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najsigt · 1 year

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A comic about geocaching!

#Geocaching #geocache #comic #comics #art #my art #artist on tumblr #digital art #color #sweden #illustration

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altruistic-meme · 8 days

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HI @spaghett-onaplate YOU SAID YOU WOULD LISTEN TO MY SPEECH ABOUT GEOCACHING SO HERE IT IS :) admittedly, i haven’t really done it in years and also i am going to go mostly off my memory so a lot of the technical aspects will be dodgy since i was. 8 or 9 years old when we started doing it and thus everything was handled by my dad. but. Here we go anyway!!

So geocaching is, at its core, a world-wide treasure hunt. You go around to different locations and look for some type of container that was put there, sign your name in the log, and then put it back to be found by the next person.

What is a “cache”? What does it look like? That’s one of the best parts: it can look like literally anything! One of the most common caches and perhaps the most well-known is the ammo can:

But people will use anything! Other common cache containers include: peanut butter jars, pill bottles, tupperware containers, and fake rocks. Geocaches come in all kinds of sizes, shapes, colors, styles. Things that my family has found used as geocaches include: a literal battery, a bird feeder, fake pinecone, gatorade bottle. As long as you can fit a little bit of paper inside it, it could be used as a cache.

Some paper? What is the paper? The log! Whenever you find a cache, you write your name (usually your username on the official geocaching website) and the date. This is used as a way to keep track of the cache, who has found it, how long it has been there. It’s really cool when you find one and find out someone had found the cache the same day you did!

Always bring a pen to sign the log!!! For some caches, there might be a pen inside the container, but it is always best to assume there won't be!

Official geocache website? Yep! This is where my knowledge is incredibly rocky, but I did watch my dad using it sometimes. But from what I can recall, the website is where all of the caches are logged so that you can get the information you need to actually, you know, find the cache! And it’s a community as well; people leave comments on the individual caches, saying that they found it and sometimes giving anecdotes about their experience in looking for it (ex. My family went to the bottom of a canyon here to get a cache once, and we were all dying on the way back up because of all of the stairs. We still make jokes 10 years later about the hellish canyon!). And, sometimes, they’ll say that they couldn’t find it, which does happen quite a bit! Either the cache was too well hidden, or a well-intentioned muggle found an old peanut butter jar covered in camouflage duct tape and thought it was just trash in a National Park, so they took it to dispose of it.

(Wait- muggle? Yeah, it’s unfortunate that the term is shared with that series, but muggle just refers to anyone who is not a geocacher!)

How do you know if a muggle has disposed of the cache you’re looking for? Really, you can’t. It can be assumed if, say, there are a lot of people saying they couldn’t find it and no one saying they could. But sometimes it really is just that well hidden. Oftentimes if it starts seeming like it might be missing, the person who originally placed the cache will go to see if they can find it since they know what it looks like and where it was originally hidden to verify if it’s still there.

It is for this reason it is always advised to put a geocache back EXACTLY where you found it! This is not always possible, and my family has had to semi-relocate caches in the past if the spot it was sitting is flooded or it otherwise seems dangerous for the cache to be there. But as a general rule, try to leave the cache exactly how you found it in the first place so that others can find it after you!

Who can place geocaches? Anyone! I do not know what all is involved in it, but caches are made by people in the community! It’s not as though there is an official group of people who place every cache. There are way too many for that to be the case.

Are geocaches only in parks? Nope! They can be found anywhere! National/State Parks (at least here in the US) are very common, but some other places we have found caches include: water towers, highway guard railings, the woods just off the highway, cemeteries, parking lots, people’s yards, community centers, libraries, museums. (Let me tell you, it’s really fun to be 14 years old with your dad, standing outside of your minivan looking at the guard railing on a busy highway. We have had people pull over to ask if we need help before.)

Okay, so what information do you need to find a geocache? The information that we used was usually:

What size is it?

Micro (battery)

Small (pill bottles, fake rocks)

Medium (ammo cans, pb jars, some tupperware)

Large (water jug, birdhouse)

How hard is it? Easy, normal, hard, etc.

Coordinates As in, the literal coordinates. We had a handheld GPS for this, but from what I can see they also have an official app which should be able to do the same thing – assuming you don’t go somewhere without signal!

Fun fact! Some large enough geocaches will contain swag! Swag is usually just small, cheap items that are a take-one-give-one system in geocaching. I assume it is something used mostly for kids, but it can be fun to see what kind of swag a cache has! I got a few fun trinkets this way. If you are going to look for a cache that is medium or larger, it’s a good idea to carry a piece of swag with you in case something catches your eye! Travel Bugs are a special swag item! They’re different from normal swag in that you aren’t meant to keep them. They are often on journeys! You can pick up a Travel Bug from one cache, scan it’s tag to see where it’s been before, and leave it in a cache you find later down the road.

Where can caches be hidden? Anywhere – with one exception: caches should NOT be buried. They will never be underground. But other than that, pretty much anything is fair game! One of the most common places is in a UPS, an Unusual Pile of Sticks, which just means a pile of sticks that looks a little too well-positioned to have fallen naturally. But other places include: gardens in front of businesses (the first cache we found!), hanging from a tree, magnetized to the previously mentioned highway railings, underneath the cover at the bottom of street lamps, inside tree trunks.

