I want to do this Geocaching thing. What do I have to do and have to get started?

Get a gps unit and go to geocaching.com

gps? do you mean the thing you use in your car?

No the ones that run in the car use different datum. You need a handheld unit. Garmins are the best in my opinion

I hear that megellens are better

It just doesn't matter what unit you use as long as the batteries are dead and you always face away from the sun. Then walk in a straight line until you fall in a hole. When that happens follow your left ear until your arrested and kept for 24 hour observation.

Geocaching is fun.

Now that sounds like the Caching I know.:)

We own both and have friends who have both. 99% of the time the ones with the garmins get the hootie.

Is it the unit or the user?

Yes

Has to be the unit because we are friends with several people who experience the same thing. Most that we know are or have switched to garmin

I think I'll keep on Gellin. I do hear a lot of good things about that model 60

Last night at our little get together a friend bought a primier issue of this magzine.

http://www.geocachermagazine.com/

I tried to order it but they mest up my order.

All you cachers should get a kick out of this.

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_det...66aa0&log=y

Be sure to read the July 18 log.

Thats 101 mile north east.

that is so cool!! Thanks for the post about it.

My latest stats

1234 finds
67 First to finds
66 hides

how is everyone else doing?

We did an amazing cache today.

GC1DAC

Moscow, We Have A Problem

Seems in Manitowoc WI. on Sept 6 1962 2 cops found a smoldering chunk of junk. Turns out it was a piece of Sputnik IV

Pretty cool stuff.

You have to find the spot.

This is a multi.
How many giant beer bottles are in town? 3
How many steps up to the lighthouse? 17

A mile walk from where I parked the car around the marina and out on the breakwater to the lighthouse.

I'll post some photos in my things and stuff thread.

We did a WSQ (Wisconsin Spirit Quest) series. All the caches are in cemeteries. (The folks who set these type of caches are very careful not to be disrespectful. They never are near the graves etc.)

The historical significance and interesting stones are well worth the trip.
For example. The boy who Wouldn't tell a lie.

GCPBYJ

The following take from the cache page.


Feel free to bring flowers or tidy up the sight.

This is truly an incredible story and we wanted to share it. Emmanuel Dannan is honored in Marquette County every year on November 30th (Truth Day). Emmanuel Dannan is known as the boy who would not tell a lie. The tragic tale of Emmanuel Dannan ends in Marquette County but begins with his parents immigration to this country. Benjamin and Mary Ann (Daws)Dannan came to Milwaukee from Devonshire, England in 1844. The parents and their 8 month old son, William, died 3 years later leaving 7 children, the oldest being 16 alone in the world. Thomas the oldest worked on his own in Milwaukee but the rest of the children were split up. Emmanuel was a healthy young boy. Healthy children, especially boys were a commodity in the wilderness. Emmanuel was given to the Samuel Norton family and came to live in Marquette County. This is where the tragic tale of Emmanuel Dannan begins...The character of Sam Norton (Emmanuel's adoptive father) was questionable. Around 1850 an itinerant peddler disappeared. His horse was found in the Norton pasture. Legend has it that the Nortons killed the man and that Emmanuel witnessed the crime which the murderers were determined to cover up by insisting that the boy lie in their favor. Over and over Emmanuel told them he would not lie. Therefore he was cruelly beaten. It is a fact that on November 30th, 1851 Emmanuel's wrist were tied together, the rope thrown over a cross beam in the barn and the boy strung up with his toes barely touching the floor. Then with willow switches thicker than a man's thumb and breaking a dozen switches in the effort, the child was whipped for 2 hours. When there was not a spot on the boys body large enough to place one's finger that was not bruised or bleeding, Emmanuel muttered, Pa, I'm so cold, and died. The Norton's were brought to trial. Their foster daughter who witnessed these events divulged the details of the torture at the trial and the Norton's were found guilty. The body was first buried on Crooker's farm just east of the Marquette County Line, and was moved to the Greenwood cemetary in 1858. For almost 100 years only a inscribed rock marked his grave. In 1954 Marquette County proclaimed Truth Day and a granite stone was erected. Over 2,000 school children participated in the dedication and left flowers at Emmanuels grave.

I enjoy these caches.

The other day as we were leaving on Roz mentioned how lovely the cemetery was. I tried to agree. But I said it was too bad there weren't any nice people there.

She asked... What do you mean?

I said... Everyone here is rotten.

She almost hit me.