Where Did You Learn?

[gecko1990]

Where did you first learn about geocaching? Did you decide the first time you saw it that you wanted to or did it take a while to get interested?

[+TeamTeeGee]

I found out about it here.

 

And it took me about two minutes of looking over the geocaching.com website to decide that I was hooked.

[+tirediron]

A friend read about it somewhere, and found the site and told me... I had heard of it, but not paid much attention until I looked up GC.com....

[+Mr Hedgehog]

I have had a GPSr for several years for general navigation purposes, and it was whilst Googling around for something that I discovered GC.com and thought it looked like fun.

[+Ufemism]

I only learned about it 11/6/04 in the Parade magazine insert in the Sunday paper. By the 9th, I had my first GPSr and on the 10th I had found my 1st cache! I think I was hooked from the first paragraph! I just found my 25th today, and that is only because my boss won't let me out of work to Geocache! That dang job!

[+AuntieWeasel]

Ran across the site while researching a GPSr I was buying for a gift. I didn't buy one for myself for several months afterward, but geocaching was like a maddening itch the whole time.

[+TeamTeeGee]

I only learned about it 11/6/04 in the Parade magazine insert in the Sunday paper. By the 9th, I had my first GPSr and on the 10th I had found my 1st cache! I think I was hooked from the first paragraph! I just found my 25th today, and that is only because my boss won't let me out of work to Geocache! That dang job!

Wow! You've only been geocaching for four days longer than I and you've found 25 caches already?!?

 

We've only found eight so far.

 

*must - resist - urge - to - call - in - sick - tomorrow*

[+Ufemism]

TeamTeeGee, I notice that you have placed 4 caches already! There are so many in my area that I'm looking for just the PERFECT spot to place one. I should just bite the bullet, but every one I find seems so much more inventive than the last that I want to get a few more Ideas first!

[uperdooper]

my brother made me do it.

[+cudlecub]

I noticed this thing called geocaching mentioned in a long time chat bud's profile. I checked it out, thought it would be cool, got a gps from another bud for 40 bucks, and I'm lov'n it. Now that I see it's not just a passing fad for me, I'm looking to get a new gpsr soon. My other half now knows when we make a road trip, there's a few cache spots already mapped out.

[MTCache]

I found out about Geocaching through a site about chainmail. A forum member was asking about using chainmail for leg protection in snake country. i followed the link to here, and about 2 weeks later I got a GPSr, and have not looked back since. :lol:

[+Anonymous']

Boy Scouts.

[+Pork King]

I read about it in the local paper back in 7/04. It sounded fun, and the more I thought about the cooler it seemed. Had an etrex within a week and found my first cache on the following weekend. I only found one cache that first day, then spent the next 8 hours looking for another one, couldn't get close to it! Well, that didn't deter me (suprisingly!), and I have been hooked ever since!

[+Jahnia]

I saw a TV news special on Caching sometime back. Then my boss told me about it and helped me figure out how to start. I guess he figured I needed a hobby.

[+TeamTeeGee]

TeamTeeGee, I notice that you have placed 4 caches already! There are so many in my area that I'm looking for just the PERFECT spot to place one. I should just bite the bullet, but every one I find seems so much more inventive than the last that I want to get a few more Ideas first!

Well there's the difference. There are quite a few around my vicinity, but in order for me to find twenty-five, I'll have to do a bit of traveling all over my county. Not that there's a problem with that mind you.

 

As for the ones we've hidden, I credit my nosey little sister to being my inspiration for "caching" back when we were kids. She was always getting into my stuff so I had to get good at hiding things. I guess it's like riding a bicycle because once we found out about geocaching it wasn't much of a problem to get devious and sneaky once again.

[+Team Perks]

I blame my addiction entirely on this guy...

[+sea_dragon]

A survey on scubadiving.com asked about geocaching, and not ever hearing the term before I jumped on the search engine, and here I am. Though I will admit, diving and caching don't overlap too well.... "do I hit the surf or the hills, decisions decisions?" My only problem is that I don't have enough time to do each as much as I would like.

[+BeachBuddies]

I read about it in Knights of the Dinner Table

[+Mr Lost]

A coworker of mine, Jamie Z mentioned it in a carpool one day, and my interest was piqued. We found a local (and I now realize, really lame) micro. I was so excited at the time, I could barely contain myslef. I am now well on my way to placing my first cache, and looking forward to enjoying the game with my family.

Edited December 1, 2004 by Martindav

[+Torry]

A strange, tall man took me into the woods. I've never been the same.

[+kd7rvh]

I heard about it while looking through the top ten 'found bills' list on Wheresgeorge.com. One of the bills had a lot of hits and said it was a 'Geocaching' bill. After that and a little Google, I was at the site and hooked.

