I've recently been introduced to the "sport" of Geocaching. Anyone have any advice or experiences you would like to share?
I've recently been introduced to the "sport" of Geocaching. Anyone have any advice or experiences you would like to share?
You didn't say, but have you visited the Geocaching web site,
http://www.geocaching.com/ for information and lots of stuff?
Geocaching keeps the kids in good health by prying the video games off their hands. It keeps family member together, unlike most other distractions.
I bet he had the best story at roll call! Good story!And to get back on the real subject of experience or funny i had a few
heres one , i did this cache at 11:30 at night with my 7 year old son at the time , having been drilled in being careful not to tell what we are doing, here we go about to enter a very dark forest near our home , as were about to walk in i do not see a police cruiser approache with its lights off , since i was yapping about being careful , my son saw it before me and in a second heres the cop hand on gun asking what were doing , beleive it or not my seven your old starts calling the cats name at the top of his lungs and saying here kitty kitty , well that burst the cop in two ! i finally told him what we were doing and now hes a geocacher hmself !
I bet he had the best story at roll call! Good story!
I use it for Geocaching of sorts. I like being able to enter coordinates and navigate to them. I use it at work to locate people calling in GPS enabled cell phones.I do use mine for geocaching. I also have a handheld unit to use out of the car. Do not want to damage my TT.
So, do you use your Tom Tom for Geocaching, or something else?
Thanks everyone. It's really great to hear these stories and suggestions. I can't wait until I can get the time to go on a hunt myself.
Wow! I stumbled across this thread a couple of days ago and thought that Geocaching sounded like it might be fun. I did not have time to follow the link to the geocaching.com web site at the time, but made a mental note to check it out when I got the chance.
Well last night (Friday), I got around to it and "oh boy", my obsessive-compulsive nature kicked into overdrive! I signed up for an account, and started working on map overlays for my TT 1XL for areas near me that had cache locations (JPG overlays for the "browse map" and BMP overlays for "offroad" 3rd party). When I do overlays, I generally take the extra time to set up both "browser" and "offroad" because I have already documented the corner locations of the raster images, so just reformatting the JPG to BMP and adding all the text file notes doesn't take that much extra time. Besides, I like the idea of being able to toggle in and out of the 3rd party software and have a "real" TT reference point.
I started "hunting" today about 12:30 (after lunch). By 6:00pm, I had 3 "kills" under my belt. I only spent about 2 hours in the field (hunting) because I had some other stuff to get done, but I'm hooked!
The first 2 were a walk in the park (literally). But the last one took me up a wooded creak that I knew about, but had never explored. It was close enough to roads, or the end of roads, that the TT wanted to "snap" to the roads (about 25 yards away). That made locating the cache with "browse map" alone nearly imposable. However, because the "offroad" software allows you to "unsnap", it can be used to reliably put you within about 2 or 3 meters of the coordinates. Except for battery life, I don't think a "hand held" dedicated GPS unit could do much better than that!
I already have the next 4 hunts all planned out, and the wife says she will tag along. Yes! Maybe I have finally found a hobby that is family friendly.
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