+anarcha77 Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 I found it when I saw a link to it on the website for a conservation area nearby, when I was looking into booking a campsite. There are caves in the area, and the park features caching inside -- http://www.warsawcaves.com/maps.htm While I didn't end up making it out to that particular campground last summer, I did end up starting to geocache. I'd never heard of it before then, came across it entirely randomly, and have been caching ever since. Quote Link to comment
+tealeaf Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 It was my first date with av8ndv8 who'd used a GPSr as a balloon pilot but was fairly new to caching. He went on to become a major influence in New Mexico caching and we had 5 good years before he died in 2009. Local cachers kept me going and in 2011, I introduced a new guy to caching and he's much better at it than I am and humors my obsession with events. We got married and last year was my best caching year yet. Quote Link to comment
+*GeoPunx* Posted December 22, 2012 Share Posted December 22, 2012 I remember it like it was last month...because it was last month. I am a recovering online game addict and was looking for something to get me off my fat duff and outside. I am not into team sports. One night I was sitting at work and a friend posted on FaceBook that they were going Geocaching the next morning. I was bored and we weren't busy so I Googled it. Read about it for a couple of hours. Watched a couple of videos. Downloaded the NeonGeo App to my phone. Made my first find the next day! In less than one month I have logged almost 30 finds. My wife loves it. My 5 year old daughter loves it. Even my 65 year old Dad wants to try. This new hobby hits on all of my interests: need for exercise, not a team sport, can be done solo or with a group, family friendly, see lots of cool places close to me that I never knew were there and best of all; I get to use multi million dollar satellites to find Tupperware in the woods. Addict! DizzKneeGeeks P.S. If anyone from Escambia, Santa Rosa or Okaloosa Counties in Florida, stumble upon this; feel free to send us a friend request through the site. Quote Link to comment
+Explorerphenom Posted December 22, 2012 Share Posted December 22, 2012 I was browsing the app store for games and saw geocaching - a real life treasure hunting game. I went to the web site and 'the rest is history'. Quote Link to comment
KurtS Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 I first got a GPS when the units became popular and accurate enough to use for navigating my wilderness hikes. And just by chance, I found out that people were hiding objects by lat/long coordinates--back when geocaching.com was brand-new and Signal the Frog was the logo. I found it pretty fun--until my Garmin Legend died, and I didn't get a new unit. But, I just got a new GPS as a gift, and I'm happy to see there are many more geocaches now! Quote Link to comment
+simpjkee Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 (edited) My mom is an elementary school teacher and heard about it when she got a class set of GPS's for the latitude/longitude/compass/navigation cirriculum. She told me about it in April 2007 and I had to try to find one. I found one a couple days later and the rest is history. Later she told me that she originally told me about it in 2004 and I wasn't interested. I don't remember her telling me in 2004, but if she had I probably wouldn't have been interested back then. Edited December 23, 2012 by simpjkee Quote Link to comment
+mcfarmall Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 I asked a friend of mine from church about handheld GPS one Sunday and he mentioned Geocaching. That evening after church he invited me to his house to search for a cache that is located on a city walking/biking trail nearby. He explained that for the price of a decent handheld, I can take my family on some really cool adventures to places one might never think of going. I bought a Garmin eTrex Legend off CL for $40 from a college student and the rest is history. I have introduced several friends, family members, and co-workers to the sport since then. Quote Link to comment
+Fridge01 Posted December 25, 2012 Share Posted December 25, 2012 I read about geocaching in a book called Maphead, bought a GPS receiver online, then went out geocaching with my girlfriend. We did it for several months before meeting any other geocachers. I had played a map game called St Valentine's Day Massacre. In their promo they had a quote from Ken Jennings, the guy who won all that money on Jeopardy. He played that game and wrote about it in his book. I checked the book out of the library and read it. One chapter was about geocaching, which Ken also does. sounded interesting so I looked up the website and tried it. I had a frustrating day where I logged a pile of DNFs. One cache owner emailed me and invited me to a geocachers breakfast. We attended, met a lot of cachers, and haven't looked back since. Quote Link to comment
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