Has anyone heard of Geocaching? Has anyone done it before? Tell your experiences here, or if you want, I will explain it for you.
Today, my brothers girlfriend told him and I about it. So we looked into is, and we did it. We found two, one was found two days ago, but we couldnt find it, and one was a huge puzzles, which we didnt feel like doing. Overall, it was fun, and we are thinking about doing our own. Next weekend, we might do our own, and we are definitely going to find some more.
Please, ask questions or tell your experiences with it.
I have probably found around 15 geocaches in total, most of which I found with my Boy Scout troop. They have ranged in size from an Altoids box to a plastic bin. Some are really hard to find, while some are easy. For example, once I spent an hour looking for a film canister wrapped in magnets stuck onto the bottom of a railing on a bridge. Other times I have just walked by geocaches and taken a quick look at them. All in all it is a lot of fun, and I recommend that everyone does it!
If I recall correctly it's a modernday treasure hunt. People hide something and then enter GPS co-ordinates people with a special application to phones and other devices can find and do. Some are just well hidden while others lead you a round a lot. Sounds like fun but I've never done it myself.
If I recall correctly it's a modernday treasure hunt. People hide something and then enter GPS co-ordinates people with a special application to phones and other devices can find and do. Some are just well hidden while others lead you a round a lot. Sounds like fun but I've never done it myself.
I couldn't have said it better. Something to add to it, geocaches come in all shapes and sizes, so you never know what exactly you are looking for. Also, there are TONS of geocaches, so odds are you have one near where you live. For more information and the locations of geocaches check out http://www.geocaching.com/.
I couldn't have said it better. Something to add to it, geocaches come in all shapes and sizes, so you never know what exactly you are looking for. Also, there are TONS of geocaches, so odds are you have one near where you live. For more information and the locations of geocaches check out http://www.geocaching.com/.
Wow, there's a dozen right within walking distance and I live in the middle of no-where.
I've done about 37! I was visiting some cousins in Virginia back around 2001 and they introduced me to it. We took a GPS (way before car GPS or cell phones.. it was just a hand-held device that only handles GPS coordinates) and plugged in some latitude and longitude values in from Geocaching.com and hit Go. We drove around until we got close to the coordinates, parked the car, and walked into the woods up a mountain and found a box filled with little trinkets. You optionally trade something you have for something in the box, sign a log book with the date you visited, and post that you found it on the website. When I got back home to New Hampshire, I did a whole bunch with my dad (I was about 13 back then).
I took a break from it for a LONG time and just started again with my girlfriend using the same GPS (which they still make and sell today!). We did a bunch at the beach (off the sides of walking trails on rocky cliffs, and one was just the log book in the back of a phone book at a pay phone booth!) and a bunch back home in the woods. For one of them, which is one of the first Geocaches in the state of New Hampshire, I opened the log book to sign our names and right on the first page was my own signature from all the back back in 2002! Apparently I had already found this one, 10 years earlier!
Here is a very simple GPS, but you can also use your cell phone:
Most geocaches are tupperware containers or ammo boxes and most of them are hidden out of sight in the woods so random people would never find them:
Think of it as playing Minecraft looking for a chest of diamonds with your F3 menu open and some coordinates you have to go to.
I am surprised. I posted this last night, and I got all these posts. Well, thanks for all of the feedback. We are doing it again Friday or Saturday with the three of us again. ant wait to hear more stories!
I've found a few of these with my dad. I have a baseball field down the road from my house. My dad went on the website and said that there was one at the park. The clue was something about "The hardest position to man" Me and my dad both thought that it was referring to the people who were waiting to bat, so we searched there but didn't find anything. Then we checked the place where the scorers sit. I happened to look up and I saw a metal box painted black. Inside was a log to write your name in to say you found it.
The second one was sitting in the middle of a tree at an AFL park.
The third one is genius. The GPS indicated that it was hidden in a forested area. So me and my dad started looking but didn't find anything. So my dad went to look at the light pole nearby to see if it was hidden under the pole. While he was doing this his hand touched a piece of metal that looked like it was part of the pole. When he touched it, it moved so he took it off and there it was. (Sorry if it doesn't make much sense. It's kind of hard to explain.)
Found one of these a while ago entirely by accident and never knew what the heck it was, *Although it had five bucks in it*
Feel bad about taking it, Had no idea what it was and it was about two years ago
Today, my brothers girlfriend told him and I about it. So we looked into is, and we did it. We found two, one was found two days ago, but we couldnt find it, and one was a huge puzzles, which we didnt feel like doing. Overall, it was fun, and we are thinking about doing our own. Next weekend, we might do our own, and we are definitely going to find some more.
Please, ask questions or tell your experiences with it.
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If I recall correctly it's a modernday treasure hunt. People hide something and then enter GPS co-ordinates people with a special application to phones and other devices can find and do. Some are just well hidden while others lead you a round a lot. Sounds like fun but I've never done it myself.
Venit, quessit, induravit.
I couldn't have said it better. Something to add to it, geocaches come in all shapes and sizes, so you never know what exactly you are looking for. Also, there are TONS of geocaches, so odds are you have one near where you live. For more information and the locations of geocaches check out http://www.geocaching.com/.
Wow, there's a dozen right within walking distance and I live in the middle of no-where.
Venit, quessit, induravit.
I took a break from it for a LONG time and just started again with my girlfriend using the same GPS (which they still make and sell today!). We did a bunch at the beach (off the sides of walking trails on rocky cliffs, and one was just the log book in the back of a phone book at a pay phone booth!) and a bunch back home in the woods. For one of them, which is one of the first Geocaches in the state of New Hampshire, I opened the log book to sign our names and right on the first page was my own signature from all the back back in 2002! Apparently I had already found this one, 10 years earlier!
Here is a very simple GPS, but you can also use your cell phone:
Most geocaches are tupperware containers or ammo boxes and most of them are hidden out of sight in the woods so random people would never find them:
Think of it as playing Minecraft looking for a chest of diamonds with your F3 menu open and some coordinates you have to go to.
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The second one was sitting in the middle of a tree at an AFL park.
The third one is genius. The GPS indicated that it was hidden in a forested area. So me and my dad started looking but didn't find anything. So my dad went to look at the light pole nearby to see if it was hidden under the pole. While he was doing this his hand touched a piece of metal that looked like it was part of the pole. When he touched it, it moved so he took it off and there it was. (Sorry if it doesn't make much sense. It's kind of hard to explain.)
Feel bad about taking it, Had no idea what it was and it was about two years ago
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