+The Jester Posted June 22, 2005 Share Posted June 22, 2005 Lots of great ideas, but how about some stories of what *you* actually do rather than ideas of what might be compatible? You can check out the thread here to see how I combined vacationing and climbing with caching. We saw a whole lot of the western states with some interesting stops for caching (other interesting stops were for other things with caching thrown in). Our secondary theme of the trip was railroading/steam trains, there are a lot of caches related to that. Quote Link to comment
+Team Beer Posted June 22, 2005 Share Posted June 22, 2005 Touring Vineyards has turned out to be a good way for me get out and do some caching AND spend some quality time with my wife. she has even been a good enough sport to log some finds herself. We did the Connecticut wine trial, which is a series of vineyards across the state and got us to parts we wouldn't normally go, alot caching has. Quote Link to comment
hide & seekers Posted July 22, 2005 Share Posted July 22, 2005 I always like hiking with my dog so I naturally take her with me on most cache hunting expeditions. My husband and I like biking on rail trails. We haven't attempted any rail trail caches yet, but I hope to in the future. Not sure how this will work out, but we also enjoy trail riding our off-road dirt bikes. Not sure if there's any caches hidden in our out-of-state riding areas. I DO know that I'm not talented enough to ride and watch a GPS at the same time! I've always like craft projects, so on the flip side, geo-caching has brought out my crafty side as I create swag items. Quote Link to comment
+Fergus Posted July 22, 2005 Share Posted July 22, 2005 I'm in the SCA. A few members of my local barony have started geocaching from me talking about geocaching at meetings. My siginaure trade item is a chainmail juggling ball. I mostly make chainmail for my SCA hobby. Geocaching gives me a chance to share my chainmail with people who would never see it. Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted July 22, 2005 Share Posted July 22, 2005 (edited) I'm in the SCA. A few members of my local barony have started geocaching from me talking about geocaching at meetings. My siginaure trade item is a chainmail juggling ball. I mostly make chainmail for my SCA hobby. Geocaching gives me a chance to share my chainmail with people who would never see it. Hey, I thought this guy was the only one who mixed geocaching and dressing up in chain mail: Taken at this cache. Edited July 22, 2005 by briansnat Quote Link to comment
+Team Red Oak Posted July 22, 2005 Share Posted July 22, 2005 Hey we're in the SCA too (although not as active as we once were) and we're not geeky, at least we never thought so... oh gosh maybe we are. Now that I know other SCA folk in our area cache, I may just start leaving hand woven trim in some caches. I'll have to look Fergus' caches to start with in a few weeks. Dawn from Team Red Oak Bryn from House Red Oak (small and unknown in Atlantia) Quote Link to comment
+dingermcduff Posted July 23, 2005 Share Posted July 23, 2005 I always take binoculars when I cache so I can watch birds, my cache logs often include notes about the birds I observed. I have also placed a couple of caches in fine birding locations. Another compatible hobby is picking wild edibles. A cache is so much better if I can eat blueberries, thimbleberries, boisenberries, raspberries, strawberries, cherries, cranberries, or my favorite, blackberries on the way. I also like to harvest morels when I'm fortunate enough to get a cache in a good area. Also, I found one of my hide locations while hunting grouse--just stumbled on this beautiful lake. Quote Link to comment
+danewillow Posted July 23, 2005 Share Posted July 23, 2005 We combined geocaching with travel and hiking. We saw some beautiful sights in Maine thanks to the caches. They led us down trails we wouldn't have found on our own. Maia the geocaching Great Dane puppy combines her hobby of stick chewing with geocaching. Quote Link to comment
icenav Posted July 23, 2005 Share Posted July 23, 2005 0101010001100001011010110110010100100000011101110110100001100001011101000010000001111001011001010010000001100011011000010110111000101100001000000110011101101001 01110110011001010010000001101110011011110111010001101000011010010110111001100111 001000000110001001100001011000110110101100100001 01001001011001100010000001111001011011110111010100100000011001110110100101110110 01100101001000000110111001101111011101000110100001101001011011100110011100100000 01100010011000010110001101101011001011000010000001111001011011110111010100100000 01110111011010010110110001101100001000000111001101101111011011110110111000100000 01100100011001010111000001101100011001010111010001100101001000000111010001101000 0110010100100000011000110110000101100011011010000110010100100001 0101011101101111011101110010000001111001011011110111010100100000011001110111010101111001011100110010000001100001011100100110010100100000011100100110010101100001011011000110110001111001001000000110011101100101011001010110101101110011 Quote Link to comment
