Geocaching

[cowboy43]

I just heard of this game this week , it was started on May 03, 2000 by Dave Ulmer of Beavercreek Oregon and now has over 2.5 million cache locations world wide with over 6 million followers, A cache was placed on our road next to my place 9/01/2013 and has had 34 logged visits. By searching their website it appears to be thousands located in the Central Tx area.

 

[Nesikep]

I've heard of it, never done any, I think it could be a bit of fun, but I have no time for such stuff.

 

[greybeard]

Heard of it and the car club I am with does it on a nationwide scale and has numbered geocoins made up. I have one of the coins but have never participated.

 

[Fire Sweep Ranch]

We do it, with the kids. It is fun, when you have time. There are caches EVERYWHERE! And, we have found some really cool places we would have not otherwise known about around our area by checking out and searching. It is like a modern day treasure hunt for the kids!

 

[M5farm]

I have a Hard time finding things I own , I can see where it could be addicting .

 

[Bigfoot]

Are you picking up items like in a scavenger hunt, or visiting place just to see what's there?

 

[LRTX1]

It all depends on the cache. Sometimes is a take a souvenir and leave one in its place. Other times its just a log book to sign. A lot of times your looking for a hidden box or canister. You have probably been standing next to one and never knew it.

The jist of the game is to find hidden objects in random places, some secluded some not, by using GPS coordinates.

 

[greybeard]

Yep, there are a few clues given as well as GPS.
One of the coins from our club, has been found, then redeposited in a new location by each new finder somewhere else. It has now made it thru 38 different US states.

Some things are hidden in plain view--more or less. Sometimes, the geochacher just wants proof you were there by answering some questions. You can google virtually any well known natural or manmade attraction, and add the word "geocaching" after the search term and there's a good chance, that someone has hidden something at that location or has some type of geocache listing for it.
Here's one location I accidently found listed while doing a google search for an old lake.

http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC3B ... e5ef2f8e82

To get credit for this Earthcache email the cache owner the answers to the following questions:

1. Permeability is ”the measure of the ease for which fluid can move through a porous rock”. Oil and gas is typically produced from sandstone, because sandstone has the permeability characteristics that allow oil and/or gas to move through the rocks under pressure in a subsurface environment. On the other hand, granites and clay typically do not easily flow oil or gas because they have low permeability characteristics. Look at the ground around the listed coordinates. Soil at the surface is not necessarily what is also at the subsurface section that produces oil and gas. Take a sample of the surface soil and examine whether it is sandstone, granite or clay. Is the surface soil sandstone, which would be conducive to oil and gas production or is it mainly clay or granite, which would not?
2. Visually estimate the length and width of the Conroe Crater. Assuming the Conroe Crater is 600 feet deep, estimate the volume of water in gallons within the crater assuming it is cube shaped and has a depth of 600 feet (use the formula of (length x width x depth) and 1 foot equals 7.48 gallons).
3. If this was oil, what would it be worth today (divide the gallons in question 1 by 42 and multiply it by $100 per bbl).
4. What is located on the other side of the road and what is the name of the company that operates it?

Optional: take your picture with the Conroe Crater in the background and post it with your log.

To learn more about Earthcaches, including how to develop one of your own click here Earthcache.org. You can also obtain one or more of the following levels of the Earthcache Masters Program:

 

[cowboy43]

Kinda a long story how I found out about the game last week. A Retired policeman lives across the County Rd from my place. It is a suspected meth lab on the dead end road and we are suspicious of all strange cars going down the road. The policeman saw a pickup with a girl parked across the road from his house under a oak tree, she was acting strange , he saw her leave something under a rock, thinking it was a drug drop, he called the Sheriff who put on his rubber gloves , retrieved the package which had a log book with numerous names in the log, thinking they had a lead to a drug ring he took it back to the office, where they recognized it as a geocache drop point. I have since found out their are numerous drops within a few miles of my place , the oldest Is dated 2002. The one on my road was put their Sept. 2013 and has had 35 visitors. This group is using old abandoned cemeteries on private land as the location point ,the cache is put on public roads but it does entice the game player to search out the cemetery on private land.

 

[lavacarancher]

We tried setting one of these up a few years ago for the scouts that come up every year. Never could get it kicked off because the two GPS units we were using to "salt" the course couldn't agree on a location within about 20 feet. And when you have 50 scouts all with their own GPS units they were lucky to be within the same pasture, little on within 10 feet of the prize.