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Geocaching
Okay - so I don't junk up the Two Rows get together thread, I'll answer the questions on geocaching here:
And yes, Gernby - I've accepted and fully embraced my geekiness
Geocaching is a fun GPS game that amounts to a treasure hunt. People hide packages (from film canisters to ammo cans) with a log sheet or book inside them. Sometimes they have little cheap toys and things in there as well that you can trade. The point? Go find them using GPS coordinates and clues.
You go to the website and enter where you are (or where you want to find caches) and it will give you a list of them... there are TONS. If there is a park near your house I guarantee someone has hidden a cache there.
They range from super easy, to some that you need a boat and an indian tracker to find. Sometimes they make it more complicated and have multiple stops. The coolest one I did was in Allen Station park. They sent you to three locations to figure out three numbers (one was - "go to these coordinates xx.xx.xx.... You are now standing on a bridge... count the number of little arches in the bridge and write that number down... then go here..."). The three numbers you collected gave you enough information to find the next spot to go to (i.e. the number of arches is the last two digits in the coordinates for the next stop). And at the fourth/final stop, the three numbers I collected made up the combination to the lock on the ammo box. It was an excellent date with my GF.
Kids love it, too... though you can't fit a bunch of them in an S2000
Many caches are also placed with the intent of showing you a cool/beautiful place or to teach you something interesting. We did one in Waco with the Xterra club called the Iconoclast. Basically a long time ago (old west kind of thing) there was some guy who ran a newspaper called the Iconoclast. He died in a gunfight in downtown. There is a historical marker where the gunfight took place - and that was the first cache stop. Then on the back of the marker they had placed a little sticker that led you to another spot... the guy's headstone in the local cemetery.... Cool little bit of history (though I obviously forgot most of it
)
Anyway - you can make it a competition - or just go caravan-ing around in a group looking for the things... makes a fun outing.
And yes, Gernby - I've accepted and fully embraced my geekiness
Geocaching is a fun GPS game that amounts to a treasure hunt. People hide packages (from film canisters to ammo cans) with a log sheet or book inside them. Sometimes they have little cheap toys and things in there as well that you can trade. The point? Go find them using GPS coordinates and clues.
You go to the website and enter where you are (or where you want to find caches) and it will give you a list of them... there are TONS. If there is a park near your house I guarantee someone has hidden a cache there.
They range from super easy, to some that you need a boat and an indian tracker to find. Sometimes they make it more complicated and have multiple stops. The coolest one I did was in Allen Station park. They sent you to three locations to figure out three numbers (one was - "go to these coordinates xx.xx.xx.... You are now standing on a bridge... count the number of little arches in the bridge and write that number down... then go here..."). The three numbers you collected gave you enough information to find the next spot to go to (i.e. the number of arches is the last two digits in the coordinates for the next stop). And at the fourth/final stop, the three numbers I collected made up the combination to the lock on the ammo box. It was an excellent date with my GF.
Kids love it, too... though you can't fit a bunch of them in an S2000
Many caches are also placed with the intent of showing you a cool/beautiful place or to teach you something interesting. We did one in Waco with the Xterra club called the Iconoclast. Basically a long time ago (old west kind of thing) there was some guy who ran a newspaper called the Iconoclast. He died in a gunfight in downtown. There is a historical marker where the gunfight took place - and that was the first cache stop. Then on the back of the marker they had placed a little sticker that led you to another spot... the guy's headstone in the local cemetery.... Cool little bit of history (though I obviously forgot most of it
)Anyway - you can make it a competition - or just go caravan-ing around in a group looking for the things... makes a fun outing.
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