+edscott Posted July 24, 2005 Share Posted July 24, 2005 I am surprised only one person has mentioned Orienteering... Although geocaching during a race is impossible, the sport gets me into good caching terrain and I usually go for a few caches after my run. I use geocaching to keep my map reading skills sharp. I use a USGS map for rough navigation to the vicinity of a cache, then an aerial photo to find the cache itself. Quote Link to comment
+dykediva Posted July 24, 2005 Share Posted July 24, 2005 I already scrapbook and now I have just one find under my belt BUT of course I took a photo to scrapbook! WOOHOO! Quote Link to comment
+aweltz Posted August 8, 2005 Share Posted August 8, 2005 Well, here's mine...not quite as healthy as some of the others... I moved to SW Indiana about five years ago from South Carolina. I was immediately shocked to learn that there were no Waffle House restaurants within 1 hours drive of the area in any direction. Zero. None. Thus, for the past 5 years, I have been making the occasional drive loop south into Kentucky to visit America's favorite place to eat. Now that I have discovered geocaching, these pleasant weekend excursions will be augmented by nearby cahce finds as I wind my way around Waffle House country. It also helps burn off some of the fat calories... Quote Link to comment
Shoobie & the Sand Crabs Posted August 8, 2005 Share Posted August 8, 2005 climbing fourteener Of course I walked write past a geocache at 14,200 some feet and I even had my GPS but I had no idea it was there ARGGHHH! Sorry it was just a place to vent oh yah I couldva added another state Quote Link to comment
+HoundGrrls Posted August 8, 2005 Share Posted August 8, 2005 Dog training. Parks offer harder distractions than can be had at dog shows so my puppers are proofed when we enter the ring. Quote Link to comment
+Teamhawaii1981 & blueicyrose Posted August 8, 2005 Share Posted August 8, 2005 I'll second fishing. Always good to be able to fish, then cache, then leave. Here's one: Dating. What could be a better date then bringing someone on a cache. Although it would be better if you know them so they don't get freaked out by the whole walk in the woods thing... Quote Link to comment
+KJ&MShelly Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 (edited) 0101010001100001011010110110010100100000011101110110100001100001011101000010000001111001011001010010000001100011011000010110111000101100001000000110011101101001 01110110011001010010000001101110011011110111010001101000011010010110111001100111 001000000110001001100001011000110110101100100001 01001001011001100010000001111001011011110111010100100000011001110110100101110110 01100101001000000110111001101111011101000110100001101001011011100110011100100000 01100010011000010110001101101011001011000010000001111001011011110111010100100000 01110111011010010110110001101100001000000111001101101111011011110110111000100000 01100100011001010111000001101100011001010111010001100101001000000111010001101000 0110010100100000011000110110000101100011011010000110010100100001 0101011101101111011101110010000001111001011011110111010100100000011001110111010101111001011100110010000001100001011100100110010100100000011100100110010101100001011011000110110001111001001000000110011101100101011001010110101101110011 Yes, I think they are geeks too. For those that can't read or write english-- 0101100101100101011100110010110000100000010010010010000001110100011010000110100101101110011010110010000001110100011010000110010101111001001000000110000101110010011001010010000001100111011001010110010101101011011100110010000001110100011011110110111100101110 I guess everyone can tell what our other hobby is. There are 10 types of people in this world, those that can read binary and those that can't. Edited August 14, 2005 by KJ&MShelly Quote Link to comment
+deimos444 Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 Getting outdoors, photography, camping and just general fooling around. It is also exposing me to a segment of society of which I had not been aware. semi sane people such as myself. Even though I have not met any of them yet. Quote Link to comment
+graveyard mom Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 I photograph cemeteries. Actually helping out the local historical society in locating and updating records on them. Geocaching is something we can do along the way when we are spending the day "graving" and in fact I've located at least a handful of cemeteries because someone placed a cache there and I hadn't been able to find them previously. So my GPSr is half-full of coords of caches and half-full of coords to cemeteries! I also have started looking for benchmarks while out there-I love finding them! Quote Link to comment
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