Does anyone on here geocache?

[Booldawg]

I've just bought a Garmin GPS unit off Amazon, primarily for mountain biking use but notice you can also geocache with it.

I think this would be a good chance to get the family out and about. TBH we did briefly dabble with it on Mrs Bs iphone but the gps signal wasnt great. I also had a very self-conscious moment acting very shifty in a Sainsburys car-park looking for a cache amongst the ivy by a 'parking' sign. I think U'll stick to the non-urban ones...

[boxtops]

No, but I wouldn't mind having a go. I always used to enjoy car treasure hunts, many years ago.

[Booldawg]

found a site www.geocaching.com which is where most people post their waypoints for 'hides'.

LOL, wouldnt fancy doing it in the USA - looking under old tree bark for caches, could be a rattle snake or black widow waiting to greet you.

[pdust]

i did it a few years back.... i had great fun but didnt find the 'treasure' though i didnt use anything except google maps to look at the area before i went.... im laughing at you scrabbling in the ivy in sainsburys.... i ended up in the back of beyond near a resevoir and people were watching me going back and forth on scrubland scratching my head, kicking at the bushes and shouting to my then husband that i couldnt find bugger all.....

[Booldawg]

LOL pdust! I bet the police have been called a few times on geocachers.

Looking at the website its all very geeky, they refer to non-geocachers as 'muggles' *rolls eyes*

[EcclesCake]

Mr Cake does a lot of it. He had a particularly difficult one to solve, he'd been pouring over it for weeks, I looked at it for ten minutes and solved it. He wasn't amused!

[Smowball]

Ive got a Garmin, but whats geocache??

[EcclesCake]

It's high tech orienteering with a bit of treasure hunting thrown in for good measure.

[pdust]

what did you have to solve eccles? alls i got was a location :(

[ladyalex]

I do it, but haven't for a month or two (too cold in the winter).
And yes, I too have had very strange looks whilst scrabbling about in hedges etc.
I really enjoy it, but I like puzzles and treasure hunts .
pdust...sometimes you are not given the exact location of the cache , but are directed to a car park or similar, then are given a puzzle or series of puzzles to work out where to look.

[EcclesCake]

Some caches have puzzles for you to solve. Once you solved the clue you go onto the website and tell the setter that you've solved it and rate them for complexity.

[Prudie]

No but workmates do it. This has reminded me - does anyone remember quite a few years back a book came out, beautifully illustrated that contained loads of clues to a hidden piece of treasure somewhere in UK, something like a jewel encrusted hare? Am I dreaming?

[ladyalex]

No you are not dreaming. It was called Maskerade, I think.

[tenrec]

I remember that book Prudie. Yes, the prize was a jewelled hare

[maggiebee]

I'm feeling REALLY old - haven't a scooby what you're all talking about!

[Prudie]

Thanks ladyalex, I'd forgotten it was called Masquerade. I've just googled with the help of the title, there was a bit of a scandal surrounding the man who claimed to find it.

[pdust]

thanks alex and eccles.... aww it would have been a lot more fun like that :)

[ladyalex]

Masquerade is right, Prudie (Maskerade is a book by Terry Pratchett!) and there was a scandal...the folks who found the hare cheated in some way....