NickPick Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 I'd owned the Etrex for about 3 years, using it for work and linking to my palm and its old navigation software. I was looking on the internet for a software to show routelogs with maps, and I came across a "What to do with your GPS" sit, which linked to geocaching. I use the GPSr a lot more now! Quote Link to comment
+Jolly green giants Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 (edited) We discovered it because Sensei TSKC went on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and onand on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on hey but were grateful for it Edited January 3, 2006 by Jolly green giants Quote Link to comment
+marknhelen Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 Used my GPS in the army. Getting lost and having to ask directions on the way to the war would look a bit uncool and go against the image of an lean mean green fighting machine (stop sniggering at the back, I was once - my mum told me). When I left the army I kept it and stumbled onto the website one day (but don't remember how). Quote Link to comment
+macroderma Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 Thought a handheld GPS was a really Good Idea (it's a gadget and I'm a bloke right?) Did the traditional Google search to find out what people throught about the various GPSrs Someone described the etrex legend as wonderful, so good in fact that he had found his first geocache 'Wonder what that is?' I thought Blinds opened, curtains drawn back, pennies fell from eyes, light dawned - what a great idea!!! Been hooked ever since Dam you geocaching.com! [and I know that is misspelt!) Quote Link to comment
+woZere Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 The bedlingtonduo took us round our home patch and give us a local history lesson with the aid of their GPS and we were then hooked on caching. Quote Link to comment
+Kitty Hawk Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 One of my mates is both gadget mad and loaded. I had a family skiing holiday booked and thought it might be useful if we had walkie talkies in case we got seperated on the mountains. He recommended a garmin rino - walkie talkie and gps unit that tells you where the person is that you are talking to. So that lead me to GPS websites and from there, a link from one of them to GC.com was all it took. I found the 1st cache before I had the GPS and I ended up getting a Vista and separate walkie talkies. Quote Link to comment
+Rick-a-mortis Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 my kids and i were invited to a CITO event, we are rick-a-mortis and the tribe of 4 what a cool spot, we get to get to do things all over the country that we would never have gone to before. also to communicate with people from overseas kind regards from Tauranga, Bay Of Plenty, North Island, New Zealand Quote Link to comment
+weston wanderer Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 As a long distance walker (LDWA anyone?) bought an etrex on ebay. Seller sent two by mistake and asked me to sell the spare for him which I did at a walking event in Sheringham Norfolk. The chap who bought it said it was for his daughter to go geocaching with. Looked up this strange word on the net and was instantly hooked! I now bore ebveryone by telling them about my latest obsession! Quote Link to comment
+M0GEJ Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 I found out through Bookcrossing. Someone hid a book in my local patk for me to find. When we were emailing each other later, she mentioned that she had found out about bookcrossing through a book she had found in a geocache. I was curious to see what geocaching was, and eventually ended up on the geocaching website. I had a go looking for a cache in the grounds of a local church (which I found without a gps). I enjoyed that enough to go out and buy an etrex. Quote Link to comment
+daytribe Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 I stumbled upon the website through a search engine, while researching which GPS to buy. Quote Link to comment
+flipflopnick Posted March 5, 2006 Share Posted March 5, 2006 was given an etrex as long service award by employer. Bought a serial connector that night, online. Then walked on map memory and route stored in etrex, over next 6 months as a challenge. Then Robbos suggested Gc .... and rest is recorded under my profile. Quote Link to comment
Team Morris Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 My brother called me up on a dreary morning and asked if I wanted to go treasure hunting and I responded yea when I was 10. He said it is a new tech game, so I said yes and we found some. I borrowed afirend GPSr and did a few more then forgot about it. This year we got our own GPSr and the little ones love it. Quote Link to comment
+Alibags Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 My brother called me up on a dreary morning and asked if I wanted to go treasure hunting and I responded yea when I was 10. He said it is a new tech game, so I said yes and we found some. I borrowed afirend GPSr and did a few more then forgot about it. This year we got our own GPSr and the little ones love it. Hang on, if geocaching started in 2000 and you were 10 when you started caching, even assuming you started right at the beginning of the sport/hobby/addiction, it's only 2006 now, so please explain 'little ones' Eek! Quote Link to comment
+Woody's Wanderers Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 Andy33 told me all about it, but I didn't think much more on it. Then Walton Wanderer (soon to be Andy33's son-in-law and finace of my wife's best friend) got a gps for TA stuff. He took me out to do a cache and show me what it did (strangely, one of Andy33's. Keep it in the family!) and I was hooked!! It wasn't long before my wife, Annette, came with me and she was hooked too! I had to change our id from Woody's Wanderer to Woody's Wanderers This w/end we completed Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs.....with Walton Wanderer and fiancee!! Quote Link to comment
+wizard1974uk Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 I discovered the term when reading a blog. Quote Link to comment
+Alboy Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 I was trying to sort out a TomTom problem for my PDA on a PDA forum and saw a reference to geocaching and followed the link! I already had a PDA and GPS so it's been a cheap start up for me so far. Have yet to meet any other cachers but keeping my eyes out! Quote Link to comment
+wizard1974uk Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 I was trying to sort out a TomTom problem for my PDA on a PDA forum and saw a reference to geocaching and followed the link! I already had a PDA and GPS so it's been a cheap start up for me so far. Have yet to meet any other cachers but keeping my eyes out! You'll mainly see me lurking around canal towpaths, sliding all over the place. Quote Link to comment
+bassqee Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 It came up in a topic on a designer toy forum I frequent about a year ago. I thought it looked cool, but did not want to shell out on a GPS (was a poor student then!). About two months ago the topic reappeared and after some deleiberation i decided to buy a GPS and have a try. Colin Quote Link to comment
+purple_pineapple Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 (edited) Then Walton Wanderer (soon to be Andy33's son-in-law and finace of my wife's best friend) ..... Great typo!!! looks like finance at first glance Edited March 7, 2006 by purple_pineapple Quote Link to comment
+Woody's Wanderers Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 Then Walton Wanderer (soon to be Andy33's son-in-law and finace of my wife's best friend) ..... Great typo!!! looks like finance at first glance Don't tell! All 3 of them are teachers! I'll never live it 'dwon'!! Quote Link to comment
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