What do you guys think of geocaching? I had never heard about it until recently and the concept sounds like a good way to enjoy the outdoors. From what I can tell, it might not be as adventurous as you sc/out/s are used to though. Thoughts?
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>>11367 I was hiking on Beech MTN during the last snow storm of the year and accidentally found a geocache at this really sketchy part of the trail. I thought it was some litter at first so I scrambled up the hill to put it in my pack and toss it when I got to a trashcan, but it turned out to be a geocache. Last entry was from over 3 years ago, was stoked to find it.
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Pokémon Trainer !!5ePlBCwZJBy Mon 18 Mar 2013 21:37:48 No. 11462 Report Quoted By:
Here's a quick summary from Wikipedia.>Geocaching is an outdoor recreational activity, first played in May 2000, in which the participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called "geocaches" or "caches", anywhere in the world. >A typical cache is a small waterproof container containing a logbook where the geocacher enters the date they found it and signs it with their established code name. Larger containers such as plastic storage containers (Tupperware or similar) or ammunition boxes can also contain items for trading, usually toys or trinkets of little value. Geocaching shares many aspects with benchmarking, trigpointing, orienteering, treasure-hunting, letterboxing, and waymarking.
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i FREAKING LOVE it.
Anonymous
Recently joined the smartphone club, will try and get into this during the spring.
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Pokémon Trainer !!5ePlBCwZJBy Mon 18 Mar 2013 21:41:16 No. 11512 Report >>11477 It sounds like a really cool activity. I wasn't sure about the intensity level because of what I had read but if it gets as good as that, this sounds perfect.
>>11487 Likewise. Reading about it is getting me hyped so I'm not sure if I can wait until spring.
Anonymous
Dont be fooled, most "standard" caches are filmcanisters behind roadsigns, and they are not in any way exciting (but good for your find statistics)
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Geocaching is like family-friendly urban exploration. It's very easy just to be driving down the road, pull out your phone, look up the closest cache, and find it. The community is nice too.
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When you play this game, do you just re-place the thing you found somewhere else (maybe with a new "treasure" attached)?
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Pokémon Trainer !!5ePlBCwZJBy Mon 18 Mar 2013 22:02:23 No. 11792 Report >>11767 If you take something out, you put something of equal value in. You also place the cache back where you found it.
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It can be a whole lot of fun but only if you're in an area with a lot of users. Stayed in a small but not remote town for a few months with a friend and there was absolutely nothing for a significant distance. A lot of them are also pretty boring like
>>11621 described but it's worth it just for those few exciting searches/finds.
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Pokémon Trainer !!5ePlBCwZJBy Mon 18 Mar 2013 22:32:13 No. 12221 Report Wow, I just tried it out using the site and found something close to my house. It wasn't very difficult but it was fun.
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I started in 04. Found over 500. Kind of lost interest when it went main stream.
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Pokémon Trainer !!5ePlBCwZJBy Mon 18 Mar 2013 22:58:01 No. 12584 Report >>12401 Some cards, a few small toys, letters and more.
There was a Potion card from Pokémon in there but I didn't have anything to trade it for. I'll come back later, take it, and replace it with a different card.
Here's a picture of the area.
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>>11367 Me and my gf have found loads of geocaches in so cal. We love it and I'm happy there's a board where we cantalk about it.
Anonymous
I've found three in my lifetime. One behind an ice machine outside of a gas station, I would visit that one frequently because it was in my hometown. Another one is on the summit of the highest mountain in Arizona which is right outside of flagstaff. The third one was in utah in a slot canyon up on a ledge you had to climb to. There was a rumor of one somewhere on the glen canyon bridge but I never found since I never used the website or gps. I just looked around like a real treasure hunter. Lol
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YES. i love it.
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>>12573 hipster faggot
geocaching is an awesome game that gets you out into places you might not normally choose to go. it's easy to get locked into hikes and areas that you're familliar with otherwise
Anonymous
everybody likes different shit, but there is something for everyone with the game. some of the caches are stupid and full of junk toys for kids, but some of them are creative handmade camoflaged demons that take real eyes to find. also puzzle caches
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I actively searched for and found 3 and it just didn't appeal to me. I do still look at where some are located in case that I'll find trails I didn't know existed, but I won't actually search them out now.
