ackthpt's Journal: Confessions of a Neo Geo Cache Addict

Less than a week after my first GeoCache outing my friend (he whom talked me into grabbing the eTrex and joining him and his son in the hills) has a Magellan SporTrak on order, to be delivered today, and I've ordered labels for creating GeoCaches and some Travel Bugs. The bug has not only bitten, but the teeth have sunk in deep. Summer will be a series of weekends plodding fireroads, tramping through thickets and mazes of twisty little passages-all alike.

Our initial caches (we plant) will be close to home, but I already have begun planning a cache deep in a southwestern US desert.

I've got my trusty eTrex on my hip, batteries charged and it's about 2 PM on Friday. Two more hours then I'm outta here.

Calvin was right, there's treasure everywhere.

geocaching in santa cruz

[urbazewski]

I'm guessing from your entries that you're located not far from Santa Cruz, where I'll be spending the summer. I've never been geocacheing --- I'm wondering what it takes other than a GPS and a tolerance for bushwhacking. Is this something that can be done without experience, or do you need to go with someone who's already done it? I'm assuming the caches are on public land where off trail hiking is permitted, and the relatively less dense brush of the dry climate makes things easier to find. Sounds like a

Re:geocaching in santa cruz

[ackthpt]

This should give you some idea how many of these are out there: Caches in California [geocaching.com] Some require bushwacking, others can be found in town. Generally they require some small level of skill reading a GPS receiver and varying degrees, as the situation dictates, of furtiveness in inconspicuousness in getting the cache and stashing it again without non-cachers catching wind of what you are doing and raiding the cache.

Many in town can be found just by walking (hope you have good shoes :) or pedaling around wi