First cache

Okay, I am not the techie type, but I have been having a blast geocaching that I decided to try blogging our stories.  I hope you enjoy our adventures, as well as share your own.  Everyone I've spoken with has had a funny story to share.....

But, I guess I should give a brief explanation as to what exactly geocaching is:

To put is simply:  geocaching is an electronic scavenger hunt game (or sport, depending on how you play).  Players use coordinates to locate hidden containers, called caches, that are found locally and globally.

So, my family and I are at a Cub Scout event, and one of the activities is something called geocaching.  We decided to give it a try,  I mean, how difficult can it be?  We borrowed my father-in-laws handheld GPS unit, so very trusting on his part, and got the first coordinates to start the game.  Now mind you, this is our first scout event, it's snowing and, they didn't explain what we were looking for(the size, ect.)  So, we were heading out into the woods without a clue.  We somehow managed to get near the spot where the cache was hidden, and after 20 minutes of looking, finally found where the cache was hidden. The cache was located in the support pole of a totum near a firepit.  The support pole was a hollow metal tube, and attached to a screw was the cache.

My dear husband places his father's GPS balanced on the edge of the support pole.  Unfortunately, or over zealous 7 year old wanted to be "helpful" and get the cache for his dad. Can you guess what happend next?!? If you said, my dear son knocked the GPS down into the hollow metal tube, you would be correct!  We attempted to retrieve it with several willing cub scouts and boy scouts, but we had no luck.  It took several hours, and some very nice scout rangers with really big moving tools to get our GPS back.  Of course the battery was dead.  It was than that we knew we were going to LOVE geocaching, lol.

The following year, I got my husband his very own handheld GPS, and we have been having a blast finding caches, and all the adventures of looking for them (including sliding down a muddy hill, wearing beige capri's!).

I hope to share more adventures with you, including geocaching at some historic spots here in Michigan next month.  Hope you come along and see what awaits us, and see some really neat sights of the local Metro Detroit area! I promise to have pictures so I do not ramble on:D

Happy caching!

Robyn