Show 912.0: What’s going on with Earthcaches?!
PodCacher: Geocaching Goodness
Sonny and Sandy Portacio: Geocachers, Podcasters and Entertainers
4.9 • 792 Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
On our geocaching podcast today, we have a very informative chat with Chris Ronan aka rockchalk from Geocaching HQ, who does a deep dive into the history and background of earthcaches and then he explains about the so-called “earthcache purge” that has been occurring lately. He also shares some great information if you’d like to create or resurrect an earthcache yourself. Plus GIFF in the news, some awesome milestone stories and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Chris Ronan, Rock Chalk from Geocassion HQ in Seattle, and you are listening to Podcatcher. |
| 0:19.3 | Hey, I'm Sunny. |
| 0:21.4 | From Sunny, San Diego, California. Welcome. And I'm Sandy. |
| 0:23.6 | From Sunny, San Diego, California. |
| 0:24.8 | Welcome to Podcatcher. |
| 0:30.1 | This show is packed with geocashing goodness, news, tips, and tricks, and tools of the trade. |
| 0:33.7 | Also interviews, geocaching events, and stories from around the world. You can find show notes with links mentioned on the show and a lot more geocaching goodies |
| 0:37.9 | at podcasher.com. |
| 0:40.0 | So with that, let's get on with the show. |
| 1:03.9 | Thank you. Hey guys, hello, and welcome to another podcatcher podcast. |
| 1:09.1 | We are glad you're here with us for show 912 for July 21st, 2025. |
| 1:27.5 | And no matter where you are in the world, hopefully we had a little time this last week to do some geocaching with friends, family, complete strangers, or maybe just by yourself. Well, this particular weekend was extremely busy for us. Extremely is a good, yeah. Because it's a typically busy weekend. We get a lot. But this was exceptional. |
| 1:29.5 | And it was all fun, good things. It was. |
| 1:29.7 | It was. |
| 1:30.0 | All happening at once. |
| 1:31.2 | My brother and his family were in town from Seattle for soccer tournaments, double soccer tournaments, because both of their kids, our niece and nephew, were in soccer tournaments all weekend. |
| 1:42.8 | So that was like starting Friday, Saturday, Sunday. |
| 1:46.2 | Each had games. |
| 1:47.0 | So we tried to go to as many as possible and got to see him play, which is really cool. |
| 1:51.1 | And I wasn't able to attend any of them on Saturday because it was an exceptional, I'm using |
| 1:56.3 | that word a lot, busy day for my two bands. |
| 2:00.1 | So I had two gigs on Saturday or in the morning. I had one for |
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