5/10/2005
Learn how to Geocache with Your GPS
"GEOCACHING, (pronounced "geo cashing"), is a treausre hunt. It's using your GPS unit to help you find thousands of tucked away containers that contain goodies that are for you to have" [Via methodshop.com]
Use Your GPS to Find Treasure
Methodshop.com has compiled a fast and easy way to get started in GEOCACHING. You may have seen it on Law & Order this weekend, and want to know, how you can do it. Get a GPS unit or use your friends and hit the woods, beach, highway, or city and find thousands upon thousands of tiny boxes with hidden treasures all over the planet!
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the prizes really vary...i've found it depends on two things...
FIRST: the most important is how long the geocache has been around...the longer it's been around, the worse the contents are...where the initial hider may leave money, jewelry, gift certificates...after 30 or 40 finds, the prize becomes cheap toys nobody wants or needs....
SECOND: the other factor is the area you look in...I find the more desolate the area, or harder to find, the better the prize usually is...Don't expect to literally find gold, but I have walked away with a couple of bucks, in three different currencies.
FIRST: the most important is how long the geocache has been around...the longer it's been around, the worse the contents are...where the initial hider may leave money, jewelry, gift certificates...after 30 or 40 finds, the prize becomes cheap toys nobody wants or needs....
SECOND: the other factor is the area you look in...I find the more desolate the area, or harder to find, the better the prize usually is...Don't expect to literally find gold, but I have walked away with a couple of bucks, in three different currencies.
No, you can't use a compass because a compass can only tell you which direction you're headed in.
With a GPS unit, it TELLS you which direction TO head in...completely different....
Also, a compass has nothing to do with coordinates...it's simply a magnetically driven unit based on the poles.
With a GPS unit, it TELLS you which direction TO head in...completely different....
Also, a compass has nothing to do with coordinates...it's simply a magnetically driven unit based on the poles.
This answer is not completely true. There is a geocacher who has found around 500 caches WITHOUT a GPS. You need to have knowledge of maps and a compass. Since the coordinates are given, a person could find a cache just based on that info, a map and a compass.
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