[Closed] Geocaching, anyone doing it,

My father in law does it quite a lot, and letter boxing on and around Dartmoor. Keeps the walks on te moors interesting i suppose.

I tried to the other day in the new forest - the 2 caches I had coordinates to, I couldn't find 🙁
Plan to do more though!

Got to about 100 and suddenly lost interest. It's great fun with the kids though.

I even planted a few...

Letter boxing?

The view on Friday lunchtime in 'that London'

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I seem to have removed a few geocahes round here - I was objecting to large lunchboxes full of cr*p being left around the countryside, some on really obvious display (4' up, wedged a tree, just off a path 🙄 ) etc. I discovered that there were 6 on Inchbuie Island outside our house (200m x 20m) so removed all but one etc etc.

Me and Her Ladyship are up to about 250 caches found each. Only real drawback is the tendency to turn what should be a three hour bike ride into a six hour one... 😕

^^^ What he said 🙂

Letter boxing?

Letterboxing is an outdoor hobby that combines elements of orienteering, art, and puzzle solving. Letterboxers hide small, weatherproof boxes in publicly accessible places (like parks)[1] and distribute clues to finding the box in printed catalogs, on one of several web sites, or by word of mouth. Individual letterboxes usually contain a notebook and a rubber stamp.[2] Finders make an imprint of the letterbox's stamp, either on their personal notebook or on a postcard, and leave an impression of their personal stamp on the letterbox's "visitors' book" or "logbook" — as proof of having found the box and letting other letterboxers know who has visited. Many letterboxers keep careful track of their "find count".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letterboxing_(hobby)

i lost interest at about 300, as the rest of my family has lost interest long before that, and the dragging them around the countryside became tiresome

Love it. Geo bugs are cool too!

Thats an old one, I remember some people made a game using these where
you would find a gift and you replaced it with something else in replace of your find.

Just looked on http://ww.geocaching.com and seen there are three within 50 feet of me. I feel a wild poo coming on. 😀

We'll get a few if we're walking with the kids, they love it. Doesn't greatly appeal as something for a grown-ass man to be doing by himself, but it takes all sorts. Maybe there's more to it if you pay some mind to the objects you're leaving and finding.

I feel a wild poo coming on.

Geocack...

Jens Voigt is mad for it, follow him on Twitter and he spends half his trips geocaching by the sounds of it.

It [i]can [/i]be a useful way of discovering pleasant little spots that are otherwise off the grid. I used to look them up whenever we went somewhere new as they'd often be located at little waterfalls, viewpoints and interesting buildings.

I too do follow Jens, thats where I got the idea from 😀

As others have said, great motivator for a kids walk. Recently did a 6 mile walk in Scotland that had 15, and not once did the kids complain about being tired. We all got a buzz getting 3 first-to-finds!

Two travel bugs let lose for our two children to follow, one in Italy, the other, well has not gone so far, its in Wales.

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We have found some great ones, some hard puzzle ones that still trying to solve and others that have taken us on some interesting history tours.

As mentioned the kids love them.