Geo Caching

[roberttice]

Does anybody do geocaching here. If so what is a good entry level hand held gps to use for this sport.

 

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[sniffer]

I'm not from Pa. but best buy sells some pretty good GPS units. anything within about 10 yards accuracy is decent

 

[TxCacheHunter]

Hello Robert,
My son and I have been geocaching for almost 3 years now and have just taken up metal detecting in the last few weeks. We use a Magellan Explorist 600 model, which is not being manufactured any more since Magellan came out with the new Triton line. I recently picked up another 600 on eBay for $120 new in the box and they originally were around $500. Stay away from Magellan's new Triton line. I never used one, but they get really bad reviews in the Groundspeak forum. Almost anything Garmin is good. I have used the Garmin Legend, Vista, and 60CSX. Garmin has the new Colorado line, but I hear pro and con about them. The 60CSX is really the most popular. You might go to geocaching.com and click on the forum link on the left had side of the home page to go to the Groundspeak forum and check it out. Ask your question there and you will get a lot of different answers.
Here's the direct link to the forum: http://forums.groundspeak.com/GC/
Keep your metal detector in the car when you go Geocaching. You never know when a geocache may be in a good place for MD.

Good luck with geocaching. If you have more questions shoot me a PM here or email me from geocaching.com. My name there is Larry&Wesley. Wesley is my son and we usually go out geocaching together.

Larry
San Antonio, Tx

 

[riverite]

I tried it buy it was not as satifying as treasure hunting i will stay with that

 

[kbinski]

Anything Garmin as they are very reliable and user friendly.

 

[greydigger]

I've got about 15 finds so far. Can be very challenging.
Yes bring your MD with you also.

 

[Amona]

I've been in this hobby of Geo caching since january of 2006

Looks pics
Amona

 

[greydigger]

Nice pics there. That's what I usualy find. some nice toys to share.
Happy for youre find !
Grey

 

[Amona]

Thanks

I like to find more geo cache close to home

Amona

 

[MrsFury]

Garmin 60CSX is a great product (as I said in another post) once you learn to download from Garmin and geocaching.com

 

[Ray S S]

Hello anyone,

Just what is this Geo-Caching? It sounds like it's more hi-tech than a metal detector. Would someone explain how it
works? I would appreciate it very much.

Thank you.

Ray

 

[greydigger]

Geo-Cacheing is like a treasure hunt where you are given the Latitude and Longitude of a "Cache".
With a decent hand held device that finds satalites orbiting the earth, you can see exactly where you are.
(Well, within 6 feet or so).
Folks hide containers with log books and simple cheap toys and such and publish the location on the internet at Geocaching.com .
The trick is to find the cache and log your find.
Took me 2 yrs. to find one in a big parking lot.
The sneaky thing is to hide it where it cannot be easily found. Is a challenge.
A fake bolt holding a road sign may be a cache.
Or an acorn in a pine tree.
Some of these people are evil about where they hide things ! LOL
Just a game to get you out of the house, but is fun.
Grey

 

[Ray S S]

Thanks Greydigger for the info. Looks like it could be very tricky at times or most of the time. LOL

Ray

 

[MrsFury]

It's a bit tricky but so much fun if you love being outdoors. I'm almost 40 and I just started. I took a slightly younger friend with me and she is hooked big time. She gets so mad when we can't locate something. This witch sees the cache from the car sometimes before we even get out to hunt.

 

[relicminer]

Love it!!

 

[Produce Guy]

Check with your states park service,here in Texas,they have a whole department that's about caching.
check out Texas parks and wildlife.gov

 

[GeekNJ]

Geocaching since April 2003