Rding and Geocaching
06-03-13, 07:46 PM
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Rding and Geocaching
Seems like there are literally hundreds of Geocache sites on the bike paths around. Has anybody ever combined their bike riding with Geocaching?
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I've heard of it only through an article I read a few months back in a doctor's waiting room. But since then I've thought while traversing bucolic rural roads that it could be a good fit with riding.
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While on a ride saw a guy standing in the cold water of a tumbling stream with his wet hand under a log. Yes, he was looking for something (and I don't know how the game is played) - a marker of sorts - for his geocaching activity (sport? game? contest?).
OK - I think he was having fun.
OK - I think he was having fun.
06-03-13, 08:42 PM
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I've done geocaching as part of my "Map Interpretation and GPS" class at at the local community college, but have never thought to combine cycling with the treasure hunt. Hmmm. With the caches around here, I'll have to get a mountain bike.
06-04-13, 08:05 AM
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Yup, done that. It was an adventure because I was in an unfamiliar area, and my GPS was ans early model Garmin, no maps. The arrow pointed to back to where I was staying, and a road was pointed in the right direction. Lets just say that road wasn't the straightest, most direct road I could have taken. But it was a good ride.
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I've been combining the two for several years. These days, I don't even go after a cache to find or hide it unless it's on a bike route or it's a cemetery cache.
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I've not done it as it would require me to have a GPS unit. On the Badger trail, however, I've seen a number of people who are participating as there are in the neighborhood of 50 sites.
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I'm thinking:
Orienteering is the Map and compass reading Predecessor, this is the GPS purchase required, offspring.
Orienteering is the Map and compass reading Predecessor, this is the GPS purchase required, offspring.
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Used to do orienteering many years ago but that was pre mountain bikes. On top of that the places the checkpoints were placed I doubt that cycling to them would have been possible. But sounds like a good form of combining two outdoor sports.
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