http://www.gccachers.com/containers/index.html

I happened across this site while working on a separate thread. Check out the cache idea's.

I have been interested in participating in this for awhile now....great site with lots of info.

Quote from: Ford289HiPo on May 11, 2012, 08:17:52 AM
http://www.gccachers.com/containers/index.html

I happened across this site while working on a separate thread. Check out the cache idea's.

Mr Ford if I had known how much these things were going to cost I would have kept every empty ammo box during my tour.

I cannot believe how much they are getting for these boxes.

Geocaching is a lot of fun, and you learn some very clever ways to hide things. There are a lot of You Tube clips on nice hides, and the game is easy to get into.

Quote from: Eyesabide on May 11, 2012, 05:03:28 PM
Geocaching is a lot of fun, and you learn some very clever ways to hide things. There are a lot of You Tube clips on nice hides, and the game is easy to get into.

Sounds some what like what we play years ago with shortwave radio, find the rabbit.  You would have to use triangulation to determine where the sender(the rabbit) was located.  In the old day you would get about 50 Ham Radio Operators playing to see who could find the rabbit first. 

Where "Find the Rabbit" uses triangulation, Geocaching uses "hundreds of dollars of equipment coordinating with millions of dollars satellites to find Tupperware in the woods." the a paraphrase, and probably misspelled. It has been a long night.

This is really popular in my area, I find people with cheap GPS wandering around in the forest, (virtually lost) because they used a cell phone GPS instead of a quality unit.
A good unit will get a minimum of 12 satellites, while the cheaper ones will get 2 or less in the mountains.

It's tough with the cheap ones, they can throw you off by nearly a quarter mile.
I've got an older Garmin, but it has yet to get me lost, I've hiked with friends that paid far more than I did for pretty screens, that worked like crap and had a steep learning curve.

But boy were they purty.

Yeah, the wife and I have belonged to a loosely-organized geocaching organization for a couple years. Ours is geared more toward using common tools and latitude/longitude coordinates and conventional maps. But then we're really old...

Seriously, I don't think someone with a GPS would be allowed in our club.

Quote from: hokiewoodchuck on May 11, 2012, 12:45:02 PM
Mr Ford if I had known how much these things were going to cost I would have kept every empty ammo box during my tour.

I cannot believe how much they are getting for these boxes.

They have gotten expensive. I can recall when we just tossed them in the dumpster in Germany.

I actually got my neighbors son hooked on a version this game of "hide-n-seek".

He turned 8 last month. I set up a course for his birthday where he and his dad would take my ATV on a "treasure hunt". He would start on my property with a simple clue, usually a picture of the spot, and move to the point where he would find a "treasure" and his next clue. He even went spelunking in a small cavern by the bluff on the river to find a clue. The entire course ran over 6.5 miles. Not bad for the little guy. He loves driving the ATV and finding things. He really doesn't care what he finds as long as there is another clue

Quote from: Ford289HiPo on May 12, 2012, 08:01:27 PM
I actually got my neighbors son hooked on a version this game of "hide-n-seek".

He turned 8 last month. I set up a course for his birthday where he and his dad would take my ATV on a "treasure hunt". He would start on my property with a simple clue, usually a picture of the spot, and move to the point where he would find a "treasure" and his next clue. He even went spelunking in a small cavern by the bluff on the river to find a clue. The entire course ran over 6.5 miles. Not bad for the little guy. He loves driving the ATV and finding things. He really doesn't care what he finds as long as there is another clue

What an excellent gift idea for a kid, I'll remember this one.