geoshelley

I have had my Evo for about a week and downloaded the geocache app also. I haven't done alot of geocaching in the past 3 years but now that it's getting cooler and things have slowed down...I'm ready to go again. Can you please explain to me if I can get driving directions and then switch to a compass of some sort? I'm probably not using the EVO to the full extent (duh) but am fixing to go on a trip to Louisville and would like to figure out all the bells and whistles before I go...:-).

I'm not sure if any women have replied, but YES I do carry when I'm out caching with my kids and my husband isn't with us. In Oklahoma we have concealed carry and I legally carry my pistol. I grew up in Mississippi so I'm used to killing snakes, etc. But there have been a couple of times I've gone with the kids and in the heat of the hunt gone farther off the beaten track than I meant to, and started feeling pretty uncomfortable. Or we started caching and oops it got to dark and where we parked isn't crowded anymore except for three drunk druggies. Never had to use it, but glad to have it with me.

So if your GPS is lost when Geocaching, does that mean someone needs to invent a GPS to find lost GPSs?????????? just curious!

Don't get discouraged, you've had some great advice so far. Today we went out and this one microcache had most of the family ready to give up...my son kept looking and looking and it was in this silver metal box thing and it looked like a screw that belonged on this box. very clever...but if that had been one of our first ones, we never would have looked that long. Funny story...we took one of my son's friends out geocaching. Told him how much FUN it was. Decided to be the FTF (first to find a new cache.) Well...........after 45 minutes of getting muddy, sliding down hills into rocks, then getting wet, we still couldn't find it. Come to find out I'd put the coordinates in the GPS wrong. Went back the next day with the correct coordinates, plus a couple of clues from people who HAD found it the first day, found it in about 5 minutes. We get to the 0 mark on the GPS and then do a 30-40ft circle to find the cache. Since we've started doing that our find time has decrease ALOT. one hint try to find geocaches near parks so if the kids get bored they have something else to do or bring a football, jump rope, bikes, soccer ball etc. just in case. Sometimes I bake cookies or have something special at the end of our searching. The kids get hungry and so do I. Good luck...pretty soon you will learn what to look for and in and you will get more finds than not finds.

We are a family of six so it's very hard for us to do ANYTHING without someone noticing. Although we try to be stealth, we aren't very successful. I'm sure we have gotten strange looks when six people walk out of forested area looking really happy and shouting "I found it, I found it." But we have never been stopped by any officer of the law that I know of! I'm in Oklahoma City and most of the caches we have found are around a lake which has a well used bike path. I fear getting hit by someone riding 100mph on a bike more than a cop. And some of the wrong places we have searched have been quite full of poison ivy, sticker bushes and straight drop offs. Isn't it AMAZING how simple it is to get out from the cache site once you know where it is???? So just like everyone else said...find an easy one that you can get to from a parking lot. Or better still...find someone who geocaches in your area and have them go with you on your first find. Good luck and let us know when you get your first find! [

I was sitting here the day after Christmas wondering if anyone has ever hid Christmas or birthday presents and given the coordinates to the recipiant and had them find their presents? If so did you just have them go to one place or to several before they received their gift???? blessings, geoshelley

Hi our family of 6 has found 3 caches so far and we are hooked. My mom bought my dad a Garmin 12xl a couple of years ago and he wasn't using it, so he gave it to use for FREE!! What do yall think of that brand? And also I've read everywhere about TB but I'm still not sure what they are, can anyone give me a 2nd grade explanation please? blessings, geoshelley