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Couldn't find any threads about my favourite (and basically only) outdoor thing I like doing: geocaching! Touching other people's lunchboxes in public places! Hopefully there are other goons who enjoy geocaching that might have some fun stories about cool caches you've found, the most effort you've gone to to track one, the wierdest place you found a cache, that miles-long trek you went to find one and then realised upon finding it that you didn't have a pen to add your name to the log-book (this has happened to me more than once, shamefully), the strangest thing you've found in a cache etc. Let's talk about lunchboxes and camera film canisters! Official Geocaching site: https://www.geocaching.com/play Geocaching Twitter: https://twitter.com/GoGeocaching Geocaching app on iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id329541503 Geocaching app on Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/...d-out-home-page Watch this nerd talking about geocaching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-4q6sYuyfY Poo In An Alleyway fucked around with this message at 12:41 on Oct 14, 2021 |
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The iOS app is sorta expensive for one-off annual purchase yes, but outside of that it’s a great app for exploring. There’s a built-in compass that will signal you once you start getting closer to the cache you’re looking for, plus people will generally leave notes on the app about that cache if they had difficulty finding it (without outright telling you where it is). Also, bring a pen. You’re gonna need a pen. Just always have a pen anyway in your daily life but you’ll certainly need it for caching. HenryJLittlefinger posted:Since a lot are in public places, show people what you’re doing if you start getting weird looks. Every time I’ve shown people why I’m on my hands and knees under a bush next to the bike path, the response has been “Hey, that’s really cool!” Kids love it. ^^^this. I’ve gotten a few curious looks and inquiries from people who were perplexed and/or worried about why I was paying a great deal of attention to one lamppost in particular on a street. Once you mention the words “global treasure hunt” their faces tend to light up.
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I have already found about 50% of the ones in my city and am waiting until the weather's consistently good to go out and find more. I do still make a habit of finding a handful in whatever town I'm visiting when I'm on vacation or on a work thing. So far I've managed to find some in Leuven in Belgium, London, Dublin, Amsterdam and I think one in Iceland.
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WhiteHowler posted:I found a neat cache with a Schrodinger's Cat theme. drat that's a great one! I really do wish people would get that little bit more creative with caches. Their only limit is their imagination for the most part, and yet all I keep finding are film roll canisters in walls.
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