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September 15, 2010 - 9:30 am
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Has anyone ever Geocached?  It's a great reason to get out and enjoy the outdoors.

Geocaching is an outdoor activity in which the participants use a GPS receiver or other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called "geocaches" or "caches", anywhere in the world. A typical cache is a small waterproof container containing a logbook. Larger containers such as plastic storage containers (tupperware or similar) or ammo boxes can also contain items for trading, usually toys or trinkets of little value. Geocaching is most often described as a "game of high-tech hide and seek," sharing many aspects with benchmarking, trigpointing, orienteering, treasure-hunting, Letterboxing, and waymarking.

Geocaches are currently placed in over 100 countries around the world and on all seven continents, including Antarctica. After 10 years of activity there are over 1.1 million active geocaches published on various websites devoted to the activity.

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January 5, 2011 - 3:17 pm
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My kids love hunting for "treasure".  It is a lot of fun and great exercise walking through the woods.

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January 5, 2011 - 4:17 pm
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We did this for the first time at Belle Isle State Park in VA back in Nov.  There was about 8 or so of them within reasonable walking distance from the campground.

All of the kids (3-7) that were there had a great time hunting for the caches.  The "big kids" had a fun time as well. 

There's a free iPhone app called "Geocaching.com Intro".  It'll show the three closest caches to you.  I've found that you can use Google maps Geocaching.com to get close to the caches you want to find, then once you're close enough, use the app to hunt for the cache.

Some are definitely less obvious than others.

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January 7, 2011 - 7:17 pm
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I have around 100 caches logged here in Oklahoma along with a few in Missouri. Don't do it much lately.........I tend to find myself lounging in the zero gravity chair sipping suds as entertainment when I camp now.

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February 3, 2011 - 8:05 pm
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We've been doing it for years! Just over 1600 finds to date. We go by KJcachers on geocaching .com too! Anybody new to this and have questions about geocaching feel free to contact me!  8)

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December 13, 2011 - 8:59 pm
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January 7, 2012 - 10:12 pm
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Thats How I Feel. Got a smart phone but really feel dumb. Have been Letterboxing and wanted to try Geocaching, my old phone had GPS but could not download the latitude/longitude for caches. Do not want to buy an app so tried the Beagle one and still can't figure it out. First I need to magnify the dang thing to see words/apps ::)

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February 2, 2012 - 1:14 pm
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Yep, started caching a long time ago.  Got to just shy of 400 caches and lost interest when so many of the parking lot caches started showing up.  I still cache when I go camping or any place new.  But it is just a hobby to be done while traveling.

I'm Fritz_Monroe over on geocaching.com also.

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September 22, 2012 - 7:32 pm
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Love it...i'm jmcclung11 over on geocaching.com...go figure.

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September 22, 2012 - 8:27 pm
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Wizfisherfamily on geocaching.com.

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October 14, 2012 - 11:57 pm
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We don't have many caches in the SPs around us.  And of the 60 or so in our area, we've already found 'em.  Gas prices tend to keep us pretty close to home and we are in a rural community.  We started a couple of years ago and had the 2 grandkids with us for a few days.  Every night I would hid two caches in the camp ground and in the morning the kids would jump up wanting the GPSs. Off they went.  Kept them busy for about an hour or so.  You can find all kinds of downloads for coloring books on geocaching. And I even found some small wooden keepsake boxes and let the kids decorate them to keep their "treasures" in.

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August 6, 2013 - 9:39 am
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I have been Geocaching with Hubby since 2006. I also have been munzeeing as well. Similar to geocaching but you use a smart phone to scan qr codes. Some are hidden in wooded as well as urban areas. I love the hunt!

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