My brother and I have been Geocaching for a few years and we really like it. We have grown closer. We take nephews and nieces often. (My DH did it once and decided that it was not for him!)



By the way, Geocaching is a "treasure hunt" of sorts using hand help GPS systems. Someone hides a box or something (various sizes) and they publish the longitude and latitude on the web..at Geocaching.com . You put those coordinates into your GPS and go off to hunt the item.
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I wondered what other family hobbies are out there.

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We do and LOVE it! I can't wait for the winter weather to leave us so we can get out and do some more! We have two geocaches of our own hidden.

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We do something similar (and more low tech) Letter-Boxing!

The kids love it. It is so addictive, too! A fun way to spend an hour, and we have gotten familiar with so many neighborhood parks this way!

Never heard of geocaching before this - it must be related to letter-boxing, though...

I do believe that Letter Boxing is the "mother" of Geocaching

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We do!!! I love doing it, I hate looking for things but we have found lots of neat places doing it...DH just got a really cool expensive GPS, so he is thrilled..

We do too!! We have gotten my brothers and their families into it and a few other friends too! It is the best activity!!! Can't say how much fun we have had while geocaching!

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A family friend got us into geocaching and the kids and I love it. Hubby likes it...but is not as excited as us to do it.

Last year, we let geocahing slide and are ready to get back full-force! We have two of our own hidden.

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I honestly have never heard of this, but it sounds like fun. What kinds of items do you hide? Is letter boxing the same, but without high-tech equipment?

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The thing you find can be just about anything. Large ones would be an Ammo box or glad comtainer. With those, there is stuff in it and you can trade it for stuff you have or just sign the log saying you found it. There are small ones and mini ones and nano ones. Those usually have only the log books in them.

We have found ones that were in Altoids containters, fake rocks, Hide-a-key containers,...many otheres. There are some so small that you need a pair of tweezers to get it out! Some of the caches are not even containters , instead they just take you to interesting locations. Some are puzzles that you have to figure out what you are supposed to do once you get to the coordinates

My very first GPS was a ETrex that cost me less then $100 and I loved it, never failed to help us find what we were looking for!

I do not know too much about letter boxing though.

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A lot of people hide the toys you get with kids' fast food meals, and some caches are just a hidden notebook or paper you sign. The ammo cans are the best containers for items, because they don't get crushed, or rust out. I've seen Altoids tins stuck to the underside of things with magnets, but I've also seen them in really bad shape. I tend to leave bits of jewelry I make, as they're tiny, and I prefer to leave better quality items. We've found neat things in the desert here while looking for caches, and sometimes given up on the cache because the area was worth exploring in its own right.

My dd and sil and granddaughter and her dh, along with their families have been doing this for several years and really enjoy it. They plan their times while on vacations to do this tp and from their destinations.

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I've thought about it but wondered how expensive is the GPS equipment?!? My kids (and dh) would have a blast. I'm always looking for some good *family* bonding activities.

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My original GPSwas an ETrex and I loved it. We paid about $100 for it.
eTrex


The ONLY reason I changed was that my DH bought me another one. This one:

eTrex Venture

I really like my new one because the CoOrdinates are much easier to put in, but did well with my original too.

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