Staff Sargent Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 Geocaching is where you put coridates into a GPS and then find a cache that can have prizes or just a log book that you found it. Most are placed in interesting places like the photos below. This is in Pawtuckaway State Park in Notingham NH. All Photos were taken around the site where the cache was hidden. Anyone else do this? photos taken with a 3.2mp phone camera. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founder StamatisX Posted February 2, 2012 Founder Share Posted February 2, 2012 That's a cool idea actually, too bad I can't come and look for the cache... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Sargent Posted February 2, 2012 Author Share Posted February 2, 2012 Geocaching - The Official Global GPS Cache Hunt Site they have caches all over the world! Its a lot of fun for the family too. They vary in size and whats inside them. some are even more like a hunt as they will have many in a small area and you need to find them all to complete the hunt. it can be a lot of fun and gets you to places you never thought of going before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 That's a cool idea. I was like "No way will there be any near me" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mw86 Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 thats a great concept SSG. Pretty neat! Jimbo lol at "aww 20 dollars, i was hoping for a peanut" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Sargent Posted February 2, 2012 Author Share Posted February 2, 2012 Me and Wifey are going to "hide" one and put whats called a travel bug in it so people can take it and put it other places. It will have its own web page and everything so it can be tracked. in the searching area theres a link to a beta google maps with all the caches on it, when you look at the whole world its covered about 80% I would guess. The US is totally covered. Thinking maybe this weekend might try and find a few to get better ideas on where to hide ours.So anyone else going to try this? I know once in a while we will try and find ones that are not near our home when we go on trips like to D.C. this summer. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founder Michael Posted February 2, 2012 Founder Share Posted February 2, 2012 cool, didn't know such a thing existed. live and learn None in brazil though :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Sargent Posted February 3, 2012 Author Share Posted February 3, 2012 None in brazil though :/Maybe you can start it off LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founder Michael Posted February 3, 2012 Founder Share Posted February 3, 2012 (edited) I sure can hide something in my back yard, unless my dog finds it first Sent from my GT-N7000 using Tapatalk Edited February 3, 2012 by Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Sargent Posted February 3, 2012 Author Share Posted February 3, 2012 @Michael Don't think you want people walkin around your back yard with GPS units in there hands looking for a small box with goodies LMAO could get interesting though LOL 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgt. maj. wifey Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 OMG is it truly fun to do this....I had never heard of it till talking with Sarge about it. Now Im HOOKED!!!! If there is not one in your area you can always be the first to start one. Hell we have so many here its been hard to find a good location to drop our cache. anyways yall need to try this esp. those of you that are the outdoorsy types hehe great exercise great fam time and just all around fun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mw86 Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 There is so much forest here in New York if I had a GPS unit id love to try this out. They need to make an app for mobile as nearly all phones today have GPS it would be amazing to see a mobile app that taps into this same geocache network. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Sargent Posted April 4, 2012 Author Share Posted April 4, 2012 .... it would be amazing to see a mobile app that taps into this same geocache network.Geocaching > Geocaching Live APIthis might help solve that request for you nicely. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mw86 Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 Geocaching > Geocaching Live APIthis might help solve that request for you nicely. you are awesome Staff Sargent thanks that's unbelievable ill grab it now on windows Phone and when i switch to Android i'll make sure i re-install that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Sargent Posted April 5, 2012 Author Share Posted April 5, 2012 No problem, its great fun and great way to get outside. might even meet some people doing the same thing. That main site has tons of info and I even know that groups get together and have fun doing stuff centered around geocaching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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