Any Geocachers here?

[Denny's Evil Concoctions]

Well I went and bought a GPSr. Garmin 60Cx. Thought it would come in handy when I head up north somewhere to work as a EMR (emergency medical responder).

Anyway, I came across Geocaching. Not bad little hobby/sport. Any of you into this? Found two caches today. First time out.

Won't have much time for that from now on though. Not sure how I'm even going to fit in a brew! I have 3 weeks for class for EMR to do starting on the 10th and a 350 page FA book to read by then. Then it's licencing exams and then heading up to the far north, maybe the Yukon. (Man I must be dumb, needy or greedy. lol)

 

[Yuri_Rage]

Nope, never done any rockhunting...but explain the "caches" you found. What did you find? What were you looking for?

 

[Evets]

I've read up on it but never bought the GPS. So what did you leave/take from the caches?

 

[EdWort]

Geocaching is an Orienteering sport. It's more fun with a map & compass, the true Boy Scout way!

 

[Mutilated1]

Our family geocaches. If you're on geocaching.com, then look me up. I'm 'JXH0816'.

We found a cache on Saturday.

 

[bradsul]

I was into it big time for a while, curiously I haven't done any since I started brewing. I plan to get back into it this winter, it's great exercise and I love hiking in the winter anyway.

 

[BrewBrain]

Not for a while, but the kids get a kick out of the "treasure hunt".

People with kids should definitely check it out. It's a great way to spend some family time outside the house.

 

[talleymonster]

BrewBrain, I love your avatar!!!

 

[Yuri_Rage]

I stand corrected. A friend of mine with a GPS-hacked cell phone told me about geocaching once, but I don't think he used that term in the description. Sounds like fun - SWMBO and I should look into it.

 

[JeepGuy]

I've done it a few times. I really enjoyed it, I should get back out and do it some more.

 

[Denny's Evil Concoctions]

Check out http://geocaching.com

I'm on there as Denwa.

I start a EMR course on Monday and I have had no time to do anything due to all this prestudy. I was hoping to get a brew in before I head off to Vancouver. Leaving on Saturday. Maybe I can squeeze one in tomorrow.

I find geocaching a neat variation on hiking. A lot of the treasure is just trinkets that you swap but there are sometimes rich folks who will stick in expensive items or $100 bills. Alos there are tagged items that travel from cache to cache that have a trackable number on a tag. They can travel to some interesting places.

Now I'd like to see a top secret HBT only beerocache....

 

[bradsul]

It's the added fun of the hiking that I find most enjoyable. I tend to do the harder terrain caches whenever I can rather than the urban caches (which means I don't get to do as many, but I'm not in it to rack up the find counts). I have a lot of fun with it in the winter, I don't much care for the bugs in the summer though. Plus it gets in the way of fishing.

 

[Denny's Evil Concoctions]

It's the added fun of the hiking that I find most enjoyable. I tend to do the harder terrain caches whenever I can rather than the urban caches (which means I don't get to do as many, but I'm not in it to rack up the find counts). I have a lot of fun with it in the winter, I don't much care for the bugs in the summer though. Plus it gets in the way of fishing.

Care to post the coordinates for your secret fishing holes?

JK, I live in BC anyway. lol

 

[bradsul]

Care to post the coordinates for your secret fishing holes?

JK, I live in BC anyway. lol

I'd rather have some for out west, you guys get all the best trout fishing. Totally unfair.

 

[Cregar]

My daughter and I just did our first one last night... she had a BLAST. After that, on the hike home every can of piece of junk she thought it might be a cache. We got lucky, we found a travel bug (Jeeps) in the cache we found.

We plan on going out again this weekend.

 

[Tophe]

I bought a Magellan GPS unit last year and I guess its a model used for caching. Havent looked into it much ....I just use it for hunting and fishing......It sounds kind of interesting though...............................

 

[kaptain_karma]

Back in the day when I was a Boy Scout I was really into cross-county orienteering with a compass and topographical map.

Anyone ever tried geocaching sans GSP with just a map and compass?

Are there any websites dedicated to this sort of geocaching?

 

[Warped04]

thread revival ftw.... warped04 on www.geocaching.com and I am an Eagle Scout.

 

[Denny's Evil Concoctions]

I haven't been caching in a while. I'll probably start up agin in the spring.

Denwa on geocaching.com

 

[Mutine Bullfrog]

I do it with my kids. they love it and its a great day out with them. I'm also on Geocashe

 

[c.n.budz]

I've been reading up on this recently and am going to give it a try in the spring. I figure it'll bring a little extra excitement to hiking