Geocacher

[mugs]

You don't bury the cache, you hide it. And I'm not sure why someone would leave a GPS receiver IN a cache, that makes no sense. I think this story was misheard by someone.

 

[DrPizza]

You can tell who has better GPS units and who has cheaper units. My neighbor has one in the tree across the street from our house. Sometimes I'll see someone drive up, park, get out of the vehicle & walk over to the tree. Other times, the same vehicle passes back and forth in front of our house, apparently trying to zero in on it. Not really annoying, but someone driving by really slowly, looking around, etc., makes me pause for a second.

 

[Homerboy]

Originally posted by: mugs
You don't bury the cache, you hide it. And I'm not sure why someone would leave a GPS receiver IN a cache, that makes no sense. I think this story was misheard by someone.

correct on all accounts

 

[Homerboy]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
You can tell who has better GPS units and who has cheaper units. My neighbor has one in the tree across the street from our house. Sometimes I'll see someone drive up, park, get out of the vehicle & walk over to the tree. Other times, the same vehicle passes back and forth in front of our house, apparently trying to zero in on it. Not really annoying, but someone driving by really slowly, looking around, etc., makes me pause for a second.

I had a shitty one
anytime under any tree-cover the thing would just start freaking out. Really useful in Wisconsin state parks. I'd really like to get a better one this summer. The kids did not enjoy NOT finding the caches.

Except for one: http://picasaweb.google.com/potrzebowski/Geocaching#

 

[boomerang]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
You can tell who has better GPS units and who has cheaper units. My neighbor has one in the tree across the street from our house. Sometimes I'll see someone drive up, park, get out of the vehicle & walk over to the tree. Other times, the same vehicle passes back and forth in front of our house, apparently trying to zero in on it. Not really annoying, but someone driving by really slowly, looking around, etc., makes me pause for a second.

We walked around someone's front yard for about 10 minutes trying to find one once. I felt really conspicuous. The homeowners probably placed it, but still ........ The cheaper ones have trouble with heavy tree cover. We have lots of trees here. Most of the ones around here are in parks or play areas. We've found them in several states, including Hawaii when on vacation. We were the first to find one on Molokai, which was kind of neat.

 

[Gooberlx2]

WTF? who thought this up and that it was a good idea??

Hmmm....geocaching was already very popular when my friends and I started doing it back in 2001/2002. Burying a box in front of a school isn't the best idea, however.

 

[ObiDon]

note to self -- bury next cache in front of police station... it will save someone a phone call

 

[Aharami]

Originally posted by: TruePaige

Originally posted by: guyver01

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
I've always wanted to get involved with this, it really sounds like fun. It's the the cacher's fault that people are paranoid.

The idea is that you bury a parcel of something, doesn't really matter what, to leave as a gift for fellow geocachers.

i'm one of those "live and let live" people.... you wanna bury something for others to find.. go ahead..

but really.. THINK about where ya bury it.

burying a box on school property is not the brightest idea around... its GONNA arouse a suspision if someone sees ya doing it.

if i see someone burying something anywhere near where i work or live, i'm gonna call the cops too if i dont know what they're doing.

If someone asked would you let them bury it near your house?

your constant timewarps are really throwing me in for a loop

 

[alkemyst]

he is exploiting the system.

 

[Homerboy]

Originally posted by: Aharami

Originally posted by: TruePaige

Originally posted by: guyver01

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
I've always wanted to get involved with this, it really sounds like fun. It's the the cacher's fault that people are paranoid.

The idea is that you bury a parcel of something, doesn't really matter what, to leave as a gift for fellow geocachers.

i'm one of those "live and let live" people.... you wanna bury something for others to find.. go ahead..

but really.. THINK about where ya bury it.

burying a box on school property is not the brightest idea around... its GONNA arouse a suspision if someone sees ya doing it.

if i see someone burying something anywhere near where i work or live, i'm gonna call the cops too if i dont know what they're doing.

If someone asked would you let them bury it near your house?

your constant timewarps are really throwing me in for a loop

I think the word "bury" is being misused here... I've never seen nor heard of a cache that literally requires a spade and pick-axe to uncover.

 

[TridenT]

I've wanted to do it. It sounds fun, but I don't have a GPS device. (I guess I could use the one my parents use for their cars if it even shows real coordinates...)

 

[arcenite]

Originally posted by: guyver01

Originally posted by: TruePaige

Well it's like a challenge to see if you can find these items.

Then when you get them it's a surprise.

Like Christmas, but with a shovel.

how is it a challenge? they GIVE you the gps coordinates...

How accurate are civilian handheld GPS receivers again?

+- 150ft?

 

[boomerang]

Originally posted by: arcenite

Originally posted by: guyver01

Originally posted by: TruePaige

Well it's like a challenge to see if you can find these items.

Then when you get them it's a surprise.

Like Christmas, but with a shovel.

how is it a challenge? they GIVE you the gps coordinates...

How accurate are civilian handheld GPS receivers again?

+- 150ft?

I think they're far better than that, but I don't know the specs. I've had an old Garmin eTrex have us within 15 feet from a cache. I do know that part of the limitation was that the accuracy was purposely limited for personal use. They loosened the restrictions and they then became more accurate. I imagine one's mileage may vary depending on the age of the GPS you're using.

My understanding is that the military has the most accurate equipment although I don't know if it's the GPS itself, or different frequencies for personal and military or what.

Hey, it's not for the 'challenge', it's just something fun and different to do. It's led us to places that we didn't know existed - some even very close to where we live. If you don't pay too much attention to the information at the Geocaching website, it can be difficult trying to decide which roads you need to take to get to where you can get out of the car on foot. We were about 45 ft. away from one once and could not get to it in the residential neighborhood we were in. Had to drive 3 miles or so to come at it from another way to actually get to it. But the information is all at the website if you want to dumb it down.

I can understand why it wouldn't be for everyone. Our grandkids love to do it, I can tell you that.

 

[Bryophyte]

We have a cache. There are so many of them around here (Geocaching started not too far from where I live, so it's very popular here in Oregon) that we really don't get that many people hitting our cache. We made ours a little challenging; it's a two-part hunt. Have to find one micro-cache to get clues to the real cache.)