where did you hear about geocaching?

[4wheelin_fool]

I read about geocaching in the Atlanta Journal (I live in Florida). I went out and bought a GPS the following week. It gave me an excuse to use on my wife on why I needed one (not just because I wanted a new toy).

I actually remember reading this thread when it first appeared in 2001.

 

I read about geocaching in the Atlanta-Journal Constitution and bought a yellow garmin to try it out. However it had terrible reception, so I returned it a few weeks later. After I read about it a second time, I went out and bought a garmin E-map and found about a dozen caches.(which i had only signed my actual name to) I was using a library computer at the time and had no e-mail address. Later after finding out about free e-mail, I signed up in early 2002. I had left my old computer with my exwife in Nj and was not anxious to get another, for at the time AOL and Prodigy charged an hourly fee which had ran up my credit card quite a bit..

 

Back then geocaching was mostly about trading items, and mostly everyone left a paragraph or so in the logbook.

[+ceol mor]

i'm just curious, where did everyone on here first hear about geocaching? How did you find it?<BR><BR>lionel3

A friend got me into it. We play in a bagpipe band and carpool to practices. We started caching after practice on the way home.

[+DragonsWest]

First heard about it on Slashdot.org, back about 2000.

 

In 2003 a friend with a GPSr asked if a small group would like to try it out as there were some hidden in the area.

 

I was initially hooked and wanted to cache a lot, but had exhausted the local cache supply rather quickly and only had added one myself.

 

Shortly after that I got into road cycling, which took up most of my time and energy. Then my own GPSr died and I was clearly on sabbatical. I suffered a bad crash on the road and looked to spend less time in the bike and more on my own two feet and gradually got back into it. Now it's tying up quite a bit of my time. Guess I'm hooked again.

[+Team Luvbassn]

i'm just curious, where did everyone on here first hear about geocaching? How did you find it?<BR><BR>lionel3

I bought an Oregon 400t for the mapping when I go backpacking. I wondered what the Geocache button was. Duh

[W3SGJ]

I learned about it in Boy Scouts. One of our Scout leaders mentioned it to our Troop at our annual summer camp in Cook Forest, PA. We went geocaching a few times, and I was hooked. My family got a GPS a month later and we've been geocaching ever since.

 

I recently introduced geocaching to The Beaver Valley Amateur Radio Association, which is the ham radio club associated with our Boy Scout Troop. All of the members are extremely enthusiastic about geocaching, and a few of them have even went out to buy a GPS just to geocache.

 

Grant

Member of The Beaver Valley Amateur Radio Association, W3SGJ

Eagle Scout, Boy Scout Troop 405

Edited December 15, 2009 by W3SGJ

[+Klondike Mike]

I clicked on a geocaching link while browsing for a gps. I wanted the gps to mark fishing spots because the " mark an X on the bottom of the boat" wasnt cutting it for me

[+spektrum2]

I clicked on a geocaching link while browsing for a gps. I wanted the gps to mark fishing spots because the " mark an X on the bottom of the boat" wasnt cutting it for me

 

LOL!!!! kinda like scouting and marking where the moose are moving with orange trail tape....as opening day gets closer the woods looks like it was toilet papered with the stuff ....

[+FreeBird65]

I am into scouting and they have an initiative for geo-events for their 2010 centennial celebration of the BSA. I asked a friend to help me organize an event with my scouts and they as well as I all enjoyed it.

[+debaere]

I started in Belgium when a co-worker told me about it. Whats remarkable about this is that I an Canadian, and he is American, and we were on a business trip to the same office (but for different reasons). We went out caching one Saturday, and ended up in France (we crossed the border without realizing it). Been hooked ever since.

[+familycachefinders]

i'm just curious, where did everyone on here first hear about geocaching? How did you find it?<BR><BR>lionel3

 

The Iowa DNR Website while preparing for a Camping trip for the Cubscouts in Norwalk, Iowa. They had a link on their page pointing to an application for a permit to place a geocache. Curious as to what the heck that was I read the permit and went to the site. Tried to find a couple without a gps unsuccessfully, bought a colorado and the addiction began.

[+dibug]

I first heard about it through the Girl Scouts of Minnesota, Wisconsin River Valleys. Then our community Ed. program offered a class about Geo caching and I was hooked.

[+newcarsmell]

well,

 

I heard about geocaching from a friend.....

 

he said it was the only way to get his kids interactive on hikes

[+andyakashrek]

From the local news channel after a controlled explosion was carried out on a suspicious package placed underneath a planter in a high street in Yorkshire. The cacher had been spotted by a muggle who reported it to the police who called in the bomb squad who blew up the cache.

So I looked on the web and found a hidden world all about me.

[+OZ2CPU]

6 years ago, I was at a dinner party, suttently some friends wanted to leave for a little walk just a few minutes away and back, I asked about why ? and suttently I was there too, they let me find it, wow that was cool..

[judgementday]

Was at my daughter's birthday party and the DJ was talking about going on a recent geocaching trip. Found my first two the next day.

[ll JK ll]

I follow a guy on Instagram (photo sharing app for mobiles) and from time to time he would post pics of his caching adventures. I became curious, so I downloaded the free GC app and set off after work to find one near my house.

 

It's a good thing I'm not easily discouraged because I failed at my first few attempts. After I finally found my first cache I knew this game is for me.

[+jamin8]

I found out on top of goat peak in Washington state where there where some geocachers that were not good at keeping it secret and told us what they were doing. I then looked it up and joined!

[+farrtom]

I help with a scout troop and in May 2010 we bought two Garmin Rino 120's but no one knew how to use them so I took one home to read the instructions. In the instructions was brief information about geocaching. I went to the website listed and the rest is history, much to the chagrin of my wife.

[+magicalhelmet]

I heard about it on a show on PBS late one night. The show was about keeping your mind healthy, and one segment talked about geocaching and how it was a good way of keeping your mind active. It certainly is at that. I can't stop thinking about it all day.

[+RonMax]

A friend of mine was online before me more than a decade ago and mentioned it while out SCUBA Diving back then with local lobster fishermen who relied on GPS to mark good trapping areas and our favorite dive spots. Unfortunately my friend died before we could figure his old handheld megellan out. I have a bit of a obsession with maps and the like, so I am finally giving this a go this year.

[+blacksheep5891]

A few years ago I was contemplating creating a "gps aided scavenger hunt" where people would find hidden containers that would contain hints that would lead them to a location where they could then answer questions and/or post photos on a website for a reward/recognition/etc. While searching for info/ideas for my game I found a site with a guy who was making dead-drop spikes that "could be used for geocaching." I then looked up geocaching and found out that my idea was nothing new LOL.I registered on the site but I sort of put off the idea as the semester was coming to an end with finals and all. I remembered it again when I went hiking with a friend a few months ago and have been hooked since.

Edited July 22, 2012 by blacksheep5891

[+Darklegacy]

I got it believe it or not from a muggel she spotted a few Cachers finding a cache she made a foto from the logsheet and i whas interessted instantly und decided to give it a try und suprise! i am loving it!!!