Team Ragnarok brings greetings!

[Team Ragnarok]

Greetings all!

 

A friend and I, who're obviously cool, hip, adulated twenty-something year olds; have begun our Geocaching adventures after realising our diet of work, video games and alcohol just wasn't going to cut it. (And that I purchased a grossly underused tariff in a two year contract with o2 and need to whittle the data plan)

 

We've only discovered ten caches so far, however we've already learned a few things:

 

1) We need to purchase gloves! Honestly, some Geocachers are evil and like to hide their treasure behind scratchy nature vegetation.

 

2) We need to plan ahead! Hiking for an hour along a dangerous-ish path, which could've caused us to tunble into a 50 meter (I'm guessing) river, before actually looking at Google Map to realise we'd have to hike another hour or two before we got to a bridge and then hiking up a near vertical dirt cliff for a 'shortcut' only to discover a veritable canyon with considerable train traffic, was not the best action we could of taken. Still, my dog enjoyed it.

 

3) People like to leave odd treasures in the caches! In a solo outing, I found a cache and to my dismay, found a cheap bottle of perfume and a single thin blue latex glove. The scent that wafted into my nostrils of a 12 year old girls perfume and an NHS waiting room as I opened the cache was most unbecoming.

 

Overall though, we're thoroughly enjoying it and plan to go to Dartmoor Park for some Geocaching sometime next year!

Edited November 18, 2011 by Team Ragnarok

[+simplysup]

Be careful in Dartmoor Park... "There be dragons there"..

[+BrixingtonPaddler]

Greetings and welcome to geocaching - glad you arent referring to any of my caches which may or may not be in your not so distant future (East Devon)

 

Swag in geocaches tend to be plastic of nature and cheap, so perfume is a rarity. Given that you say you are heading to Dartmoor soon, I would be wary of the leftovers of the letterboxing culture. It may still be going strong but on my visit of Dartmoor recently I found more derelict letterboxes than I did geocaches - although one geocache was hidden by a letterbox that had turned pink due to all the ink leaking out

 

1) totally agree

2) google maps, or use a smartphone that can help your navigation, knowing your area is key

3) sometimes the treasure makes the hunt worthwhile

[+thehoomer]

Welcome to Geocaching Team Ragnarok.

Like everything else, Geocaching is a learning curve and most of the early mistakes you make, you won’t repeat because they come at cost. The more Geocaches you find, the heavier your Geo-bag will become because you will discover what is essential to carry.

Scented items in Geocaches are never a good idea and I think it says as much in the guidelines somewhere. If we ever come across any, we remove them and replace them with something else. I don’t know what caches you have completed so far but I have a sneaking suspicion on the owner of a huge box of disposable gloves ! The glove is really a calling card and isn’t really a swap.

We hope you continue to enjoy the game .

[+Legochugglers]

Greetings all!

 

A friend and I, who're obviously cool, hip, adulated twenty-something year olds; have begun our Geocaching adventures after realising our diet of work, video games and alcohol just wasn't going to cut it. (And that I purchased a grossly underused tariff in a two year contract with o2 and need to whittle the data plan)

 

We've only discovered ten caches so far, however we've already learned a few things:

 

1) We need to purchase gloves! Honestly, some Geocachers are evil and like to hide their treasure behind scratchy nature vegetation.

 

2) We need to plan ahead! Hiking for an hour along a dangerous-ish path, which could've caused us to tunble into a 50 meter (I'm guessing) river, before actually looking at Google Map to realise we'd have to hike another hour or two before we got to a bridge and then hiking up a near vertical dirt cliff for a 'shortcut' only to discover a veritable canyon with considerable train traffic, was not the best action we could of taken. Still, my dog enjoyed it.

 

3) People like to leave odd treasures in the caches! In a solo outing, I found a cache and to my dismay, found a cheap bottle of perfume and a single thin blue latex glove. The scent that wafted into my nostrils of a 12 year old girls perfume and an NHS waiting room as I opened the cache was most unbecoming.

 

Overall though, we're thoroughly enjoying it and plan to go to Dartmoor Park for some Geocaching sometime next year!

 

I think its been quoted before but...

 

'If you havn't got lost, cut, ripped, muddy, frustrated, found wierd things in peculiar places, injured, embarrassed etc etc...then you probably ain't doing it right'

 

Welcome to the game and happy caching.

[+drsolly]

 

I think its been quoted before but...

 

'If you havn't got lost, cut, ripped, muddy, frustrated, found wierd things in peculiar places, injured, embarrassed etc etc...then you probably ain't doing it right'

 

Welcome to the game and happy caching.

 

... and fallen off your bike ...

[+drdick&vick]

Ah yes, the latest Dummies Guide to >>> soon to be published.

 

Dummies Guide on how to FALL OFF YOUR CYCLE Gracefully by Dr Solly

[+mellers]

 

I think its been quoted before but...

 

'If you havn't got lost, cut, ripped, muddy, frustrated, found wierd things in peculiar places, injured, embarrassed etc etc...then you probably ain't doing it right'

 

Welcome to the game and happy caching.

 

... and fallen off your bike ...

 

... and found yourself giggling hysterically to yourself in the middle of a ploughed field at that brilliant cache you found which still makes you laugh...

 

Welcome to caching! (Straight-jacket optional!)