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.
