Geocaching

[stoshuaj]

anyone out on the trail?

anyone ever heard of it?

[Corcaigh]

We did it a lot several years ago when the kids were younger ... we placed a few ourselves, one of which is still there after a decade and many hundreds of visitors.

It was a great way for the kids to be motivated to take a hike in the countryside if they knew there was treasure at the end. Often we'd choose a cache that had contents that would interest them.

In an unfamiliar area, it was a good way to find hikes of interest, as often people would place a cache on their favorite routes that would be difficult to find otherwise.

[ZoEd]

Wife bought me a GPS for Christmas, mainly for hunting but I'm curious about geocaching. Any good resources for a beginner?

[techboy]

Evil idea I saw on a deal website (Fatwallet): The deal was for one of those fake rocks you can hide a key in, and somebody suggested putting a geocache in one.

[Corcaigh]

Any good resources for a beginner?

http://www.geocaching.com/

[RobertGoulet]

Evil idea I saw on a deal website (Fatwallet): The deal was for one of those fake rocks you can hide a key in, and somebody suggested putting a geocache in one.

Someone apparently took that advice . I was caching in Carroll County in the summer and it was in a fake rock. Not cool man!

[stoshuaj]

yeah, any type keyholder thing will work. (even the old standby, fake dog poo)

My son built a fake sprinkler head one and then a couple days later I saw one (for much less) billed as a keyholder and thought, damn, he could have just used that.

did a 4.5 terrain the last wknd, now he doesn't want to do anything under a 3.......

[Forehead]

Never heard of this before, but I have to admit, it sounds like a ton of fun.

[AsburySkinsFan]

I took my son and daughter out for the first time today, we hunted down 9 sites and found 6 caches, it was raining pretty much all day but it wasn't heavy enough to keep us indoors. We really had a good time and the kids loved treking through the woods looking for things. We even found a nano today, crazy small lil bugger!!

I'll post pics tomorrow.

*edit
I'm just using my iPhone with the geocaching app installed, it's an awesome and quick way to log your finds, plus upload pics to your logs, not to mention that sat nav makes it easier.

[DButz65]

Tried to find a few caches near my house along a bike trail..but people either took them, or they were fake lol

[Predicto]

You can do it in a city too. My kids have gone geocaching all over San Francisco.

Here's one of them nerdy local shows yakking about it.

[youtube]25wrY3aVeJk[/youtube]

[AsburySkinsFan]

Here are the pics from yesterday's cache finds. Oh and in case you're wondering, we always take pics near the cache hide site but never of the site itself.

His first find, and yes he actually found this one himself.


#2 on the day...after spending almost an hour looking for one we finally gave up and then were rewarded with a near insta-find!


#3 another cool find...we were pretty soaked by this point.


#4 Sis decided that it was time for her to get in on the act, so the three of us headed out again.


#5 Our first true nano cache, he found the spot for this one.


#6 We got pretty muddy on this one, as we had to climb a bit of a hill with a nice layer of Kentucky clay on it...Momma was not happy when she got in her car later.

[Predicto]

Aw, lookit them cute kids.

[AsburySkinsFan]

This Thanksgiving weekend we were at the in-laws and we decided to get some geocaches while we were there. Most of these are from two days of trekking. More trail pics, some others are some odds and end grabs.
Her first find!


Training them up




Park n grabs








Serious stealth required, many muggles


A cave grab, this cave (and two others like it were created at Italian stone workers cut limestone out to build Mayo United Methodist Church in 1909.




Mountain climbing


The cache was in a cave at the top of this hill...we were grabbing trees all the way up and slipping all the way down, we seriously worked for this one.


The first trackable we've managed to find yet, a nice geocoin that started in British Columbia, went to Hawaii, then Guam to Florida, South Carolina and now Kentucky.

[AsburySkinsFan]

So no one else geocaches?