Anyone try geocaching? - Snowmobile Forum: Your #1 Snowmobile Forum

**smallengineguy** · 04-24-2006, 06:19 PM

I tried it out with my friend last week, now I'm hooked!!! Anyone else done it?

Geocaching

daktruckie99 · 04-24-2006, 06:35 PM

I do it during the summer. My good friend and I mountain bike to them. Its so much fun.

whattheck · 04-24-2006, 09:36 PM

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Originally posted by smallengineguy
I tried it out with my friend last week, now I'm hooked!!! Anyone else done it?

Geocaching

ahh..... ya ended up getin out there and trying it hu?

sure is fun stuff and its fun to keep goin thru the winter

get in some nice views of the land in white. its amazing how beautiful it is up on the mountains in the winter, i think i like it better than in the summer.

Formula_Canuk · 04-24-2006, 10:34 PM

Wow thats actually pretty cool. I'm gonna try it next winter when I'm sledding.

fr0st · 04-25-2006, 10:04 AM

i was gonna abuy a gps but came up with a dandy idea.

i bought a Pocket Pc with windows mobile, bought a GPS card, and installed GPS software on it as well and streets and trips 2006... this is life!!

i go to everywhere in others cities and i dont get lost .. i see all banks, restaurants you name it..

Fr0st

PolarisINDY500 · 04-25-2006, 11:04 AM

that sounds like fun...

i was searching for some of the "local" caches, and some seem like they would be relitively easy to locate.

i think imma go find a few and see what its like.

**smallengineguy** · 04-25-2006, 12:39 PM

It's super cool. There are caches in places I drive by almost every day. Cool stuff!!

BC_Dan · 04-26-2006, 12:08 PM

Geocaching is highly addicting, as evidenced by the numerous people attempting to cross into an active wildland fire that was the location of a cache near here. Some of them were quite irritated that I had to tell them (as the flames were roaring past) that it was probably NOT a good idea for them to go up on that particular hillside at that particular time. I was also pretty amazed at the number of people looking for that particular cache; to me, one would have been an unusual occurance, but there were 6 different people that were looking for that cache on that day.

They are almost as addicted as snowmobilers, I'm thinking.

dobbs · 04-26-2006, 12:49 PM

ME

http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?g...f-df7285ffcb12

85 found / 1 hidden

**smallengineguy** · 04-26-2006, 09:36 PM

Cool! I'm- you guessed it- Smallengineguy...

skidoo_magoo · 04-26-2006, 09:58 PM

soudns pretty cool.

(at first i thought you had typed geochaching. heh

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whattheck · 05-05-2006, 04:30 PM

i am IMAC89............. and ya i dont get out to caches often.

i think i have like what?......20 found none hidden

**smallengineguy** · 05-05-2006, 08:21 PM

I've found around 15 or so thus far, but only been doing it for 3 weeks.,... Going out tomorrow with a list of 4 more.

whattheck · 05-05-2006, 10:57 PM

have fun man!

ITriumph · 05-05-2006, 11:04 PM

I was lookin at some caches in my area. Most of them are either on the sled trails, or in my old neighbor hood. I'm gonna have to try it out.

**smallengineguy** · 05-06-2006, 07:40 AM

I got your E-mail today from geocaching.com. Have fun, man! Let me know what you find!

**smallengineguy** · 05-06-2006, 04:57 PM

Found 4 today that you needed a 4WD truck to get to. Best of both worlds!

cowlamb · 05-07-2006, 12:57 AM

BTW whats in the cache when you find it?? coordinates(sp?) for another cache??

**smallengineguy** · 05-07-2006, 07:07 AM

Usually small trinkets, toys, etc. You take something and leave something. Sometimes there's a travelbug, which is a tag with a number on it. You can enter the number online and see where it has traveled. We found one yesterday that started out in Tennessee, has been to Canada, etc. Pretty neat!

You find the coordinates on the geocaching.com website. Go to the left site and click on hide/seek a cache, then put in your zipcode. THat will bring all the ones up around where you live.