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Ascent Through the Trees
A geocache can take you somewhere special and move you through that space in a way that makes for a memorable experience. Nice place for a walk in Orange (GC2M32G) gave me just such an experience on...
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A Purposeful Walk In the Park
“I have always hated to exercise just for the sake of exercise,” my good friend dagdvm once told me. I agree completely. Sometimes it’s hard to just get on a treadmill and walk in place or go outside...
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The Lure of Harpers Ferry
The land we call Harpers Ferry, West Virginia is a focal point of nature, gathering force and resources at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers. Harpers Ferry is also one of the most...
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A Summer Moment’s Wilderness
Cradled in the snaky meandering embrace of the Occoquan Reservoir, squeezed upward from water’s edge into hardwood-canopied undulating green folds of rise and ravine, and threaded through with narrow...
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Landlubbers Paddle the Potomac, Part 2
With every paddle stroke in the downstream flow of the upper Potomac we move our canoe past our inexperience on the water and towards our geocaching adventure. We land on Heater’s Island. We step up...
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Landlubbers Paddle the Potomac, Part 3
We go from a pirate’s gathering at the extreme eastern end of Heater’s Island to the extremes of endurance on our paddle back to Virginia, our first self-propelled aquatic return voyage ever. In...
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Walking In Wide-Open Beauty
I used to burrow indoors during January, taking myself further away from the limited sunlight that makes its way to northern Virginia this time of year. Geocaching year-round’s led me into winter...
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A Geocacher’s View of Camel’s Hump Mountain
A geocache placed to bring searchers to a distant view of a famous Vermont landmark gives us some beautiful moments on our way east through New England. dagdvm, Tilly the wiener dog and I found...
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Geocaching Beaverdam Reservoir’s Northeastern Shore
We enjoyed clear blue sky and February daffodils on the shores of the Beaverdam Reservoir. There are more than twenty geocaches in the vicinity of Loudon County, Virginia’s Beaverdam Reservoir. After...
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Pond Eddy Historic Bridge
We walk south from the Delaware River’s New York shore on the historic Pond Eddy Bridge to Shohola Township, Pennsylvania. This 113 year-old span, the only way to reach this part of PA by car and...
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Memorial Day
We pause on this very special day of remembrance to recall our visit to two hallowed grounds: Arlington National Cemetery and Washington, DC’s Congressional Cemetery. Sunday, March 25th, 2012 was...
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A Double in Derbyshire
Two geocache finds make a nice addition to our sunny day’s outing in Derbyshire as we sample offerings at Chatsworth House’s food and drink fair and accidentally visit the National Trust’s Longshaw...
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Three Edges in South Yorkshire
On yet another sunny day during our UK vacation we find some geocaches during our stroll along the three edges of Broadstone Reservoir. We also meet “3 Edges,” the geocache owner who placed most of...
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A Circular Walk Around Cheese Gate Nab
We enjoy some panoramic views of West Yorkshire’s Holme Valley by taking a circular walk around Cheese Gate Nab. Along the way we find some geocaches and take a wrong turn which brings unexpected...
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Weetwood Bridge
Weetwood Bridge is an historic Northumberland landmark, a Grade I listed building, an important span over the River Till serving the village of Chatton, and on the day we were there, an interesting...
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