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My family seems to be getting into the idea of geocaching....and if that is what it takes to get my nipper outside doing some exercise then I am all for it. Does anyone on here do it? If so.... recommendations for a GPS would be nice as I have no idea where to start.
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Aye. Good family fun. I have a Geko 301 which is more than sufficient. As long as it'll take a GR in a number of formats, it'll be fine. The 301 is useful (rather than the 201) due to the inbuilt compass, which takes over when standing around in some shaded woodland wondering what way to turn.
I take it you've visited www.geocaching.com ?
Geocaching is great fun. Just about any basic GPSr will get you going and give you a taster. Even a phone with a built in GPS will do it, or a PDA with a blue tooth GPS will do. I started with a Palm PDA.
As druidh says, the best place to ask is over at geocaching.com. Have fun.
I find it nicer to take my kids for a walk looking at the views, explaining history of things, pointing out wildlife and edible plants. Much better than wandering around staring at 2" LCD at imaginary oranges whilst treading in dog crap.
OK. Thanks for that Drac.
Drac - MemberI find it nicer to take my kids for a walk looking at the views, explaining history of things, pointing out wildlife and edible plants. Much better than wandering around staring at 2" LCD at imaginary oranges whilst treading in dog crap.
Thing is, folk who place the caches tend to put them in interesting places. So, you can turn up somewhere, grab a list of caches, go for a wander and you get all the benefit of local knowledge. If you actually looked at the www.geocaching.com website, you'd find that there's all sorts of background listed on the pages, including what you're likely to see en route.
Oh - and where do the oranges come in? 😯
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Watch the video on the link wwwas posted, what your suggesting seems more sensible though and yes I have seen people linking to hidden historic areas of interest which is a far better idea.
Just to re-visit an old thread.
Took the above advice yesterday and had a great time with the kids finding 2 caches. Exhausted when they got back and we covered miles on local paths that they never new existed.
Thanks guys
Glad you enjoyed it. Caches have taken us to some strange, unusual and interesting places we might never have visited.
I've found a few (bout 50). Around here I use it as an excuse to make me go find new terrain and new interesting places.
Just upgraded to eTrex Vista HCx and stuck on the free OpenStreetMap maps, which are surprisingly very detailed round these parts.
"recommendations for a GPS would be nice" How about none?
Afraid I'm with Drac on this one. How about doing the unthinkable and taking the kids geocaching WITHOUT using a GPS?
Amazingly enough you can find the hidden tupperware treasure just as easily using a map and a grid reference! Is this the geocache equivalent of singlespeeding :-)?
I did Geocaching for a few years... pretty good fun, but in the end I decided I preferred Trigpointing:
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I use Garmin eTrex GPSs (an old Legend initially, now a shiny new Vista HCx). Some waypoint management software is useful as well (maybe GSAK if you are on Windows).
-j
I went caching with my parents for a while, but then I got bored and went riding instead 😉 they are Parallel Sticks if anyone cares, found about 1500ish.
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I sympathise, my parents are parallel sticks too...
We've just done our 100th geocache. Its like going on a mini treasure hunt and is a great way of getting kids out on a walk- try telling mine they're going to see history and wildlife and see what response you get.
I use the same GPS I use for hillwalking and MTBing which is a Garmin Legend. Any old GPS will do for Geocaching but it helps if its connectable to a PC either by USB or comm port as this means you can download waypoints straight into the GPS from Geocaching.com
Joe- you will be as happy as I was to find out that they have done over 1750 now.. My last guess was a little conservative.
Weirdos !
Always adding stupid little Tupperware boxes to ancients monuments etc.
Why ?????????