Take a Kid out caching!

2k · March 20, 2007

Hello all,

As some of you may know (and some not), the Alberta Geocachers have a lovely Wild Rose coin which was created to promote geocaching and the enjoyment it offers. The production and sale of this coin resulted in some coins being given to the group in order to give them away!!!! whoo-hoo!

So! Here is the deal.

Take a Kid out Caching.

Post photos here of families enjoying the wonderful hobby of geocaching. At the end of the month, we will RANDOMLY draw out 10 posts (those that have photos) and give away 10 Wild Rose Alberta coins.

Have fun!

March 20, 2007

Easy!

1.6k · March 20, 2007

Easy too! We vowed to make sure our little guy grew up in an active home - so, hes our caching buddy! Will be three in a few weeks, and he LOVES the outdoors!

3.1k · March 20, 2007

Here is some of our girls while out caching:

They found this special cache that was just for them in Utah by the Cache-U-Nuts.

In Oklahoma caching in the snow. Our first snow find. They loved the snow!

Our oldest at the during a 6 mi round-trip hike to find a Snipe Hunt night cache.

Here she is after the hike and she is tired, but they found the cache!

I am sure I can find some more pics. We have tons.

Our oldest wanted a Alberta Rose and she almost got one at GeocoinFest in the raffle her number was called and as we were waiting in line at the prize table she saw one there but one of the people in front of us got it for their raffle prize. So she picked the FTF Card Game instead and we have had fun playing that!

Thank you Alberta Geocachers for holding this contest.

Edited March 20, 2007 by ParentsofSAM

March 20, 2007

The 5littlemonkeys love geocaching.

March 20, 2007

Dang! Wish I had seen this b4 Sunday. Wife, 12 y/o, and I found 7. Could have taken some great pictures. Will get some soon to enter.

2.8k · March 20, 2007

I took the youngest out this morning...

Here's a shot of Brenda from our outing on Sunday...

March 20, 2007

1st Find

500th Find

Our little dudes are the best caching buddies and have been with us for a lot of our finds and

almost all of the events/dashes we attend!

1.7k · March 20, 2007

As you can see we're not abject to taking our little one out in her PJ's for a FTF!

2k · March 20, 2007

This is really awesome guys! Keep those photos coming!

Every photo has something I love -- a SMILE!

Just so everyone knows - the drawing will be random. There is no way I am going to pick one child over another!!!!! haha!

So, enter away!

March 20, 2007

What a great idea...my kids love caching. And besides the find, they love to log trackables...

Luke with the log...

Sara with the cache

1.1k · March 20, 2007

What a cool contest....here are a few pics of the kids in our group that visited Virgin Falls Pocket Wilderness!

Here is a picture in the Smoky Mountains of when me and my younger sister went caching:

March 20, 2007

Oh, gee, an opportunity to show off my kids? Can't miss that!

Here are GrouchoMark (daddy) and ToriExplorer at the Bumby Camp cache.

Including the bonus cache to the Persimmon Mound, it was a total of 9.5 miles, so we took several breaks.

Here are pictures at one of my favorite caches, the Maritime Hammock in Melbourne Beach, Florida. The scenery is absolutely gorgeous! This walk was about a mile, so ConnorCacher came, too!

Thanks for the opportunity to share!

March 20, 2007

Let's just say that things were going ok until "Billy" wanted the GPS.....stupid take a kid caching game.....

Edited March 20, 2007 by D@nim@l

March 20, 2007

Here you go, this is my 4 year old littlebit.

March 20, 2007

I better get busy then and have another kid! Nah, been there done that, just gettin busy is fine but having another kid is out.

March 20, 2007

Too many pictures here. I don't know where to stop. Taking our kids and other kids out is the funnest part of Geocaching for us!

Edited March 20, 2007 by hobbycachegirl

9.3k · March 20, 2007

This is a picture of our daughter, Munchkin, at our Reading is for the Birds cache.

1.9k · March 20, 2007

I just took a crew of 8 for their 2nd cache, the first time I had no camera but here are some pics of my friends kids and their cousins from So. Cal. I took them to my cache while out playin some Disc golf.

A FREE FOR ALL!

Little D and his GeoClaw- He just had to have it!

Dont they look happy- Its only their 2nd cache- While we were playin some Disc, she asked me "are there any of those little GeoBoxes around"- I said "were takin a Detour"

It was great fun and the kids loved it! Kids and caching just go hand in hand!