>PT >/outside/
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>>17319 fuck off name fag
not the new board too
an hero
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Welp, i missed this thread, sorry to start another.
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The small toys inside are retarded.
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>>18178 your a shit cacher i have over 3000 confirmed caches, your out of your league son
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^^Believing 3000 finds is something to brag about.
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>>18208 No you don't, but find counts are meaningless. I'd rather have 20 difficult caches logged than 300 road-side drivebys.
Anonymous
What are some fun things to do with geocahes? I already know scribbling on other peoples names and putting dead spiders in the container
Anonymous
>>20272 Wet cigarette ash really fucks up the contents of a cache container.
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Finding the cache and leaving something for the next person is more fun/exciting for me than actually taking anything. I figure since most people either don't put anything in or just leave stupid bullshit I should try to make up for it by leaving books or cassettes or cigarettes or whatever.
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>>20272 >>20292 Just take them. Throw them out.
Vindictive things I have seen: honey, sand with broken glass, fecal matter, chewing gum with blood on it, bones (probably mouse) and pictures that look like they have been jacked off on to.
Never heard about any explosives or anything like that. I read abut someone hanging fish hooks at eye level near GZ, but that sounds like some drug cartel shit.
I posted this link in another thread, about these dudes that caught a guy stealing all the travel bugs (like me, but I collect them, I never taunt the former owners like this dude)
http://sonntagsrudel.amshove.net/indexE.html anti-cacher !!kuN7bqlsqys
"“Coin thief and TB destroyer were very successful. Only a small part of destroyed coins and tbs. Altogether it were in 2009 98coins and 147 tbs. It’s really funny to loot those caches and read your stupid comments a few days later: “… seems to be muggled.”
Anonymous
>>20394 >antifun douchenozzle gets served by a bunch of old people and some kids I love everything.
Anonymous
>>20418 What are these TB's and Coins?
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>>20512 I know, right? I am the same type of nozzle and even *I* find this hilarious.
>>20512 Yes. Some of them are quite intricate. You take a gamble on these things.
Just take them and collect them, that's my motto. Chuck the cache, make sure the land owners know what is going on, and enjoy the views.
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do I need a gps for this?
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>>20666 I have found 2 simply because I was familiar with the area and had seen a few hundred hides to get what they like to call "geosense" which is just getting an idea of where people stash things.
I suppose you could without a GPS if you had the skill set; some of the caches have clues that make it easier to narrow down the location once you are in the vicinity.
Anonymous
>>20666 No you can just look them up here
http://www.geocaching.com/map/default.aspx It's a little more difficult but you can still do it
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>>21483 In the city, maybe with Google Satellite you can figure out some of the easy hides, but some of the deep woods shit you are not finding without GPS
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bump for other cachers
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I like geocaching but was always too busy to set time looking for them. i still do it occasionally, but I often scan munzees, they're simialr and quicker. Just your phone, find a QR code, scan it and get points.
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>>20666 You can use a smart phone with GPS built in.
I use C:Geo app.
Anonymous
I've always wondered about this. My town is apparently big on this and has a thing every year.
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This looks cool OP, there's one less than a minute away from me. Don't know if it'd still be there though, might go check tomorrow morning
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>>23255 I can't find that. Can you link me?
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>>23255 >C:Geo nvm it's android
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>>23434 >>23407 I'm sure there's a very similar one for Apple stuff.
I'll root around.
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>>23242 I've seen them before, they are more prevalent on the newer caches. Never bothered scanning them.
>>23373 It's about the only redeeming quality of geocaching. Fuck signing logs and trading stuff, just use it to find those diamonds in the rough.
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>>23450 The only Apple one I saw was the official geocache one. I don't recall a free one for iPhones.
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>>23459 There's a lot of them around my town. They're not just included in caches eitehr, like a lot of boring geocaches, they're usually stuck to the backs of road signs and shit. but ther'es been a few gems which have taken a good while to find, or I've had to adventure to find them.
I went to london and there's about 50 around London bridge and Tower of London. They also have 'Virtual Munzees' which you can also scan without having to scan a QR code, just gotta be within 150-300 feet of the munzee according to your GPS and WHAM, scanned another.
I just find it a bit embarrassing scanning a QR code than it is finding certain caches.
One cache under a bench in Burnham on Sea in England was a right cunt to find and sign due to it being the height of summer a tourist town.
