Richard Goulet [IWANA] blog

Un petit questionnaire en ligne détermine votre âge “biologique” selon vos diverses habitudes de vie. Je suis plutôt étonné des résultats …

J’ai vraiment pas une super alimentation … mais le reste semble aller. Voyez le questionnaire

Moi qui n’aime pas le goût du café (en fait mon expérience s’est limité à quelques gorgées de cafés bien ordinaires), je me demande bien ce qui est le mieux pour la santé entre 4 cafés et une Monster ? Lol, la réflexion me vient en voyant que Michel se ramène un café assez régulièrement alors que je boit lentement ma Monster. tk, dans les 2 cas ça réveille.

Une idée de projet … afficher un module google map comportant des marqueurs pour les caches que je trouve. Les marqueurs seraient accompagnés d’un lien vers les détails de la cache et vers mon “log” pour cette cache sur geocaching.com. Des photos pourraient être associées (en passant une requête via flickr api pour sortir des photos selon le géopositionnement, trouvé dans certains exif data). Hum, c’est une idée. Il me faudrait d’abord me prendre un compte “prenium” sur geocaching.com pour pouvoir faire des pocket queries.

9 other founds. (11 for David, because i already did 2).

Theses finds was sunday (23/07/2006). The most hot think about this was the cross of the river at “La pointe” (2 cross to do, cause it was simply at twenty meters on the other side … no bridge in our field of view. “Le grand corridor” was also very cool, as our first multi-cache. My girldfriend (who goes to the mid of this river before turnback), and finded two others caches was there. And also Olivier, who find two caches too. But, a question : why a grocery basket was at the side of the river lol

EN PASSANT (Traditional Cache) [visit log]
AIR-EAU (Traditional Cache)[visit log]
Allez Hop! Au boulot (Traditional Cache)[visit log]
Le grand corridor (Multi-cache)[visit log]
La pointe (Traditional Cache)[visit log]
Attention… Ados à l’horizon (Traditional Cache)[visit log]
Une journée à l’école (Unknown Cache)[visit log]
La Petite Muraille (Traditional Cache)[visit log]
Sentier Banville (Traditional Cache)[visit log]

The word sounds biz … geo what ?
Geocaching is a kind of treasure chase.

1. Everywhere around the world, people hide “caches” (a little box generally containing somes objects).
2. When a person hide a cache, she take the coordinates (latitude, longitude) of her cache with a GPS unit.
3. She write the position on a web site (geocaching.com) with somes other informations (she give a name for this cache, write a description, some historic or interestings thinks about the place where she put it, some hints occasionnally, etc).
4. Others persons (called “geocachers”), navigate over the website and check the descriptions of theses caches.
5. Geocacher take note of an interesting cache and he enter the coordinates in his GPS unit.
6. Geocacher go to the cache (this is the interesting part of the game - because it’s many time harder than you think).
7. Geocacher sign the “logbook” (as a trace of his passage), and generally take an object and let another (some caches contain valued objects (it generally goes with the difficulty to find the cache).
8. Return at home, geocacher “log” the cache on geocaching.com, that increment the number of his finds.

What’s the challenge ?
It depend of you. Any person you are, there will by a challenge for you. Yeah, because there is many types of caches, and many difficulties. By example, some caches are easy to find, but you have to respond to some questions to find the real “coordinates” (we call theses caches “mystery caches”). Others times, you have to go to multi places to find the answers (”multi cache”). In general, you have the coordinates (”traditional cache”), but you will pass a river, climb some rocks, take snowshoes, etc.

But, is there some valued price ?
Nah, are you serious ? I’ts really around twenty times i hear this question. There is objects you can trade, but sincerely the real valued price is in a couple of facts … outdoor, relationnionship, spectacular places.

Outdoor
The game is outside, not over the tv or some other new game console. Some caches require your bike, others a kayak, a climbing equipment … You will walk, [swim ?], etc. It’s good for you and for your brain.

Meets and relationship.
You can do this yourself but also with any person … it don’t necessary require to be in big shape … many families do thats with theirs childs (like my syster). I went some times with my father, and it was very cool. In general, i went with my cousin. There is somes geocaching events etc.

Spectacular places.
Not always the case, but in many times … you will discover rivers, mountains, trails, historic things, lakes, campings, etc. Many times it’s more interesting that places known.

So, if your not sure about it, just ask to others geocachers.

Here is other stuff :
http://www.geocaching.com (the official worldwide site)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocaching (the wikipedia definition)
http://www.quebecgps.com/