GPS Geocaching anyone ?

[Y_lifter]

I have a couple of Bid wars going on right now on Ebay for
a Magellan GPS handheld (Meridian).

I went on one GPS Geocache hunt in the Ocala Natnl Forest and had great fun and a good challenge finding the buried cache.
Anyone else ever hear of or try GEOCACHING ?

www.geocaching.com
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What is Geocaching?

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.

 

[Y_lifter]

No interest due to this activities lack of boobies ?

 

[Y_lifter]

I guess not..

 

[Imnotdutch]

I have no idea what geocaching is!!!! Sorry........

 

[HumanShell]

Run a search

 

[Imnotdutch]

Run a search

Why?

 

[oubeta]

I give them the lat and long to where my vast supply of roids are hidden,, I wonder what they will leave me?

That's a pretty cool way to used your GPS,,I guess.

 

[Mildot]

I just asked the same question here about a week ago.

I went 2 miles into the woods last weekend, only to end up not being able to find the cache, and to top it all off I got covered in ticks to boot.
I did see 3 deer, about 7-10 turkeys and a skunk though, which was pretty cool.

 

[Y_lifter]

It's not as easy as one would think as most GPS units will only get you to within say 3-7 meters of a location- Long/Lat/Min.
The person placing the cache also could have mis-posted the coord. due to errors on their GPS.

My favorite was one cache stashed about 1/4 off the main road in an old willys jeep sunk half in the Mud.
Stashed in the glove box was a cylinder of small stuffed animals.
It's not about the cache contents, it's about finding the cache and reporting the find to the owner on geocache website.
Some people leave multi level trails as well.
One dude left a multi trail cache, and in the last location was $10,000 cash

 

[oubeta]

I'm going to try one later on today. What is something I could put in the box?