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Have just discovered a great new activity to do with the family. Maybe even get out on the bike to find a few out of the way ones. Started Last night and we've found 8 already !!!!
Thanks to LOM (IIRC) for suggesting it on things that go with biking thread:smt055
I've tried it a couple of times but could never find the caches. Might give it another go, good excuse to get out and about.
Did this with my lad for while. Getting to within a few feet was fun, but then actually finding the bloody things was generally a frustrating pita!
Found one today in the centre of Dumfries, was a small magnet capsule not much bigger than a tyre valve cap stuck to the back of a drainpipe!!!
Can be tricky, but part of the fun.
littleoldman2
09-07-15, 09:27 PM
They are often disguised as a nut and bolt.
Yep laying on your back trying to find which of the seventy or so snails was the magnetic one whilst looking inconspicuous is an art I've yet to perfect](*,):D.
i think Geo chasing would be better fun. give Geodude a wad of cash and tell him to go hide then we all go looking for him.
Geodude
10-07-15, 07:31 AM
Heehee chase me :D :smt082
I found one by accident a few weeks back, stopped at a landmark coming home from getting the bike MOT. Knew what it was, but left it alone.
I've just signed up, see if I can find more round here to start with. :)
Should clarify... I found a capsule, not a Geodude!
Yeah, I do this as well. Normally tie it in with being on the motorbike, maintain biking or out for a walk. My wife doesn't enjoy it so I tend to do it by myself. Using Geocaching.com and found a few. There is one hidden on the way to work and its doing my head in as I can't find it.
We have serious competition on in our family, my wife pushed my youngest daughter onto the floor yesterday in the fight to get one !!!!!! :winner:
She said afterwards she wasn't proud of her actions, but would do it again !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :smt044
Currently on 13 finds after 3 sessions, going out tomorrow again, as requested by the family, happy families, well until the pushing over incidents happen again !:cool:
Geodude
12-07-15, 06:47 AM
Should clarify... I found a capsule, not a Geodude!
I hid in your shed with a whole fiver for 24 hours and you didn't find me ;) :D
U ain't seen my shed have you. Things go in there and never see the light of day again. Including the SV. :smt043
There is good Wi-Fi to get the .Org in there so I assume ur there, kettle is boiling if u want a cuppa. Cost u a fiver! :p
Got some Geocaching planned for the GM weekend.
Now up to 79 finds and hidden 5. Not bad going for just over a month !
littleoldman2
12-08-15, 08:53 PM
I've only just done 70 odd in well over a year. Good for you:).
shiftin_gear98
14-08-15, 11:43 AM
Might give this a go, just downloaded the trial app. There's one just over the road! Dobbs Weir.
Going for a hobble at lunchtime.
shiftin_gear98
14-08-15, 12:31 PM
Just found my first, strangely addictive. :smt069
Must have looked like a right nut job to the people sat admiring the view, circling round and round staring at the bushes.
mister c
14-08-15, 06:00 PM
Been geocaching since I met my other half 4 years ago. I have got a little bored of it now, but she still looks for them wherever we go. If you're on Geocaching.com, my name is croozenooze on there, 478 finds to date
littleoldman2
23-08-15, 08:18 PM
Just logged a cache on the road to the Hartside and find S111 was also there today. Bit of a windy cache eh
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha, yes I was there.
Did a few on the way back home and then went out with the family tonight.
Just because we needed 2 more to hit the 100!!!
Taken 47 days to do 0 - 100!! Yeah ��
BanannaMan
24-08-15, 05:54 AM
It looks likes great fun but too few and too far away.
And the only 1 within 10 miles of mine is a place I would not stop without a gun. No way I'd walk out of site of the bike.
I wonder if there is even a geocache there???
It depends on what app you use. I use the Geocaching.com app and someone at work used something else. Mine had far more locations than his did and he now uses the same as me.
I still use the Geocache intro App, best interface and makes it easy.
I have been given a months premium membership but still use the intro app. Tried some alternatives, but none are as easy to use. Most of the time its the kids in the back of the car, flicking between compass, map and activity to find the site and then I use compass to get within a few metres. Usually have to walk up and down the road just to get a GPS best position. Actually got a 0 meters last night on our 100th find, never seen that before from the compass.
punyXpress
06-09-15, 03:41 PM
All on GM will have seen this one at Kinlochleven --->
http://i582.photobucket.com/albums/ss267/punyXpress/P1060417.jpg (http://s582.photobucket.com/user/punyXpress/media/P1060417.jpg.html)
Similar principal, but not Geocaching. This ia a thing to do with Motogoloco along the same lines. Not sure how it works.
Have reached 110 today !!! and saw some lovely places around Dumfries. 10 years here and geocache find you new places !!! Great family hobby.
Found one while at Cheddar Gorge. You lot could tie in a bike ride with caching.
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