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At around 43 minutes there's an interesting story about geocaching, pretty sure it's not a usual thing though
https://www.youtub...atch?v=QDl2TWda14k
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I hate geocaching. Originally I thought it would be a cool way to explore urbanly (and possibly a good credibility prop), but 1) you can't go indoors or even in dense woods, because satellite signal drops out, 2) most locations are in a thick mass of undifferentiated brush by the side of a road somewhere, and your GPS only gets you to within maybe twenty feet of it, 3) the caches are usually rain-sodden and filled with plastic junk, 4) I can never find more than about one in four.
Maybe I'm doing it wrong.
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The plastic junk is for the kids to trade for. It keeps them interested. It all depends really on what type of caches you're going for. If you're staying in town you're more likely to be finding micros under lamp post bases, under rocks and in the shrubbery. If you get out on a hiking trail, it's a good excuse to keep yourself going, and the cache size is usually larger. Along interstates, there's a lot of them marking really cool little out of the way places you'd have flown past without a though, and a lot of large caches with books to exchange.
I've personally collected geocoins, moved a few travel bug items around, traded for small keychain flashlights and other useful and cool stuff, even found the occasional $5 bill. The kids enjoy it, and it's taken me to a lot of places I would have never seen. I've also made a lot of friends in the geocaching community and occasionally attend local events and meet up with others that I've met through caching.
Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy. -George Carlin (1937 - 2008) | |
While I don't advise it for abandonments, Geocaching in general is wonderful! I've actually found coordinates over water, and spent a day searching a new shipwreck to find it. It's good stuff!
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Posted by Vectored Approach
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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hehe let's see if it's there
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I'm sure this will last until some stronzo finds your UE Cache and trashes it.
After the Underbelly fiasco, I look at these sorts of things as merely being targets for the schmucks of the world.
For those unfamiliar with The Underbelly, it was an art project that was done in a fairly well-known, but notoriously difficult to access abandoned subway station in NYC. The only POE is a sidewalk hatch in front of a police station. During the project they made a second POE with a homemade ladder hidden in a subway tunnel.
After over a year of sneaking artists from all over the world in and out of the location and a week before it was supposed to be publicly announced, a crew of locals went in and trashed the project. Throwing paint, smashing sculptures, the whole vandal shtick.
So yeah, have fun with your project while it lasts.
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