Does anybody here GeoCache?

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I just started last summer. It's a great activity that gets me out of my hotel room and to some pretty neat places. I was wondering if anybody here does it. Seems a natural fit for outdoorsy people who like to travel.
 
My wife and I were introduced to this insidious practice by my daughter. It is addictive. Also a great way to see cities while on vacation. We have even geocached, (If this is not a word I'm sure I will be corrected), in Paris!! It has gotten to the point that we have established a few of our own in the hills around our place, each has an expansive view of the Cascades, which, after the steep hike required to get there, makes resting all the more enjoyable.
 
Sounds like the sort of cache I'm into. What's the GC code? If I'm in town with time to hike ill go get it.
 
I have, but not recently.

It would be something to get back to - chance to get out and do something with the daughter and the dog...
 
Captain said:
Sounds like the sort of cache I'm into. What's the GC code? If I'm in town with time to hike ill go get it.
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GC11F2Z - lowest in the series.
GC11F34
GC1AVF0
GC1AVFT
GC19YWG
GC1AVGN - this one is at the top of the Buttes.

And "in town" is going to put you about 25 miles away. I live in the country. Bring a 4x4. :D
 
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I've been geocaching since 2009, though I don't do it regularly. I did pick up a cache near the Santa Fe airport (SAF) earlier this month, and searched for another with no luck.
 
I used to do it a few years ago with my daughter, when it was cool for her to hunt treasures with her daddy.

Now that she is 13 ..... Not so cool for her anymore.
 
AirDC said:
I thought you were supposed to take a "treasure" and replace with something of equal or greater value.
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That's optional.

We never took anything, it was just the challenge of finding.

"TNLN" is a common entry in the logs.
(Took Nothing, Left Nothing)
 
We've gone geocaching a few times, even when on vacation once or twice. I haven't done it in a couple of years, but want to re-start. Geocaching.com seems to be getting more commercial... maybe that was just my impression of it. But it's a pretty fun way to get out with the family.
 
I started a couple years ago in Newfoundland. Great way to explore the area and the thousands of hiking trails and an even better way to get off those trails and really explore. I never took anything either, just did it for the challenge of finding, though my caching partner was hardcore. He was always on the hunt for travel bugs, which we did find occasionally. He had geocached on 3 continents and not sure how many countries.

Most recently we started doing it with the helicopter on SAR training missions in St. John's. It made for a more realistic 'lost hiker' scenario plugging in the coordinates to the FMS, flying an appropriate search pattern over the area, choosing a suitable insertion point for our rescue specialists and then extraction point to hoist them back up.
 
Laurie said:
Most recently we started doing it with the helicopter on SAR training missions in St. John's. It made for a more realistic 'lost hiker' scenario plugging in the coordinates to the FMS, flying an appropriate search pattern over the area, choosing a suitable insertion point for our rescue specialists and then extraction point to hoist them back up.
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OMG that's the coolest caching story ever! Others would be so jealous. Do you actually get out and go find the cache?
 
Laurie said:
I started a couple years ago in Newfoundland. Great way to explore the area and the thousands of hiking trails and an even better way to get off those trails and really explore. I never took anything either, just did it for the challenge of finding, though my caching partner was hardcore. He was always on the hunt for travel bugs, which we did find occasionally. He had geocached on 3 continents and not sure how many countries.

Most recently we started doing it with the helicopter on SAR training missions in St. John's. It made for a more realistic 'lost hiker' scenario plugging in the coordinates to the FMS, flying an appropriate search pattern over the area, choosing a suitable insertion point for our rescue specialists and then extraction point to hoist them back up.
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Could you imagine the look on the next persons face when they read that log entry ?
 
Captain said:
I just started last summer. It's a great activity that gets me out of my hotel room and to some pretty neat places. I was wondering if anybody here does it. Seems a natural fit for outdoorsy people who like to travel.
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I started doing it when I was living in Alaska. Got to some really neat places as a result. Haven't really done any Geocaching since leaving Alaska. Just haven't really had the time.
 
I should have mentioned this before. I'm a ham radio operator, and run a sideline business dealing with other hams around the world. One of my customers, with whom I've exchanged emails a few times, asked if he could have some gear shipped to me -- he was planning on flying to Omaha and riding his custom, folding bike across Iowa to a big geocaching thing in Lake Rathbun. He arrived last night, and today I took all his stuff down to his hotel. Aside from a few things for his bike and a new portable ham radio rig, there was a 30# or so box of custom made geocoins, most of which he plans to give away at the event in Iowa. Gintas has done several of these geocoins, some of which are trackable -- I have a couple of them I've been meaning to drop in chaches. The last one I did, though, disappeared permanently after the first or second person logged it. :(
 
Yeah, people stealing coins sucks.