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>>23467 Ah, well if you have to pay a few dollars for your hobby, so be it if you ask me.
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holyfuck I just checked the map thinking there wasnt going to be anything in my area and shit man, theres like 600 geocaches
Anonymous
When the geocache says Nighttime / UV what should I use to look for it? Night vision goggles?
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>>23575 It means you need a blacklight to view the GZ clues (an arrow, hidden coordinates, etc...)
>>23501 The last two years there has been quite an explosion.
Anonymous
>>23591 OH, theres like 20 of them in a 5 minute walking distance from me like that.
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Pokémon Trainer !!5ePlBCwZJBy Tue 19 Mar 2013 23:43:11 No. 23631 Report Quoted By:
I found out that there was a cache relatively close to my university and went after class. It wasn't too difficult to find but it had started snowing and it got a bit covered up.
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Pokémon Trainer !!5ePlBCwZJBy Tue 19 Mar 2013 23:46:19 No. 23657 Report Quoted By:
The cache didn't have much in it either except for a logbook.
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I won't deny that there aren't clever containers and awesome puzzles (you'll know them when you find them) or sometimes in a large park someone sets up a multi-stage "adventure" that really does take you to some interesting places, but 8 out of 10 times you are going to find a Tupperware container with a wet logbook and some costume jewelry in it.
>>23616 I've seen keychain UV lights at flea markets for $5-8. Someone around your way must have gotten some UV paint or markers and went nutty.
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>>18208 >confirmed caches >confirmed Hue.
Everymans !/EDCBA9rUg
Been caching for a few months now. Gonna be doing it a lot more when it stops raining and i get a phone with internet. I've found 30 caches off hand drawn maps. I have a success rate of like 1-3 because of these shitty maps. impossible to find anything that isn't near a landmark.
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>>24966 30 without a GPS or phone? Impressive. Urban? Woods?
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>>20418 looks like he destroyed the actual bugs though and kept the tags. Quite the shame. Some bugs are awesome. I have one that's a volkswagen van!
Everymans !/EDCBA9rUg
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>>24992 a variety of the two. Found a few in the states. Can't wait to get a phone with gps so i can do a bit better. Makes hiking even more rewarding.
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>>11512 Heh, first time I heard about geocaching, found there were like 10 in my town so went out at 4am middle of winter to go find my first one!
Seriously though, it's great fun. Some person in my town set up a xmas one with a bunch of little presents for people, just like poundstore shit but it was a really nice thought.
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once kicked a small child in the face after catching him looting.
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The geocachers around Newcastle were mostly Dentists-with-Obese-Kids types, who badgered the adventurous-young-male geocachers for making hides that they didn't like.
Geocaching.com took the Dentists' side of things. I went on a rage and fucked-up all (~20) of the caches in the area.
The Dentists' were also the types who ignored local laws to place their caches, unlike the 'bushwalker' cachers who previously made the scene-- caches in private property and off-limits Nature Preserve areas ("HURRRR Y CAN'T I LEAVE EDIBLE PLASTIC CONTAINERS IN CRITICAL AREAS AND BRIG MY FAT KIDS ALONG WITH THEIR FACES IN NINTENDO TO SMASH THINGS UP AND LEAVE MCDONALDS TRASH EVERYWHERE?????????") Also stupid things like food and flammable swaps. For fucks' sake, they killed geocaching for me.
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The coolest one I've ever found was in Rock Hill, SC. Downtown. There was a little hidden alley that led to someone's backyard and I had to figure out a puzzle to get the code to the gate, then the geocache was actually a fucking tree with swag hanging from the branches. And the logbook was an actual wooden log that you could open up to carve your initials into. Holy shit, I was floored to say the least haha. >>inb4 pissed off winthropfags
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>>20515 TB's (Travel bugs) and (Geo)coins are trackable dogtags/coins people take from cache to cache. Logs are included online so you can see where in the world they have visited. Some have specific goals attached to them too.
Anonymous
>>17295 I've found many caches, but avoided the puzzles...how do they work?
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>>27320 Depends on the puzzle. You are provided with information in the cache's description which you need to decipher to get a set of coordinates. It could be simple like a set of questions that have digits as answer, decoding a string of characters using base 64 or hexadecimals; any number of things really.
I think it would be great if we could post puzzles here and help each other decipher them, there are quite a few I would love help with.
