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| Geo-Caching. I use Billion$ of dollar$ worth of High Tech Military Satellites to look for Tupperware hidden in the forest, what do you do! |
| My first find was the Colorado Boy Cache, it honored the lost Shuttle Pilots, I kept this Sticker. |
| My Cache Adventures |
| Geo-Caching in the San Juan Mountains. |
Geocaching made simple
figured it out. What starts it out is some good soul (or collection of), who we will call the cacher, out of the goodness of his heart or a need for adventure will place a cache for all to enjoy. The cache it self is often a old ammo box or Tupperware type container for the large ones, Altoids, magnetic key holders and pill bottles are used for what are called micro-cache's. What is placed in side the cache is rarely worth much often just trinkets, some times geo-bugs which can be tracked by the owner and a log book. I often like to jazz them up with a written story or history of the area they are placed. Where they are placed is at the discretion of the cacher, I of course look for unique, historic or adventuresome places to place them, hiding them fairly well but not to difficult and of course never bury them. At this point in the game it is the casher's responsibility to record the exact coordinates from his G.P.S. unit of where the cache was placed, return to your computer and log onto www.geocaching.com and record this new cache. This is where you enter the game. You need to go log onto www.geocaching.com and search for a cache near to where you are going to be using zip code and other methods. After finding one of interest you always print off the info then enter the coordinates into your favorite old G.P.S. ( mine is a Magellan Sport with detailed maps ), then you become the search engine. You will find that the caches are rated as far as difficulty, easy ones often found in a city park, but my buddy placed a difficult one at top of the heart pounding, 14000' Mt. Sneffles. The G.P.S. as a guide will usually get you within 10' of the cache, but then you have to use your own senses to zero in on the jackpot. Once you find the cache feel free to exchange trinkets and sign the log book, then when you get back to your computer you log back onto www.geocaching.com and record your find. Those with the most finds win ( NOT). So all you need to play is a computer, a G.P.S., a collection of trinkets and a love of adventure, have fun. |