[+The Southlanders]

We, Like Rizgar learned of geocaching through the Wheresgeorge website. I took a look at GC.com and announced to my wife we needed to buy a gps to go look for tupperware in the woods. At first she thought I was nuts but after the first cache we were both hooked. (It didn't hurt that our first cache find was a really good hide)

[+CapnJackSparrow]

Here's the whole story as told in my first log:

 

Hey, my friends and I were exploring GHSP and found your cache totally by accident. Between the three of us we have about 90 years of camping and hiking experience and none of us had ever heard of geocaching. Now, two days later, I am a payed member of geocaching.com and already bought my first GPS. Needless to say we were very impressed with the game and excited to start playing. We weren't expecting to find treasure that day so we had very little to leave. I did have a credit card size magnifying glass in my wallet, so I left that and we took a piece of paper to write down the web address and signed the log book. We also hid the cache a little better than we found it to avoid someone else stumbling across it by accident. Thank you for accidentally turning us on to this real cool game, can't wait to start playing for real.

[+Divine]

Newspaper.

[+planetrobert]

Heard about it from a friend of o friend of a relative... about a month later I got around to looking it up... found a cache the next morning

 

My first cache was a FTF... THAT will get you addicted.

[+GSVNoFixedAbode]

Spotted this article on Slashdot in June last year, then spent 6 weeks trolling Ebay before purchase, and another 8 weeks awaiting delivery!

Hey, in NZ at the time the local retailer was doing some serious price gouging on GPSrs! I got a new Legend landed at less than 1/2 the shop price.

[+wolves shepherd]

Well, not to try to sound whatever....but I was actively posting to sci.geo.satellite-nav when the first caches were being placed and hunted. I thought it sounded like a cool idea but they were several states away from me. I figured it would only be a local thing or very wide-spread (low density)

 

Time, life, and other interest inserted here......

 

My wife hears about letterboxing from one of her friends and starts checking that out on line. (This last summer, probably about July) So I take a look and see a link to geocaching and well....here I am thinking, "Wow, that really did take off."

Edited December 1, 2004 by wolves shepherd

[+wesleykey]

Someone posted about it on a hunting and fishing web site, I checked it out, and was hooked. Been to 30 caches so far...

[+woody_k]

I had a Garmin GPS for a while before I found GC. I went to the Garmin website to look into buying a newer verision GPS and found the link to GC there. And in turn found the link to Wherersgeorge here. They do tend to go hand in hand at times.

 

Ken

[MrsTuffPaws]

I read about it in a local tech mag (www.wirehed.com) about 2 years ago. They had an article where they took about 4 beautiful local strippers out into the woods for some geocaching fun. (babes are geeks too) Then I read about it again in the blog http://www.wilwheaton.net/ and it sounded really fun. Unfortunately, I never really had the money for a GPSr. Then, just recently, I was able to justify using financial aid funds for a GPSr because I could use geocaching for a project in my Aerobics class. I've found 10 caches in the last 3 weeks. It's been fun.

[+fly46]

I was reading an article about where's george and 1000journals and the camera project (I don't remember what it was called) and it talked about bookcrossing and this site.

I was reading articles on the site and there's an article about these two people form northern michigan looking for a cache in a white pipe in three feet of snow. I thought "man, they're as crazy as I am"

 

So I emailed a local cacher, he took me out to three caches, and I'm hooked.

[+Markwell]

I first answered this question here, and repeated the answer here. If that wasn't enough, I answered again in this thread, and most recently in this thread.

 

Here's my answer.

[+koneko]

my ex husband and i had just separated and i knew i was going to have to find new things to do to get me out of the house - so i looked up outdoors activites locally and came across http://www.kywilderness.com there happened to be an article or a post of the forum about geocaching and i was hooked - ordered the GPS that day, and had my first cache under my belt two weeks later.

 

i just hit 1000 caches yesterday and still goin strong! =)

 

'neko

the white diamond pirates

[+dgas71]

I found out about Geocaching on the forums at whereswilly.com and wheresgeorge.com. I didn't have a gps at the time, but my father in law bought a gps a few months later and I borrow the gps from him to go geocaching.

[superc_53]

ROTC back in the 1970s

[+welch]

wheresgeorge.com

no, looked at the site a couple times over a few months. Thought it was interesting, but not having a gps and no caches 'nearby' (though now it doesn't seem that fair ) Didn't really interested untill I realized I would be camping in a park that had a cache at the end up of the summer, so i ordered a cheap gps and gave it a try.

[+GEO.JOE]

In the spring of 03 the Travel Chanel had the top ten treasure hunts and geocaching was around #5. When I got my RINO in October of 03 and was trying to figure out a way to learn how to use it I checked out the GC site and thought "this will be something to do for a couple of weeks until I learn how to use this thing."

GEO.JOE

[+Zeute]

My professor mentioned it in class. I went home and looked it up.

[+Runfrog]

I first heard/learned about Geocahing in the New York Times, my favorite paper. I think it was about 2 1/2 - 3 years ago. Great Paper by the way.

[rescue557]

I clicked a link @ WheresGeorge.com.

 

By the way, this topic is also being discussed here.

[+VisionQuest220]

I blame my brother-in-law and his 1994 Magellan GPS.

 

(Talk about a friggin' artifact! The Magellen...not my brother-in-law.)