Geocaching anyone???

[brewboss]

Just curious if anyone else is into geocaching at all. My wife and I started about a month or so ago and have found around 20 caches so far.

Seems like everytime we take a road trip or go somewhere new now, I have to bust out my phone and use the app to locate a new find!

 

[Homercidal]

I did it a few years ago, but kind of lost interest with all of the kids stuff going on and the price of gas going up. I actually have a nice stash of stuff in a can ready to hide, but never got around to placing it. It was a puzzle cache that I sent the clues to a friend to figure out but he couldn't so far. Might be too hard.

 

[brewboss]

We tend to stick with the traditional caches. But occasionally we try a night cache.

 

[JonGrafto]

I have almost 200 finds but havent done it in almost 2-3 years. 3 kids and my homebrew hobby/addiction takes up the majority of my time now.

 

[djfriesen]

Closest I ever got was Near Space Club in college.

We'd send cameras/experiments up to 90k+ feet with a weather balloon. Then we'd use an onboard GPS unit, broadcasting position packets, to track where the "stack" ended up. Lots of fun, actually, and we got some pretty rad pics.

 

[Zamial]

While I have not done geocashing I have often thought of geobrewing. Same concept but I was going to build an ultra portable, 3 gallon, all grain brewery. I have the design all worked out in my head but lack of funds has put a serious dent in my plans.

Living where I do, it could get extra fun geobrewing on frozen lakes while ice fishing, planning to use ingredients like maple/birch sap on site in the grove collected and the list goes on and on. Not to mention if this ever did get popular imagine going to a brew site and running into a complete stranger doing the same thing...

 

[kh54s10]

I have cached for a couple of years. I am going to attend 2 events in the next 2 months. A dead GPS, the price of gas, winter and a new hobby (brewing) has slowed me down some.

283 finds to date.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Thank you for mentioning this. I had no idea what this was until I read this thread.

 

[brewboss]

Thank you for mentioning this. I had no idea what this was until I read this thread.

No problem!

I can't remember how I came across it, but it sounded interesting to me. My wife thought it I was crazy until she checked it put with me one day. Now she is hooked too.