1.4k · March 20, 2007

and my personal favorite

1.4k · March 20, 2007

One of grand-daughter Sasha's first finds (Ely, Nevada)

Oldest grand-child Kaelinn caching with us along the Jordan River

1.1k · March 20, 2007

We have a ton of cool caching pics taken while caching as a family. I just can't post them all, so here's a few.

Arrrgh!! and Rock Star Sarah find Grrrl's Rock !!! (GCGKJ8)

Arrrgh!!, MamaMia and Rock Star Sarah pose around the giant flywheel at Mill-a-ped (GC1861)

Rock Star Sarah proudly shows off the prize at Masonic Overlook (GC5F82)

Rock Star Sarah, Arrrgh!! and tom4props found Pali Cave (GCH33H)

GranMa Dee, MamaMia, Rock Star Sarah, Arrrgh!! and Cousin Daniel found Iris Island (GCX5F1)

Rock Star Sarah and Arrrgh!! get their feet wet at Escondido Falls (GCJME1)

Rock Star Sarah, GranMa Dee, Arrrgh!! and Cousin Daniel found CITO Falls (GCVM61)

Okay, time to stop myself. I have an endless supply of pics of my kids caching. Hope you enjoy them.

Happy caching!

Edited March 20, 2007 by tom4props

1.5k · March 20, 2007

Does kealia count? He acts like a kid the vast majority of the time!

March 20, 2007

I’ve been taking the Bug Crew caching with me for almost 4 years. And the “crew” grows larger every year.

This was Noah and Marisa’s first cache in June of 2003. He had just turned 3 and she had just turned 2. I called them the B Crew (for Baby).

Otteria (aged 3) joined the “B Crew” in May of 2005 and they officially became “The Bug Crew”.

Then Angel (aged 10) started caching with us June of 2006.

They have been to more playgrounds, in more cities, than I can count. The playgrounds are as a big a draw for them as “finding treasure”.

Windrose

March 20, 2007

trying to make this thread a bit more global. This is team Franky639 from the Netherlands with Ilse when she was little. Now she is 4 years and she has already found many caches in Holland.

Edited March 20, 2007 by delta123

1.8k · March 20, 2007

Caching twins double the trouble ...er...I mean double the fun.

Cache clean up...double the pick-er-upers!

Twins finding the first cache placed in the houston area.

Twins on their Second coin quest.

Twins on the glass beach..Cali baby!

Twins in the Cascade Mountains...WA.

Ok i'll stop now I have lots more where those come from.

Fun thread young man.

Pepper

March 20, 2007

I have really enjoyed seeing the photos posted in this thread.

So here is a pic of my oldest son entering a contest to win a Kilted Cacher Geocoin. (He won a coin)

And here is a pic of my youngest son at the APE cache in Joliet

Thanks LFD, for starting this thread

2.8k · March 20, 2007

I love this thread...it made me go thru our old pictures. Here's the girls with their usual caching buddies:

When I took the Girl Scout troop to a CITO...

Our girls and their cousins...

March 20, 2007

Nothing like taking kids to a gator bait cache!

We bring friends along all the time. Sometimes mamacache only takes the friend! LOL!

1.4k · March 21, 2007

Me (on the left) with Geocachingdragon and his two little dragons. If this post gets drawn, the winner would be geocachingdragon, since he had to carry his littlest dragon most of the time!

1.4k · March 21, 2007

At "Barnyard with a View" in Bracebridge. The masks are part of the cache!

Jakob at "Rocky Lighthouse" in Meaford. Here, the saying "don't step on a crack..." refers to your own back!

Jakob at "Georgian Bay Series: Christie Beach". We found the cache, but didn't move on for close to an hour while we explored these rocks off shore. Had to walk through super-squishy clay to get there, and almost fell in many times!

The Kritter and I at "Killarney - The Crack". By the time we hiked all the way up there, climbed to the top of one of the pillars for lunch, and generally hung around, we completely forgot to look for the cache! I realized it after we started the descent, but it was too late.

Geocaching on Toronto Islands. These huge ribbons hanging in the tree were good for a half hour diversion.

Jake and The Kritter, Bracebridge, 2005.

