Are You A GeoCacher?

[WoodGlue]

Are you into Geocaching?

Seems like the ideal hobby for people who like to travel and have an adventure, so I'm wondering how many of you are?

What Is Geocaching?

WoodGlue

[wbwood]

J herb wrote:

Eric&Lisa wrote:
When Geocaching was overrun with a zillion urban micro caches we got bored with it. We like the old style full-size rural caches better. Hunting for a 35mm film canister in a parking lot just didn't work for us.

-Eric

We have the same problem around here and the geocachers hide on private property without permission, so I don't look for them.
I will be putting out some new hides soon and they will be in the woods.

There is so many hides that are on private property and mostly I assume without permission. Especially those light post hides. How many of them have actually sought permission from the people who own the land?

[J_herb]

Eric&Lisa wrote:
When Geocaching was overrun with a zillion urban micro caches we got bored with it. We like the old style full-size rural caches better. Hunting for a 35mm film canister in a parking lot just didn't work for us.

-Eric

We have the same problem around here and the geocachers hide on private property without permission, so I don't look for them.
I will be putting out some new hides soon and they will be in the woods.

[peajay]

I'm a fair weather geo-cacher. Hubby isn't into it so I don't do it a lot. I do have a handful of hides in my hometown along a hike/bike trail. The trail starts in town, runs along a lake shore and out to a Corp campground. I had to get permission from the Corp of Engineers but they were really good about it at the local office.

If you're ever near Alma, Nebraska I recommend staying at the Methodist Cove campground and walking the trail into town to catch a couple caches.

[Geobiker]

Another geocacher here. As the name intimates, we are both geocachers and mountain bikers. We go by spindig. Have been doing so for a long time and lOVE IT. Have fun.

[dons2346]

Nothing is better than finding a well thought out micro or nano in a high muggle area. Anyone can find an ammo can hidden in the woods or desert.

An easy day today, only 34 finds.

[wbwood]

BruceMc wrote:

Eric&Lisa wrote:
When Geocaching was overrun with a zillion urban micro caches we got bored with it. We like the old style full-size rural caches better. Hunting for a 35mm film canister in a parking lot just didn't work for us.

-Eric

We've become quite anti-micro over the years just for that reason. We have 44 hides; the vast majority are small or regular. If we dislike finding them, we certainly dislike hiding them!

If you are a premium member, you can exclude micros when you run your pocket queries. It's a lot more fun when there are no micros displayed on your device.

I was about to say that. But even if you are not a premium member, if you see the cache is listed as a micro, then you move on to the next one if that's not your thing. When we started caching, we were living in Massachusetts. Up there, there is a lot of public land for outdoor recreation and a lot of great places to hide normal sized caches. But since living here in North Carolina, there is not as much type of places. Or at least in the Charlotte area. I mean there are some, but not like it was up in ma.

We are looking forward to spring and being able to get out more and away from our area.

[BruceMc]

Eric&Lisa wrote:
When Geocaching was overrun with a zillion urban micro caches we got bored with it. We like the old style full-size rural caches better. Hunting for a 35mm film canister in a parking lot just didn't work for us.

-Eric

We've become quite anti-micro over the years just for that reason. We have 44 hides; the vast majority are small or regular. If we dislike finding them, we certainly dislike hiding them!

If you are a premium member, you can exclude micros when you run your pocket queries. It's a lot more fun when there are no micros displayed on your device.

[WoodGlue]

Wadcutter wrote:

Diplomat Don wrote:
During my 15 years with the LACO Bomb Squad, I went on three Geocaching Calls (Suspicious Package Calls) and blew all three up! Does that make me a Geocacher? 🙂

Did you sign the log book? If you didn't then you can't claim a find. :B

You two crack me up!

WoodGlue

[Dyngbld]

Been caching foe several years. The Caching Crew, 2800+ finds. Not been very active lately do to "issues", but looking forward to getting back out there this summer. Have a couple of parks on the camping list that have a stash of unfound to us caches.

[Eric_Lisa]

We started doing caching around 8 years ago. We did most of our caches in those early years, and have only done a few handfuls in recent years. We enjoyed discovering new places that are local to us but we never knew about.

When Geocaching was overrun with a zillion urban micro caches we got bored with it. We like the old style full-size rural caches better. Hunting for a 35mm film canister in a parking lot just didn't work for us.

-Eric

[Wadcutter]

Diplomat Don wrote:
During my 15 years with the LACO Bomb Squad, I went on three Geocaching Calls (Suspicious Package Calls) and blew all three up! Does that make me a Geocacher? 🙂

Did you sign the log book? If you didn't then you can't claim a find. :B

[DSDP_Don]

During my 15 years with the LACO Bomb Squad, I went on three Geocaching Calls (Suspicious Package Calls) and blew all three up! Does that make me a Geocacher? 🙂

[Raften]

Thanks, I was signed in but a redo took care of the problem. Placed a few over the years on fishing trips with a note about the day but just for my own use. Never wanted to search for others till now. Have a very old and basic gps.

[Wadcutter]

Raften wrote:
I stated it poorly. What I mean is I find nothing that gives me the lat. and long. of the location.

If you're not signed in you won't see the coords (lat/long). See my post 3 above.