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>>18208 What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 3000 confirmed found caches!
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>>27226 Most of them end up unlogged or stolen.
Anonymous
Alright, you sold me /out/
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>>27779 I found it, never mind, my apologies
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Just out of interest, has anyone tried Geocaching with the old paper map (yeah, they still exist). It would be a LOT harder, but entirely doable in an area with plenty of decent landmarks. Was thinking I might give it a shot oneday.
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>>27779 The one for Apple is the official geocache app, that is $10.
The one for android, made by a geocacher, is called "c:geo" and is free.
>>27793 In another thread there was a guy who said he found about 30 of them just with hand-drawn maps. Like you said, if there are enough landmarks around, you can do it. Zooming in on the location (if it isn't in the middle of the woods) on
geocache.com can help, along with reading the logs.
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>>27844 Isn't that called "orienteering"? I heard a nice bit on it on NPR a few months back. There's clubs out there for that, too.
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>>28220 Yes. Easier to learn from another person, or if you have a nice easy starting area (something bordering a city/town or lake/river) you can use one of the thousands of books or web pages for beginners.
If the club is cheap, go for it. A nice skill to have when the satellites start falling from the sky.
Anonymous
>>27844 I've got to muggle a lot of Premium Geocaches by reading the details from
geocaching.com.au , which has the logs describing the cache, but not the exact location.
Fuck the Geocaching Tax.
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>>28373 Yeah, some people even take pictures of the hiding spot and post it with their logs. Tsk tsk.
Anonymous
Not many places by me except the state park I live down the block from. Other than that it's a drive anywhere. Planning on making a 3 step cache. Already have the containers. Any clever ways people have hidden them? (dug a hole, fake log, up in a tree, etc.)
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>>28574 Make sure you check the guidelines, I don't think you are allowed to bury anything, and then you go through all this trouble and the mods never approve your cache for publication.
I don't see too much fake stuff anymore, people keep wrecking it. If you can put something in a difficult area, that is always good.
Otherwise, Google -
http://geocacher-u.com/?page_id=88 There are a few YouTube videos as well if you feel like digging around. If it is your first cache, I would suggest just doing a straight up hide, no multi, and see how that goes. You can always add to it or resubmit it.
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>>28612 I found a spot in the park where there's an underground faucet that I'm assuming was an old drinking fountain I was thinking of putting a small cache on a string and having it hang in the hole attached to the pipe. It is my first cache but I've been caching,hunting,whatever for a few years. Thing is I don't own a gps so I need to rely on my androids gps app. Sucks I had the expensive groundspeak app before I upgraded.
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>>28639 You might want to consider using a magnet taped to the cache in conjunction with some wire instead of string.
Prepare for the stupidest people possible.
The GPS app should be fine. Just see how the coords look on Google Maps, make sure it is in the right vicinity. Cachers know that there is some discrepancy in listed coordinates.
Hope ya don't have any anti-cachers around you.
Anonymous
>>28767 I actually don't. Every cache, even simple ones, are always in their place so it should be fine. I was thinking a hemp rope. I work for an arts and crafts store so I can get everything.
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I used to live in a really boring rural area and did geocaching to stay sane. Was a good excuse to go hiking through swamps and driving down logging roads. Used an iPhone 4 which had shit GPS when off network.
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>>28814 Well, if it is minimal-to-no expense, then go for it. I'm sure the other in your area would like a new cache.
"When you go to hide a geocache, think of the reason you are bringing people to that spot. If the only reason is for the geocache, then find a better spot." – briansnat
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>>28574 I found one where they had a life size pigeon decoy tied to the branch of a pine tree and the container was in its anus.
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>>25856 This.
I used to enjoy geocaching. The awesome hikes and interesting puzzles (that you solve outdoors) taking me places I would never go.
No it's a bunch of lazy littering fucks with fat autistic children.
Anonymous
I don't have a smartphone, but I like the idea of hidden treasure.
Anonymous
>>30334 >hidden treasure more like plastic mcdonalds child meal toys
amirite
Anonymous
>>30340 Actually, I was thinking of finding a decently large natural cave which has some small body of water in it and leaving a good sum of worldly goods there (precious metals).
But, it seems like a waste. No one is that dedicated.
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>>30356 Leave part of your fragmented soul in it.
