Geocaching? Anyone ever try it?

[davinci]

Has anyone ever tried Geocaching? I have a few times about 2 years ago. You never find anything of much value but its fun and good exercise. I have been thinking of combining a Geocaching experience with metal detecting. Sometimes there are some interesting locations that one may come across to metal detect.

 

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[sonofadigger]

I love to geocache its a lot of fun and takes you to some interesting spots . There is also one called Munzee that is a lot of fun check it out

 

[davinci]

I love to geocache its a lot of fun and takes you to some interesting spots . There is also one called Munzee that is a lot of fun check it out

I haven't heard of Munzee I will have to check it out.

 

[sonofadigger]

I haven't heard of Munzee I will have to check it out.

It's like geocaching but instead you scan a bar code go to www.munzee.com and it explains it all

 

[Jason in Enid]

Been geocaching for many years, but not much lately.

Geocaching isn't about finding anything of value IN the cache, it's about the hunt FOR the cache. Geocaching is a good side to metal detecting because there are geocaches in almost every park in America so even if you don't know the area you can find cool places to detect.

 

[Produce Guy]

I've stubbled across a few when I'm out swining the coil,I usually look in side and write down my name ,date,& time & leave a little something.

 

[roygpa]

Found a couple hundred caches in a few different states before my family finally realized that I was doing it for the exercise and they abandoned me.

 

[jeff of pa]

I don't geocache , but do go in and read the notes by the people who hide them.
some of the local cachers are into history and post several paragraphs on the history of the area,

Example :

Robert Morris, born in Liverpool England in 1734, who was a very successful businessman and land speculator, once owned the land that encompasses Frailey Township. In later years, subsequent debts incurred by Morris necessitated a Sheriff’s sale of the property. The Sheriff’s name was Charles Frailey from whom Frailey Township derived its name. The township was officially formed in 1847 and over the years had four towns: Donaldson, Eckertville, Middle Creek and Strongville.


Like many of the small and now disappeared coal mining towns of the 1800’s in Pennsylvania, the town of Strongville was built around the established coal breaker in the area. About 1855, Henry Heil leased and for many years worked the veins at Upper Rauch Creek. The coal, excellent in quality was known as East Franklin coal. The East Franklin colliery at Strongville was operated for many years by the Philadelphia and Reading Company. Its hoisting capacity is 100 and its pumping capacity 220-horse power. Several smaller engines are used to drive ventilating fans, and a large one to propel two air-compressors for inside hoisting. When worked to its full capacity this colliery employs about 120 men and boys inside, and 80 outside. The coal at this colliery is of a superior quality and highly prized for domestic use, for which it is perhaps
excelled only by the famous Lykens Valley coal. The daily production is about 200 tons. The village of Strongville was located two and half miles southwest of Donaldson. Although the village of Strongville has long since disappeared, some of the area names have prevailed: “East Franklin”, Rausch Creek.

Old maps show that, along with East Franklin colliery and associated buildings, Strongville had a school and about 15 to 16 other buildings. This cache was placed about the approximate center of the once town of Strongville.
I’m not curtain how close the current State Rt. 209 is located to the once center roadway of Strongville. But this cache is along State Rt. 209, so therefore be careful of traffic and parking.

and occasionally even surprise me with new info. like former swimming holes, Party sites, even locations of Klan meetings, and Gambling hideouts

 

[dgree]

I've been doing it for over a year now and I have enjoyed every one! It is so much fun and it leads to lots of MDing locations. Because almost all Geaocaches are placed in public locations, almost all the places can be detected well! Twice the fun, twice the hobbies!

 

[team sidewinder]

We were really into Geocaching from the very beginning of geocaching.com and geocached for years. It was really fun and another way to keep in practice with your gps which before geocaching I only used my gps once a year for hunting season. We even got an atv to get to some remote geocaches but riding the atv became more fun than the geocaching so we haven't done much geocaching in the last few years. I loved the geocoins part of geocaching and collecting them. I still have quite a few and maybe the love of the geocoins led me into metal detecting. Bet those geocoins give off a great/different TID.

 

[davinci]

I don't geocache , but do go in and read the notes by the people who hide them.
some of the local cachers are into history and post several paragraphs on the history of the area,

Example :

and occasionally even surprise me with new info. like former swimming holes, Party sites, even locations of Klan meetings, and Gambling hideouts

Great stuff!!

 

[davinci]

I've been doing it for over a year now and I have enjoyed every one! It is so much fun and it leads to lots of MDing locations. Because almost all Geaocaches are placed in public locations, almost all the places can be detected well! Twice the fun, twice the hobbies!

Awesome! I hear there are cool metal coin/tokens In the cache. A buddy of mine said the craziest thing he found was a pair of women's underwear in a military ammo box. They were size 4x! Huge. Was too funny

 

[davinci]

We were really into Geocaching from the very beginning of geocaching.com and geocached for years. It was really fun and another way to keep in practice with your gps which before geocaching I only used my gps once a year for hunting season. We even got an atv to get to some remote geocaches but riding the atv became more fun than the geocaching so we haven't done much geocaching in the last few years. I loved the geocoins part of geocaching and collecting them. I still have quite a few and maybe the love of the geocoins led me into metal detecting. Bet those geocoins give off a great/different TID.

That's cool! I hear there is a great iPhone app for Geocaching. But I think you need to have GPS on the phone.

 

[jeff of pa]

because of this post & too humid to detect I decided to check this out





No coordinates needed walked into the woods





looked a little bit where someone would Cook a goose











Signed the Log with more info then others



took hat pin, Left Minelab pen since non in the box



also helped myself to a Brick

 

[sonofadigger]

I love finding the geo coins I just took a trackable. To west Virginia and placed it in a cache down there it's good to get out occasionally and hike around looking for them

 

[davinci]

because of this post & too humid to detect I decided to check this out

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No coordinates needed walked into the woods

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looked a little bit where someone would Cook a goose

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Signed the Log with more info then others

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took hat pin, Left Minelab pen since non in the box

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also helped myself to a Brick

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Jeff that is sooo cool!!! Now you have me wanting to go Geocaching. Good stuff! Thank you for sharing this!