+kwonchoba Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 well i have heard about this before and its summer vacation and nothing to do so why not. got the app for my droid and printed off 5 pages of local places to find. gonna get up early and start doing some searching. looks to be around 5 or 10 with in 5 miles of my house so it should be fun. wish me luck! Quote Link to comment
+sixsix210 Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 Have fun, and don't get discouraged. You probably will not find them all but the best part about NOT finding them is that it gives you a chance to go out again! Have fun! Quote Link to comment
+Stealth Bobber Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 Have fun.....you are gonna get hooked I can tell you that right now.....and please come back and tell us how it went! Quote Link to comment
+eusty Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 Start with an easy difficulty level first, and look for the bigger sized caches Quote Link to comment
+Jayman11 Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 Good luck! And, welcome to the fun! Quote Link to comment
+Ginirover Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 Enjoy and let us kow how it worked out ! As eusty said : start with an easy one, that's encouraging and so you can build your way up.... Quote Link to comment
+kwonchoba Posted July 12, 2011 Author Share Posted July 12, 2011 sooo went out to try a few today. downloaded an app but it wasnt working out so well. so i bought the $10 one and it works good. ( if you have singal in that area) haha. didnt get to find any but deff fun. will be going out tomorrow to spend more time trying. Quote Link to comment
+eusty Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 Glad it went ok Which ones did you go after? Large easy ones? Hope you have more luck tomorrow...sometimes you hit a bad patch other times you find them all! Quote Link to comment
+kwonchoba Posted July 12, 2011 Author Share Posted July 12, 2011 yea but most of the close ones were the smallest thing . honestly maybe i just dont know what i am looking for either haha Quote Link to comment
+Jayman11 Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 Small ones can be very tricky. Once you get into it for a little while you will start to see the obvious or not so obvious places for those liitle guys to hide. Some can be as small as the eraser on a pencil. Start off with ones in the woods that are medium-large size caches. Quote Link to comment
+kwonchoba Posted July 12, 2011 Author Share Posted July 12, 2011 so i couldnt end the day with out finding one cache. so i went back out to my first stop of the day at Old Academy GC235VA. walked around the whole building id say a good 10 times or so. tired getting a gps signal the whole time but it was not working out. i got in my truck to go home and tried for gps once more and got it! i jumped out and started following the radar and finally was on top of it or atleast the radar said so. so i grabbed my gloves and started looking. WOW it was hidden well! left a lego block and picked up a little army man. cant wait to go out tomorrow bright and early! Quote Link to comment
+popokiiti Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Congratulations on your first find! You'll get to know other clues also, such as the cachers' trail in the woods, the absence of spider webs at one hole only in an urban/woodland/park parking lot, the glint of fishing line out of the corner of your eye, and the sudden blocking of the sun by a camouflaged cigar holder. Keep your eyes open, think "where would I hide it" and use the additional hint (clue). Piles of bark are a give away too...... Quote Link to comment
+kwonchoba Posted July 13, 2011 Author Share Posted July 13, 2011 yea i have a few planned all close to home and each other for tomorrow morning. hopping to get them done! Quote Link to comment
jadenrich2101 Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 The nanos can be as tricky or as easy as the CO makes them...Hes one that i just recently found on a series and dad had to take a picture.....Now when lookin at the picture imagin the space alot smaller and lots more twigs and leaves...this pic was taken on my dads top notch camera..... Quote Link to comment
+kwonchoba Posted July 14, 2011 Author Share Posted July 14, 2011 well went out this morning and afernoon and ended up finding 4! i am hooked on geocaching now! came home and planned out a whole bunch for tomorow. gonna try to get atleast 5 or so! got my bike fixed up and in the truck incase i need to bike. just better to have it in there. having a blast doing this cant wait to keep finding more and more Quote Link to comment
+CacheFreakTim Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 Welcome aboard! To make it easy go for the regular and larger caches. Micro's can be super hard to find for newbies. Quote Link to comment
+kwonchoba Posted July 14, 2011 Author Share Posted July 14, 2011 Funny you say that. 3/5 of the ones I have foubf have been key holders lol Quote Link to comment
+kwonchoba Posted July 15, 2011 Author Share Posted July 15, 2011 Well went out today and didnt find any. Way to hot and wasnt feeling. I am using the Groundspeak app the $9.99 one for my andriod phone and aound here I dont get good signal. Was wondering if it would be good to buy a handheld gps? Quote Link to comment
+EdrickV Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 If you can afford one, a hiking style handheld GPS is the way to go I think. (Keep in mind, not all brands/models may come with maps.) Car style GPSes can work too, though they won't have the same battery life as a hiking style GPS. If your phone's GPS only works when you have a cell phone signal, then it might not be a real GPS chip but a cell tower triangulation method, which may not be as accurate. Or I suppose it could be the fault of the software, see if the app has an "offline" mode for use when you don't have a cell phone signal. I have no experience with the Android app so don't know exactly how it works. Quote Link to comment
jadenrich2101 Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 I use two different android apps...i wont mention which ones i might get shot But they both work perfectly for me! I wanna go caching now but the weather for the past 3 days has being nothing but rain and my little lad doesnt appriciate being walked here there and everywhere in the rain Happy caching x Quote Link to comment
CheekyBuddha Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 (edited) Kwonchoba, out of interest, what model android phone have you got? I'm new to geocaching too (the bug has bitten me, hard), and have been using one of the geocaching apps available on the android marketplace to great effect on my wildfire. This may be complete bunk, but I'm under the impression that mobile phone GPSrs can be less reliable in terms of signal strength and holding onto the satellites than a proper handheld GPSr. When you fire up your app and are trying to get a GPS lock, make sure you're stood in a nice open area, if possible, with a good clear view of the sky. You haven't said what sort of terrain you're caching in, but I have noticed with mine how much being near or under large trees can affect my signal and my corresponding positioning error. In heavy woodland I've found that I totally lose my GPS signal or when I do have one, end up with a ridiculous positioning error margin. Needless to say I'm already considering getting a proper GPSr for geocaching, I just need to research some recommendations. Edited July 18, 2011 by CheekyBuddha Quote Link to comment
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