Interesting site for GPS users

[Smelt1]

I just was informed about this site for GPS users,http://www.geocaching.com/.It is a site for socalled treasure hunters using GPS systems to find hidden treasures in every state in the country.The wife and I are going to try it this weekend.Has anyone else tried doing this?

[billditrite]

good luck!!!hope you find some hidden treasures!!

[camo_fish]

very, very, innnnteresting. 

[BuckShotJon]

Yea see how much you love this stuff when the landowner at one place you decides its "cool" and puts one of these caches 20 yards from your treestand which sits in the best place of funnels on the land.... 

I know don't like it don't hunt there.....I have my own land that I own this place is just a great spot to hunt....was a great spot to hunt.

Nothing like seeing a family of 8 come walking in the woods at 7:30 am whith a nice buck that WAS approaching.

[rgfixit]

Smelt1,
Sounds like a lot of fun and a great family activity in the outdoors. I used to participate in Orienteering races. My kids loved it.  This idea is a bit more high tech than map and compass but the same idea.

We'd be handed a map and without a route had to navigate  to a finish point with lunch and a bunch of friends.  We all got to run around in the woods for the day.

When I was just a kid, my dad (a serious CB radio enthusiast) and I did "rabbit chases" with his radio club. One member would go out and "hide" and the rest would have to find him from his radio signal. Memories of roaming around with dad in our Rambler station wagon triangulating signals are still with me.

Sorry Jon, everyone has a right to enjoy the outdoors as they wish.
RG

[FishHawk]

Smelt,  my family and I have been Geocaching for about 6 months now.  When we travel for anything we usually stop to find a few caches along the way.  The kids ages, 20, 17 and 12 really enjoy it.  They really enjoy the ones that take a little detective work and problem solving skills to find. I usually don't like to give up the time from fishing but it keeps the kids and wife happy to spend an hour caching.  Additionally, I occasionally go out with just one of the kids for some one-on-one quality time.  We really enjoy that.  We get great exercise and have some great talks.  The kids love it when they find the cache before I do, especially the youngest.  As an added bonus it has motivated us to visit some real pretty and interesting areas that we might not of otherwise,  Its amazing how many great trails and parks there are that we have gone by dozen of times without ever enjoying them. 

So in a nutshell,  its a great family or individual activity and there are some people who are almost as fanatic about caching as I am about fishing. 

Let me know how you enjoy it.

Dan

(aka 4walls on geocache.com)