Can't imagine I'm the only geocacher here.

[brewnog]

Can't imagine I'm the only geocacher here. Anyone else in?

We started this weekend, picked up a travel bug already.

www.geocaching.com

 

[KrisOhn]

I've done it before, but it's not a regular thing for me.

 

[Gokul43201]

On and off. Never bothered to actually log any finds. Winter geochaching is fun - there's the extra element of having to find stuff that's potentially buried under feet of snow.

 

[dkotschessaa]

I've heard of this but never really looked into it. Looks fun. I think I can use google maps on my blackberry for this.

 

[Borek]

I tried once, in Summer, in a heat wave, in shorts and t-shirt. After spending 10 minutes in 4 feet high nettles, looking for a cache hidden under this bridge:

I decided I am no longer interested.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

I remember reading a few reports where a geocacher ended up finding a land mine or something.

 

[Gokul43201]

My hardest find^* involved a 3 day backpack over the Mahoosuc mountain range in Maine/New Hampshire, traversing the most difficult section of the Appalachian Trail, and then bushwhacking off-trail through fairly dense forest that left me with more than a few minor scrapes and cuts.

I was going to do the backpack (minus the bushwhack) anyway, but finding the cache - in the wreckage of a DC3 that had crashed into the mountainside half a century back - made the hike especially worth it.

^* There are somewhat easier ways to get to this cache, but this time, the cache was not the primary objective, just a nice bonus.

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=52191ef6-bb1d-4e5e-bbf4-8d659782f1db

One of my pics from the crash site:

 

[BobG]

I haven't done it in quite a while, but looking for geocaches in an area you plan on hiking through anyway does add more fun to the hike.

So does a hike in search of a crash site. Especially in the mountains near where I live. Most of the crashes involve a pilot trainee that didn't quite pass the test of clearing the mountains. Most of the hikes involve some spectacular views.