, with maybe 600 (??) tags hidden on this “Mission Mammoth” project. Unlike geocaches these are one time hide/find. The owner hides the tag, some one finds it, takes it to claim online, and it is done. No logs to sign.
Shorty thereafter I received my tags and started to see how to do this. Not so hard.
To help they have some FAQ’s:
