Spent a day caching with mom

This past weekend, my mom and I went geocaching which we haven’t done since September. She’s not so good with the higher level terrain caches so when we went to try The Douglas Parkway Express terracache in Erie, PA she had to stop about 400 ft. from the cache. I scurried around the hill a bit and did nothing more than piss off a giant bumble bee. He didn’t seem to realize I was there so after a...

Won't give up on Terracaching

I was looking forward to figuring out the difference between Terracaching and Geocaching. Terracaching.com claims that terracaches are “quality” geocaches. After visiting my first terracache this weekend, I don’t buy it. I took Ramskid1388 out to Hermitage, PA to go after Stranger in a Strange Land. We ended up in a cemetery, which is not uncommon for geocaches, and pulled up to a small patch of...

Geocacher gone terracacher, but what's the difference?

All of my experiences I’ve written about here have been about geocaching and not much of anything else. A long time ago I discovered this other very similar hobby of TerraCaching and just recently registered for the site. I really didn’t understand it, but what they say on the Web site about it is this: TerraCaching.com employs a complex, dynamic rating system which...