Geocaching
Well I have been wanting to post about this for a month or so, but with my current work situation, my time was limited. Anyways about a month ago I started geocaching with Evildiva. She found out about it when her cousin brought a GPS out for a family holiday gathering and went with her on a couple hunts. Jake had also been telling me about this, but really didn’t think much about it.
What is Geocaching?
Geocaching is basically a treasure hunt. You goto geocaching.com and enter in your zip code and see all the hidden treasures awaiting your visit. You pull down the coords and start tracking them down with your GPS. The idea is, you take something and leave something of equal value, or you can just sign the log book (stating you where there) and then log your visit on the website.
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Once she told me she was going to buy a GPS, I put her purchase on hold since as you all know I must do the research on any electronics and tend to stay away from the cheaper models. With that said I ended up spliting the cost with her on a Garmin Vista CX. All seemed well but when we started to go out on caches, we where not having the best of luck, so I exchanged it for a Magellan Explorist which made finding the caches a little more accurate…. but it lacked the features of the Garmin… so I exchanged it again for the same Gamin Vista CX just another unit, hoping it was just a bad egg… again same issue was consistantly off. So that was it, I took it back and got our money back and hit Amazon to end up buying the Garmin 60CSx, which is the daddy mack for handhelds. This one the original one I wanted to buy but the cost was a little out of range. Waiting the 3 weeks with the other exchanges brought the price down $100 so now it was within scope and I most say, this thing kicks ass!!
So if you decide you want to get involved, let me know I can give advise on things to do, what type of poisonous plants to look for and to always check for ticks. As of today we have found 87 caches and are still just as excited to find more since some of these multiple step caches really make you put your mind to work with technology. I have used Google quite a bit from my cellphone to get help on these hunts. We plan to place our own set of caches soon, once we devise a scheme/theme.
If you are caching and see the Evilones logo, you will know I have been there 
Dude!
Treasure hunting, the outdoors, exercise and technology. What a perfect combination!
Fill the caches full of yodels, and I’m there.
Currently because of time and money the only place I get to GeoCache is my front yard and back yard. Where I find all kinds of neat little gifts left out by my son and daughter. Of course I don’t exchange them for equal value. I take them and put them in the house. Hopefully before I run them over with the lawn mower.
rip – Nice work. I have been following along since you informed me you were going to do this. Sounds fun. Around my area nothing worth while to go after. However, within about 50 to 100 miles away from my city there are plenty. Good luck on the future caches.
My good friend Trish and her hudband do this all the time. They’re supposed to visit this weekend and were gonna go up north in MI to cache some geos:)
rip once left me a 12 minute voicemail on the intricacies of geocaching, and i regrettably have not called him back. dude, I owe you a phone call and Im sorry. That being said, i just talked to my buddy rob in upstate NY who also does this and has a blast. and all i have to say is DAMN YOU BOTH FOR INTRODUCING MORE GEAR TO THE SHOPPING LIST!!!!!
and DarkStrangers comment gets my vote for funniest comment this year.
sorry ive been away boys, work blah blah blah. i should be free in september-ish.
alas, sb is almost getting back into the daily swing of things…. funny how things go in circles here and everywhere for that matter.
gaylord – let me know what you think once you have checked it out.
paul – yodels, twinkies are not permittable trade items due to animals
darkstranger – I agree with grendel, thats purty g\’damn funny right there
grendel – think it was closer to 13 mins.. and no prob, we are all running some crazy schedules these days and you can damn me all you want, your shopping list is always full of state of the art goodies mr xbox 360, can only imagine what you have bought this summer so far and haven;t share with us yet!! huh?? Again, thanks again for keeping SB moving…
I’m glad I could bring laughter to your day and for getting the funniest comment of the year award I must say thank you.
So i just went on my first geocache yesterday with said friends above, and it was a blast! We went to Maybury State park only 6 miles from my house and there was three there. Two single stage caches, and 1 four stage cache…the four stage rocked!
My friends gps unit is very modest. And her style of caching is a bit more challenging then I suspected it to be. We basically punched in the coordinates, and just started walking in random directions until we started getting close. The compass feature on her handheld was pretty latent…so we didn’t even use it. I used my ‘man sense’ alot, and did pretty well by it:) We’re gonna head out today and cache some more. I now have a total of 5 caches in 1 state. Trish and Bob have about 380 in 17 states!