anybody go geocaching?

[ArmySyko]

Mapping

I've been doing the whole mapping thing for the better part of 12 years. The caches are a harder search than most of the BM's. The cool thing about BM's is finding the ones that haven't been logged by the USGS or the State. Those are always the slickest to have on your list or to have pictures of.

[Muzikman]

You are talking about finding the Bm's that are listed on the topo maps? Or are you talking about ones that have been placed by the NGS/USGS and not been recovered since their monument? If you are out there looking for Benchmarks that are not in any database, it's almost pointless as there are going to be hundresda of thousands I bet, as every organization has placed a benchmark (be it a chisel mark, bolt, drill hole, or disk) at one time or another.

I look at BM hunting from the side of helping recover BM's and have that updated in the database incase someone actually wants to use it.

If you are into Maps and have a GPS, you might be interested in the National Maps Corp.

http://nationalmap.gov/

[RedBeard]

something along the same lines, letterboxing.

http://www.letterboxing.org/

Basically you get clues to where something is and have to find it. more treasure-huntish..

[ArmySyko]

If you are into Maps and have a GPS, you might be interested in the National Maps Corp.

http://nationalmap.gov/

I've used this for a couple of different products in the past (historical geography, mapping dispositions, USGS-NIMA comparisons, etc.) and it's a really great resource. I've looked for the real BM's before but I save that for the larger camping trips that I do away from home. It'll be hard for me to go camping after living away from home for nine months.

[RazorMonkey]

There are TONS of them around me... Wow... This seems like fun! I'll probably buy a GPS in a week or two

EDIT: There's one in my uncles backyard! HAH!

[Indignant]

the first rule of geocaching is...

dont talk about geocaching...

What is this, fight club?

[Glickman]

What is this, fight club?

jesus. it only took how many posts?

[Indignant]

14.

[Alley]

I've been caching for about a year now! ...only have like 40 finds though. I think thats a normal day trip worth of finds for RobAGD.