I hear people risk their lives to find that sort of stuff.
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>>30399 Going through people's photo albums on that site is hysterical.
>>30340 You are. Only the most remote caches have anything worth trading.
>>30356 Depends on where you are. If it seems like a waste, then don't do it. There are stat whores that would gladly take a day off from work to find your shit.
I don't know if it was this thread or an old one, but I mentioned that around my way there are people that drop $100 bills in the caches for the people that are the first to find them. These usually require a little extra, maybe some climbing or boating. Generally they are only available to Premium members.
Anonymous
>>11621 >on the bottom of lakes but...how?
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>>30673 I found one where you had to go to the outskirts of the lake, find the rope that ran through a weight with a loop on it that they submerged, and uncoil it from around the tree. The cache was attached to a floating device that was on the other end of the rope (fed through the weighted loop) so after you uncoiled enough of it the cache floated to the top. You rented a paddleboat or kayak, go out to the cache, sign it, then go back to the woods and submerge it by pulling recoiling the rope.
Anonymous
>>30745 that is so fucking cool. I'm hyped.
what are some good, cheap GPSs? I only have a stupidphone, so assume apps aren't an option.
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>>30771 I am sure you could find a simple non-color one for $50 to $100. Scope out the eTrex series from Garmin.
I haven't bought a new one in awhile, so hopefully someone else can chime in. My only regret with not waiting until I had more money was that I ended up wanting one that also did driving navigation as well, so you might want to consider that before investing.
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>>30904 Actually, you might as well make a thread about GPSes, as there are a ton of them, some suited for specific hobbies/sports. I'm sure some of the hunters on here would have a better combined pool of experience with different devices.
And the lake one was cool, but it just takes one bastard to not recoil it to ruin it. Those caches are nice to place if you live close enough to maintain them. Fun to find if you get to them early.
Anonymous
Whenever I go geocaching I always trash, destroy or throw away the cache.
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>>31003 Please make sure to throw them out properly and not just drop kick the contents all over nature. The caching is litter enough without spreading the trash out even more.
Anonymous
Why do so many of you destroy them what do you
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>>31037 I don't destroy them all. However I have appointed myself judge, jury and executioner of shitty caches.
Geocach.com has guidelines and rules and moderators, and some of the community is aware of the damage the rest of them are doing.
I tend to remove caches (I don't just destroy them) that haven't been tended to in over a year, or ones that are in nature preserves.
I won't get too self-delusional and high and mighty. All that up there is just my patter to cover up the fact that I get a kick out of seeing which cachers are tenacious and which aren't. I enjoy collecting travel bugs and coins, and occasional that FTF prize.
Anonymous
Another thing that shits me is when people dump religious shit in caches. There's even a GC guideline about not doing that. But Fundies Gotta Fun.
I had a Science-themed cache, and a few freaks dumped bible shit in that. I deleted their find-logs from GC (the cache writeup already mentioned the science thing being a firm conditon)... and the fucking GC mods got up me. I moved the cache to (the unaffiliated)
geocaching.com.au site.
Before that, there was someone dumping Chick Tracts in local caches. lol wut.
Anonymous
>>31095 While I agree with you on cache removal, I don't get why you collect TB's and coins. Unless they're specifically marked as collectible, isn't their goal to travel?
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>>31175 I have seen a variety of business cards (lawyers and tax preparers, custom cabinets and laborers, computer repair and "ebay consultants") which always seemed kind of tacky.
Once in a while I will see prayer cards, or a rosary. Some Witness literature.
I have tried alternate cache sites (
terracache.com is my favorite) but now I just have a game with my friends and some other people we have let in. No rules to worry about except common sense. Fuck those GC mods, they spend more time modding than being outside.
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>>31198 Sorry if I made the TB collection sound like I had a reason. It just sort of happened. I told myself I was going to release them all in some nefarious way, but they catch my eye like a shiny bauble and I submit to my kleptoassholeish tendencies.
Anonymous
>>31249 Yeah I know what you mean. I have two TB's with me right now that I should release soon. Do you think you ever will release them? As a TB owner, I know I wouldn't want mine to be held on to for too long without due notice. One of mine is gone for good I do believe, it's been in the hands of a cacher with only one find logged for a couple of months now.
