How did you find out about geocaching?

[+beagle_camper]

how did you find out about geocaching?

 

my dad told me about it.

[+casey97]

Former fellow paintballer let me know about it. Talked to me about it several times. I finally went looking for a cache, and was hooked. This is much cheaper than paintball, even with the gas prices so high.

[+maldar]

There have been threads like this before, but what the hey?

 

I found out about it while reading the comic book, Knights of the Dinner Table. That was one of the funniest stories in the comic. I don't think I would ever have found out about it to this day if I never read that comic.

[simpjkee]

my dad told me and the rest is history

[+Trevuuuur1993]

My 8th grade science teacher did a lesson on new types of technology. She had us go out on to school grounds and find a box of candy with the gps. I already had a gps so gave it a try and have been hooked. I cache with my father.

[+Dawgies]

Reading about it on another forum back in June of 2002.

[+GIDEON-X]

Well it was back in the year of o1 I was on a retreat in the lower reaches of the Colorado River. I was camped on a mesa over looking the Mexican Borader..............When about mid day I had a vision, it was a Golden Can Of Beans with some strange numbers attached to it. I copied the numbers and took them to my local Shaman for translation..............they gave a location in the far Northwest. So I saddled up my pony and stated the trex.........and have not stopped as of yet in the year of 07....

[+popeye_tim]

how did you find out about geocaching?

 

A cow-orker (yes,he orks cows) told me bout it. Now he's stopped for some reason, and I'm taking over!

[jebwick]

I heard about caching from a friend that lives in Florida. He took me when I was in town on vacation. From there I just headed to the website and I've been caching ever since.

[+Sagefox]

Alaska Airlines in-flight magazine, November 19, 2001, flying to Sacramento from a family visit in Seattle.

 

When I got home my dad called to tell me about this new gps game my brother had just heard about. My brother and his wife (Wienerdog) found their first cache the same day we did on November 25th of that year and my dad is pretty much blown away that between the two of us we have been to over 7000 caches since then.

Edited November 4, 2007 by Team Sagefox

[J'nK]

Paper

[+Rockin Roddy]

Bought my Jeep.

[+Rockhound24]

I bought my GPS for rockhounding and when I installed the software I had to search the internet to find out what the hell a geocache manager was.

[+apetro]

A insert in the local paper. It was a little magazine called outdoor indiana. There was an artical about geocaching so I looked it up on the web, seen there was one in our towns cemetery. I put the coords in google earth and went out and found it. I was hooked, bought my gps soon after. Should have done some research on the gps before purchase tho! Got the explorist 200 at wally world on clearance. Didn't even know you could buy ones that could be downloaded onto, lol. There are no roads on this one except major highways and interstates, just makes it more of a challange I guess, but it's all I've known so far.

[+scorpio_dark]

how did you find out about geocaching?

 

my dad told me about it.

 

Saw a mention of it on some weekend magazine show on Discovery Channel. It stuck in the back of my mind.

 

Right after we bought our Jeep, I was looking up 4WD trails on google and stumbled across a listing on geocaches!

[+stellarscapes]

I was reading the Pocono Record one day and came acroos an article about it. And now I can`t stop caching. I even managed to get my daughters sixth grade science teacher into Geocaching.

Edited November 4, 2007 by stellarscapes

[+Lotho]

I found a cache accidentally

[no pinch and yllw jkt]

We were hiking a part of the Buckeye Trail in Ohio. A group of people were seeking a multi-cache and after finding it we met upon their return further down the trail. They shared with us what they were doing and gave us a paper copy of the Cahe listing. Using that I looked into the website and became hooked.

[+private bones]

I was searching for something on ebay and my key word accidentally pulled up an auction for an urban fake concrete nano container. I thought, Huh? What's up with this? Still on ebay, did a search for "geocaching" just to see what other interesting stuff would pop up. That led to looking at GPS auctions, which reminded me that years ago while involved in Canine Search and Rescue some of our teams were using a GPS but that was back in 99, they were expensive and of course not "allowed" to be all that accurate.

 

This led to a bit of reminiscing about missing my SAR life and the great outdoor experince (had a kid and new priorites took over). Then came the light bulb - hey.... geocaching is similar in many ways (except of course finding tupperware instead of people) AND I can take my 4 year old along for the game. Funny way to get into it, but here I am.

Edited November 4, 2007 by private bones

[+craftyperson]

We were having lunch at Saddle Creek one day. These people came up looking for something. Being nosey, I asked , what on earth are you looking for. They explained geo-caching, gave us the web site, and the rest is history. That was about 2 years and much fun ago. Thanks OBC, SLP, and HOBOs

Edited November 4, 2007 by craftyperson

[+TrailGators]

I got a GPS for Christmas five years ago and was looking for fun things to do with it. So I Googled for "fun with GPS" and geocaching came up. The rest is history!

[+awestberry]

I read "Scavenger" by David Morrell while on vacation. Geocaching was mentioned sveral times in the book. I thought it might have been made up by the author so I googled it and the addiction began.

