Just tried Geocaching

[1969912 0]

Yesterday a friend took me out geocaching. Today I took my sister's kids out and found three easy ones within a couple miles of our homes. We found a travel bug that started in Hawaii. Kids had fun. There is supposed to be a cache at the bottom of a local lake that requires scuba diving to get to. That one would be fun.

"Once we got to the point where twenty/something's needed a place on the corner that changed the oil in their cars we were doomed . . ."
-NickDG

[selbbub78 0]

GEOCACHING ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!

Glad you guys had fun. I just put in all the local information for the Dublin Boogie...


CReW Skies,
bubbles

"Women fake orgasms - men fake whole relationships" – Sharon Stone
"The world is my dropzone" (wise crewdog quote)
"The light dims, until full darkness pierces into the world."-KDM

[1969912 0]

Is geocaching.com the best resource for identifying caches? That is what we used.

"Once we got to the point where twenty/something's needed a place on the corner that changed the oil in their cars we were doomed . . ."
-NickDG

[selbbub78 0]

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Is geocaching.com the best resource for identifying caches? That is what we used.

Ya that's what i use. Most people use Geocaching.com!!

"Women fake orgasms - men fake whole relationships" – Sharon Stone
"The world is my dropzone" (wise crewdog quote)
"The light dims, until full darkness pierces into the world."-KDM

[CSpenceFLY 1]

I placed tickets for free lift tickets and t-shirts for Dublin in some caches between Macon and Dublin yesterday.Info is posted at RoamingDZ.com.Bring your GPSr.

I was disappointed to find the cache here at the airport missing.I guess they had a some guy here that didn't like people coming out here to look for it.

[McDuck 0]

The really good caches in my area tend to get muggled fairly quickly, so the only ones left are the micros.

Kevin - Sonic Beef #5 - OrFun #28
"I never take myself too seriously, 'cuz everybody know fat birds don't fly." - FLC
Online communities: proof that people never mature much past high school.

[CSpenceFLY 1]

I don't mind a micro if it's placed well.The lamp post ones suck.No thrill to the hunt.

[McDuck 0]

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I don't mind a micro if it's placed well.The lamp post ones suck.No thrill to the hunt.

Oh, don't get me wrong, micros can be some of the most challenging ones to find. It's when I get a multiple-waypoint cache with a travel bug mapped out and there's absolutely nothing there that really gets my goat. Especially when it's the fourth one in a row.

Kevin - Sonic Beef #5 - OrFun #28
"I never take myself too seriously, 'cuz everybody know fat birds don't fly." - FLC
Online communities: proof that people never mature much past high school.

[1969912 0]

I just read about this one:

"I placed a small plastic horse, now called "Sea Horse", beside a Hydrothermal Vent at the sea floor 2300 meters down.

Using the Russian Mir Submersibles, we placed our "Sea Horse", and travel bug #TB31F1, at the sea floor. We were on a scientific research mission. Good Luck Finding it! Please return it if you do!

- Richard Garriott"

Here's the numbers:

N 36° 13.800 W 033° 54.200
UTM: 25S E 418820 N 4009837

"Once we got to the point where twenty/something's needed a place on the corner that changed the oil in their cars we were doomed . . ."
-NickDG

[ACMESkydiver 0]

Geocaching. It's an actual sport/adventure kinda thing, huh...?

Wow. All this time I always thought it was a computer program/game of some sort.

...I'm not even kidding.

~Jaye
Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.

[LouDiamond 1]

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Geocaching. It's an actual sport/adventure kinda thing, huh...?

Wow. All this time I always thought it was a computer program/game of some sort.

...I'm not even kidding.

This shit ain't new, it's been done for decades in the military.....it's called Land Navigation.

"It's just skydiving..additional drama is not required"
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[CSpenceFLY 1]

Yeah but it's different and way more fun when your not dropped off in the jungle and your hiking to your next meal

[NewGuy2005 53]

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Yeah but it's different and way more fun when your not dropped off in the jungle and your hiking to your next meal

With people trying to shoot you.

