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I just took a walk with my neighbor to some woods by the neighborhood we can hear yotes there most evenings. We found a couple dens and then the kids wanted to find geocaches. There were three nearby they found them all. Now they're hooked, we are going to find some more this weeke9bb8ce5975ff62cd37c96836a390179.jpg

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13 minutes ago, monahmat said:

I love geocaching. Get to enjoy the outdoors like hunting only I'm usually a lot more sucessful. My favorites are night caches and kayak caches.

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Not familiar with night caches?

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Not familiar with night caches?

The coordinates typically take you to a trailhead. Then from there you use flashlights to follow fire tacks like hunters use to mark their stands. There are a few different variants but usually 1 tack means carry on down the trail, two tacks means turn off the trail and three tacks means stop and start your search. They are great fun especially in a group of people. I've done ones as short as a few hundred yards and others as long as 5 miles.
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Anybody letterbox ? We used to a lot. You search out hand carved rubber stamps that you ink up and stamp in your logbook. You then stamp your signature stamp into logbook that's with stamp you found. It's all clues , no gps coordinates. Usually theme oriented. For instance I have a moose planted in AK, I dream of Jeannie at Cocoa beach , Mickey Mouse on Tom Sawyers island in Disney, MSU Sparty that is in view of bronze statue at Michigan State U We haven't boxed in a few years but used to a lot. Think we have 1800 finds and 250 plants. Even planted about 80 beer themed ones at Darien lake state park. Shel Silverstein series at Hunters creek is one of my favorite series I've planted. Some stamps took me countless hours to carve. Here's a few I carved e73291059ead7f1836b1c3f431ac592a.jpgfb26d2ca76b63487b2e2ac8a7931fd41.jpg664787a8a516007028fccedd3290ff99.jpgf7d36c721ae0c87d8e5afaca46bacbef.jpga7f21be8d442075bd290618aec50322a.jpgc528498e25c8fdae761f2d522424285a.jpg


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Some stamps took me countless hours to carve. Here's a few I carved


Great looking stamps! I enjoy geocaching more. A big reason being the web site is a lot more modern and usable. Occasionally I stumble upon letterboxes looking for geocaches. Funny how they often occupy the same areas.
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Great looking stamps! I enjoy geocaching more. A big reason being the web site is a lot more modern and usable. Occasionally I stumble upon letterboxes looking for geocaches. Funny how they often occupy the same areas.

Atlasquest is site we used and is great site. Owner of site hikes the Appalachian trail quite often. Lbna is totally second rate. Ha , we've found many geocaches looking for letterboxes


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Years ago I found one by accident at the Jump Off in Ontairo county park . I put the kids on a large fallen tree to take a pic and found an Altiods tin with some trinkets in it , had no,idea at the time what it was.

A few years ago my dept recused a couple looking for one in a tunnel that carries run off into the river gorge . There had been a lot of rain and they got trapped in there. They were very lucky that their cell phone worked in the tunnel . 

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1 hour ago, ncountry said:

Or you can use your smartphone with app..

Yeah I forgot about that. Need to have android system though. C geo.  I actually use both. Load the caches  I'm going to look for in phone and up date them then when out. I can read up for tips or see what others have said sometimes get clues from that as well.that and when have kids with they use GPS and I use phone.have a little Garmin hand held that thing is the best for caching. 

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Also look up bench marks through geo caching. They are old markers that were used by surveyors to find certain points and lines in the area. The ones you look for have kind of been lost. Meaning they know longer know if they are there. If you find it you take pic a log it then it is taken off such and put in records as still being ther r.  They are small metal disks set in concrete block. Usually marked by sign on tree . Some times sign and tree are gone.

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1 hour ago, Elmo said:

I hear it's a great way to get kids outdoors and exploring.  I'll wait a couple of more years and if my son is still into pirates, we'll definitely be doing some geocaching together.

Yea the kids love it. Especially the big ones that have things to trade. We have a pack we carry full of little things to swap out. Some have travel bugs that you take and put in another cache you find. Then go online to geocach.com and put it's number in and you can see every place it has been.I have found some that came from Europe, Canada all over the world

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