Geocaching

[spartan00117]

http://www.geocaching.com/

Check this out, my boss told me about it this morning.  Something to maybe keep the youngsters happy during the summer months.  I bet the mournes is full of these or maybe NI-wild should place there own!!!!!.  Could be good craic.

[Drongo]

Oh You are so behind the times....


I've been at it since 2004, good few hundred found and loads hidden as well...


Don't start, it's addictive...!!!


Who's your boss btw, do you know his/her geocaching ID...?


I'm Team Barnabus, next time you are up Donard via Bloody Bridge you can do my 3 part multi-cache...

[spartan00117]

No idea what my bosses ID is, he has only just looked into this last couple of weeks.  I will look into it more over the weekend.  Need to get my chickens sorted out first.

[cerbera147]

I've been geocaching for about a year now

Really great fun and takes you to some real beautiful places you may not have even known about. If you have kids then it's even more fun; gets them off the Xbox and away from Facebook 

[LennyJ1]

I would love to do some geocaching but dont have a GPS

[big chris]

I would love to do some geocaching but dont have a GPS

Ebay calling Lenny, ebay calling Lenny 

[spartan00117]

I have a calling for ebay myself now

[RedLeader]

I've tried geocaching a few times but never managed to find any caches. It was pretty disappointing.

[LandyLiam]

I started in january, found about 70 now, love doing the mournes ones, plenty of fails but they are usually in a place worth visiting anyway.

[suspectmonkey]

I would love to do some geocaching but dont have a GPS

Do you have GPS on your mobile phone?  I know there are geocaching apps on the iPhone including one made by the geocaching.com people, Groundspeak.  I've also used my car sat nav to try and locate a cache before as you can still enter the co-ordinates into it.

PS: Moved this topic as it falls under the "Walking, Running, Orienteering and Geocaching" section.  Just makes it easier to find in the future

[ChuckMcB]

Almost got a FTF a while past, but was beaten to it by 15minutes

Scribble, did you ever get your Secret Santa cache planted somewhere?

[LandyLiam]

i use the car satnav for geocaching (tomtom one classic) not ideal but when you get used to its liitle foibles it works quite well, only major problem i have is it won't let me put some of the mourne locations as favourites as they are so far from a road it assumes i'm inputting the wrong co-ords, you could probably pick an old one up from ebay for under £30, although a new one (from £90) would be handier as fresh batteries help when you have to leave the car for a while

[LandyLiam]

there's a geocaching event in the mournes on 16th July covering about 4 peaks, would suit some of us here, unfortunately i'll be away that day 

event details here  http://coord.info/GC2YH61 (not sure if you can see the page without being a member?)

[cerbera147]

There a few in Carnfunnock we can do on Sunday 

You can have a play with my Garmin Dakota.

I did a few with my Tomtom, while technically they work a dedicated GPS loaded with geocaches makes things easier.

[spartan00117]

I love geocaching, going to try and get a few in this week when down at Oxegen