Upcoming Area Events

GC3V7FE – B. Y. O. L. (Bring Your Own Lunch) September 8, 2012 @ 11:00 – Midland, Texas GC3Q74K – DSS Turns 50 (+) Geocachers Photo & CITO Event September 8, 2012 @ 11:00 – Copperas Cove, Texas GC3V2DN – 2nd Annual Bison Celebration Geocache Meet/Greet September 15, 2012 @ 10:00 – Caprock Canyon State Park GC3T9YT – PBCA Adopt a Highway October 2012 Cleanup October 20, 2012 @ 08:00 – Midland, Texas GC3TDV0 – Make a Difference Day Lunch 2012 October 20, 2012 @ 11:15 – Midland, Texas GC3RRY3 – Mixed Up In San Angelo November 10, 2012 @ 09:00 – San Angelo, Texas

Make a Difference Day

Every year the City of Midland (Along with other West Texas Cities) have two annual cleanups.  They are in April (Texas Trashoff) and October.  On October 20th is Make a Difference Day, join the Permian Basin Geocachers at their CITO event and meal event listed above to participate, or organize another CITO event in your city.

FTF Geocacher Magazine

Did you know there is a Magazine out there devoted entirely to geocaching?FTF Geocacher is in it’s third year of production.  There are 6 issues a year (every 2 months) they also have an app available for the iPad to read on the go.It’s a great read, users submit articles pictures and other things for each issues. You’ll find quite a few articles out of geocachers in West Texas in the last year or so issues.

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The Unnamed Event

September 15 – 16, 2012 @ Lake Somerville Marina Campground

The Texas Geocaching Association is starting up a brand new annual event for the fall, The Unnamed Event is it’s current name. Why is it named that? Because it has yet to be named! TXGA is having a contest to pick this new annual events name, read more about it here: The Unnamed Event Contest and it’s Cache listing is here: The UNNAMED EVENT.

I plan to be there and I hope to see more from West Texas as well. There is plenty to do in the area including some very good geocaches, and lets not forget Blue Bell ice cream tours!

The schedule of events is up, if you intend to sign up for the Chili Cookoff or the Bakeoff, be sure to register before September 12th!

Texas State Parks Geocache Challenge

The Texas State Parks have been doing a yearly Geocache Challenge for a few years now.  Last year marked the first year they had participating parks in West Texas.This years Challenge starts up on October 1, 2012 with the coordinates being released at 08:00 AM that day. Be sure to check out the Texas State Parks Geocaching page to learn more.

GPS Adventures Maze comes to Texas! Or does it?

As we said in last months newsletter the GPS Adventure Maze WAS set to come to Texas.  Unfortunately that has changed.  Due to a “Schedule Conflict” at the Witte Museum in San Antonio the Maze is now going to Oregon for that time frame. According to Geocaching.com they are working with the Witte to have the Maze sometime next year, as soon as I know more so will you!

Attributes in Cache Listings

When your looking for caches to find, do you care about the details on the cache listing?  Would you rather a string of park and grabs or a well thought out listing with alot of information and looks fancy?Some do, some don’t, it’s up to you how you want to cache.  However, did you know that there are alot of geocachers out there that only find caches with attribute settings a certain way?When your listing a cache page you have the option of setting attributes to help cachers identify if a cache has a certain ability or know if something is needed.  Truckers look for “Truck Driver/RV” caches where they know they can pull over their big rigs, same for cachers in RVs of course.  From time to time you may be out on a caching trip and want one with “Public Restrooms Nearby” checked.  I tend to look for “Recommended for Kids” went out of town so I know where to take the boys. Click here for a full list of attributes.

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