[virgin-burner 1]

i do geocaching too, its pretty good fun, my dog enjoys the walks.. dont do much urbans, rather like the forest-ones..

“Some may never live, but the crazy never die.”
-Hunter S. Thompson
"No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try."
-Yoda

[JohnRich 4]

I use my GPS quite a bit while hiking to identify landmarks to topo maps, and to record things that I find, such as ancient ruins, caves, etc.

But some of the teminology you guys are using here is unfamiliar to me. Could someone please explain the following:

- "travel bug"
- "muggled"
- "micros"

I go to some very out-of-the-way places, that would be quite a challenge for someone to visit.

Are these things deposited in sealed boxes, like old military ammo cans?

Attached: photo from atop a peak overlooking the desert and a Rio Grande River canyon, in southwest Texas. I'm the guy in the middle. It took a day of wilderness canoeing, and then three hours of hiking, to get to this peak. The next day, we canoed off into that chasm down below, which was about a hundred yards wide, 1,500 feet deep, and 10 miles long.

There would be some excellent and difficult places to leave a geocache out there.

And then there are purists who don't like the idea of stuff like that in the wilderness, who remove them...

[Jumpervint 0]

My wife Geocaches and I've been out a lot with her. It actually works out well - she'll drop me off at the DZ and then head out for the day. We both get our fun that way.

You might try Terracaching as well. Simlar, but the hikes tend to be a bit more intense. Multies that take all day and you hike 7-8 miles are strongly encouraged. http://www.terracaching.com/

I bought her a new GPSr for Christmas. She was most pleased.

Vint

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"Make it hard again." Doc Ed

“A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free” Nikos Kazantzakis

[McDuck 0]

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But some of the teminology you guys are using here is unfamiliar to me. Could someone please explain the following:

- "travel bug"
- "muggled"
- "micros"

Are these things deposited in sealed boxes, like old military ammo cans?

A travel bug is an item that is logged on geocaching.com as an item with a "purpose", not just something to take and keep. Generally, travel bugs will have a requested final destination, and the journey it makes from cache to cache along the way is fun to chart. It will also have a "serial number" of sorts to verify that it was logged properly from cache to cache. Travel bugs can be anything, really. Some people use geo-coins, others use action figures or special toys. It can be anything small enough to fit in most regular caches.

The term "muggled" was borrowed from the Harry Potter series and refers to non-geo-caching types, people who see you rooting around somewhere and return after you've left to take the cache and its contents. When someone says a cache has been "muggled" it means that it has been pillaged by people who don't geocache.

Geocaches can be of varying sizes, from resealable plastic containers, ammo boxes or lunchbox-sized objects, down to horse-pill sized ones. Micros tend to be so small that only the log will fit in it. The best thing about micros is that they don't tend to get muggled, as they don't contain any items of interest to steal.

www.geocaching.com has all sorts of FAQs that will illuminate this sport better than I have, but that should at least get you started.

Kevin - Sonic Beef #5 - OrFun #28
"I never take myself too seriously, 'cuz everybody know fat birds don't fly." - FLC
Online communities: proof that people never mature much past high school.

[jdthomas 0]

I am a geocache junkie as well.. it is fun when traveling to new areas and even areas i thought i new well because I find some new spot that i have never seen before and they are usally in some cool landmark area.
it's alot of fun.. does anyone actually take stuff? I just go for the find and drop stuff off!
In the past when i lived in a small town that was mainly rual area I had about 4 caches of my own hidden.. the log books are neat to read.
Joe

www.greenboxphotography.com

[jverley 1]

There is a fun multi-cache on / near a major DZ.

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=27712bd4-2f25-4aa3-8075-87ab56e0fe01

My daughter had a blast figuring it out.

John
Arizona Hiking Trails

[ACMESkydiver 0]

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Geocaching. It's an actual sport/adventure kinda thing, huh...?

Wow. All this time I always thought it was a computer program/game of some sort.

...I'm not even kidding.

This shit ain't new, it's been done for decades in the military.....it's called Land Navigation.

I'll have to show this thread to my husband; he'll think that's funny.

I really feel so embarrasswed because I actually thought it had something to do with that thingy you do when you clean out the caches in your computer or something.

