So You Wanna Go Geocaching? (Part 7)

Published on 12/17/2008

What we will cover in this article:

What is geocaching (part 1)
What equipment you need to get started (part 2)
Now What – Finding caches on line (part 3)
Picking a good first cache to hunt (part 4)
The hunt (part 5)
Caching with kids (part 6)
Advanced geocaching (part 7)

(Part 7) Advanced Geocaching

If I did a super in depth post about even some of the “advanced caching practices” it could fill a book… Here I am going to give you the jist of it and give you a link to go learn more. so here we go…

Travel Bugs and Geocoins – Travel Bugs attach to an item and are tracked at geocaching.com. They move from cache to cache (not for you to keep). When you take a travel bug out of a cache you enter the tracking code on the geocaching website and then you report on the cache page when you drop it off. Geocoins are the same for the most part just they are coin like. more on travel bugs - more on geocoins

Paperless Caching - Paperless caching is just that geocaching without paper. When most people start out caching they print out the cache pages to take with them… This can be a bit much if you plan on trying to find multible caches in a day (cache run). So people have turned to using PDAs to store the cache data. You can read more about paperless caching here & a two part how to here (part 1) (part 2)

Geocaching Bags - Most cachers have a caching bag. Some have this bag with them at all times and in this bag you will find everything would ever need to find a cache plus some. You can read more about what you might find in a caching bag here

Multi Stage Caches and Puzzle Caches – These caches are a little harder than your normal cache… Multi Stage caches you have to visit multiple caches to get the location of a final cache location. and Puzzle Caches off a puzzle that has to be solved to get the location of the cache. You can read all about the different cache types here

That wraps up my how to on caching…

Here is a list of geocache blogs for you to visit if you wish to learn more…