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forlorne hope

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Hey everyone, just wanted to quickly introduce myself. I first heard of geocaching years ago and thought it was one of the coolest things I'd heard of. But at the time GPS units were not very common yet and way expensive. This morning I downloaded the geocaching app on my iPhone and realized there are tons of caches within walking distance from where I work. So on my break, decided to walk down to the nearest one on the map and I found it, signed the log and now I'm hooked. I found a second one on my lunch break and called my wife to inform here that I will be dragging the family with me to try to find some around where we live this evening. I have three kids, one of them is a 6 yr old boy that has more energy than we know what to do with, I think this would be a fantastic and positive outlet for his crazy levels of energy. We enjoy taking lots of walks and hikes as a family and I think this will be a great way to enrich the experience and keep the kids interested for more than 15 minutes.

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Hey everyone, just wanted to quickly introduce myself. I first heard of geocaching years ago and thought it was one of the coolest things I'd heard of. But at the time GPS units were not very common yet and way expensive. This morning I downloaded the geocaching app on my iPhone and realized there are tons of caches within walking distance from where I work. So on my break, decided to walk down to the nearest one on the map and I found it, signed the log and now I'm hooked. I found a second one on my lunch break and called my wife to inform here that I will be dragging the family with me to try to find some around where we live this evening. I have three kids, one of them is a 6 yr old boy that has more energy than we know what to do with, I think this would be a fantastic and positive outlet for his crazy levels of energy. We enjoy taking lots of walks and hikes as a family and I think this will be a great way to enrich the experience and keep the kids interested for more than 15 minutes.

 

canoe + caches + hiking+ camping = very happy kids. you never need to spend that money on a stand alone, your phone will do it all just fine. enjoy the time.

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Yes, hooked already, left an hour early for work this morning to find a few caches on my drive in.

 

Ha! I leave early for work to cache too! Best time to get the caches along the roads and in town!

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J Grouchy

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Yeah...I kind of started that way. I was sitting in a Chipotle on my lunch hour and opened up the app I'd downloaded months earlier but never used. I noticed there was a cache showing only a few hundred feet away, so I finished eating and walked over. Took me a couple minutes, but once I found it I was hooked. In retrospect, it would normally be a fairly easy find (a metal junction box magnetically attached to the underside of a metal stair), but I felt like I'd stumbled onto a secret hidden world and knew I'd want to keep doing it.

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misay_08

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Just to share you guys how I found gecatching :). before I love watching treasure hunting in youtube and there is one guy who accidentally found old cache while doing metal detecting on the lake and he didnt even know what it is and so am I hehe :D and im so so curious also what is that thing...hahaha so i read all the comment saying it is geocathing so, I try to search what it geocatching is ? read all about it and now im addictive to it LOL :)

 

I decided to download the apps on my android phone :) and drag my husband to try it one time.. and yeah everyone is correct it's so fun and sooo addicting LoL especially if you found the cache and you sign your name on it (fulfilling :rolleyes: )

 

I love how this activity helps you to enjoy nature as well encourage everyone to explore and exercise :)

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