Geocaching

[franc]

Looking for someone to go geocaching with. Great fun if you like hunting, and great exercise if you are not skinny. Requires the ability to walk.

[Machine09]

i found out about that last year and have always wanted to get into it but i didnt have the $ for a gps.... there are alot of them not far from my house in Granby in the woods at dufrances park. i would love to go.

[reload]

You don't need a GPS is you can read a map.

[franc]

If you can geocache with a map, then, you don't know what geocaching is.

[sdcoll]

its loads of fun .my wife and i use to do this often....we found so many places we didn't even know existed for example the Marlboro sanatorium/crematorium........Yikes

[franc]

Sounds like a great place. What are the coordinates?

[Capt.Shay]

If you can geocache with a map, then, you don't know what geocaching is.

Geocaching has been around for decades, long before the advent of hand held GPS. It did not however, become popular with the masses untill hand helds were widely available and it became "so easy a cave man can do it".

Every one who venture in to the back woods should know how to read a map and compass before they learn to depend on a GPS.

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[franc]

Fishing has been around for decades, long before the advent of boats and BASS.It did not however, become popular with the masses until bassboats with 200hp motors and color fishfinders and chartplotters were widely available and it became so easy a caveman can do it. However, I still love fishing, and geocaching beats ice fishing and is a good form of exercise. After all, even a caveman need a little exercise.

[reload]

If you can geocache with a map, then, you don't know what geocaching is.

Franc, I was not bashing geocaching, and I'm sorry if thats what you thought. Treasure hunting is a passion of mine. GPS, Google Earth, and water related electronics are wonderful tools for treasure hunters, fishermen, hunters and the like. I learned to navigate and find treasures using a map, barometer, and a compass. At times I thinK I would like a GPS unit. High tech will certainly aid new and old treasure hunters. P.S. Try hiding a cache on the White House Lawn.

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Go here in the next week and tell me what you found.

37 degrees, 45 minutes, and 17.14 seconds North
14 degrees, 59 minutes, and 49.63 seconds East

[Striperblues]

Sicily?? Long ride...

[franc]

Reload,
Maybe you can take me there in your boat. You buy the gas and I'll get the bait. I have been told where to go a few times, however, this is definately a new place. Have you been there?

[reload]

franc, I hope you are reading my comments with a sense of humor as I am writing them and attempting to be funny. The geocache I gave you is the center of a crater on top of Mt. Etna and it is currently errupting. Laughing1Laughing1Laughing1. Any excuse to get outside, explore and treasure hunt is very special to me. It's a shame more people don't do it.

[franc]

I can take a joke. However, I found that location to be in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, East of New England.

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I'm not going into strange woods with you.! 0 Degrees Latitude is Greenwich England. How can you come up with 14 degrees East of England as being in the Atlantic Ocean. Striperblues got it correct.