this post was submitted on 17 Oct 2024
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Geocaching

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Geocaching is a worldwide scavenger hunt that uses a GPS or phone app with GPS. There are over 3 million active caches around the world. Some are as small as a dime, others are big enough to walk into, all of them provide a unique adventure. We invite you to share your stories, photos, and experiences!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Electrician here from /all who doesn't know much about geocaching. What's the issue? Seems to be pretty accessible with a ladder if you're looking at that dongle hanging from the KO seal on the box.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Geocaching is a game where you give gps coordinates to a little cache and people go there. It shouldn't require equipment or machinery to reach it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 17 hours ago

Some are in cliff faces for climbers. It’s got tiers and categories, maybe this one’s misidentified.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 17 hours ago

It shouldn't require equipment or machinery to reach it.

That depends on the difficulty grade of the terrain. T5 often requires some equipment.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago

As someone else said, there are some difficult ones that require climbing gear (which reminds me of playing various MMOs) - one in my town is about 15m up a large tree!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

@pineapplelover Looks like you'd need an extendable fishing rod with a hook or magnet attached to the end of it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Or one of those grabber things your grandparents use, but super long version.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 17 hours ago

Just use one grabber to pick up another grabber

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Alright just picked up a gold ball retriever from a sporting goods store, think I would need to add a magnet to this. The geocache I posted looks to be magnetic so having a magnet might be useful.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Good luck! Magnets always make me paranoid that I won't be able to put the cache back, but maybe it'll work for this one!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

Which TOTT would I even use?