v_morph

I live in a remote and mountainous are in Northern Mexico. There are some beautiful places near my home which I sometimes visit just for the hike and the view. I guess my questions regarding creating new caches are: 1. How difficult should it be for the average person? 2. Should we be concerned about safety? 3. What if the probability of getting lost is high? (even with a GPS--remember, mountainous terrain is seldom navigated in a straight line) 4. What if the terrain is so rugged you need special care in preparing for the hunt? (ie. trekking poles, camping gear, topo, first aid kit....etc) 5. As an extreme question to get my point accross, would you ever place a cache on Mt. Everest? (do not consider exess traffic of cachers in this question please) Would it be irresponsible because of the exposure to risky conditions you may be encouraging some hard-core cacher to place himself?

I live in a remote and mountainous are in Northern Mexico. There are some beautiful places near my home which I sometimes visit just for the hike and the view. I guess my questions regarding creating new caches are: 1. How difficult should it be for the average person? 2. Should we be concerned about safety? 3. What if the probability of getting lost is high? (even with a GPS--remember, mountainous terrain is seldom navigated in a straight line) 4. What if the terrain is so rugged you need special care in preparing for the hunt? (ie. trekking poles, camping gear, topo, first aid kit....etc) 5. As an extreme question to get my point accross, would you ever place a cache on Mt. Everest? (do not consider exess traffic of cachers in this question please) Would it be irresponsible because of the exposure to risky conditions you may be encouraging some hard-core cacher to place himself?

One may call it a game that may require the use of one or more sports. If you need to Scuba dive, mountain bike, climb or orienteer with a topo, then you are participating in a game which requires sports disciplines to accomplish. I think it is up to the cacher how close he/she takes it becoming a sport.

One may call it a game that may require the use of one or more sports. If you need to Scuba dive, mountain bike, climb or orienteer with a topo, then you are participating in a game which requires sports disciplines to accomplish. I think it is up to the cacher how close he/she takes it becoming a sport.

A couple of weeks ago, I had started a webpage on yahoo called MonterreyGPS to get the sport off the ground in Northern Mexico. I did not know about the website "geocaches.com" at all, but I had heard about the game itself on the news. I was very interested in participating. I actually created a cache point near where I live and published the coordinates on this page- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/monterreygps/ . I adivised interested participants to get a topo of the area, a compass and a GPS. While I was surfing the net, I came upon a GPS online store and entered one of the forums. I finally learned about the game and how big it is all over the world. I really was exited but what really blew my mind is that of all the caches in Mexico there was only one in Northern Mexico, and this cache was only 3.4 mile from my house. I just jumped on my mountain bike and found the cache within 30 minutes. It really was a great find. The thing that really made me happy is that the cache was placed by a highschool kid who lives in Houston, Tx and comes to visit his grandmother in the summer here in Mexico. The cache had been placed a couple of weeks ago, and I would bet that he didn't expect for someone in this little town to ever find the cache. I got an e-mail from him and he was very exited to know that someone had actually found his cache (GC6041). I will now create my own caches in this area and hope to get more people in Northern Mexico involved.

A couple of weeks ago, I had started a webpage on yahoo called MonterreyGPS to get the sport off the ground in Northern Mexico. I did not know about the website "geocaches.com" at all, but I had heard about the game itself on the news. I was very interested in participating. I actually created a cache point near where I live and published the coordinates on this page- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/monterreygps/ . I adivised interested participants to get a topo of the area, a compass and a GPS. While I was surfing the net, I came upon a GPS online store and entered one of the forums. I finally learned about the game and how big it is all over the world. I really was exited but what really blew my mind is that of all the caches in Mexico there was only one in Northern Mexico, and this cache was only 3.4 mile from my house. I just jumped on my mountain bike and found the cache within 30 minutes. It really was a great find. The thing that really made me happy is that the cache was placed by a highschool kid who lives in Houston, Tx and comes to visit his grandmother in the summer here in Mexico. The cache had been placed a couple of weeks ago, and I would bet that he didn't expect for someone in this little town to ever find the cache. I got an e-mail from him and he was very exited to know that someone had actually found his cache (GC6041). I will now create my own caches in this area and hope to get more people in Northern Mexico involved.

Ya encontré el primer geocache ubicado en Nuevo León. Fué muy divertido y tengo planeado crear un nuevo escondite. Estoy de acuerdo que la mejor manera de participar es en bici de montaña. Yo uso un e-Trex Vista.

Yo vivo en San Francisco, NL y ya puse un geocache no muy lejos de aquí. Tan pronto y me contesten con el código lo pueden comenzar a buscar. Espero que ésto pueda crecer en ésta region. [This message was edited by v_morph on June 18, 2002 at 11:33 AM.]

Yo vivo en San Francisco, NL y ya puse un geocache no muy lejos de aquí. Tan pronto y me contesten con el código lo pueden comenzar a buscar. Espero que ésto pueda crecer en ésta region. [This message was edited by v_morph on June 18, 2002 at 11:33 AM.]