Night-Time Geocaching - Pocket PC Style

I'm down in Southern California this week for some training. As any good geocacher does I scoured the surrounding areas for caches so my evenings can be spent out and about hunting for "treasure" rather than sitting in front of the TV in my hotel room.

I was quickly approaching my 200th find and wanted to do something special. It dawned on me that the author of my favorite Pocket PC geocaching application (BeeLineGPS) lives down in SoCal so I decided to contact him and see if he was up for a "night cache"!

I hooked up with "RumJungle" (BeeLineGPS author's geocaching name) for dinner and a couple of caches. I was sitting at 197 so I needed to find a couple before we headed over to the "Family Night" (GCVPJY). We found a quick cache before dinner then headed out to pick up a flashlight and find 1 more before going after the multi-stage night-time cache.

If the geek police were out we would have surely been arrested. RumJungle had 2 Pocket PC devices with a Garmin bluetooth GPS receiver and I had my iPAQ 6900 with built-in GPS as well as a hand-held Garmin reciever (it's a shame I left the Blackjack at home :) ). We had BeeLineGPS running along with Mapopolis (where I had all the local caches displayed on the street maps) and even tossed in TeleNav to help us find a store to get the flashlight.

After finding my 199th cache RumJungle mentioned that he thought he was close to 100 finds, so we fired up IE on my iPAQ and navigated to geocaching.com so he can log in and see what his total was. Turned out it was 98! He picked up 1 more so we both would be doing a milestone cache tonight.

The cache turned out to be awesome! I don't want to spoil it for anyone who might be going for this one, but it was one of the most high-tech, coolest caches I've found. Perfect for a couple of Pocket PC geocaching geeks like RumJungle and Big-AlH. ;)

Me holding the bolt I accidently kneeled on while snagging the cache.

RumJungle with find #100 - using BeeLineGPS of course!