Well my move it mostly complete and I now have time to breathe, cache, and get caught up here.

I missed last week’s Podcacher shows completely and today’s show is ready for your listening pleasure as well. So here are the details of the shows.

Show 89.0: Power Caching

Audio from IceCreamMan and his 24-hour caching adventure with “Team Cache till you Drop”, and an email story from Team BLuR’s caching marathon in Idaho. There is also tips you can use for planning your own power caching trip.

Listen To The Show (46:52)

Show 89.1: PMM - Power Caching - part B

A longer than usual PMM. This is the conclusion of show 89.0. Also info on the new Podcacher TB contest.

Listen To The Show (47:56)

Show 90.0: PodCacher Events

Audio for a couple of Podcacher-themed events and feedback on The Great Podcacher TB Migration.

Listen To The Show (49:58)

This week’s show and mid-week micro were both from this event in Pennsylvania. Also some cool tips on modifying your statbar and other GPS news.

Here is the link for the big show and the stream Listen To The Show (38:38)

And here is the link for the mid-week micro and the stream Listen To The Show (25:17)

This week’s Podcacher show brings an interview with MAGC as well as audio from a FTF hunt on a DeLorme Challenge cache. Also info on a new geocoin and some other contests. There is the Link

Listen To The Show (50:53)

This week’s show includes the conclusion of the 2006 iTrax and Foxtail Geocoin Challenge as well as some Christmas Scavenger Hunts and some listener tips. Here is the LINK.

Listen To The Show (48:46)

One of the big questions I have had over the past few years of hunting caches is “Why?”. I am sure you know what I mean. You see a new listing and rush out to find the cache. Only to get there and discover it is a film canister tucked inside a drain pipe on the lower level of the parking garage at the local mall, and you ask “Why?”. Or you see a series of caches all published at once, you quickly look at them and discover they are 10 micros hidden one every 528 feet along a popular jogging trail, and you ask “Why?”.

The biggest common thread I have found in these instances is that the hiders have very few finds. Now don’t get me wrong, I believe that anyone should be allowed to hide a cache regardless of their number of finds. I just think that the fewer the finds, the harder it is to understand what makes a good hide. Following this thought pattern I got to thinking what if there was a place that had some great suggestions on location, hide techniques, containers, etc… Well guess what, I found one. Back in August this post was made on Jestcaching. If you are ready to make your first hide, or even if you have made a few but not gotten the response you hoped, I would suggest looking at this post and asking yourself the questions posed.

Remember, the hides you make are how you will be remembered by others in the game…

The Mid-week Micro is a shorter show put out in the middle of the week. This week’s installment discusses logging DNFs. Here is the page link Show 85.1: PMM - Logging DNFs and here is the stream Listen To The Show (25:25).

This week’s installment of Podcacher is now available. In this week’s show Sonny takes a look back at some of the favorite shows of 2006 and gives some handy winter photo tips, while Sandy gives a report from her snow caching adventures in Massachusetts.

Here is the stream of the show. Or save it local and transfer to your pod for offline listening.

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