March 21, 2007

Here's a few pictures

This is my daughter, Stellar Jr., showing off an ammo box at an event.

This is my daughter, Stellar Jr., along with Zane the Stellar Geo-Dog after

finding a cache.

This is my daughter, Stellar Jr., with a friend of hers who is now a geocacher.

They just found the cache and are looking through the ammo box.

4.9k · March 21, 2007

I don't have kids but I drag my niece and nephew with me

Abbie and Little Gabe in York, Montana

Abbie and Little Gabe by the Missouri River under Canyon Ferry Dam

These are my real kids Cowboy and Dakota (had to put them in)

3.1k · March 21, 2007

Alright after going through some pictures here are my entries. These pictures where taken while doing cache maintenance. The water was way to deep for my daughter to make the trek, so Dad to the rescue!!

Note the water line on the shirt.

My reward for the safe journey.

Boo_Boo and Damenace

3.1k · March 21, 2007

How many times can we post pictures?

March 21, 2007

Puplets with a travel bug:

The princess helping with a virt:

Plenty of pictures not uploaded...

It's hard to get out for the more difficult hikes since they want to go treasure hunting with me every time

2k · March 21, 2007

You can post as many times as you like! However, only one entry per cacher will be placed in the drawing. (to be fair).

I guess I should also post "Princess Maddie" here as well. "Earthcache Kid" has also been caching, but I don't have the photos handy at the moment.

This is us getting ready to place some caches - I think we hid somewhere around 8 that day.

Edited March 21, 2007 by Lemon Fresh Dog

2k · March 21, 2007

Don't have a picture but took all 4 out tonight after dark and found one. They just loved it.

3.1k · March 21, 2007

Boo_Boo at one of the Hobo Events

Boo_Boo at one of the local parks caching

Boo_Boo on top of a mountain after solving a puzzle cache

1.2k · March 21, 2007

Lots of cute kids in this thread ... awwwwww

Since I'm a CAC local, I guess that I'm not eligible but I guess that I gotta brag about my granddaughter lil seeker

Doing some benchmarking

Out with grandpa nicolo

Working on an earthcache with grandpa nicolo ( she looks scared! )

lil seeker finds her first lame micro,

Another benchmark in downtown Calgary

Edited March 21, 2007 by nicolo

March 21, 2007

This looks like a fun thread. My niece Melissa loves going geocaching with me. Her geocaching name is Messa. All she wanted for Christmas was her own GPSr two years ago. She did win one in the Magellan contest which is very near and dear to her.

Enjoy!

AuntieNae

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The cache was called "Hibernating" and she thought the container was all too cute. <p>

AuntieNae & Messa at the Indian Trail Tree.

Edited March 21, 2007 by AuntieNae

March 21, 2007

I thought I better give some press time to my boyfriend's son Mathew. They geocache under the name "The Tapps".

Enjoy

AuntieNae

The Tapps Sr & Jr at the Fox6 News Geocache January 07

The Tapps Jr with our friends Gr8 Eyes and Lego Lover at the Hobo Springs Earthcache

And. a photo of Messa and The Tapps Jr together

Edited March 21, 2007 by AuntieNae

March 21, 2007

Here is one of me and my daughter Ina on her first cache trip

22k · March 21, 2007

My daughter. a PM working on her 100th find.

I know he's not a my kid or even a kid, but I did adopt him as a newbie cacher and helped him grow.

Edited March 21, 2007 by BlueDeuce

March 21, 2007

Sorry I don't know how to post a picture.

We take our boys every time we go treasure hunting.

Just tonight when I was tucking my youngest in and about to turn the light out he told me/asked me to go treasure hunting tomorrow.

We take a photo at every find (as long as we remember to take the camera!)

No treasure hunting if they have needed time out for bad behavour.

22k · March 21, 2007

Sorry I don't know how to post a picture.

First the photo has to be on the internet somewhere. You can load it to your profile here if you don't have a place for it. A lot of people also use photobucket.com, flickr.com or one of the other photo storage sites.

Once it is loaded somewhere, click on it and cut the URL. It will look something like this:

http://www.geocaching.com/yourimage.jpg

or

http://www.photobucket.com/yourimage.jpg

When you go to post in the forum, above the text box you will see a line above that has some letters followed by tiny icons (B I U S A and some pics) Click on , then paste the URL you previously cut out in the box and click OK.

That's it.