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Yes there's usually a tupperware box with a few things in it (treasure). You take something and leave something else. Also a notebook where you write in when you fond it, who you are etc.

 

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Plus it's a good excuse to get in the car and drive around :)

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  • 4 years later...

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Sooooo... I just found out about this last week.

 

There's a good app that shows literally hundreds of thousands of sites in the UK and you'll be surprised where they are, in fact you've probably walked past a few and never even realised they were there!

 

Found my first 5 the other day and found another 2 today.

 

Some of the caches are near on impossible to find and are very creative, whilst others are relatively easy and contain some good items.

 

So, any other geocachers on here since this was posted 5 years ago???

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The app I use is called 'geocaching', it's really good and has a navigate function that guides you right to the correct area.

Yeah it's kind of like walking, but walking with a purpose lol.

It's good if you like a challenge or have kids as a lot of the caches are geared up for kids to swap items. Others are just a log you sign, I found one on our local library handrail, how many people must walk past that every day and not even realise it is there!

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we did something similar called letterboxing on Dartmoor and is great fun especially for kids and dog walkers

Started way before geocaching

Problem we get now is the geo guys find the letter boxes and think they swap the stamps

 

The origin of letterboxing can be traced to Dartmoor, Devon, England in 1854. William Crossing in his Guide to Dartmoor states that a well known Dartmoor guide (James Perrott[2]) placed a bottle for visiting cards at Cranmere Pool[3] on the northern moor in 1854.[4] From this hikers on the moors began to leave a letter or postcard inside a box along the trail (sometimes addressed to themselves, sometimes a friend or relative)—hence the name "letterboxing". The next person to discover the site would collect the postcards and post them. In 1938 a plaque and letterbox in Crossing's memory were placed at Duck's Pool on southern Dartmoor.[5][6][7]

 

Letterboxing is an outdoor hobby that combines elements of orienteering, art, and puzzle solving. Letterboxers hide small, weatherproof boxes in publicly accessible places (like parks) and distribute clues to finding the box in printed catalogs, on one of several web sites, or by word of mouth. Individual letterboxes contain a notebook and a rubber stamp, preferably hand carved or custom made.[1] Finders make an imprint of the letterbox's stamp in their personal notebook, and leave an impression of their personal signature stamp on the letterbox's "visitors' book" or "logbook" — as proof of having found the box and letting other letterboxers know who has visited. Many letterboxers keep careful track of their "find count".

 

Geocaching /ˈdʒiːoʊˌkæʃɪŋ/ is an outdoor recreational activity, in which participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called "geocaches" or "caches", anywhere in the world.

 

A typical cache is a small waterproof container containing a logbook (with a pen or pencil). The geocacher enters the date they found it and signs it with their established code name. After signing the log, the cache must be placed back exactly where the person found it. Larger containers such as plastic storage containers (Tupperware or similar) or ammunition boxes can also contain items for trading, usually toys or trinkets of little financial value, although sometimes they are sentimental. Geocaching shares many aspects with benchmarking, trigpointing, orienteering, treasure-hunting, letterboxing, and waymarking.

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Other half is in to this, even had us hunting round Edinburgh when we went for a long weekend. It can be good fun and can be infuriating when you can't find them. She loves it though.

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What sort of things do people typically leave in them?

All sorts of things, ranging from a small paper log that can be written on in the tiny caches to to teddy bears, coins, toy cars, keyrings and treasured items etc.

 

Here is an example of a cache disguised as a bolt which is magnetic and was found on a fence with a small log inside to sing:

 

[ATTACH]202665[/ATTACH]

 

And here is what's commonly known as a magnetic nano cache, these are pretty nails to find and are often in high traffic areas where hundreds of people a day pass by them within inches:

 

[ATTACH]202666[/ATTACH]

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