201 Geocaches to Find Before You Die

by Gary Slinkard

What’s so great about geocaching? Geocaching is the outdoor recreational activity, in which participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver to hide and seek containers at specific locations marked by coordinates all over the world. But it is so much more than that! It is where it takes you to find them, it’s the people you meet and the challenge of the hunt. WHY THESE LISTS?If you are a geocache then the answer to this question is, “why not?” Or “it’s about time!” If you’re not a geocacher then my hope is that this book will inspire you to become one. Geocachers, by nature, make lists. We make lists of the geocaches that we want to find or we make lists of geocaches that have inspired us and we want to make geocaches like them.

184 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 6, 2019

About the author

Gary and Susan Slinkard have been avid geocachers for over 10 years. They have found over 1,000 geocaches and have hid and maintain many near their home in Northeast Texas. Gary has a weekly podcast, Geocache Talk, where he interviews geocachers from all over the world.

Reviews

[Celeste · Rating 3 out of 5]

Loved the information on the geocaches. I could not stand all the typos and grammatical errors. The author even mentions that at the beginning of the book.

[Robert · Rating 3 out of 5]

Gary is a nice guy. I've heard of this book for several years now, but never felt compelled to pick it up. This summer I am in reading program at the local library. To that end, I joined Kindle Unlimited to pick up a book for that program. I noticed that this book was also available through Unlimited.

I enjoyed this more than I was expecting. I also saw that I have found more than I thought I would have. I also wish I had read this a few months ago as I would hve sought several geocaches in the summer's travels in areas I have visited.

This book prompted me to get to a project I had been planning. I now have 50 lists on GC.com, one for each state. In each I have added all the geocaches listed here (and notated) as well as oldest in the state and webcams. This will assist with my future travels.

Some of the discussion of th geocaches was interesting; some were rather trite. Gary would do well to employ an editor. He acknowledges the mistakes up front, but an error in sentence #1 puts the reader on notice that this is a different kind of read.

Slinkard provides the criteria for the caches. It's as good as any, I suppose. something needs to be used. I am glad that I finally got around to reading this.

[Craig Statucki · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think that I would have given it 5 stars, but I recently finished the 1st edition and there were no significant changes between the two. I received both as a gift and I am sure that the gift giver didn't realize the similarities between the two books. Regardless, I found some new caches to add to my bucketlist.

[Michelle Rosenau · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent reading and reference...found alot of caches to put on my bucket list.