Geocaching, anyone into this outdoor GPS based hobby

[GeoCaching]

Hi all,

I was wondering if anyone else is into Geocaching. I find it a great way of getting out of the house & exploring the countryside, with and without the rest of the family! There are some interesting places locally I would have never though to visit without being lead there!

Fully expect a zero response from you lot of "far to cool for anything so nerdy" ladies.

Well as we are closer to the 600 mark than the 650 I think I think it might be a bit longer than a week before we get there :o

We mostly cache in the hampshire/surrey/berkshire area.

Yes, I'm in my 3rd year of caching.

BadBagel - Only done a few caches in the South East, when holidaying with the family. Most of ours are in the East Midlands.

Actually, I started caching because of a mumsnet thread.

SoupDragon great, a convert. I think it was an article on Countryfile (I don't watch it normally ) which introduced it to me.

Have you placed any?

Yes, I"ve placed about 32 I think :)

32! My you're keen and a good cacher, much better than me. I'm afraid my ratio of finds to hides is pitiful! , only got a handfull of caches. Must do better!

I really want to start. It's my birthday next week and I have hinted very very heavily about a handheld GPS and put it on my Amazon wishlist, but DH isn't entirely convinced yet. It sounds ideal though - treasure hunts for DS and new walks for the dogs....

spiderlight it makes going for walks so much more fun as you have something to aim for rather than doing the same old trail everytime.
When DH mentioned it the first time I wasn't convinced either but once we done the first one we were hooked :)

Geo, we haven't cached in your part of the country yet.

I have been out this morning and replaced 2 of my caches which had gone missing in action. Without caching, I would have spent the morning sitting at my kitchen table with the iPad.

spiderlight, consider these two statements:

Hey! Let's go for a walk!
Hey! Let's go on a treasure hunt!

One is a walk, one is what a walk becomes when you take up geocaching. I have also discovered places I never knew existed. It's been fabulous.

It's been a lovely morning, managed to bag a few, including a Multi, after doing the weekly shop! Not too muddy as the ground was still a bit frozen.

I dont but I am intereested in getting started I love walking bit Ds's arent so keen, maybe ths will encourage them

theres great satisfaction watching travelbugs,geocoins etc move across the world too,i find!!

My one and only, beautiful, ornate GeoCoin is lost in the States. The person who found it 6 months ago is not returning my emails

We seem to have lost 3 TB's :(

Sixty, give it a try! Make sure you start with a regular size cache, a nice size box, so the kids can take some goodies from it.

right,i'm inspired to get back out there now!!

doing the couch to 5k at the moment,so plan to combine a run tomorrow,with a few caches afterwards!!

dc are pleased!! need to top up the loot bag tho

Too cold today, might have a go tomorrow though

All my maintenance is done, bar one particularly tricky custom made cache which I'm finding hard to replicate.

Now I need to plan some to find tomorrow.

10 found today!

Hi all - my DC saw geo-caching on the TV the other day and were excited about it. I have a garmin sat-nav for the car - could I use that to get us started?

10 kitkat!!!

today we were searching....and 2 year old ds found it!!! it was attached to a bottle top pushed into the ground!

ChippyMinton We still use our TomTom from the car. So long as you can remove it, the battery life is long enough and you can see coordinates in the form N34° 40.467 E033° 02.744 then you'll be OK. We've done over 1200 this way!

Sorry, just realised I've name changed mid thread, apologies! I'm "GeoCaching" BTW

We found 3 locally this afternoon and had a really great time.

Are very much beginners, and have had quite a few problems i'n finding caches. Have found reading the hints/clues really helped.