bunsofaluminum

I should be able to handle that. The individual emails were too much.

I've also been focusing on some garbage in my life lately. blch.

however! I got my hubby a GPS unit for his b-day, and we're going to
start Geo-cacheing. Gonna be fun.

blessings, heidiC

Shields

We started geocaching a few months ago and it has been great. The kids love
finding the treasure and they actually want to go for hikes now! We also
just got some travel bugs and will be releasing them sometime soon. It's
really fun to look for geocaches while traveling because it gets you out to
places you might not have seen otherwise (even works in your own home
town!).

Happy geocaching!
Kristin

-----Original Message-----
From: bunsofaluminum [mailto:bunsofaluminum60@...]
I got my hubby a GPS unit for his b-day, and we're going to
start Geo-cacheing. Gonna be fun.

blessings, heidiC

[email protected]

This sounds really cool, but... what is it? Is it terribly expensive? Is
there a non-tech way to mimic it? Geocaching Unplugged? Just had to ask, even
if it shows how out of touch I am!


Kirsten (4/72)- mom to 3 sons: Skyler (5/96), Aric (5/97), and Sawyer (3/99),
wife to Carl (5/72)


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Mary

Go to http://www.letterboxing.org

It's free and no start up except for a stamper and maybe a compass. You go
hiking and find little boxes with stampers inside that others hide. You
stamp your stamper in the book to show you were there and stamp their
stamper in a book of your own to show what you found.

Mary B




> This sounds really cool, but... what is it? Is it terribly expensive? Is
> there a non-tech way to mimic it? Geocaching Unplugged? Just had to ask,
even
> if it shows how out of touch I am!

Shields

You can get a pretty good GPS unit for about 100 dollars. For me it was my
Christmas gift from my husband, but the whole family enjoys it. You also
need to bring little trinkets to trade if you want to take trinkets from the
cache. We haven't bought any of these. Doesn't everyone have tons of
little things like superballs, happy meal toys, matchbox cars and other
interesting items lying around? Also, many times the kids trade something
they picked up at an earlier cache. It's mainly a chance to get out and
have fun. I did happen to find a few caches in our town that were easy to
find without a GPS, before we got it. You can check your area at:

http://www.geocaching.com/

The caches are rated based on difficulty and there are some that you can
find in a few minutes, others require math or take you to several sites on
the way to the real cache. I think using the GPS is really cool though and
has lead to many wonderful discussions here.
Kristin

-----Original Message-----
From: kish95@... [mailto:kish95@...]

This sounds really cool, but... what is it? Is it terribly expensive? Is
there a non-tech way to mimic it? Geocaching Unplugged? Just had to ask,
even
if it shows how out of touch I am!

Kirsten (4/72)- mom to 3 sons: Skyler (5/96), Aric (5/97), and Sawyer
(3/99),
wife to Carl (5/72)

[email protected]

In a message dated 4/6/2005 6:30:08 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
tuckervill2@... writes:

Is
there a non-tech way to mimic it?

There's Volksport, which has been going on for a long time. From Germany:



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Letter boxing (originally English, I think) too? I've just read about it,
haven't done it.

Sandra


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Schuyler Waynforth

Thanks for the site. I looked on it and find a cache just 2 blocks
from our house. We've been, swapped a treasure and are now looking
for others in our area. Have to figure out how to get maps with
longitude and latitude as we can't afford a GPS just yet.

It was so much fun!

Schuyler

--- In [email protected], "Shields" <shields@o...>
wrote:
> You can get a pretty good GPS unit for about 100 dollars. For me it
was my
> Christmas gift from my husband, but the whole family enjoys it. You
also
> need to bring little trinkets to trade if you want to take trinkets
from the
> cache. We haven't bought any of these. Doesn't everyone have tons of
> little things like superballs, happy meal toys, matchbox cars and other
> interesting items lying around? Also, many times the kids trade
something
> they picked up at an earlier cache. It's mainly a chance to get out and
> have fun. I did happen to find a few caches in our town that were
easy to
> find without a GPS, before we got it. You can check your area at:
>
> http://www.geocaching.com/
>
> The caches are rated based on difficulty and there are some that you can
> find in a few minutes, others require math or take you to several
sites on
> the way to the real cache. I think using the GPS is really cool
though and
> has lead to many wonderful discussions here.
> Kristin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kish95@a... [mailto:kish95@a...]
>
> This sounds really cool, but... what is it? Is it terribly
expensive? Is
> there a non-tech way to mimic it? Geocaching Unplugged? Just had
to ask,
> even
> if it shows how out of touch I am!
>
> Kirsten (4/72)- mom to 3 sons: Skyler (5/96), Aric (5/97), and Sawyer
> (3/99),
> wife to Carl (5/72)

Rebecca Dalpay

Try letter boxing also. http://letterboxing.org/

It is similar to geocaching except you don't need a GPS unit. We also
geocache using the GPS function on my cell phone.

Rebecca

Danielle Conger

Rebecca Dalpay wrote:

>Try letter boxing also. http://letterboxing.org/
>
>It is similar to geocaching except you don't need a GPS unit. We also
>geocache using the GPS function on my cell phone.
>
>Rebecca
>
>
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I do believe there will be both geocaching and letterboxing funshops at
this year's Live and Learn Conference. One more wonderful reason to attend!

--
~~Danielle
Emily (7), Julia (6), Sam (4.5)
http://www.danielleconger.com/Homeschool/Welcomehome.html

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

"With our thoughts, we make the world." ~~Buddha

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Hey, do GPS units know up from down? Can they tell the third floor from
what's directly below it on 2nd or 1st? Are they plotting 3D positions, or just
2?


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Emile Snyder

On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 08:26, SandraDodd@... wrote:
> Hey, do GPS units know up from down? Can they tell the third floor from
> what's directly below it on 2nd or 1st? Are they plotting 3D positions, or just
> 2?

They are in 3D, but your x,y position has a much better resolution. (I
believe on the order of a few meters, while the altitude is 10s or 100s
of meters.)

-emile

Shields

That's great! Before we got the GPS we were able to find some in our town
because there is a series of geocaches that are placed at public works of
art. By reading the description we could figure out which art it was and go
looking.

-----Original Message-----
From: Schuyler Waynforth [mailto:s.waynforth@...]
Thanks for the site. I looked on it and find a cache just 2 blocks
from our house. We've been, swapped a treasure and are now looking
for others in our area. Have to figure out how to get maps with
longitude and latitude as we can't afford a GPS just yet.

Heidi Crane

You know what I think would be fun? To get the general area via GPS, then
follow physical clues to the cache. Some of the cache info on the site has
physical clues. Some, just the co-ordinates.

Like "Park at N41*476.57' W 111*067.33' then look for the triple trunk."
stuff like that. Once you get there, knowing what to look for.

We're in the middle of a triple cache right now. Could take us a couple of
days to find, but WHAT FUN!

blessings, HeidiC

>Is
>there a non-tech way to mimic it?
>
>There's Volksport, which has been going on for a long time. From
>Germany:
>
>
>
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>
>Letter boxing (originally English, I think) too? I've just read about it,
>haven't done it.
>
>Sandra