I dropped two in a cache in California (1 for each of my boys) to race back home as the goal. 1 is in Florida now and the other got stolen out of the box I placed it. Bummer.
 
Captain said:
OMG that's the coolest caching story ever! Others would be so jealous. Do you actually get out and go find the cache?
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I don't since I'm flying, but our rescue specialists do, and sign the log. A few of them are hardcore cachers, but I neglect to ask in the debrief if they are just signing the logs or actually taking and replacing. Just so long as it's not loose parts from the helicopter they're putting in there.......

Newfoundland is a great place for geocaching if any of you ever get up there. I imagine Alaska would be awesome as well. Lots of remote areas and plenty of wildlife!
 
DaleB said:
I should have mentioned this before. I'm a ham radio operator, and run a sideline business dealing with other hams around the world. One of my customers, with whom I've exchanged emails a few times, asked if he could have some gear shipped to me -- he was planning on flying to Omaha and riding his custom, folding bike across Iowa to a big geocaching thing in Lake Rathbun. He arrived last night, and today I took all his stuff down to his hotel. Aside from a few things for his bike and a new portable ham radio rig, there was a 30# or so box of custom made geocoins, most of which he plans to give away at the event in Iowa. Gintas has done several of these geocoins, some of which are trackable -- I have a couple of them I've been meaning to drop in chaches. The last one I did, though, disappeared permanently after the first or second person logged it. :(
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Missing coins was a problem I noticed when I first started and was on the hunt for them with my buddy Roelof. We would find caches that were supposed to have travel bugs or coins and they wouldn't - no tracking on the website either. Shame.
 
I also Geocahce. More in the past then the last few years. It is fun when you are travleing to new areas. We have been to some really nice places this way We have been to a few that make you wonder why they put one there.
 
i like it. i discovered it last august. its a great excuse to get out of the hotel room and see a new city.
its basically a hobby made for pilots! lol
the travelbugs are my favorite! i move them around all the time!
 
ntbjounin said:
i like it. i discovered it last august. its a great excuse to get out of the hotel room and see a new city.
its basically a hobby made for pilots! lol
the travelbugs are my favorite! i move them around all the time!
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Me too!
 
It sure is something that you can enjoy. I have been to quite a number of places already and though it was great to be able to experience just that, the ability to have geocache sure helped pump it a bit higher.

Sure enough, it should be one thing that you can focus on while resting just so that you could still make the idle time to greater use.
 
I'm impressed there are so many here that do it. I'm not a charter member nor an expert but 2001 was my geocache.com start.

There's got to be a "virtual" geocache for flying. Something seen only from the air. I'll have to see if that exists or maybe someone here knows.
 
pilotod said:
I'm impressed there are so many here that do it. I'm not a charter member nor an expert but 2001 was my geocache.com start.

There's got to be a "virtual" geocache for flying. Something seen only from the air. I'll have to see if that exists or maybe someone here knows.
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2001? Wow, you started it! A virtual cache from the flight levels or even the air in general would tick a lot of cachers off. Could you imagine an 'airplane' attribute? People would moan.
 
Oh I bet there's an easy way to do it for pilots. You could hide them somewhere at the FBOs. Don't think I'd recommend it at towered airports, security would wonder what you're doing but at smaller airports you could easily stick a cache in a crevice somewhere. A good way is to hide it somewhere within walking distance of the airport that way everyone could take advantage of it. Geocaching is a lot of fun to begin with and this would be a fun excuse to fly to and explore a new airport!
 
i see a lot of caches near airports. i usually walk and grab them. especially if it's a state i havent geocache claimed yet! i think i have 19 "souvenirs" so far. i think an air cache would be cool.
maybe like.... N0 00.000 would be a good one, but I think only Global and GV pilots would really get that one.

maybe N12. 34.567 I dunno where exactly that latitude falls, but which longitude do u pick?
 
If anybody wants to find me I'm CatfishPilot. Ive found caches all over but always near airports or hotels near airports.
 
I started Geocaching in 2003. I haven't gone out to find any for several years though. Gotta get back into it, lots of fun!
 
Arlene and I was introduced to Geocaching last August by our daughter in law. I bought me a GPS for a hundred bucks through Amazon. We love it and try and go out on Sunday afternoons.

It is a great way to get out of the house and forget all the problems and hassles and just have fun being together and finding caches.

Terry :)
 
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