Comments on: Geocaching takes you on a modern-day treasure hunt

By: Leg0Maniac

Leg0Maniac — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:02:47 +0000

It might seem that geocaching violates the Leave No Trace statement of scouting, but not if you follow the rule “Cache In, Trash Out” rule.

In the end, Leave no Trace is really about leaving the environment better than we found it.

By: yo

yo — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 23:40:41 +0000

if you have a iphone i read that you can buy a $10 geocashing app

By: jak

jak — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 00:29:52 +0000

they do have a geocashing merit badge

By: dtlux

dtlux — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 15:29:07 +0000

They should have a geocaching merit badge.

By: dtlux

dtlux — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 15:15:18 +0000

I was geocaching befor i heard of this website. It kind of dosn’t obey the rule of leave no trace. It is realy fun.

PS: You dont need a GPS to geocache. I don’t have one

By: rodasrenr44

rodasrenr44 — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:52:55 +0000

to burgerholic and Jman, you can buy a GPS at any Target, Walmart, and yes camping stores like REI

By: bugerholic

bugerholic — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:10:10 +0000

If you don’t have a gps you shoud go to R.E.I. they have a secion of geocaching

By: natitonic

natitonic — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:34:58 +0000

to sweatmaster: it WOULD be a cool idea, but you cant leave food as a trinket, it probably wouldnt fit in the cache anyways.

By: irishman

irishman — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:41:33 +0000

its sort of hard when you dont have a gps

By: sweatmaster

sweatmaster — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:04:56 +0000

i wonder if freeze dried ice cream would make a good trinket…..

By: Dewbdobydoo

Dewbdobydoo — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:00:26 +0000

When I went geocashindg i found a cansas coin

By: mom of two boys

mom of two boys — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:51:45 +0000

My family loves to go geocaching. We can get the kids outdoors and away from video games and the tv.

By: star

star — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:49:37 +0000

I love to geocache with my family

By: Topo-Man-Dan

Topo-Man-Dan — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:23:07 +0000

You can also use programs such as google to find geocaches. That’s actually how I found my first two caches.

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:42:29 +0000

id like to hunt it!!

By: ace man

ace man — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:30:29 +0000

i love geocaching

By: mudkip775

mudkip775 — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 03:50:46 +0000

I have cash not even a 5 min. walk from my house and it is in an army amo box!

By: Orienteering Merit Badge 1234

Orienteering Merit Badge 1234 — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 20:33:03 +0000

Sometimes, global positioning systems locators are too precise and too exact. Some ways of describing a location are archaic when using a map, compass and land features (topography) to locate a given treasure. Sometimes, coordinates don’t give reference to intermittant streams or directions such as turn left at the field stone well and go straight for the large hickory tree which is growing near the blackberry plants.

By: lpyankeefan

lpyankeefan — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:13:59 +0000

We’ve been geocaching since March of 2005 and currently have found over 2,700 geocaches and hidden 203 for others to find. My family and I enjoy geocaches that involve either hiking or visiting local parks the most. One of the toughest that I’ve found involved a nine mile roundtrip hike along the Youghigheny River in Western Maryland. The hike was easy until the last half mile which involved either bushwhacking through VERY dense foliage along the rive or boulder hopping in the river.

What a GREAT day!

lpyankeefan

By: lpyankeefan

lpyankeefan — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:02:27 +0000

Gecaches are available through the following websites:

http://www.geocaching.com
http://www.navicache.com
http://www.terracaching.com

The largest website by far is http://www.geocaching.com with 861,388 active geocaches around the world. In the last 7 days, there have been 793,526 new logs written by 95,805 account holders.

As to hunting for geocaches without a GPSr, it can be done but is a little harder than geocaching with one. We actually geocached for three months without a GPSr and found around fifty geocaches. Most were urban (city) hides that we found by zooming in on the maps as far as we could and then using the description in the cache page and the hints provided when needed.

If you have any general questions about geocaching please feel free to ask here in this thread or send me an email via the geocaching website. Type in my profile name and then click on send a message.

Happy Caching!

lpyankeefan

By: 09887

09887 — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:00:47 +0000

WHERE ARE THE COORDINATES FOR THE BSA HUNT !!!!!!!

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:13:54 +0000

I would LOVE to do that!!!

By: super

super — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:38:57 +0000

I LOVE BOYS LIFE

By: Mr. Know it all

Mr. Know it all — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:05:49 +0000

Go to your council and get the coordinates from them, If you don’t have a Global Positioning Unit (GPS) then ask to borrow one from a good friend, or look it up on Google Earth.

By: helpful hint

helpful hint — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:34:05 +0000

it is sooooo fun you just go onto a geocache website and find the coordinates close to whre you live or where you are going on a trip! its really easy and really fun

By: you guys are idiots

you guys are idiots — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:16:36 +0000

on the main geocaching website i geocache all the time

By: al

al — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:35:24 +0000

By: Confused???

Confused??? — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:56:55 +0000

Where are the coordinates?

By: dude without a gps

dude without a gps — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:32:13 +0000

Where are the coordinates released?

By: No gps man says

No gps man says — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:56:04 +0000

where do you get the coordinates????????????????? AAAUUUGGGHHHHHH

By: Reyco

Reyco — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:18:47 +0000

Geocaching is fun and you don’t really need a GPS. It makes it easier to use a GPS but instead you can use relative location to find the caches.

By: Red211

Red211 — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:57:40 +0000

geocacheing is so fun, ive found all sorts of caches from rocks shaped as abraham lincoln to a magazine

By: wingmanbonanza

wingmanbonanza — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:05:02 +0000

I dont have a gps is there a way to do it with out one

By: J Boy

J Boy — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 23:30:12 +0000

I’ve heard about geocashing in a fiction book, so
i didn’t know it was real, i want to try

By: the cool dude

the cool dude — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:39:07 +0000

i’ve been geocaching for a long time andi’ve found lots of caches

By: Jman

Jman — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:41:33 +0000

I want to go geocaching but I don’t have a GPS.