What countries do geocaching? From what I know, every country! I have only ever found US geocaches because I have only left the US once and we didn’t get one in Canada, but I know my Uncle has found them in France as well. This is a world-wide game! I hope to get a geocache next time I leave the US :)

OKAY that is all of the information I can think of right now. I kind of really want to get back into geocaching now, make my own account! My family found I think over 5000 geocaches from when we first started until now, from all across the country, including at one point I think almost every cache in Georgia. So I would be starting way from scratch, but it would be my own adventure :) plus I would get to revisit some places! (maybe not the canyon.)

Questions? I am open to answering further questions, though again I definitely don’t know everything, I just spent a lot of my youth doing this! But, I do also have access to my dad who knows a lot more of the specifics and details than I do. I also recommend looking at the official website for more information as well!

#that got. long.#in my defense the speech was meant to be like 10min #this could be a 10min speech #anywayyyy i would have sent you this as an ask oscar but i figured it would be better to have it attached to me than to you skdfhsd #ANYWAY!!!#as you can probably guess i highly recommend that people look into geocaching it's super fun #and you get to go for walks through parks a lot of the time!!!#or in fact you could do it ALL the time if you just. choose to look for caches that are in parks exclusively which you could 100% do #ANYWAY I NEED TO GO TO BED I HAVE TO GO TO WORK IN THE MONRING #i spent an hour writing this instead of getting ready for bed sdkhgsdhkg #geocaching #shh ac

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saturnalorbit · 10 months

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went out today and got a bit too silly

also geocache!!!

#celeste #celeste game #geocaching

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hornedleopard · 4 months

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Hear me out, geocaching but specifically Dice and other DnD items like minis and whatnot. Go on actual adventurers with your friends to track down and find loot (dice) like true dice goblins. Little poetry hints left on a website with a general area, quest givers who have placed the cache somewhere and actually “give you the quest” to find it, hell even making “information guilds” you can ask to try and gleam more info or hints towards a location. Bonus points if you go searching in costume.

#dnd5e #dnd #geocaching #loot goblin larping #Dice goblin larping

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packratshiloh · 11 months

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Stopped at an old geocache spot when visiting my parents and to my surprise there was a LPS! Luckily I had something in the car to trade (was a chucky charm)

I really wasn't expecting to find anything neat!

#geocache #geocaching #lps #littlest pet shop #toys #toy community #toy collecting #toy collector #dogs #adventure #shilohscollection #shilohslps

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geocache-gatekeep-girlboss · 5 months

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fuck it no one has posted anything geocache related in SIX DAYS on this entire app so it's time to bring fandom in. feel free to share your reasonings

#geocaching #geocache #geocache blog #cachekeepboss posts #geocacher #tumblr #side blog #doctor who #doctor who 60th anniversary #david tennant #tenteen #tenth doctor #fourteenth doctor

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we-are-all-abandoned · 2 months

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Treasures from a time long past, abandoned in a cave

#geocaching #adelaide #exploring #parra wira #adelaide geocaching #geocache

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the-literal-mothman · 3 months

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Geocache but you find my corpse

#geocache #geocaching #shitpost #mothman #ill be full of dabloons.#game night #treasure #treasure hunting

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suzieb-fit · 9 months

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So we got out of the house this morning to try a bit of "geocaching".

We weren't out for long. Not any kind of walk, but I've still tracked it as an activity.

I got straight into my second of today's workouts when we got home.

I like this one. Short, fun and nothing complicated.

Then it was lovely lunch time 😁.

And yes, we have a pig farm very close to where we live. Cornfields too 🤩. I love living here!

#fitspo #fitspiration #fitblr #fitness #healthy living #health and fitness #fit #workout #fiton #fitonapp #geocaching #healthy lifestyle #healthy eating

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rotary-supercollider · 10 months

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Geocaching is the most divorced hobby. I can’t explain it but you have to be divorced for it to make since idk

#rotary originals #shitpost #geocaching

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dj-living-my-best-life · 13 days

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People ask me all the time why I enjoy geocaching so much…because it takes me places like this.

Canleo, AZ

#az mountain #photography #landscape #geocaching #longlivethepicturetaker #livingmybestlife #Canleo

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yourlocaltherian · 11 months

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Hello! I have a new recommendation for you!

Do you have phone storage?

Do you appreciate nature?

Do you travel / go outside a lot?

Do you love discovering new places?

Do you love to get lost in the woods and not find your way back till dusk?

If you said yes to any of these questions, I recommend checking out geocaching! Geocaching is a free app (in app purchases not required but are still available) that has been going strong for over 23 years! (Started 2000) I highly recommend it to anyone because it’s available all over the world, and is available in urban, rural, and suburban areas!

One of my favorite types of geocaches are the ones on trails. It lets you explore new routes you’ve never been before!

I recommend doing more research on this to see if you will like it.

(While writing this, we are actually on our way to a mega geocaching event out of state!)

Find the official website here! Geocaching.com

Find the app here!

Geocaching®

#geocaching #therian #therianthropy #kintype #catkin #otherkin #therian stuff #therian things #wolfkin #foxkin #cats #geocache #travel #traveling #nature #wildlife

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cyberpunkonline · 3 months

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Shikantaza Secrets 002

Digital / Physical Art Exhibition.