[Chumpo]

I found a cache accidentally

 

You are an ex-muggle who deserves an award.

 

I discovered caching through Fark http://www.fark.com/ I read a story there about excited police with guns who shot up an ammo box. I did a search. My first reaction was Then it was That turned into which quickly became

Now I can't stop

[+weeziemi]

Okay, ready? A few years ago I got a GPS for hiking by myself. Wanted to be sure I got back out once I got in. Then I took a class on Geocaching while at a woman's weekend in Marquette, MI (BOW - Becoming an Outdoors Woman). Came home and tried it but was unsuccessful so being frustrated didn't try again. Next year while back in Marquette, the instructors were going out to hunt for a cache and invited others to go along - at 10 pm! After 2 nights of dark caching, I was hooked. The rest is history!

[+MickieD]

My daughter told me about geocaching. I'm so glad she did!

[+TeamCatalpa]

My friend Katerat brought her gps when she came over to visit for a weekend. A couple hours driving around later I was hooked.

 

Bought my own gps soon after and now geocaching ranks as high as kayaking on my list of Favorite Things To Do.

 

I was in heaven earlier today, caching while paddling!

[+KG1960]

On another forum that I participate in about rock collecting and rock polishing via tumbling and other methods, someone mentioned they do geocaching, briefly described it, and listed geocaching.com. I checked out the web site, it sounded interesting, and there were a couple of caches just a few miles from my house. It happened that we had an old Magellan GPS at work so I borrowed it over a weekend and found one cache. Liked it so much I bought my own GPS and here I am!

 

You should have seen this old GPS. It had a detached antenna with a 6 foot wire and an external battery pack that came with a belt to hold it around your waist. It must have been quite a sight wandering around with this thing!

[+Laserman]

how did you find out about geocaching?

 

 

Discusion of it in the wheres george forums, have not done much georging since I found geocaching.

[+HarleyPiper]

I've had a GPS since they first became available. One day, I did a Google search for GPS to see if I could find updated software. I got a hit on "geocaching" and the rest is family history... :-)

[+VirginiaGator]

From a thread on a Disney discussion board.

[+Rattlebars]

Started a snow plowing business in 2003 and got on eBay to find a suitable GPS to help find houses. While browsing, came up with GeoCaching. I had heard of it somewhere before but it came up frequently during our search. Turns out, we scored on what was (and still is) a double duty GPSr called the Magellan Meridian Color. Great for road maps, routes and excellent for "woodsy" kinda stuff like geocaching and not getting lost on your quad.

 

I have not tried any of the other GPSr (except a gecko which is darned accurate for such a small item) but our Meridian switches effortlessly from Street Routes to Waypoint "rubber bands" which makes it ideal for geocaching. Like it so much bought two more and formed Team Rattlebars.

Here's our Logo:

Our official patch which you see on our uniforms:

and US! I'm the youngster in the middle.

 

[+Dad&Mom&Mark]

I bought a Map60CX for Snowmobiling and ATVing and saw the Geocache Icon

Being inquisitive(nosey) I did a search and found all of you people out there skulking around.

Now I'm skulking too. The worst thing is our season is very short and there are only a

couple of locals into it (so far). It is a great passtime for my family and adds another

dimension to our vacations.

[+IANNA]

Make a long story short I found out from my mother who found out for a friend at church.

[+bigryry]

After talking with the science teacher he thought it would be a a great way to teach about GPS and Geocaching, they will get some lessons from the science teacher and some in my class (technology) I have only heard about geocaching and did not think i would like it, but a good friend of mine does this and we went out saturday for my fisrt time. lets say i really like it and now i am pumped to teach this unit, i think more so than the science teacher!!

[+kbraband]

In Feb. 2001 I had been a GPSr owner for about a year and was searching the Internet (this was pre-Google) for information about GPS user groups. I found a posting in a Yahoo users' group by a guy named Jeremy Irish suggesting that people check out a new GPS-based outdoor tracking game. I followed Jeremy's link and saw there were no active geocaches in Wisconsin, so about a week later during a business trip to Chicago, I found my first cache there. I came back to Wisconsin and hid my first cache.

[+Hiwbiwwy]

While researching a new GPS on Garmin's website I saw a link that said "Geocaching ready". So I clicked it and ended up here.

[+Libbyjones]

Friend from a web bulletin board on parenting that I've talked with since 1997. She mentioned her family needed to get moving and she had heard of geocaching and they were hooked. I thought it'd be a great idea to get my couch potato son out hiking. Hubby bought me a gps for my birthday in 2006 and we took off. I had heard of it sooner, but quite a bit ago when it still seemed out of reach for the average lay person to own a gps.

 

libbyjones

[littlehawkeyes]

I found out about caching accidentally, when I spotted a couriosly placed tudware container peaking out from behind a rock while hiking. I opened it up, saw the note describing that it was a geocache, and it was like: " Sign me up for this!"

[+Albin_Group]

I saw it on an episode of Law & Order:CI