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shLong



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Geocaching
#16170411 - 05/02/12 10:32 AM (11 years, 8 months ago) |
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My girlfriend and I have started doing it, and its a lot of fun.
Now, when I explain it to folks they always seem to get this weird look in their eyes like "dude thats kinda faggy" Im curious what the general thought is concerning this. Please vote and lemme know.
(And I really dont care what people think, because I really enjoy it, but I am curious)
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Re: Geocaching [Re: shLong]
#16170431 - 05/02/12 10:37 AM (11 years, 8 months ago) |
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Geocaching is indeed fun. The only major qualm I have with it it is that it can tend to lead people off of designated trails which can do lots of damage to fragile plant life as well as erode land unnecessarily. Other than that though it's a really cool idea.
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shLong



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Good call, never really thought about that. I can see how that could definately be an issue in places.
We pretty much just started doing it "seriously"..and this lasered mushroom is our "first 2 find" prize for when it eventually gets out there Our handle there is Mushroom420 and we made a pretty cool (IMO) cache. and I bought a fake mushroom micro cache for placement too.

  
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Re: Geocaching [Re: shLong]
#16170541 - 05/02/12 11:00 AM (11 years, 8 months ago) |
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haha nice dude!
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shLong



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 thanks
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Re: Geocaching [Re: shLong]
#16958865 - 10/03/12 01:18 PM (11 years, 3 months ago) |
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I've been geocaching for about 8 years now. We don't go super often, but I enjoy it greatly. My name on there is the same as on here if anyone wants to look me up.
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shLong



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Yeah it's alot of fun
Sucks though, I had 2 really nicely decorated ammo cans stolen on the same day. Some dickwad is going around my town and ganking all the ammo cans.
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Re: Geocaching [Re: shLong]
#16982886 - 10/07/12 09:43 AM (11 years, 3 months ago) |
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Sounds fun!
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Re: Geocaching [Re: shLong]
#16982894 - 10/07/12 09:45 AM (11 years, 3 months ago) |
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I'm just wondering what kind of people you think you'll attract with that geocache. Probably the very first person to find it will be some burnout loser pothead whos going to steal it or vandalize it. It looks nice though.
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shLong



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Re: Geocaching [Re: yomo]
#16982916 - 10/07/12 09:51 AM (11 years, 3 months ago) |
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It's a ton of fun.
It takes you to places you woulda never known about otherwise....plus it's cool when you go out of town for something. It's a game that serves as a travel guide....especially if you love hiking/the outdoors. And I like looking at my stats.
My girl and I make some good and fun caches. We have one, its considered a "micro" size. It's a little brown mushroom made of plastic that stakes in to the ground. On the bottom theres a cap thats removed to gain access to the signing log. People really like that one. It's been assigned a lot of favorite points. We had fun in writing the description (I dont say what it is, just hints) Here, check it out, this is it Mycology 101 by Mushroom420
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shLong



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Quote:
LastBreath said: I'm just wondering what kind of people you think you'll attract with that geocache. Probably the very first person to find it will be some burnout loser pothead whos going to steal it or vandalize it. It looks nice though.
They dont know what they look like until they arrive. I said it was a mushroom themed ammo can. That one did get stolen, but so did all the other ammo cans in my city. They stole about 15 ammo cans. (They sell for $10-20)
Faggots!
I had one that was creating quite a buzz for the month it was out before it got stolen. It was called A HERPETOPHOBICS NIGHTMARE!....it was a big 50 caliber ammo can covered in astro turf. I epoxyd plastic frogs, snakes and lizards all over it and hung a big rubber snake on the inside lid so when it was opened the snakes swung out. People really liked it, but it got stolen with the others in town.
The other cachers in the area know me as the over the top cache maker. I have a good rep for the ones I put out :-)
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Re: Geocaching [Re: shLong]
#16982946 - 10/07/12 09:58 AM (11 years, 3 months ago) |
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The thing is, most Geocachers are older folks. I went to a local event where you meet the names you see online. I, at 29 was the youngest person there.
It's surprisingly filled with folks in their 60s, and then a lot of folks in their 30s and 40s that do it with their young kids. The kids like the toys that are in the caches
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shLong



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Re: Geocaching [Re: shLong]
#17394699 - 12/14/12 10:59 PM (11 years, 1 month ago) |
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So, my little fake mushroom cache has been nominated for "Cache of the month for december. I'm pretty happy about that 
"Mycology 101"...my little fake mushroom cache
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Re: Geocaching [Re: shLong]
#17404947 - 12/16/12 11:06 PM (11 years, 1 month ago) |
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I've never done that, but it does sound like fun.
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Congrats on the nomination! Wish I was closer so I could go hunt it down. Maybe someday I'll be driving through your neck of the woods.
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Cool! I love caching, it's been a few years for me. I might have to go leave some suitably preserved shrooms at all the caches on the campus nearby. Did you leave any fungus of the non-plastic variety?
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shLong



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Re: Geocaching [Re: TFpek]
#17507745 - 01/06/13 03:46 PM (11 years, 24 days ago) |
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No, its technically against the rules leaving perishable items in caches, but I just spread the good word through my screen name, Mushroom420, and my caches
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Re: Geocaching [Re: shLong]
#17507779 - 01/06/13 03:56 PM (11 years, 24 days ago) |
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The other problem to the ones leading people off established trails are the ones too close to established trails. There's a public forest near me where I've found all the geocaches just because I wander by and there's a really clearly packed trail leading off the blazed path right to where it is.
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shLong



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I found my first on accident while pissing behind a cemetery out in the boonies
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Re: Geocaching [Re: shLong]
#17640939 - 01/30/13 10:39 PM (10 years, 11 months ago) |
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my wife and i started doing this. didnt think it would be popular around where we live but to find out there were a lot around. they got lots of packs of papers from me. lol
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