Has anyone here ever tried geocaching? It's pretty fun, basically people hide containers with random objects in places around the world, and you use GPS coordinates to find it. The website is Geocaching - The Official Global GPS Cache Hunt Site
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nofuxCZ
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I've tried it 
It's fun, but I don't have that much time :/ It's extremely popular here. We even have "Geocaching" subject in my university 
It's fun, but I don't have that much time :/ It's extremely popular here. We even have "Geocaching" subject in my university 
doctormalisimo
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This is apparently the closest one to me. GC2YB56 City Views - Corrody (Traditional Cache) in Ulster, Ireland created by junglemac
Given its location, it's probably already been burned, vandalised and stuffed with drugs...
Given its location, it's probably already been burned, vandalised and stuffed with drugs...
Well, the last person to find it said it needed maintenance...
anto475
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There's a cache in my town, I've been meaning to go into it for ages, must cycle in this week. What's usually in them?
All caches should contain a log where you write your name and date when you visit it. I found a really small one yesterday, it was shaped as a bolt, and placed on metal, and kept the tiniest logsheet I've seen. I find it more rewarding finding the tricky ones, rather than the big ones containing lots of trade stuff. A friend of mine found a chocolate bar in a cache yesterday. In 3 of the caches I found yesterday there were small toys inside, one also contained a trackable coin, but I didn't take it with me. I guess geocaching is big in Norway, there are over 100 caches in my city alone, and new ones are added every day.
My friends used to go on trips and took me along once. Personally I find it boring, although there one one that was really hard to locate so trying to find that one was quite enjoyable. I didn't realize it's a worldwide thing actually.
nofuxCZ
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So many of my friends are obsessed with this xD it's still extremely popular activity here. I found this awesome video showing all the caches in the Czech R. over time
I found it boring to start with, but I'm getting into it. My friend is currently doing a 31 day challange where you get 1 a day for 31 days and you get a prize at the end of it. She's also planning to do a 24 hour challange where you're paired up with another cached and you need to get as many caches as possible in 24 hours to win a prize. I personally think she's little too in to geocaching
I really love to find the little sneaky ones, or spectacular ones A few weeks I opened the back hatch on a tank (at an outdoor museum) to find an official military cache, and that was great. Plus sometimes pursuing a cache takes you to some really great places you haven't been before. Personally I am not to fond of so called "urban caching", I prefer going to the great outdoors locations like "At this cache site is the best place for spotting whales" or "theese rock carvings was mage 1500 years ago". That sort of stuff
A few weeks I opened the back hatch on a tank (at an outdoor museum) to find an official military cache, and that was great. Plus sometimes pursuing a cache takes you to some really great places you haven't been before. Personally I am not to fond of so called "urban caching", I prefer going to the great outdoors locations like "At this cache site is the best place for spotting whales" or "theese rock carvings was mage 1500 years ago". That sort of stuff Hehe Not long ago someone called the police because an obviously confused person with a flashlight was walking around on a bridge, and the caller thought he was going to jump. No, he was just geocaching Needless to say, that cache was removed the Next day.
Not long ago someone called the police because an obviously confused person with a flashlight was walking around on a bridge, and the caller thought he was going to jump. No, he was just geocaching Needless to say, that cache was removed the Next day.Omg geocache is such a dangerous hobby, I heard to day some woman was doing a trail and walked through a field with cows, and they trampled her and she's ended up in a coma. They apparently have archived the trail after so no one else can do it.
Also I went to go three with my geocaching obsessed friend. We couldn't find any of them, she was proper flipping tables.
Also I went to go three with my geocaching obsessed friend. We couldn't find any of them, she was proper flipping tables.
Outside the american embassy in Oslo there used to be a geocache, camouflaged as a magnetic pipe that fitted next to some electrical installation. The cache was removed after someone called the police and told she had seen someone placing a pipe bomb outside the building
Outside the american embassy in Oslo there used to be a geocache, camouflaged as a magnetic pipe that fitted next to some electrical installation. The cache was removed after someone called the police and told she had seen someone placing a pipe bomb outside the building
PMSL.
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