I've wanted to do it and there's quite a few cache's locally, but I'm too poor to have a GPS

 

There's a SFC here that swears by it and is always trying to get people to join him.....
the way i see it is this: if i'm following a GPS to something it had better be a) a hot chick's house b) awesome food c) a shoot out <-- in that order.

Every time he's like, "Hey guys wanna drop $190 on a gps and go get $1 store knicknacks on your next free Saturday with me?" I want to stand up and scream, "NERD!!!"

i guess if you combined it with paintball guns and made it like an infil/caputre the flag/exfil kind of game it could be pretty neato though

BTW: you can do it with a decent map, a basic understanding of how to use a map, and a lenstatic compass.... makes you feel like more of a man (GPS is much easier though )

also: if i wandered through the woods for 2 hours only to find a box with a condom someone left behind, i would be a bit "perturbed"...

 

 

Have you ever seen the show "Manswers"? You'd like it! It seems to be right around your attention span.

 

Thank you. I'll take a compliment no matter how back-handed

 

 

Maaap?? and Cccompasss? What are those? What kind of batteries do you need?

I do love the idea of the paintball guns though!

I run a GPS with sub-centimeter accuracy sometimes at work. Having it take you someplace flat out sucks. Geocaching would be too much like work.

 

map and compass... you know like dead-rockoning and terrain-association....? ... pace count so you can walk/run ~100 meters.... grid coordinates? hand rails and back stops? nothing?!

orienterring <-- used to be like geocaching? Nothing....

read a book!

 

LOL. You mean like through the Canadian wilderness in a Canoe for 2 weeks without seeing another soul...except maybe bear and moose. Waterproof maps( mostly), carrying all the necessities on your back during portages. LINK!

 

I know about Orienteering. Used to do it all the time back when I was in Boy Scouts. (don't laugh) I can't remember my pace, though. I would like to say... 6 feet?

There is a ton of geocahes around here! I've only done a couple. The first one, nobody put another prize in there, so I left a whole stack of Post-it-notes with the first 5 pages saying "You Found Me!".