Geocaching...

[Metalxdelights]

Does anyone else enjoy it? If you don't know what it is, I'll be more than happy to explain. Going to grab some night caches later, I'm excited ^_^

[Butch1977]

Does anyone else enjoy it? If you don't know what it is, I'll be more than happy to explain. Going to grab some night caches later, I'm excited ^_^

That's the treasure hunting game isn't it? I'm old, we used to call the scavenger hunts... Lol

[Metalxdelights]

Haha kinda but it's a bit more than that. People all over the world participate, "caches" are hidden and you try and find them using GPS' and other navigational devices and techniques. Also, you have the ability to hide them as well for other people to find. I have one of the hardest caches located in dallas, I'm very proud of that. It requires a lot of stealth. If you want to know more about it look up groundspeak, it's a community of geocachers and there are also more tools there to learn about it. It explains it a lot better than I can haha

[Butch1977]

Haha kinda but it's a bit more than that. People all over the world participate, "caches" are hidden and you try and find them using GPS' and other navigational devices and techniques. Also, you have the ability to hide them as well for other people to find. I have one of the hardest caches located in dallas, I'm very proud of that. It requires a lot of stealth. If you want to know more about it look up groundspeak, it's a community of geocachers and there are also more tools there to learn about it. It explains it a lot better than I can haha

I live like an hour and a half from dallas! But yeah i didnt have gps growing up. We called them scavenger hunts. The best was the limo tour. All teams would rent a limo, all clues left in bars, and the first team back won.... Was insane!

[Metalxdelights]

Haha kinda but it's a bit more than that. People all over the world participate, "caches" are hidden and you try and find them using GPS' and other navigational devices and techniques. Also, you have the ability to hide them as well for other people to find. I have one of the hardest caches located in dallas, I'm very proud of that. It requires a lot of stealth. If you want to know more about it look up groundspeak, it's a community of geocachers and there are also more tools there to learn about it. It explains it a lot better than I can haha

I live like an hour and a half from dallas! But yeah i didnt have gps growing up. We called them scavenger hunts. The best was the limo tour. All teams would rent a limo, all clues left in bars, and the first team back won.... Was insane!

That's pretty sweet ^_^ What makes geocaching hard is the only thing you are given are the coordinates and clues about the container and sometimes the cache itself. I had a brutal one once...I had to venture through a friggin thorn bush and down a well. There were snails everywhere (unintentional) I absolutely hate snails 😫😫 lol. That sounds pretty fun, what was the prize?

[Ekann1]

I do those a lot! Really fun, and you get to go lots of cool places!

[Metalxdelights]

I do those a lot! Really fun, and you get to go lots of cool places!

Yes! I've found coins, Pogs (super cool if you know what those are), beautiful marbles, keychains and stickers from caches. The coolest thing I found was located in a cache near the American Airlines center...Dallas Mavericks tickets...I'm not a sports fan so I gave them to my brother, but still. The cache owner replaces the cache every other home game but you're only allowed to go to the cache once.

[Mikefrompluto]

I got really into it to the point where I almost bought the Geocache handheld GPS but just kinda fell out of it. I may pick it back up so I can be more active. I never found anything memorable but it was still a lot of fun. I always left random Magic cards if the cache was big enough to hold them.

[rarehuntertay]

I do those a lot! Really fun, and you get to go lots of cool places!

Yes! I've found coins, Pogs (super cool if you know what those are), beautiful marbles, keychains and stickers from caches. The coolest thing I found was located in a cache near the American Airlines center...Dallas Mavericks tickets...I'm not a sports fan so I gave them to my brother, but still. The cache owner replaces the cache every other home game but you're only allowed to go to the cache once.

Pogs?? Good grief, I haven't heard that in years.

[Metalxdelights]

I got really into it to the point where I almost bought the Geocache handheld GPS but just kinda fell out of it. I may pick it back up so I can be more active. I never found anything memorable but it was still a lot of fun. I always left random Magic cards if the cache was big enough to hold them.

I use a GPS, compass and my phone. I would love to find magic cards in a cache! I hope you get back into it, it's a lot of fun

[Metalxdelights]

I do those a lot! Really fun, and you get to go lots of cool places!

Yes! I've found coins, Pogs (super cool if you know what those are), beautiful marbles, keychains and stickers from caches. The coolest thing I found was located in a cache near the American Airlines center...Dallas Mavericks tickets...I'm not a sports fan so I gave them to my brother, but still. The cache owner replaces the cache every other home game but you're only allowed to go to the cache once.

Pogs?? Good grief, I haven't heard that in years.

I was a Pog champion haha. I still collect them but I highly doubt that they will make a comeback.

[Metalxdelights]

On one I went on, it was pretty much straight up to it (terrain difficulty 5).  I put my hand on  a rock to steady myself, and a chunk a little bigger than my head broke off, and hit me on the head (the rock broke on my head) which made me slip and start falling to my death.  I desperately tried grabbing for something and found a small weed to stop me.  My dad came over and helped me get my balance.  It was bad.

Just. Wow.

[Ertai]

Isn't geocaching only good in cities? So those people who live in the middle of nowhere are pretty much sol.

[Metalxdelights]

Isn't geocaching only good in cities? So those people who live in the middle of nowhere are pretty much sol.

No, necessarily. I've logged caches in the middle of nowhere and in woods...the only problem with those kind of locations is that sometimes it's kinda pointless to use a GPS or compass because they will never be entirely accurate...you can't solemnly rely on them. You have to use, maps and clues. The same problem exists in cities...especially where my dallas cache is located. It's in downtown...large buildings everywhere.

[Metalxdelights]

Only logged one tonight and that's fine by me. XD