I like to try #Letterboxing and checked https://www.letterboxing.org - I did actually find one listed there already as #geocache.

When I try to register, I (or my IP) get instantly banned. I don't know why. My IP from Switzerland or my .space email? 🤷

#OpenCaching #GeoCaching
@geocaching_de
@mirabilos

Groundspeak celebrates 25 years of #Geocaching… with their own, edited, commercialised whitewashed history.

https://web.archive.org/web/20040129232636/http://geocaching.gpsgames.org/history/ lists some parts of history they’d like to forget or which they may even censor people for. (At least they got the #GPS Blue Switch Day right.)

Unfortunately, #Navicache and #GPSgames are now defunct and I never managed to find @radioscout ’s GE caches. Even the #Opencaching network, while historically strong, never was able to get into users’ minds especially after Groundspeak made it into a mainstream-ish hobby (to get more money), let alone #Terracaching. They did try again to subsume the much older #Letterboxing but it also persists independently. The #xkcd #GeoHashing activity levels are also rather low these days, unfortunately. See wp.inc (or wp.pm) for quite the list of known #waypoint-like præficēs (contributions welcome) and what became of them… although almost nobody laments the loss of opencaching.com (which was even less open than the CC-BY-NC-SA Opencaching Network). I did have quite some fun with #GeoDashing and #GeoVexilla while it lasted, though never managed #Shutterspot nor even looked at #GeoGolf.

Meanwhile, Groundspeak has not only hidden their brands of #Hitchhikers (#Travelbug and #Geocoin) on the ISS but also a cache, which obviously cannot be true as it’s not even geostationary. At least #GeoKrety got a revival recently.

Groundspeak’s own (or maybe bought then EEE’d?) #Wherigo almost didn’t survive the end of the PocketPC era and, like their lab caches (now styled "adventure labs" in groups, with quite the lack of useful APIs), is dominated by people reverse-engineering them to get their found count into the ten-thousands. Their #Waymarking seems to be forgotten as well but I noticed dozens of new ones around ::1 in a granularity fine enough to compete with virtual munzees, so I guess some people still do use it. Many things are now hidden behind commercial smartphone äpps instead of being hackable (or at least scrapable; I remember getting #Expedia maps with #MOBAC for #CacheWolf; none of the other GPS Stash Hunt software I’ve seen has such a great database of waypoints as CW had…) and always requiring more mobile internet than is sensible (especially #Munzee is).

Have I forgotten anything other than the country-specific sites (like GA) I cannot comment on?

Ah. #BesserCacher ("better cacher"), a list of supposedly good caches. They changed their URL scheme from their own WPs to Groundspeak’s and completely lost entries. I think they’re gone. And #Extremcaching (similar but for really extreme expensive exhausting caches) which probably is still going but not really what I’m looking for in a hobby I use to balance all my computer-using (and the other balance hobby, music, singing and playing some instruments).

Anyway, contributions welcome! (And please boost to larger instances.)

Spazierengehen und Landkarten fertigstellen.
Mit #streetcomplete könnt ihr, wenn ihr eh zu Fuß unterwegs seid, einfache Fragen zu offenen Details auf #Openstreetmap vervollständigen.
Falls ihr #geocaching oder #letterboxing macht, lasst die App doch einfach parallel mit laufen.
https://streetcomplete.app/

Edit: hashtag korrigiert

Rewatching old CSI: Vegas. My wife bought the DVDs on eBay.

On the one hand, WOW it's old enough to look bad scaled up to a large 4K TV (with vertical letterboxing)

On the other hand, it was definitely a good show because we still remember bits of even the first episodes after all this time! And the show stands up well under the poor video quality.

Not sure I'd say that about lots of more modern shows…

#CSIVegas #OldTV #Letterboxing

#charlevoix #michigan #travel #adventure #vanlife #rvlife #winnebago #winnebagoera #lakemichigan #lighthouse #bigrock #nuclear #powerplant #historicsite #rocks #letterboxing #nationalhistoricsite https://natureisourmedicine.com/f/charlevoix-south-pierhead---15jun2024

Letterboxes are my favorite caches because they contain stamps. The record isn’t just digital but also in my bullet journal

https://coord.info/GCA2100
https://coord.info/GCA2108

#geocaching #letterboxing

#boondocking #winnebago #rvlife #vanlife #hannibal #missouri #marktwain #riverboat #letterboxing #rumorsbarandgrill #mississippiriver https://natureisourmedicine.com/f/hannibal-mo

#Letterboxing 🧭🗺 since who knows when :dogluv:

#Letterboxing in Europe is pretty dead, isnt it?

@hannahshouse2 I don't do much #letterboxing. Did a little well before #geocaching even started; have only gotten an occasional one since that isn't a #hybrid

#hybridGeocache #hybridLetterbox #GeocacheHybrid #LetterboxHybrid #GeocacheLetterbox

@yoohooair
I had forgotten about #LetterBoxing. I need to get back to that. thank you.

#geocaching (#NoVAGO #USGeocachingHour):

@geocaching

@usgeocachinghour (hashtag is NOT MY CREATION & I'm not trying to take credit - I was just a regular participant in that #Monday #evening #event on #theBirdSite & am hoping they'll migrate here) #MondayEvening #geocachingEvent #onlineEvent #forum #onlineForum

@novago
#midAtlanticUSA #DCMetro #localGroup #geocachingGroup

#letterboxing #letterboxingUSA
@letterboxing
@letterboxingusa

Overdue #JoinMastodon
#myProfile #TMI #introduction

#Married
#TwoKids (#college + #GrownAndFlown)
#oneDog #doggo (#DogsOfMastodon)
#MidAtlanticUSA #DCMetro

Part-time #computerProgrammer #perl #python (+#editing)
#workFromHome

#geocaching (#NoVAGO #USGeocachingHour)
some #letterboxing
#genealogy
#reading #movies
#StarTrek #scifi #fantasy
#nonfiction
#takingphotos #photography
#Minecraft
#knitting #crocheting #quilting (!expert+rusty)

#Prius #Priuses
#GS (#GSUSA #GSCNC; was #GSleader; #lifeGS)

The Magnolia's in flower 🌸 🌸 🌸 🌸 🌸 Helsinki, Finland #geocaching #springtime #maintenance #whoknowswhat #letterboxing

@witchescauldron
The pen can be mightier than the sword.

We see #education and #laughter as the key to stopping the #exploitation. Also using non-digital methods, like #talkingToPeople, #workshops, #letterboxing are so important in growing a #local movement. Local is difficult but ultimately necessary.

Today people are caged in their #digitalBubble. You cannot penetrate the bubble easily, without using #analog means first.

#Humor and #play are important to integrate into what we do.

@douglasfur #letterboxing originated in Dartmoor, England in the 1800s and remained fairly obscure until Smithsonian Magazine published an article about it in the late 1990s: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/they-live-and-breathe-letterboxing-151160578/ (sadly paywalled) after which it took off in the US:
https://letterboxing.org

I've been wanting to try #letterboxing for years, but never got around to making a stamp. Finally did that today.

Letterboxing is like geocaching, but instead of coordinates you follow treasure-map style clues to find a box hidden somewhere, typically some sort of public land. You bring along a pocket notebook and your stamp.

When you find the box, there's a book and a stamp in it. You stamp the book in the box with your stamp, and you stamp your own book with the stamp from the box.