Any Geocachers here?

[MR. MISTER]

Very excited about this......

Back in October, I took my son's cub scout den up to our local reservation/preserve for an afternoon activity of hiking and geocaching. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocaching) As part of the activity, we made up a travel bug (http://www.geocaching.com/track/travelbugfaq.aspx) to drop off in one of the caches we would find.

I explained to them what a travel bug was, and that we would all track its journey on a map over the course of the year.

Sure enough, it was soon picked up and began to travel to a few parks in the neighboring county. We had a map of the state, and would plot its location at each stop. As of March 13, it had made it all of 8 miles from where it started - I was worried the boys wouldn't find it all that interesting.

Well, we're gonna have to get a bigger map.

Got an email today from the site to tell me that the bug had been placed in a cache 2500 miles from our home coordinates - on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean a little south of Monterey/Carmel.

Can't wait to tell the boys at our next den meeting and bring out the US map.

Visit the bug's page here (http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=1720940)

[Bertha]

Mr. Mister,

I love geocaching and have placed several caches here in Colorado. It is great fun -- the kids absolutely love to do it.

I've even set up a geocaching event for my daughters girl scout troop last year. We actually just got back from geocaching in the mountains -- some of which were really daring hides.

I got one of my buddies hooked, and he placed a really neat cache close to the Air Force Academy. It is called "Pulpit Rock Fallen Hero's Cache". He is an Iraqi Vet and has placed some KIA (killed in action) bracelets in the cache from some of his comrades who died there, along with a photo album. It's quite moving.

[MrShotShot]

I've never tried it, but have always been intrigued by the whole thing.

Are there any good resources for those of us who might want to get started?

[MR. MISTER]

I've never tried it, but have always been intrigued by the whole thing.

Are there any good resources for those of us who might want to get started?
Check out www.geocaching.com (http://www.geocaching.com).

[MrShotShot]

Check out www.geocaching.com (http://www.geocaching.com).

Very cool. Thanks.

My wife and I have talked about getting into it as a means to get our daughter outside and enjoying the environment. Plus we live in a great part of the country to do it in.

[CaptainPike]

I've gone out and found a few caches but it's been a while.

My favorite so far was a drilled out log. All you could see was the cap from the cache container sticking out of the log, and at first I couldn't even see that because the log was turned over.

I didn't have a GPS unit either. I just printed maps from Google.

[snagswolf]

My wife and I took our first geocaching expedition this past Sunday. Pretty cool stuff!

We found four of them, and searched for, but couldn't find another two. One of the ones we couldn't find was a micro - a small magnetic holder (the size of a 'pinky nail') that's attached to a tank (GCVFRA). We were searching all over the thing for 20 minutes before we finally gave up.

My wife and I make a pretty good team. I handle the GPS and get us close, while she has the eagle eye for spotting the hiding place.

We didn't take or leave anything, but next trip we plan on exchanging. We're thinking about hiding one.

You certainly become acquainted with parts of your local countryside that you never knew existed before.