Come on a journey to remember and commemorate the dramatic chain of events, people and places that led to the birth of our National Anthem. The story of the Anthem was shaped by events in the Chesapeake region during the War of 1812. From early 1813 until early 1815, the Chesapeake Bay and surrounding shores [...]
Continue reading about The Star-Spangled Banner Geotrail will launch Saturday, February 27!
As you walk through woods with your GPS in hand, have you ever wondered about the technology – its history, current uses and future possibilities? Visitors to the GPS Adventures Maze Exhibit opening this weekend at the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore will have the opportunity to learn that and much more.
The GPS Adventures Maze [...]
Continue reading about GPS Adventures Maze Exhibit Comes to Maryland
Take part in a statewide treasure hunt!
You could win some fun prizes!
Beginning January 1, 2010!
The Maryland Municipal League and the Maryland Geocaching Society has partnered with Maryland Life magazine to foster new interest in discovering municipal geocaches along the Maryland Municipal League Geocache Trail. During 2010, each of the six issues of Maryland Life [...]
Things are coming together for our annual summer gathering. Hides are in place and have been reviewed. Pavillion has been rented. Raffle inventory is growing as well as the item count for the silent auction.
As you await August 2nd…. you have time to vote on you favorite cache hides as well as hiders. Links to [...]
It’s looking like the MGS will have plenty of
members attending this year’s Geowoodstock
in Bell Buckle Tennessee.
Stop by here periodically to see what is going
on in Bell Buckle.
The M-NCPPC Park Rangers invite you to participate in the first ever M-NCPPC Park Ranger Geo-Challenge. There will be a total of 30 “Ranger Challenge” caches, with 20 in Prince George‘s County and 10 in Montgomery County. The first 250 participants to locate all 30 Ranger caches will be awarded with a beautiful trackable Ranger [...]
Continue reading about M-NCPPC Park Ranger Challenge to Begin March 14th!
Groundspeak has submitted a Geocaching app for the iPhone, you can read about it here.
It’s pretty cool — being able to launch the app and have it load up the caches closest to your current location. I’ve wanted this for a while now and it’s under 2 weeks away. You get full “paperless” functionality (just [...]
Ever wonder how to create smaller and easier-to-remember links to cache pages in forums, emails, etc.?
I’ve always used the Firefox search extension to provide handy links like this:
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GC13TMN
Now you can use Coord.Info to create links, using only the GC# (or WM# if you’re using waymarks):
http://coord.info/GC13TMN
takes you to the same link above, with less steps! [...]
We would again like to thank and recognize all of our CAM hiders. Each of you did an outstanding job and it was your efforts that made this years CAM a huge success!!
A big congrats to Richeym1 for Best All Around CAM hide and Deep Creek Local for honorable mention. Way to go!
Myrtle [...]
Hello all, this is just a reminder that when placing a geocache on private property, please make every effort to coordinate with both the land owner and any other interested parties (i.e. employees of a business). Urban micros have grown significantly in popularity as the sport has expanded; however, the placement of these types [...]
