Jake’s Journal: 486,072 reasons to go paperless

Here’s a quick look at geocaching by the numbers. 64,945 people have logged at least one caching attempt in the past seven days. 486,072 new logs (finds, attempts, drops, etc.) have been posted at geocaching.com in the past seven days. 624,542 caches are active around the world.

For each of this week’s nearly half-million new postings there was a geocacher (or a group of cachers) looking for a cache. In addition to the coordinates that they entered into their GPS device, these cachers most likely were helped by a description, hints or recently logged attempts. If they weren’t using a Colorado or Oregon handheld from Garmin, this helpful information was most likely printed out. Once the cache was found, the descriptions were no longer needed. If each cache listing required two or three pages of printouts, that’s more than one million sheets of paper printed and discarded in the past week alone.

That pile of recycling or trash can be reduced drastically through paperless geocaching. All you need is a premium account at geocaching.com and an Oregon or Colorado handheld device. Store up to 2,000 caches and their descriptions, hints and recent attempts – and share them wirelessly with your friends. Save paper, save your printer and save your back – or do you want to lug 2,000 sheets of paper while exploring the woods? Using the Oregon and Colorado can help you explore nature and preserve nature at the same time.

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