For me, I started doing it alone and it kept me sane during Covid lockdown. After events started back up again, I met a bunch of people, and haven’t really solo cached since then
Broke the 200 mark a month ago. Been doing this since last February. Of course the summer was the busiest time for caching since it’s just so nice to spend the whole day out.
So I’ve found a few of these doing trail maintenance and forestry in the rockies on accident, and I remember hearing about them when I was a kid, but how are you supposed to find these things?
There’s a website, geocaching.com – it’s free to make an account, and there is a world map showing where geocaches are hidden.
The easiest type (traditional caches) will just have a location on the map where you go to find the container. Some of the more difficult ones, you might have to solve a puzzle before you can find out where you need to go looking
Fascinating, I wonder if the one’s I’ve found before are on there, they were in an area that, while not closed to the public, I’ve never seen in 3 years of arbory anyone there that wasn’t there with me. Deep woods in-between ski trails.
EDIT: Well, the map pulled up nothing anywhere near this town, so I wonder how else people are finding them.
Yup, geocaching has definitely taken me pretty far off the beaten path in the past.
Entirely possible that there are premium geocaches in that area, which you’d have to pay to see. Or it could also be puzzle caches, which would show up in a different (but likely close by) spot on the map
My anxious ass would have the fear that the reason why a particular cache has rarely been visited is because people that visit get kidnapped/murdered before they record the cache.
Nobody is stopping you from using newsgroups or any other method. You could even post your cache right here on Lemmy if you like. Groundspeak made a convenient (and largely free) site to make the hobby more accessible, and it’s worlds better than using newsgroups. If you like the convenience but not their business model then use one of the alternatives: opencache.uk, opencaching.us, etc.
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