Staring out with a GPS unit


Treasure hunting

An internet connection gets you to geocaching.com .
One hundred dollars gets you a low-end (which is all you really need) Global Positioning Satellite reader.
And you're off looking for hidden treasure in your neighborhood and around the world.

Boxes of toys, a log, and maybe a hitchhiking artifact or two hidden in the underbrush, hanging in a tree, or hiding under rocks become addicting pleasures. But not for what they carry, for what they represent: your ability to find something hidden.

After finding them gets to be a normal habit, you can move up to placing them. ot only can you place them, but you devise devilishly tricky caches that don't include boxes or logs, but are based on some esoteric puzzle the finder has to solve to your satisfaction before they can claim to have found the cache!

Then, later, when you're looking for a new challenge or something different to do with your GPS unit you can get into
• Waymarking
• Earthcaching
• Letterboxing
• Benchmarking
• Confluence photographing
• or 15,995 other things to do with a GPS unit

Oh so much to do. And the really cool thing is that the computer is getting you up and off your butt!

Daniel

Posted: Sat - August 11, 2007 at 05:48 PM          

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