Geocaching crossover

ammon888 · 15 Jun 2012, 4:04 pm

As I got back into UE after an 8 year layoff via geocaching...

There is quite a lot of crossover between the exploration part of UE and geocaching, although geocaching caches generally don't involve anything that could be called trespassing... generally

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Some of the high terrain difficulty caches in NSW are definitely expos in themselves.

The easy ones are probably no challenge to the visitors of this site, but I find that keeping an eye open for them makes the urban environment more interesting... you never know what someone has hidden out there.

There's a good Australian website for geocaching and I thought I'd post a link. PM me in case anyone wants some recommendations for good high difficulty caches to try and get to.

http://geocaching.com.au/

Titan · 15 Jun 2012, 7:01 pm

Thanks for sharing

Enigma · 15 Jun 2012, 9:05 pm

I first heard of geocaching when I looked up the Gosford (Kariong) Heiroglyphics after being shown the spot. Someone has put a geocache nearby apparantly.
Strange spot indeed. Dunno why anyone would spend years doing proper heirogylphs on boulders in the bush. Unless you're shown the spot, you'd never find it.

Echo · 27 Mar 2015, 11:31 pm

There's a Geocache box hanging off a manhole ladder way up ANZAC Drain. Like I'm talking way the f*** up. You gotta climb a waterfall and walk down a shitty redbrick mummy like tunnel that almost breaks your ankles.

Aleksander · 29 Mar 2015, 12:52 pm

Here in Adelaide there is a Geocache down a drain that I plan to get too one day.

And in Victoria there is about 8 or so Geocaches labeled "Random Abandoned #" I did it at night time and I could only see 1 abandoned building, a motel, from the 5 I found, the abandoned structures were all on private property except for the motel I found.

Will-043 · 30 Mar 2015, 12:59 pm

I found one after I tripped over an old ammo box in one of the local forests

Aydun · 30 Mar 2015, 1:45 pm

The other month I walked past a dodgy youth, who was obviously up to no good, on a boardwalk in Lane Cove National Park.
I happened to walk past this spot the other day and had a look around, expecting to find bongneedles and graffiti, but it turns out he was actually geocaching and there was a geocache hidden there.

Midget · 30 Mar 2015, 2:38 pm

aydun wrote:The other month I walked past a dodgy youth, who was obviously up to no good, on a boardwalk in Lane Cove National Park.
I happened to walk past this spot the other day and had a look around, expecting to find bongneedles and graffiti, but it turns out he was actually geocaching and there was a geocache hidden there.

"I solemnly swear I am up to no good." ?

kjwx · 06 May 2015, 10:39 am

Our Geocaching.com reviewers are obviously less strict than the ones in Oz. I've logged at least three of late that encouraged trespassing to various degrees.
You're right about it being a good crossover of the two hobbies, though. I've got friends who wouldn't dream of exploring an abandoned structure or drain unless there's a geocache in there.
Top of my 'If I win Lotto' geo-wishlist is tackling the Psycho Urban series in the States - 13 extreme caches, all 5/5 difficulty, and mostly located in derelict buildings.
My favourite requires you to don a Hazmat suit to look for an ammo can in the basement of a former nuclear power plant. A couple of players have gotten sick from radiation poisoning but it sounds like heaven to me.
I thought the Anzac cache had been canned after the reviewer got huffy about it being in a drain. Or is this a new one?

phytrix · 06 May 2015, 10:46 am

Yeah there's definitely an overlap

There was a very active explorer down here in Canberra who had posted a lot of urbex-related Geocaches (Panic!, for anyone wondering), but he doesn't get around as much nowadays.

https://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest ... submit4=Go

DFEX · 06 May 2015, 12:04 pm

Went out on the weekend and checked out some drains in a park I stumbled across. At the end I was having a cigarette and I looked down next to my feet.. Geocache!
It was cool to see all the other people that signed the guest book. I even left a lil trinket of my own

longnecksmasher · 06 May 2015, 2:31 pm

I tried to get an app for it on my phone, but the app didn't work.

Midget · 06 May 2015, 2:32 pm

longnecksmasher wrote:I tried to get an app for it on my phone, but the app didn't work.

All you need really is a GPS/mapping program, even the default one will do.

longnecksmasher · 06 May 2015, 2:37 pm

Midget wrote:
longnecksmasher wrote:I tried to get an app for it on my phone, but the app didn't work.
All you need really is a GPS/mapping program, even the default one will do.

I tried c:geo and it would just say cannot find the caches, turn on data/GPS.

Is there another one people would recommend.

Midget · 06 May 2015, 3:35 pm

longnecksmasher wrote:I tried c:geo and it would just say cannot find the caches, turn on data/GPS.

Is there another one people would recommend.

I was thinking more along the lines of getting coordinates from a geocaching website, and then locate it via map app.

kjwx · 06 May 2015, 4:29 pm

longnecksmasher wrote:Is there another one people would recommend.

I use the official GC.com app on both my phones; these days I hardly bother to turn on my handheld GPS at all. My brother swears by CacheSense for Android devices, though.

kjwx · 06 May 2015, 4:30 pm

Midget wrote:I was thinking more along the lines of getting coordinates from a geocaching website, and then locate it via map app.

That's called geocaching naked, as opposed to geocaching nude - though I hear you Aussies do a lot of that too.

longnecksmasher · 06 May 2015, 7:55 pm

Midget wrote:
longnecksmasher wrote:I tried c:geo and it would just say cannot find the caches, turn on data/GPS.

Is there another one people would recommend.
I was thinking more along the lines of getting coordinates from a geocaching website, and then locate it via map app.

Doh, hadn't thought of that.

longnecksmasher · 06 May 2015, 7:56 pm

kjwx wrote:
longnecksmasher wrote:Is there another one people would recommend.
I use the official GC.com app on both my phones; these days I hardly bother to turn on my handheld GPS at all. My brother swears by CacheSense for Android devices, though.

I have an android, I'll have a look at it tomorrow, thanks.

Nuggs · 06 May 2015, 8:05 pm

longnecksmasher wrote:
Midget wrote:
longnecksmasher wrote:I tried to get an app for it on my phone, but the app didn't work.
All you need really is a GPS/mapping program, even the default one will do.
I tried c:geo and it would just say cannot find the caches, turn on data/GPS.

Is there another one people would recommend.

I use the official Geocaching.com app. Costs some money but it's well worth it

Nuggs · 06 May 2015, 8:07 pm

One I found with PnB last week

kjwx · 06 May 2015, 8:23 pm

longnecksmasher wrote:[I have an android, I'll have a look at it tomorrow, thanks.

CacheSense is also good if you Munzee as well - it lets you see the locations of both at the same time.

kjwx · 06 May 2015, 8:44 pm

So ... what's everybody's GC.com handle?
I'm kjwx, somewhat unsurprisingly.

Echo · 06 May 2015, 8:57 pm

I dont geocache cos I'm too cool.

Pussinboots · 06 May 2015, 9:06 pm

Nuggs wrote:One I found with PnB last week

Thanks Nuggs, it was good to try something different, and that was a tricky one