I left a Winged Liberty Head Dime in the woods today

mrpaseo

XpipedreamR

on purpose?

mrpaseo

Yes, my boss introduced me to this great adventure...

www.geocaching.com

Ever hear of it?

pharmer

careful, I think they've broken the code

XpipedreamR

hmmmmm...

FC57Coins

If you leave a Merc in the woods and there's nobody there to see it, did a tree fall down?

bearcave

<< <i>If you leave a Merc in the woods and there's nobody there to see it, did a tree fall down? >>

mrpaseo

www.geocaching.com is basically a hunt, people place boxes ranging from Ammo Cans, to Tupperware, to camera film containers all over the place. Currently there are caches in over 200 countries. What you do is you use a GPS (Global Positioning System) to locate these caches and sign the log in the container, sometimes there are small trinkets in the containers so it's sort of like treasure hunting. Today I pulled a carabein (I know thats not spelled right, basically it's a D ring used for repelling) and I placed one of my extra Winged Liberty Dimes in the container, take something leave something, thats the rule.

I had allot of fun, I would recommend it to anyone,
Ray

lordmarcovan

<< <i>Ever hear of it? >>



I've seen a TV program or two about it. Looks pretty interesting.

dthigpen

Geocaching is a lot of fun, I've been doing it since 2002. (OHHH, there's even a picture of Christie in my "Gallery" on there) If you really get into it, let me know and I'll ship you out some trackable California Geocoins to leave in Caches

lclugza

Did you check the date? You shoulda used a 1916D.

Conder101

Geocaching can sometimes cause trouble though. Recently they had a major foulup in Fort Wayne.

Geocaches aren't always left out in the wood somewhere. A few months back two enthusiasts asked permission from a store owner to hide a cache in his establishment. The owner, being a geocacher himself of course said yes. Unfortunately he did not inform his employees of this. Later when they came back and hid their cache the owner was not there, but the two were seen by an employee "Hiding a box in behind a bench and then leaving." Concerned about what was going on she contacted the police. They came out, looked things over, and also decided they need to call out the bomb squad. The bomb squad came, the shopping center was evacuated, and after a lengthy careful examination when it didn't appear there were any explosives the cache was carefully opened and determined to be harmless. But by that time a great many people had been inconvienenced, businesses had suffered lost sales and of course the expense of the police and bomb squads. All because the owner didn't tell his employees that these two geocachers would be coming in.