I had to google this and now I'm fascinated! May have to try this- DS would love it!
It's freaking addictive.
I may have had mental breakdowns over difficult to find caches before.
My favorite family type one was an alphabet series... One cache for each letter in groups of four or five, with you needing to solve to find the last cache in each series and then solve for the finale. We hiked so many miles for that one! My favorite non-family type cache was when my friend and I hiked through a blackberry bush and up a storm culvert a quarter mile to find a cache the size of a thumbnail.
I have good friends who are big into this. I can see my family getting into it because outdoorsy. We are normally on rivers or lakes in kayaks, but with the little one, we'll have to find something else to do until she's big enough to tandem. I think geocaching is a great use for multi million dollar satellites!
We did this for a team-building activity at the beginning of the school year once (with the staff, not the students). It was really fun! I've never done it with my family, but I also think that DS would love it!
Thanks for posting this- I had heard of it but didn't really know what it was. Looks like something my family would totally get into- DS1 would live in the woods if I let him. Putting this on the list of things to try once we thaw out!
Re: Any geocachers?
I may have had mental breakdowns over difficult to find caches before.
My favorite family type one was an alphabet series... One cache for each letter in groups of four or five, with you needing to solve to find the last cache in each series and then solve for the finale. We hiked so many miles for that one! My favorite non-family type cache was when my friend and I hiked through a blackberry bush and up a storm culvert a quarter mile to find a cache the size of a thumbnail.