I've been caching for 2 years or so. Only about 30 finds so far, just too busy to go look. Since I travel with my job some, I've got find all over the US and one in Canada.

Good cheap fun once you have a GPS. My weapon of choice is a Garmin Rino 120. GPS and radio all in one.

Indeed I have Geocached. Too many now to list, but suffice to say well over 100 and closing in on 200. In my area of Idaho we have about 250+ Geocaches with new ones appearing every week. Extend that out to about 150 miles and the number easily exceeds 500.

Since I don't list the city I am living in in my profile, I will say I live near the city of Twin Falls. I am quite literally on the edge here. We are surrounded by 3 major canyon systems and lots of open space. I am about 5 miles from the infamous Evel Kneivel Snake River Canyon jump site and there is a Geocache located in the canyon across from the jump site. Due to these remarkable canyons placing a Geocache here is no problem.

Some are easily found, some are a skunk (not found) and some are trashed after the owner (like mine) have taken effort to place them. No one I am aware of has been seriously injured, but a few cuts and bruises have been the result. A few of us are proud to say we drew blood while Geocaching and others would rather not say. Kids seem to enjoy this hobby as well as adults in fact I hear it is the largest family sport in the US today!

I carry my EDC+ stuff with me while I Geocache and because this is a desert area, I carry water as well. Nothing seems to stop people from finding caches around here on lunch breaks, after school, after work, or what have you. In fact if you don?t check the Geocache website daily you may miss out on a FTF (first to find), which has its own vicious little bunch of us always trying to beat the good doctor and his evil twin brother the computer geek! In the end though it is always good clean fun!

I will mention the GPS I am using is the Garmin GPS II plus, okay laugh if you want, but the fact remains this older unit has literally outperformed both a Magellan and some of the E-Trex series GPS units. <img src="/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

One question I have from these posts is ?What the heck is a GPSr? I may be somewhat geeky myself, but cannot seem to figure that one out!

Take care,

Stargazer

ASAP = Always Suspicious, Always Prepared

GPS= Global Positioning Satellite. Everybody refers to the earthbound unit as a GPS, including me until recently, but I guess that's not a satelite is it? So it's a GPS reciever, or GPSr.

Sounds like that is the place to be for caching! Around here you can get into some mountainous areas, but nothing that would be too bad unless you were to get hurt to the point you couldn't walk out. GPSr = Global Positioning Satellite Reciever. And hey! <img src="/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />I use a Garmin GPS II Plus also! Old maybe, but works very well. With a good signal will get my EPE down to about 12 feet. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

A nit to pick: GPS = Global Positioning SYSTEM. The system comprises the satellites, the ground control system and the receivers.

US Air Force GPS Fact Sheet