Have you ever come across any geocache sites during your daily surveying tasks? If so what do you leave?
I have found two or three. Always leave a survey disk with the company LB# on it.
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Nope, never have. Where should I be looking? What should I be looking for?
Brad Ott, post: 419216, member: 197 wrote: Nope, never have. Where should I be looking? What should I be looking for?
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I have done a little geocaching with my boy about a year or so ago. It's a good homeschool summer activity.
There was one close to the house in a lot with an old hollow tree stump. It was destroyed recently because of construction. Another hidden under a gazebo at a community center.
I have an extra 50 cal ammo can.
Always thought of setting one somewhere in a popular public access site that was difficult but not dangerous to find.
I've stumbled on a couple. One was in the crook of a tree, similar to one Robert described. The other was tucked away in a crevice in a concrete wall, if I remember right. I looked at them and just put them back.
I have gone once or twice on purpose, never have stumbled on any. Surveyors should make good GeoCachers, BUT it seemed like work instead of recreation 🙂
SHG
My wife and I Geocache during the warmer months here in Texas (there are quite a few warmer months here). We've found a dozen or so in and around our neighborhood.
I work with a guy who is BIG into Geocaching and he does it everywhere he goes, all over the continental US.
Back when this was a new thing, a landscape architect that I did work for was very excited about geocaching. He insisted it was something I had to try, because you go out in the woods and find things.
My reply was "I spend Monday to Friday searching for survey markers in the woods, and you expect me to go out on Saturday and look for things in the woods?"
He never spoke about it again.
Ken
Second-Generation, post: 419214, member: 1477 wrote: Have you ever come across any geocache sites during your daily surveying tasks? If so what do you leave?
I have found two or three. Always leave a survey disk with the company LB# on it.
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What kinds of things are left? Do you leave it and note it as found, or take what is there and leave something else?
If you take something, you're supposed to leave something. Also, the "prize" should have a log that you need to fill out before returning to the place you found it. We always leave a small trinket of some sort. There are official Geocache treasures that you can find but I leave those for the hard core Cache-rs.
I had most of them within several miles of home found as of 2010, but there has been an explosion of their numbers and I got tired of it. Particularly tired of looking for a micro size container hanging on the branches of an evergreen tree. If my wife wants to take a walk in the woods, I may pick a couple to find so as to have a target for the walk. One positive thing about geocaching is that you can discover interesting places you hadn't noticed before.
Geocaching got me into benchmark recovery, since their site has a snapshot from 2001 of the NGS data base. It feels a lot more useful and less like a game.
The cacher reports on marks can be a useful resource to tell you some that still exist and are easy to find, if you need an elevation in an area you haven't worked before.
https://www.geocaching.com/mark/
or the advanced search linked from there.
Ken Salzmann, post: 419338, member: 398 wrote: Back when this was a new thing, a landscape architect that I did work for was very excited about geocaching. He insisted it was something I had to try, because you go out in the woods and find things.
My reply was "I spend Monday to Friday searching for survey markers in the woods, and you expect me to go out on Saturday and look for things in the woods?"
He never spoke about it again.
Ken
About the same reason I never could get excited about some outdoor sports, like skiing, I just spent 40 hours standing in the snow, no, I don't want to spend my weekend doing the same thing!
SHG
Squirltech, post: 419356, member: 11959 wrote: If you take something, you're supposed to leave something. Also, the "prize" should have a log that you need to fill out before returning to the place you found it. We always leave a small trinket of some sort. There are official Geocache treasures that you can find but I leave those for the hard core Cache-rs.
Yes. There usually is a log to fill out date etc...
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Brad Ott, post: 419216, member: 197 wrote: Nope, never have. Where should I be looking? What should I be looking for?
Usually it's something oddly placed. A pill bottle hanging on the back of a pole. Tupperware under a bush.
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