Anyone goes Geocaching?

[mbarnatl]

I took my daughters Geocaching and was wondering how many others on this site geocache. I was really glade the first time I went out that I had a backup compass and map. Heavy tree coverage made the gps useless.

I am planning on to start to put in various survival equipment in caches we find. I see so many geocachers going into the woods without a survival kit. I have had several people ask why I need a survival kit when we only walked two to four miles. Then five minutes later ask....do you have a couple of spare batteries, my gps just died because I forgot to put new ones in before I left. Jeeesh... don't you know your back to the car? Yes it is saved on our gps! Then they just realized what happened. On the way back to the cars we got lots of questions on what you need in a kit.

Also, I found out that this was a good way to test out some of my equipment in my survival kit.

[Tony uk]

What is Geocaching ?

[mbarnatl]

"Geocaching is an entertaining adventure game for gps users. Participating in a cache hunt is a good way to take advantage of the wonderful features and capability of a gps unit. The basic idea is to have individuals and organizations set up caches all over the world and share the locations of these caches on the internet. GPS users can then use the location coordinates to find the caches. Once found, a cache may provide the visitor with a wide variety of rewards. All the visitor is asked to do is if they get something they should try to leave something for the cache." - from www.geocaching.com (http://www.geocaching.com/faq/)

[Tony uk]

Cool :) , i dont see any in scotland tho :(

[nell67]

this is pretty cool quite a few going on in my area!

[spiritman]

It's a blast but I haven't done it much or for a while

[bear]

I started doing this about a year ago. My son had a class at school on how to use a gps. His teacher told him about the geocaching website and that is how we got started. I bought a gps a few years back when I started going fishing in Canada. I never thought I would need one around home but I hardly ever leave the house without one in my truck. They are a great tool and toy to have. bear