Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

All About Geocaching?

Posted by Cliff on from the high-tech-treasure-mapping-sport dept.

It doesn't come easy wonders: "While surfing the net, I ran across this commentary on Geocaching by Erin Joyce. My wife is keen on trying Geocaching one of these days and I began to wonder if anyone on Slashdot participates in this pastime? If you do, what do you use (equipment-wise) and what's your opinion on the sport?"

2 of 80 comments (clear)

  1. Have you tried the FAQ? by artifex2004 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nifty little FAQ right here.

    Personally, I think it's fun, except when I see a lot of people walking noisily to a location, with a handheld GPS out in the open, etc. The idea is to be circumspect and enjoy the environment or the weird urban places you visit, not how quickly you can cross a cache off your list as a hit. And when you're obvious about it, people who aren't geocachers might go looking for the cache and destroy it or walk off with it. It happens a lot.

  2. Re:I've gone a few times by artifex2004 · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Of course, I'm into the tech- technically, all you need is one of those cheap $50 recievers that gives you your current coordinates, speed and direction. But that's doing it the hard way.


    For some of us, it's the fun way, the more adventurous way. Go find that path. While you're looking around, you might learn a lot more about the place you're in, whether it be a park, a shopping center parking lot, etc.