Geocaching

• BORIStheCrusher

  

  Anybody heard of this or done this before? My dad sent my a link about it because he stumbled across it on his neighborhood website, and I guess some stuff is near his house. Apparently, people hide shit all over the world, and there are clues given as to it's location so you can track it down. It says there are almost 1,000,000 caches hidden, some as simple as laying next to a tree in a park or school, and then others that take kayaks, and climbing equipment to get to, and some even under water.
  
  http://www.geocaching.com/
• Trueblue23

  

  Wow there are actually some near me!
• BORIStheCrusher

  

  Trueblue23 wrote: Wow there are actually some near me!

  I typed in every address I knew and 4 or 5 came up for each one.
• Trueblue23

  

  So Boris have you done this before? It says there are some hidden in small little tin cans that have a log in them, you sign the log and leave an item.. pretty freakin cool if you ask me. There are 95 of them within 20 miles of my zip code!
• Society

  My mom and her boyfriend have been doing this for years. Whenever they travel they always download caches to find either on the way or where they are going. My wife and I went geocaching with them a few times. It's a fun activity and it gets you to go places that you normally wouldn't otherwise.
• killdeer

  

  yep...have done this for several years....really interesting out of the way places it will take you to; things you would not otherwise see if you do all your traveling on the freeway. Have kayaked to retrieve one from a sand spit along the Outer Banks, and old plantation cemetery in Virginia that has been swallowed up by an outlet mall, for examples.
• BORIStheCrusher

  

  No I just heard about it last night, but from reading some of the locations I think I could find some of the close ones rather easily. I'm thinking about tracking some down.
• Society

  BORIStheCrusher wrote: No I just heard about it last night, but from reading some of the locations I think I could find some of the close ones rather easily. I'm thinking about tracking some down.

  You realize that you need a gps unit to do this, right? Otherwise, it would be a little difficult.
• gorocks99

  

  This inspired me to DL the app for my Pre. There are 20 of these within 1.5 miles of my house, sounds like a good weekend afternoon activity when it starts to get warmer.
• BORIStheCrusher

  

  Society wrote:

  BORIStheCrusher wrote: No I just heard about it last night, but from reading some of the locations I think I could find some of the close ones rather easily. I'm thinking about tracking some down.

  You realize that you need a gps unit to do this, right? Otherwise, it would be a little difficult.

  Yeah I've got one, but I know the general location of a few that are really close.
• ts1227

  

  I would assume no GPS is needed for local ones (For example, I could find the one at Prospect School back home in Salem blindfolded). But if you really went out exploring to some far away and new places it would be a necessity.
• killdeer

  

  ^^^also depends upon the size...one hide in a cemetery in Sycamore Ohio, hundreds of arborvitae bushes and a cache the size of a large matchbox. Sometimes near impossible with a GPS. Good Luck without one.
• Flash

  

  Some are obvious, but its hard with a GPS with the Micro caches. They are graded by difficulty and some are hidden in very clever places. Brings out the pirate in you. Some have 'Travel Bugs" that you're supposed to log in on a website and then pass on to another cache and then you register to see where it's traveling to and its history. Did it a year or so ago a lot. The idea is to trade things if they have them. You take something and leave something behind. Some only have log books to sign that you found them. Some people just try to see how many they can find in one day or total. There are club's that hold meets to see if you can find them all in one day. Last year in Canada there was one on an island in a lake on the side of a cliff and you were supposed to jump in the water afterwards. Its fun, but more fun with kids that like the trinkets that are in most of the caches.
• Trueblue23

  

  I went out today searching for some local ones, GPS is a MUST.
  
  We tried one without GPS and had no luck, only to come back later and find it w. the gps.
  
  The biggest thing is having the degrees. You can always find the general area at which things are hidden, but to actual pinpoint them is difficult.
• BORIStheCrusher

  

  Find anything cool?
• Society

  BORIStheCrusher wrote: Find anything cool?

  It's not so much that you "find something cool", but rather the search.
• Trueblue23

  

  Found some cool stuff..
  
  Coins, poker chips, toys, "admit one" tickets, just cool little stuff like that.
  
  The hunt was def. the best part.
  
  The first one we found we under a bridge on Mark Road, which is a pretty historical bridge in Fayette County.
  
  Def. had a great time though!
• BORIStheCrusher

  

  Society wrote:

  BORIStheCrusher wrote: Find anything cool?

  It's not so much that you "find something cool", but rather the search.

  I understand the purpose, but it's still interesting to see what people put in there.