Geocaching

[Shinigami]

Does anyone on here do it?

Only just started myself in a bid to stop my lil lad from being a minecraft addict in the guise of 'treasure hunting'

he absolutely loved it, went to a couple of parks on Sunday, found a trackable item from germany which i'm dropping in a cache in switzerland in a couple of weeks,

seems a good way/excuse to visit places you'd not normally wander/ride to,
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[pinkyfloyd]

I play Ingress and it gets me and the wife out and about in much the same way.
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[hmmmnz]

used to do it loads back in new zealand, was awesome fun and went on some cool missions, used to tie it in with a ride which introduced awesome roads that i would never have gone down as well,
might see if i can dig up my old gps
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[Rogerborg]

I dabble. I'll rarely go out looking for one specifically, but if I'm out with the Borglets somewhere I'll usually fire up c:geo on my phone and then whip them with a willow cane to make them grub under rocks and tree roots and such.
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[_Iain_]

Have heard of, not tried it mind.

Might have to start giving it a go as could make excersize time more interesting.
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[pinkyfloyd]

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Bit harsh, (only to be expected from RES ) but in for a penny etc.....

https://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130905213745/warhammer40k/images/f/f6/Bring-me-another-smurf-ow8mga4o.jpg

[pinkyfloyd]

its like that is it?


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Teflon-Mike:I think I agree with just about all Pinky has said.

[sabian92]

[Islander]

I've been known to search for the odd cache. I may have even set a few...

[Sabs]

Do it now and again but we tend to do one then forget about doing another for a year or so.

I'm amazed how many there are out there, staggering to see how it's taken off.
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[Robster]

Never heard of it until now.

A few years ago I did a Uni project for pitching a 'reality' game that was similar, you had to run around a city and do missions etc. with a GPS locator. We planned to do it in Ghent in Belgium at the time.

First thought I had was someone, at some point, has taken a dump in the cache...

[Shinigami]

they're often too small to do a dump in

found one the other day where a small tube container was clever hidden inside a hollowed out twig
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[slowlydoesit]

I've heard about geocaching but never really took a look until now. Looks like it could be fun and there's quite a few locally. If the weather clears up, something for the weekend!
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[Im-a-Ridah]

So basically boxes of piss and cum?

[smegballs]

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

Keep reading the thread title as Gouching - a somewhat different activity than the one suggested (if my ex gf was anything to go by).
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[Shinigami]

went on a trip over to glossop on the bike with the woman, good excuse to go somewhere i'd never have bothered to,

once parked up did a hike/search that took about 3 hours, up a stream, up a massively steep hill, which when we got to the top, had another big hill to climb for a cache at the top, roughly 430 meters above sea level, fantastic view but climbing a hill that was approaching vertical with bike gear on and carrying a lid...not the easiest , was rated 4 out of 5 on both terrain and difficulty.

I was too busy giggling at the names though, going from 'shittern clough' up to 'cock hill'

found 5 caches on the walk, decided i'd been too healthy doing all the climbing and walking so scoffed a big pizza when I got home
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[daz_app]

I've been caching for a couple of years now. It started off as a bit of a techy kind of hobby, and then developed into a bit of an obsession with notifications of new caches causing me to drive to new places to get the First to Find. I've even planned holidays around it. Wife wanted to go on a cruise last year, but I used the trip to get caches in Finland, Germany, Estonia and Russia...

Now I'm coming up to my 500th find and as a bit of a history buff, I tend to go to places with some historical interest. But there are some local cachers with find totals in the tens of thousands!

It's well worth doing it if you have young kids as they enjoy the "treasure hunt" side of it too. Actually this sounds a bit pedobear...
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[covent.gardens]

I bought an eTrex GPS for about £80, just before I bought a smartphone, which made the eTrex fairly redundant. I used the eTrex to find one local geocache then lost interest.

Then I muggled a geocache. I saw this big white fake-looking rock on the grass in the middle of nowhere when on a dogwalk with the ex, and thought "that does not belong there". I went to investigate... turned it over, hollowed out plastic rock with a geocache inside.

Within a month, in a nearby field, I glimped a bit of camo sheeting at the back of a tree, thought "hmm", and discovered another (badly hidden) geocache.

So my current score is one deliberately found geocache, and two accidentally found geocaches (good obs).

[thegubner]

Registered on geocaching.com the other day off of the back of this thread and have been out just locally with my 6 year old, she loves it! Three finds so far and I'm enjoying it as much as her. Found a genius idea for a container today, little slip of paper inside a big nut with a small magnet replacing a bolt head on a bench.

There is one no more than twelve metres from our house which we cant find, frustrating is not the word!

[Shinigami]

well i'm still on it, mrs is addicted. We found 8 yesterday

been finding some lovely places we'd otherwise have not visited though so definitely worth it in that respect alone
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