I really do feel stupid.

-not as stupid, however, as I felt when dad took my brother and I to an empty firing range when we were on vacation a few years ago. Now dad has been taking us shooting since kindergarten, but for some reason I had never heard the phrase 'walk it up', when your shots are consistently falling short. I had been shooting rifles competitively and in the army since I was in my early teens, and when you zeroed, you adjusted the site and all was happy. We were firing some handguns that I had never tried before, and I was trying to get a feel for them and get my site picture. My brother could see that I was consistently low on target by a lot, and told me to walk it up.

? Ok...so I started walking forward thinking he didn't think I'd do any better where I was.

I don't remember him laughing that hard in a long time...

I thought I'd tell you that one -since weapons are a part of your job (army), I thought you might find that funny.

~Jaye
Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.

[1969912 0]

When I took the kids out yesterday, i had them bring some trinkets to put into the caches in trade for what they took. I'm a rookie, but I think that's how it is supposed to work.

"Once we got to the point where twenty/something's needed a place on the corner that changed the oil in their cars we were doomed . . ."
-NickDG

[JohnRich 4]

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A travel bug is....

Thank you very much for those explanations.

Perhaps I'll get up to speed on this stuff and start leaving some items in some of the remote locations I visit in the west Texas desert. It would be fun to see how long it takes someone else to reach it.

[virgin-burner 1]

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I use my GPS quite a bit while hiking to identify landmarks to topo maps, and to record things that I find, such as ancient ruins, caves, etc.

But some of the teminology you guys are using here is unfamiliar to me. Could someone please explain the following:

- "travel bug"
- "muggled"
- "micros"

I go to some very out-of-the-way places, that would be quite a challenge for someone to visit.

Are these things deposited in sealed boxes, like old military ammo cans?

Attached: photo from atop a peak overlooking the desert and a Rio Grande River canyon, in southwest Texas. I'm the guy in the middle. It took a day of wilderness canoeing, and then three hours of hiking, to get to this peak. The next day, we canoed off into that chasm down below, which was about a hundred yards wide, 1,500 feet deep, and 10 miles long.

There would be some excellent and difficult places to leave a geocache out there.

And then there are purists who don't like the idea of stuff like that in the wilderness, who remove them...

you'd be a great geocacher in my eyes!!! just dont get rid of all those tupperware you happen to find along a route.. check www.gecocaching.com, register yourself, dont have to become a premium yet, and, you'll be a great additon to the community..

“Some may never live, but the crazy never die.”
-Hunter S. Thompson
"No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try."
-Yoda

[virgin-burner 1]

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I bought her a new GPSr for Christmas. She was most pleased.

Vint

what did you get her!? hopefully it was a GPSmap 60CSx!?

“Some may never live, but the crazy never die.”
-Hunter S. Thompson
"No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try."
-Yoda

[virgin-burner 1]

i think geocaching is a whole lot of fun for people with short attention spans, people loving gear and taking care of them.. for me, one of the reasons why i think skydiving was for me!!!

and, most of all, its a geek-sport! especially for those that like to "hunt on their own goals*, not thinking about what left and right from them is thinking about them.. i mean, c'mon, jumping out of perfectly good airplanes, what is this!? same with geocaching, i mean, c'mon, running around your forests with a GPSr in your hands, watching arrows run up and down, just to get you hooked with some dumb tree, dig around its roots, looking for some tupperware with shitloads of mc'do-junk in it and A LOG-BOOK, just to state your visit there..

i have a lot of weird friends, being a nerd, but most of 'em wouldnt get anything out of it, just like lets say skydiving, but still, its a shitload of fun, enjoyment and excitement.. like lets say the weekend before, where i was on an FTF-hunt, met with shitloads of other cachers along the way, and then still ended up doing the FTF!!!

after that, i went to a cachers event, about 60 miles away, just to see some others faces from other cachers from my county just to see who they were.. AND, it was some great fun too!!!

EDITED: for drunk spelling..

“Some may never live, but the crazy never die.”
-Hunter S. Thompson
"No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try."
-Yoda