I like you, you're starting to sound like less of an asshole.
noko
I have some geocaches out on U.S. Forest Service land at particularly interesting geological feature that are not well known by people. People seem to prefer "traditional" caches, those larger than a pill bottle, so I use Army ammo cans. Have been thinking about doing a series of cache locations where horrendous murders occurred and putting in a write up in the cache describing the murder at that particular scene.
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>>31286 I'I might just drag them all to a remote place and leave the coordinates in a few different caches, see who finds it first. That person will be a hero in the GC community, which would be pretty entertaining to watch in the forums.
Before you like me, you should know I have a lot. I mean *A LOT*. That pick I posted was from someone that recovered a while bunch of them.
You might enjoy the story (if only in picture form unless you speak German) as it is pretty unique:
http://sonntagsrudel.amshove.net/indexE.html Don't get me wrong, I like geocaching. My motives have just changed over the years. I enjoy and appreciate a good hide.
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>>20418 Fucking anticachers. I sent a geocoin to the 2007 World Scout Jamboree that got to Germany and stolen by an anticacher.
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>>31322 Lots of people have abandoned ammo cans (they get stolen and sold at flea markets around here) and go for those lock&lock tupperware containers.
A lot of horrendous murders around your way?
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>>30771 Go Garmin. The community has a fetish for Garmin, so it gets all the good programs and IMO proves to be a bit more accurate than Magellan. I used a Garmin Etrex when I started, a Garmin Rhino as my alternative, an Oregon as my main current one.
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>>31338 Then you would enjoy the story I just posted, as it is abut some intrepid cachers that actually caught someone messing shit up AND get their shit together to prosecute him (although they accepted his apology and everything he stole instead.)
Twas in Germany.
Sorry to hear about your coin.
noko
>>31346 Yep,
Person cut up in pieces with a chain saw and parts scattered.
Older lady with her throat slit,
Couple tied to chairs and shot nin faces with high powered rifle,
Guy tied to chair and cement brick - dumped over a river bridge alive, ,, to name a few.
Anonymous
>>31337 Good read, glad he was cooperative. I guess this is more of a problem overseas as here in Australia we rarely get these anti-cachers. Those that do appear are usually just kids who destroy a dozen caches then get bored.
If a cache goes against any of the guidelines, I see nothing wrong with its removal. It'd be nice if it was returned to the owner, but that's not always possible.
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>>31386 You should totally let a lot of red paint dry up in the caches before you place them. See if anyone comments, then just play dumb.
"They were 100% non-blood colored when I placed them!"
Arrowman !!5clKYdxBuUL
>>31376 Yeah, I read that. It made it to the jamboree and had a few patches on the keychain it came with. It made it's way back with a troop and got to a roadside travel bug hotel in Germany where it got geo-pirated. I wouldn't have cared so much, if the anti-cacher hadn't taken photos of the coin and the patches and said something along the lines of "I'm going to enjoy melting this down! gg." in the coin comments.
noko
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>>31435 Anybody here think cachings gone to shit over the last few years? Back in 2005, I loved it. I'd take a Saturday and go find five or so caches from morning to afternoon, and I'd be set. I was number 12 on my states "most caches found" list for quite a bit until something happened. Now everyone's got a few thousand and it's no fun to just hike in the woods to find a few caches, you have to find a few dozen to justify the day.
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>>31452 Newness worn off and gas is expensive.
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>>31435 I may be an asshole by hoarding the TBs, or no longer notifying cache owners that I have executed their trash cache, but I never taunted anyone.
>>31422 I tend to drop the logbooks off in more maintained caches, but I stopped notifying people as they never seemed to log in anymore.
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>>31474 >not caching by foot or on bike anti-cacher !!kuN7bqlsqys
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>>31452 It's pretty shit now. Try
terracache.com .
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>>31483 It's kind of hard to bike to another state when you have work the next morning.
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>>31037 Sometimes geocachers don't respect the rules of certain natural areas. Leaving a geocache essentially modifies the spot as it is not natural and if the park or preserve has a "Leave No Trace Behind" motto, you bet that geocache will be removed and trashed. Those natural areas won't even allow people to create cairns so a geocache shouldn't be allowed either.
Arrowman !!5clKYdxBuUL
>>31525 What if I have permission from the park?
What I've done is make a sheet with signatures on it, of both me, the owner, and the property owner. So if anyone doubts that I have permission to place it, they can check the cache. I've been looking to put the signatures on the side stickers, but I can't get them made cheap enough.
