Geocaching Colorado

I stumbled across an article about geocaching from Glenwood Springs.

High Country treasure hunting

 

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Here's another article (thanks TGT for the link!):

YourHub.com

Should we link to these articles from our website? 

Treasure found in Lakewood and Edgewater!

Contributed by: Sunny Hackman on 6/19/2006

Congratulations! You can find it, too!

Over 4,898 hidden caches are waiting to be discovered in Lakewood and Edgewater. I long for adventure -- adventure for my children and myself, like those out of the pages of Tom Sawyer, with named treasure and code names, wrapped in the rigors of the outdoors and exploration of the unknown.

Imagine finding a pirate's account book and treasure map like Jim Hawkins and his mother in Treasure Island. What would it be like traveling the hero's journey without a remote control, game card, joy stick or digitized computer graphics in real time and all within city limits?

I have found the ideal childhood restorer -- Geocaching! Geocaching is a sport and adventure game -- geo meaning "geography" and cache meaning "a hiding place for valuables." Geocaching uses the technology of a $20 billion system consisting of twenty-four satellites, millions of computers that make up the Internet, and a $100 hand-held GPS or Global Positioning System receiver.

The GPS is the tool that makes Geocaching possible. Technology is only the vehicle not an intoxicant. In May of 2000, the United States opened satellite signals to civilian and recreational users of GPS technology, allowing increased accuracy and the ability to explore peaceful, commercial and scientific applications. Geocaching, complete with website (geocaching.com), was born.

Dave Ulmer, the "father of geocaching and self-professed technology geek," came up with the idea for a treasure hunt. He hid a five-gallon bucket near his home and placed inside a logbook and trinkets for trading. He posted a message on the internet and encouraged others to do the same.

Today, there are some 269,715 active caches hidden in all 50 states and in 221 countries. The hand-held GPS device downloaded with longitude and latitude coordinates guide the participants to within approximately 10 feet of a hidden cache.

Participants are then likely to get their feet wet, their hands dirty and their minds stimulated in order to actually find the cache. Each cache is rated for difficulty and terrain on a scale of 1 to 5 -- 5 being the most difficult.

There are a variety of caches. Typically, once a cache is located, you write about it in the logbook at the site, take something and leave something in the cache.

My husband and I have introduced geocaching to my parents, who are octogenarians, a college-aged daughter and boyfriend and an 11-year-old disabled grandson, all with equal success. It is hard to imagine another hobby embraced with more enthusiasm.

Geocaching enhances relationships because of the team work it requires. My summer goal is to find all the caches hidden in the city parks but first we are going to hide a cache of our own -- look for it under the Jolly Roger flag, 10 paces east of the Spooky Bat Cavern!

Suggested Reading: The Geocaching Handbook by Layne Cameron and/or Geocaching For Dummies by Joel McNamara.

Team Laxson:

Here's another article (thanks TGT for the link!):

YourHub.com

Should we link to these articles from our website? 

Treasure found in Lakewood and Edgewater!

Contributed by: Sunny Hackman on 6/19/2006

Congratulations! You can find it, too!

Over 4,898 hidden caches are waiting to be discovered in Lakewood and Edgewater. <snip>

The Denver Post is creating a feature on Geocaching in Colorado.  I met with the reporter and photographer today and explained how it works and went on a couple of cache hunts.

Jason (the reporter) is now 'in-the-know' about the sport, and wants to hear from other cachers to find out how dynamic this activity is.  If you wish, you can contact him through <edit: remove link>.  This is an opportunity to promote geocaching in your area.  Team Talisman - I dropped your name during the conversation for your efforts to promote geocaching on the Western slope.  He really wants to hear from the entire state, and show the readers how big this activity has become.

To all interested parties - feel free to contact Jason through his profile.  Depending on the number of responders, he may not be able to contact everyone. 

If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to post here and/or contact me through my profile.

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Excellent Job!

We need to make muggles aware of how much fun they can have. The more the public knows, the less trouble we'll have placing caches and finding them. Let us know when the story will come out, We'd love to read it!

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Seek and you shall find

Slimmers:

Excellent Job!

We need to make muggles aware of how much fun they can have. The more the public knows, the less trouble we'll have placing caches and finding them. Let us know when the story will come out, We'd love to read it!

Thanks!  I'm not exactly sure when the story will come out - sounds like it'll be a few weeks.  Jason may come to the Northern Colorado Fall Gathering and talk to people there as well. 

We shall see!

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Friendly bump of the thread. 

 

Has anyone contacted Jason? 

Feel free to contact him thorugh his profile (link above).

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I just sent him a note through his profile, giving some details about my activities in the Geocaching world. :)  And noting that I am out of Colorado Springs.

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Keith aka Mr.WitzAbout

We've sent him a note as well. Hopefully he will contact us, the kid's were very interested in giving their point of view! :)

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Seek and you shall find

I just dropped him and note and I'm willing to take him back into the Old Ranch Country or a hike up a hill.

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I will hide and you will seek.

Tahosa:

I just dropped him and note and I'm willing to take him back into the Old Ranch Country or a hike up a hill.

Aw Man!  I even talked with him out my DNF on The Old Ranch.  When you do talk to him, bring that up.  I'm sure he'd be interested to see what I couldn't find!

 

 

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Tahosa:

I just dropped him and note and I'm willing to take him back into the Old Ranch Country or a hike up a hill.

Aw Man!  I even talked with him about my DNF on The Old Ranch.  When you do talk to him, bring that up.  I'm sure he'd be interested to see what I couldn't find!

 

 

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Team Laxson:

Tahosa:

I just dropped him and note and I'm willing to take him back into the Old Ranch Country or a hike up a hill.

Aw Man!  I even talked with him about my DNF on The Old Ranch.  When you do talk to him, bring that up.  I'm sure he'd be interested to see what I couldn't find!

Maybe I can show him the trick of how to find the cache without doing all the map work.  If he is going to get into caching what a cache for his first find.

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I will hide and you will seek.

Looks like Taylors are the lucky people to be interviewed. We just logged thier cache and it sounds like the Post followed them through the process of placing a cache. Has anyone any idea of when the article will come out?

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Seek and you shall find

Slimmers:

Looks like Taylors are the lucky people to be interviewed. We just logged thier cache and it sounds like the Post followed them through the process of placing a cache. Has anyone any idea of when the article will come out?

From what I understand, the article will be in Tuesday's addition of the post.

 

 

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