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On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:03:45 +0200, Erick T. Barkhuis wrote in post :
: Mike: On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:48:26 -0700 (PDT), Surreyman wrote: And, of course, one is free to start laying one's own caches! one going round in circles in the park outside my back door :-) Even those could be fun, if set up properly. I happen to know a Night Cache nearby, which is set up on an iron bridge in a deserted train track. The bridge is only about 30 meters long. It takes about 3-4 hours of hard work to solve puzzles and find clues in the dark, in order to finally discover a hand-made, fantastic cache. To be honest, I only heard friends and colleagues report about their adventures at that location. My wife and I wouldn't go for that cache. It's not the "Sunday Morning Walk" type of cache we prefer. But it shows, that there are many different types of caches; even your Park Circles could turn into something nice, like a learning track, where geocachers get to recognize a set of different trees. Some of them are on sheer mountain cliff-faces where you need to be an expert mountaineer to reach. Loonies :-) -- Tim C. |
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On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:53:18 +0100, Mike wrote in post :
: On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:43:54 +0200, "Tim C." wrote: You can do it with any GPS equipment where you can input a gps co-ordinate. I only have a speed camera GPS, hang on SWMBOs phone has sat nav. Do you do this locally, or whizz about? It's up to you. Find a few local ones, or a couple that are near where you'll be walking at the weekend, for example. They are all over the place. -- Tim C. |
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Tim C.:
On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:53:18 +0100, Mike wrote in post : : I only have a speed camera GPS, hang on SWMBOs phone has sat nav. Do you do this locally, or whizz about? It's up to you. Find a few local ones, or a couple that are near where you'll be walking at the weekend, for example. They are all over the place. That's exactly how you'll get started. Once you found your first 40-plus caches, you'll want to do the same when you're visiting family during the weekend, 100 miles down the motorway. Heck, it would be a great way to turn the usual boring tea table chat into a family outdoor event, with you being the Great Expert showing how to really enjoy a nice walk. -- Erick "It's not an optical illusion, it just looks that way." |
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Martin:
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:06:11 +0200, Erick T. Barkhuis -o-m wrote: Heck, it would be a great way to turn the usual boring tea table chat into a family outdoor event, with you being the Great Expert showing how to really enjoy a nice walk. You never had a nice walk before you bought a GPS receiver? Sure. But I never "really enjoyed" it. -- Erick |
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Martin:
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:39:32 +0200, Erick T. Barkhuis -o-m wrote: Martin: You never had a nice walk before you bought a GPS receiver? Sure. But I never "really enjoyed" it. I've owned a Garmin 12XL GPS receiver since 1997, I used it to navigate around the world in a Volvo round the world in a virtual online race. I've never found the need to take it for a walk. Now that you have read about Geocaching, are you going to give it a try? -- Erick |
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On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:59:23 +0200, Martin wrote in post :
: On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:55:46 +0200, Erick T. Barkhuis -o-m wrote: Martin: On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:39:32 +0200, Erick T. Barkhuis -o-m wrote: Martin: You never had a nice walk before you bought a GPS receiver? Sure. But I never "really enjoyed" it. I've owned a Garmin 12XL GPS receiver since 1997, I used it to navigate around the world in a Volvo round the world in a virtual online race. I've never found the need to take it for a walk. Now that you have read about Geocaching, are you going to give it a try? I read about it ten years ago. No. I know many enjoy it, but it doesn't interest me. So there you go. :- -- Tim C. |
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On Jun 15, 9:55*pm, Erick T. Barkhuis -o-m
wrote: Martin: On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:39:32 +0200, Erick T. Barkhuis -o-m wrote: Martin: You never had a nice walk before you bought a GPS receiver? Sure. But I never "really enjoyed" it. I've owned a Garmin 12XL GPS receiver since 1997, I used it to navigate around the world in a Volvo round the world in a virtual online race. I've never found the need to take it for a walk. Now that you have read about Geocaching, are you going to give it a try? -- Erick Orienteering is more interesting |
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On 15 June, 18:06, Erick T. Barkhuis -o-m
wrote: Tim C.: On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:53:18 +0100, Mike wrote in post : : I only have a speed camera GPS, hang on SWMBOs phone has sat nav. Do you do this locally, or whizz about? It's up to you. Find a few local ones, or a couple that are near where you'll be walking at the weekend, for example. They are all over the place. That's exactly how you'll get started. Once you found your first 40-plus caches, you'll want to do the same when you're visiting family during the weekend, 100 miles down the motorway. Heck, it would be a great way to turn the usual boring tea table chat into a family outdoor event, with you being the Great Expert showing how to really enjoy a nice walk. -- Erick "It's not an optical illusion, it just looks that way." Yep, we've done that when visiting friends - resulting in more geocache recruits! Surreyman |
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