Posted on 06/19/2016 7:52:22 AM PDT by CaptainPhilFan
Tried it once in South Dakota..fun locating the site of the first school house in a he Dakota Territory. A GPS makes it easy to get to the location, but the fun is finding the cache
See, for your aged grandkids, you guys should check out Letterboxing. Same fun, easier for families.
With Letterboxing, each family member has a tiny notebook and an individual stamp and ink pad (so they can pick their favorite color). You can make your own stamp but it’s easier to just go to a Michaels and have the kids - and you - pick something to represent each..
Then you go onto Letterboxing.org and pick a clue you want to try — they are all over. There will be some near you. Dress for a little hike and maybe even bring a digging tool. Take your notebooks and stamp stuff in your backpack.
Here is an example of a clue:
“Off Santa Ana Canyon Road from Imperial Hwy , turn right on Mohler. At the stop sign, turn left to stay on Mohler. When you come to the fork in the road, stay to the left (Mohler still). Drive to the top of the hill and then as you start to come back down, you will see Deer Canyon Park Preserve on the left. There is room for a car to park. Enter the preserve on the trail. At the fork, continue straight. When you get to the end of the log fence, go ten paces. On the right you will see an oak tree and a forked eucalyptus tree. At the base of the eucalyptus tree, under fallen eucalyptus bark, you will find what you are looking for.
“Continue on the trail and keep your eyes open for coyotes, mountain lions, deer, bobcats and hawks that are known to live here.
“Please re-hide the box carefully, covering it with eucalyptus bark when you are done.”
You are looking for a small plastic box. In it is the site’s notebook and the site’s stamp and ink. You put the site’s stamp in your own book, and stamp your stamps into the site’s book, then seal and re-hide for the next sleuth. Fun. No need for gps.
Suspect we’ll all be doing this soon enough. Except the holes will be holding our ar-15’s.....
You can plant your own caches for your grandkids. You can put some small toys in there for them to find. :)
I’ve been doing it for years, lots of fun. I’m all about the find, not the numbers. I seldom log the find. I have one cache I put out near my house.
“I tried to hide a person from Czechoslovakia in a store parking lot but the owner said they don’t cache Czechs.”
and who said conservatives don’t have a sense of humor ...
Post of the week.
This is a great hobby, a fun way to get kids outdoors and find some great places (either historical remains or incredible vistas); we haven’t gone in a while as the kids got older but found 100+ of these (we generally only looked for ones in woods/mountains; I didn’t want them to think “outdoors” meant the corner of some supermarket parking lot). Kudos to those who hide the caches; some clever people!
I found a geocache the other day, tucked into the root of a tree. Freaked me out at first.
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