Frankly, I think anything that involves the grand childrens’ sense of mystery and wonder or adventure is good.
Good luck with it.
I have a couple of friends who love it, but I have yet to catch the bug. They have found hundreds of geocaches in the northeast. They seem to devote most of their weekends to it, lots of short trips to new locales. It sounds intriguing..... maybe I should give it a try soon!
I tried to hide a person from Czechoslovakia in a store parking lot but the owner said they don’t cache Czechs.
Wife and I started caching back in 2003. Have only found sixty caches and owned nine. We only have one cache active now. We love it, but don’t have the time for it like we did back in the day.
We’ve been doing it for years. It’s a lot of fun.
One of our travel bugs has been on the road for 7 years.
Have fun.
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Used to do this years ago when it first started. Fun way to spend an afternoon and see interesting countrysides. Gave my pocket sized GPS to my grown up kids and now they go out on occasion. Phones didn’t have GPS then.
My daughter loved to geocache and I accompanied her on several forays. The one cautionary note I would give is that lots of the caches are in high visibility, public places. So it behooves you to exercise a little caution when putting the object back so that curious non-geocachers don’t see you.
There seems to be spoilers to any activity these days and people destroying the cache is one of them.
Happy hunting!
Okay, at the risk of sounding like I’ve been living under a rock for the last several years, what the *&@^&!! is “geocaching”?
Bought a membership? Didn’t know this hobby costs anything.
My wife is traveling back from TN with a friend who is into geo-caching. They teamed up yesterday to find one in Paducah KY and my wife was the one to actually spot the hide. She called me to tell me about it and sounded really excited about it. I think there’s about to be a new chapter in my life.
We have found some really great places because we hunted geocaches while vacationing and learned some interesting history from the caches.
Used to do it all the time but physically can’t these days. Find count was up in the thousands and was ranked 100 something in the state. Our first find was before we had a GPS, it was that easy. Was able to find 99% of all that were still in place. Some can be real bugger boos.
Since you’re new at it, the best advice is to never take anything at face value when it comes to camouflaging containers. A nut and a bolt are never just a nut and a bolt. A metal sign is never just a metal sign. A stick is never just a stick. A buoy in the water is never just a buoy in the water. A wasp nest is never just a wa... ok, sometimes it is but sometimes it isn’t.
We had our middle school nephews one summer and spent 2 days getting together caches for them. They were too afraid of weeds to get outside even in a mowed area to do any caching. Whaaa, archery is outside! RC cars on the driveway are outside! Hiking and biking and swimming and fishing and boating and playing catch and roasting marshmallows and feeding the deer and playing with the new kittens in the garage, etc. is in the big terrible outside!!!! They spent their time with their noses in their cell phones. After 3 days of not wanting to come out of their room or huddling in the corner of the couch texting, we packed them off to their aunt’s. Told their dad a couple days ago to get them into summer camp but he can’t be bothered so they’re vegging inside all summer because mama is too afraid to let them venture into their own yard without her being there. Good grief, one is in HS now. But they’re still happy with their noses in their phones. Anyone who can get kids out of the house and into nature... well, bowing down to them.
I had the bug, my son-in-law was really into it, but his untimely death kinda spoiled it for us. Have to admit though, it was fun finding the the cache. I even created a cache out of an old ammo can, but it was stolen, which soured me completely.
I have enjoyed this for some time.
I got the app C:geo for android phone. The app will sign in to your geocache account. The app will display nearby caches. I have found the gps on the phone to be better than my old hand held which has WAAS.
We have been on hikes or walks and used the app to see if there were caches nearby. Have been to a number of interesting places that I would not have known about otherwise.
Looking forward to doing this with granddaughter in about a year.
We have done Letterboxing which is the same only without GPS, just clues. Fun even for very little kids. We love it.
My Wife is into it big time. I sometimes tag along and sometimes help with creating the more challenging caches. As others have noted, geocaching is free unless you want some extras. The premium isn’t necessary and you can research your area for caches to find that are kid friendly. The wife likes to take the grand kids to find those and she takes along little toys to use to replace the toys that the grand kids “find”. She has also placed track-ables in some geocaches that have traveled around the world.
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
Suspect we’ll all be doing this soon enough. Except the holes will be holding our ar-15’s.....
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.
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!