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>>31538 Different story, as you usually need to fill out an application and pay a fee (some states) to hide it, and you have to list the coordinates with the park folk, who I assume make sure you didn't place it in some little creatures habitat.
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>>31555 So, you check before hand with the property owners? You aren't just playing jury, judge, and executor on your own aren't you?
Personally, if someone thought my cache was placed badly, I prefer they simply move the cache themselves (within 10 feet or so)
Where I live, there is no form for state parks which are fair game for caches. How do you decide then?
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This has grown to be a retarded hobby. I know some people that call it a sport. I hate them.
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It is a fun activity. I have found 300+ so far. It gives people a good reason to get outdoors and hiking, seeing new places and improving their wellbeing. Here is a link to hopefully answer any questions beginners might have.
http://www.squidoo.com/the-adventure-of-geocaching anti-cacher !!kuN7bqlsqys
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>>36094 squidoo? Really? Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.
Anyway, I take it you have some nice placements in Minnesota? Any good swag? I'm still in awe over the philanthropists in my area that throw cash in the caches.
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Anti-cacher: I wish. I keep trying to place them, but most of the parks in my area are owned by the city and they do not allow caching in them except by express permission. Trying to get permission has been annoying, think I am gonna go with a micro for my first one instead of a small so I can at least get one out there and get some experience with owning.
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>>36270 People around here get all panty-jacked over micros in the woods. I made a 5-stage micro (in the shape of a pentagram, not that anyone noticed) and only the old folks enjoyed it. The younger crowd was MUHREGULARCACHES.
Up this way it costs $25 to place a cache in a state park, which I totally agree with, since some idiots bring a machete to feel all rugged while in a 500 acre park with no elevation changes and can't be bothered to take the established trails.
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>>17263 >not noticing things are weakened/become less/get easier when they become mainstream. popculture faggot.
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>>11367 I do it hard mode: With out GPS.
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Anti-cacher: Yeah, I just realized I misinterpreted you and thought you meant things I had placed. Derp. We have some cool ones, around my area definitely a lot of standard micros to the back of signs and park benches and stuff. We have ones out on islands that people get out to in winter when the lakes are frozen, or boat out to, that are normally a bit more unique because of it. Our state parks also have a program for caches that they personally maintain and make sure aren't in dumb places. Got some that are high up trees, one that I cant even figure out how to get up to lol.
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Yo, I don't know the first thing about caching, but it seems like a good excuse to walk around. I also have a bunch of NCM roads and BLM scrubland around my house. Should I start a few caches up?
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>>36449 Twice I have seen two (different) people in the woods with a large ladder.
>>36480 Terracaching? That is a different site. Same thing. I think they are less rules-oriented than the geocache site. Both places have listed rules, so you might want to check them out before placing anything as they might deny publishing yours.
I would find a few and get a feel for it before going and placing any. You might live in an area with radical cache-theifs.
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>>36623 I've only ever found two, the second just a few minutes ago. I'm already planning a cache.
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>>36729 Have fun. Maybe you will be the first to post a picture of their hides (without the corresponding code, of course.)
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>>36781 I'll do that. I just have to decide where to put it.
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>>31423 >red paint >blood colored I don't think you know what dried blood looks like.
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I used to own Geocache GC332EF until what I hid it in was trucked away for scrap. Won some sort of nomination for Best Geocaches of 2011.
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Cache blended in well I'd say
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>>12584 Holy shit man, that looks like the area around my house. Where is that?
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>>37234 >>37331 Fucking awesome. Sucks they had to scrap it.
Anonymous
Started In the earlier days of 03 when you actually had to do a decent walk to find a chache, still enjoy it and meeting lots of different people. I now help to plan the largest non-mega annual event in the UK, so any ukfags you better be there... mid-june!
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>>37496 I tried out one of the local meet ups in 2007. Everyone was a stat-whore. I should move.
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Went for a little hike earlier today and found one completely unexpectedly. I only learned of geocache a few days ago, it put a smile on my face to actually see one.
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>>12729 >Mt Humphreys summit Geocache I've been to that one
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I actually found a geocache by accident once. I was doing a load of tree planting in 100 acres of woodland and someone had hidden one in a hole at the base of an ancient Sycamore.
