Cacher of the Month – milosheart!
Interview Date : May 29th
Caching Name : milosheart
Real Name : Gwen & Terry LeBlanc
1. How did you become involved in geocaching. When did you start?
My sister and her late boyfriend showed us what geocaching was in August 2007 but it wasn’t until March of 2008 that we took it up ourselves to spend time with her after his death.
2. How did you choose your caching name?
When we started caching we each had our own accounts/names. Terry was Frogger57 and I was milosheart. Milo was a nickname of Terry’s. He logged his first 19 caches then gave up. He loves to go caching, loves the driving, travelling, meeting fellow cachers, searching and finding but could care less about the logging, planning, numbers, etc. He doesn’t know how to use the GPS and has no desire to learn, doesn’t have a clue what GSAK is, nor care. I love him more for just going with me, blindly sometimes! LOL So we just continued on using my original account and became team milosheart.
3. How many caches have you found so far?
1815, so far.
4. What brand/type of GPS do you use?
Oregon 300
5. What programs/software or hardware (PDA/laptop/phone) do you use to make caching easier?
We use GSAK.
6. What type of cache do you prefer seeking – traditional, multi, puzzle, virtual?
Our favorites are traditionals and Earthcaches. We rarely do puzzles or multis, they take too much time and brainpower that we just don’t have! LOL We figure when we’ve found everything else we’ll do all the puzzles/multis.
7. Which caches were the most challenging – physically/mentally? Why?
We’ve been to the event at Fundy every year and there is always at least one cache that is a killer physically. There’s a cache near Fredericton GC9522 Volcano by Dusty Walker that, while not the most difficult physically, was hard on our heads. We tried 3 different times to find it with no luck. We just could not find it. Other cachers kept finding it in between our DNFs; newer cachers! Grrrr. We finally found it on our 4th try after a quick search with eebee and kayakerinme.
8. Do you have a favorite or favorites among the Maritime caches that you’ve found?
Proposal Falls (GC289A6), On The Way To Mount Douglas (GCKJ8R) and Parlee Brook Natural Amphitheatre (GCVVPH). All were great treks to amazing places with great groups of friends….what geocaching is all about to us.
Do you have a favorite in a nearby Province?
Have to say the first one in Canada, GCBBA.
9. What’s the most unusual thing that you’ve ever found in a cache?
Nothing too unusual, just a spider that scared the poop out of me at GCVC5Z (thanks, Sporty!)
10. What are your current caching goals? Is there a certain cache that you can’t wait to do?
No major goals, just to keep on enjoying caching, we’ll hit the next milestone when we hit it. Caches we can’t wait to do – The Eye of the Needle, the first in NB GC760, some more of the waterfall caches in the area….that’s a start.
11. How many caches have you placed? Do you have a current hiding goal?
44 hides, of which about 21 are events. No hiding goal.
12. What advice would you give someone that wants to place a cache?
Find enough first to know what makes a good cache, what makes a good container, what makes a cache interesting.
13. How often do you go caching?
We try to get out at least once a week but life has a way of changing that. In the summer and fall we cache more. We tend to cache mostly on weekends and we usually plan our vacations around geocaching.
14. What advice would you give a beginning geocacher?
Have fun! Go to events to meet other cachers and listen to their stories. Ask questions, the caching community here in Fredericton is more than willing to help out newbies. Read the knowledge books and guidelines for hides. Read the forums of whatever website you read.
15. Do you collect geocoins? Of the ones that you’ve collected, which is your favorite?
We have some. Faves would be our Track Your World Marble, Landsharkz 4 pce totem set, our 1000th find coin.
16. What type of gear do you carry with you on your caching trips? What’s in your geopack?
Baggies, logs, cache repair stuff, batteries, First Aid Kit, bug spray, small notebook, toilet paper, latex gloves, flashlight, more batteries, a couple of inhalers, and a bunch of other stuff.
17. What is your most memorable caching experience?
Last August we took 2 weeks and flew to Calgary then, after visiting Drumheller, drove from Calgary to Canmore and Banff, then up to Jasper, back down through the Rockies to Vancouver and over to Victoria caching all the way. We didn’t get a massive amont of caches but we saw some amazing, incredible places and we came home feeling blessed for seeing so much of this beautiful country. Our most memorable single experience would have to be our recent trek to Proposal Falls or our trek to Parlee Brook Natural Amphitheatre in March of 2009.
18. What is your best caching story?
Too many to pick just one. Every cache is a story and we enjoy every single one of them!
19. What do you like about geocaching? What keeps you going?
We like the places caching takes us, the sights we see, the people we meet, and the parts of our city/province/country we probably would not see otherwise. We like the exercise, the friendship, the events, the travel, being outdoors and just about everything about caching except the BUGS.
20. Besides geocaching, what other things do you like to do?
We both love music. Terry loves hockey (particularly the Habs), NASCAR and football (the Vikings). I enjoy most sports, cooking and I took up gardening but geocaching takes up most of our weekends so my flower gardens suffer. LOL I do make sure we get the vegetable garden in though!
21. What question did you expect us to ask but didn’t. What is the answer?
None that we can think of. 
