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Geocaching?
< on 1/11/2014 9:42 PM >
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Anyone ever consider starting geocaching inside urbex spots? take and leave only your own items; not what's left inside the buildings. could be a fun idea...




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< Reply # 1 on 1/12/2014 12:06 AM >
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I've never actually done the geo thing but I think that's a good idea.




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< Reply # 2 on 1/12/2014 12:37 AM >
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I've thought about that, too... you'd have to track them a bit differently since GPS doesn't work too well under a roof, but yeah...




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< Reply # 3 on 1/12/2014 3:29 PM >
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Well, It also may be a bad idea... it was done in Quebec (Canada) a few years ago...

This is the cache (now archived, but you can see the pictures) : http://tinyurl.com/lcam5ug

It was placed in a cold war bunker (It's now in the database : http://www.uer.ca/...ow.asp?locid=29465

You have no control over who can see the cache, geocachers dont know about not telling evrybody and their mothers about some location. A few DAYS after the cache was published, the place got trashed (scrappers, paintball, tags, etc.).

Before that, the place was almost pristine for 4-5 years... So if you place a cache, make it in a well worn location where everything is already scrapped and tagged.





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< Reply # 4 on 1/12/2014 7:55 PM >
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Wow, even paintball? Most I ever saw of that nature was a single airsoft bb.

If you do want to leave a cache, only give the coordinates to afew people, explorers you know, or add it to the database location if it has one.




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< Reply # 5 on 1/12/2014 11:00 PM >
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I used to be really into geocahing but then it got boring and pointless. Plus a lot of caches get destroyed by people and only survive a month or so.

I've been benchmarking lately, which has been quite fun! Pretty much they're brass survey markers. Most are located on curbs, sidewalks or near storm drains, but some are in awesome locations. Mostly the older ones 1920-30-40's

You can search for them here: http://www.geocach.../mark/default.aspx
but I kind of prefer this site: http://geodesy.noaa.gov/NGSDataExplorer/





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< Reply # 6 on 1/12/2014 11:27 PM >
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Take this one for example: http://www.geocach...ls.aspx?PID=MD1862

"THE STATION IS 29 FEET NORTHEAST OF THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF AN ABANDONED BRICK SCHOOL, 70 FEET WEST OF THE CENTERLINE OF THE MACADAM ROAD, AND 60 FEET SOUTH OF THE CENTERLINE OF A GRAVEL ROAD. THE MARK IS FLUSH WITH THE GROUND AND THE DISK IS STAMPED TIE 1946."

Google street view doesn't work, so can verify the school, but most located in remote areas/ are old and have interesting stuff nearby.




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< Reply # 7 on 1/12/2014 11:46 PM >
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Only in well known locations or ones that may not be around for too much longer. It'd essentially be marking the location for everyone to see. How about something like Full Member Access and Geocaching? Though there's not many, it could be interesting having something like that on a separate board for those who earned the status. But that could take the fun out of the amount of people who can see it, I think having a bit of a puzzle in buildings could be fun. For those who like using their head after finding a tricky POE, could add a whole other element to the adventure.




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< Reply # 8 on 1/13/2014 6:34 PM >
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May or may not work due to Geocaching policy of not placing on private or Federal government property.




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< Reply # 9 on 1/13/2014 8:43 PM >
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Vectored Approach is right... I geocached for a few years here in Niagara Falls, Ontario and finally decided to put out my own series in a bunch of old ruins in the area. They were not even high profile locations where trespassing was really that much an issue! It didn't take long for ridiculous complaints to start flooding in about idiotic things like having to step over a century-old farm perimeter fence. One geocache was in the ruins of an old stable in the middle of nowhere and someone complained to the Groundspeak corporation that they had to commit B&E by lifting a gated latch to access the area where the cache was. Absolute and total idiocy.

Geocaching is predominantly run by a single corporation: Groundspeak. And they want to keep the hobby so squeaky clean it borders on ridiculous.

One geocacher even went so far as to suggest that they had the right to sue me because by me placing a cache, I had to agree that the cache was not on private property and posed no risk to the subsequent cachers.

Enough already. I still do it with my children, but any thoughts of placing caches in the places we go - out of the question.





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We would have to start our own cache system not connected to Geocache.


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What I think would work, if a site is in the UER database, would be to locate a container with a log sheet. Those who hit up the site could leave their handle, date and time. Might be interesting to see who's been there. Description for container would be in the entry as well. GPS doesn't work well indoors. I'd actually love to do this at my local abandoned hospital. Probably put a magnetic container in the back of the body drawers in the morgue.




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< Reply # 12 on 1/14/2014 9:00 PM >
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Fwiw there is an alternative to Groundspeak that I think is subsidized by GPS make Garmin: http://www.opencaching.com -- pretty sure I accidentally ran across one of their caches in PA's Abandoned Turnpike as I couldn't find it in Groundpeak's database. Dunno if the open caching rules are less strict about private property placements, though.




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Even with shipwrecks, secrecy is one of the only ways to keep your site safe. Looters, treasure hunters, and all around dumb people are always ready to destroy your site. I once saw a site where it was obvious we were in a seaman's grave, with eyeglasses, a tin cup, and some newspapers in a room. Upon returning, they were gone. All gone. Not buried in the silt, but stolen. From a man's grave. I'd reckon that a geocache may be found to be more trouble than it's worth, because jackasses are relentless.




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fyi there will be poop in all the caches




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fyi there will be poop in all the caches


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Honestly sounds like a terrible idea, mainly because geocache locations can be downloaded by anyone who has a GPS. Doing so would bring many people to locations that we know and enjoy going to, and could cause many locations to be more secure or make them unable to enter.




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Its against geocaching policy because its "trespassing".

That and it attract dipshits who might destroy things. Most geocachers are pretty smart but now that smartphones have free apps every noob can just start without understanding the rules of geocaching.




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^ thats why it would need to be unassociated with geocache. And no GPS coordinates could be given.

The only way it could be even slightly interesting is if they are all WOM caches and they are re-hidden in different spots every time.




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< Reply # 19 on 1/17/2014 8:26 PM >
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I was thinking about placing a cache in some urbex themed spots which doesn't require trespassing. But i don't have GPS. Maybe in future...
Anyway, geocaching website is useful when visiting some different towns in country or abroad. It's the first place where i'm looking for information about some climbing spots (towers, heat pipes, etc) .




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