Anyone ever heard of this?

http://www.geocaching.com

It's sort of like a huge easter egg hunt with GPS. When you find a bucket you leave a little prize for the next person and take anything that's left behind. Usually the containers are in crazy places. Some are as easy as a public park, while others are way out in the woods or on the sides of mountains.

I am too poor for GPS, and I don't have time for such things, but it sounds like it'd be interesting.

 

This is actually starting to pick up some mainstream media attention now...

There's been a couple threads on geocaching and it looks like there's a good following on this forum. I've gone once with my girlfriend and we both enjoyed it. We'll probably go again sometime in the future

 

I have recently started in this activity. Labor Day weekend I found
two and enjoyed the hike in the mountains.

You can use satellites costing millions of dollars to find cheap trinkets!

 

Great fun, I like to pick out 4WD-accessible caches and combine finding them with some fun wheeling to get there. Takes you into some country you might not otherwise get to. Here's a typical trip:

http://c-67-170-224-64.client.comcas...DeathValley10/

 

Looks like a bad link.

 

Should be working now. Just had to reset my router, been having external network problems and I guess the incoming connections were messed up. All better now.

 

My girlfriend and I do it almost every weekend (geocaching). It gets us out. We are up to 31 I think. that are your guys names?

 

Same as my handle here: "4Crawler"
Only have 10 caches, but I tend to only look for ones that are way off the beaten path.

There is one about 100 yds. from my house in the middle of a huge patch of junipers, I looked for it once and decided no way am I spending an hour climbing around in there looking for it.

 

I have been Geocaching for years. Its pretty fun, and you can combine wheeling to make it even better. There was only about 4 of us and less than 50 caches in my area of 150miles when I started, now close to 50 of us and a couple hundred caches.

 

old thread but oh well,

i started doing this a couple of weeks ago,

i like finding the ones up in the woods off the beaten path.

theres a couple on the island in the middle of the columbia river
i'll hit this summer on the waverunners.

pretty fun family activity, when my son gets older i'll hide his easter eggs this way.

i was amazed how many caches there are around portland/vancouver areas.

you kind of look like an idiot walking around in circles looking for something
so i take the dogs along with me.

makes you really get to know your gps.

anyways lot's of fun.

eric

 

My uncle got me interested in geoaching last year. I got my own GPS reciever for christmas. I've found 4 so far and got really close to #5 on my list. I found 2 other people at school that are in to it and I'm going tomorrow with one of the guys.

Roger, is there a way to find just the 4x4 accessible ones? Or do you just search the areas you are going on 4x4 trips for geocaches?

 

I'm a geocacher.
I wish they had better stickers, I want one for my rig.

 

I love geocaching. Another reason to own a gps! Arizona has some caches in areas that are difficult to get to and feature beautiful scenery.

 

Caching's k3wl. It gets you to realize that there are a lot of places around that you just didn't know!

Remember... Cache In, Trash Out.

 

not to be a debbie downer or anything...but there was an article in our local paper about cache people going onto and rummaging around in a private cemetary without permission. definately sounds fun.

 

We started last December and it's a blast!! I like going to places I didn't know existed or places I'd been by before but never gave a 2nd thought.
I've finally figured out how to use all the features of my GPS

 

I am going to be geocaching soon, my friend does it all the time.

 

There are bad apples in every bunch.

 

Had a very sucessful day geocaching. Found 3 new caches, was going to go for a 4th but it was far away and it was getting dark out.

Came away with a nice photo of Rachel and my Leah puppy (not so small anymore) finding the last cache.

 

O hey, I do that too! My Dad started caching 2 years ago. I started around oct. I have 32 finds... Im going out tomorrow w/ my lab to find 8 more. (If my Yota starts in the mornin)

Good to know more people have started to cache.

SN @ GC-Five1Nine8Eight