Any geocachers around here?

[dhpgetsit]

Geocaching has been a bit of an obsession for me. I set a goal to find my 400th cache this year and it looks as if I will easily pass that mark.

[Scuba]

1. What's the attraction?

I've got a Garmin for road navigation and a DeLorme for woods and water, but don't understand what geocaching is all about.

[dhpgetsit]

3. You need to create an account on geocaching.com.

Then look at a list of geocaches in your area, use your GPS to find one, sign the log inside, replace the container as you found it, and go online and log the find.

[Scuba]

5. OK, but why?

[dhpgetsit]

6. It gets me out, and takes me to cool places I would never have known about otherwise.

Pioneer cemeteries, parks, viewpoints, and all kinds of things I might never have noticed.
And besides, it's a challenge that gets me off my butt and away from the PC.

[Scuba]

8. OK, I get it.

[CanonCityGecacher]

12. Rediscovering Your City

I have found a lot of very nice secluded spots around town while Geocaching. Some close to the highway.. Small streams running past. You can find some beautiful spots. Just remember to look up once and a while from your GPS. You don't want to fall into a stream. I have almost walked right into tree in the past.

[yawnmaster]

15. It's like many things...as others have said, it gets you out hiking, but also there is...

an attraction to collecting, to set fun goals, to become part of the a "sport" (as you often will leave something for the next person). And finding some of the caches, even with gps, can be a challenge. They are hidden to keep non-players from finding them.

[rrneck]

2. Has geocaching become more popular

since phones added GPS?

[dhpgetsit]

4. I recently got an Android phone

And it has made geocaching easier, since I can open the geocaching app and find nearby caches wherever I go.

[rrneck]

7. Hmmmmmm. I have an android phone.

Verrrry interesting.

[petronius]

9. Yes, although I've slowed down in the past year - I'm around 670

in total finds.

My favorites are always the rugged, wilderness-y caches; I've got a ~12 mile death march hike planned in the next few days to grab some remote caches I've been eyeing for a while...

[ileus]

10. We finally hit our first two of the year last week.

It's been a crazy spring and we just started the hobby last November.


Hopefully as schedules settle down in the next few weeks we'll have more time to hunt.

[Nay]

11. I've only done a few geocaches, but I'm a big letterboxer, which is about the same thing. I

find I tend to like the clues aspect of letterboxing a bit better than the more techy geocaching. My son, a gadget nut, loves geocaching.

[ileus]

14. We're a half caching family....

Currently we'll hit new caches nearby or when traveling but I'm too lazy to go back online and document them. Maybe the kids since they've started hitting the net pretty hard will start doing that for us.

It's a great activity the whole family can get into...lots of fun.