I love to hike and it's always nice to have a destination to hike to. I also like doing cross country navigation. So I've been thinking of trying geocaching which would combine those two. I haven't had much interest in the past, but now that I am traveling around a lot I thought it might be an enjoyable activity that I could do.
Yesterday I went on the geocache.com website and found there are a couple caches very near me. One is rated as easy and seemed like a good one to try. This morning I set out to hike to it. I already had MotionGPX app on my phone. So I imported the gpx file to that app. The hike was beautiful and it was fun trying to locate the cache, which I did without much difficulty. It was under a pile of rocks, which as soon as I saw it, I suspected that was the cache. But MotionGPX was showing I still needed to go further up the ridgeline. So I went on a few more paces but then turned back and checked out the rock pile. That was it. I had climbed the ridge and MotionGPX was showing I needed to go down the other side. Then after I went down, it showed I need to to go back up on the ridge! So I don't know what was going on with that. If it is the app or user error
There is another cache nearby with higher difficulty that I want to try. I think I will download the geocache app though and try it out. Right now I don't want to pay for a premium service and will stick with a free app.
My first adventure was a success and I will try a few more to see how I like it.
Yesterday I went on the geocache.com website and found there are a couple caches very near me. One is rated as easy and seemed like a good one to try. This morning I set out to hike to it. I already had MotionGPX app on my phone. So I imported the gpx file to that app. The hike was beautiful and it was fun trying to locate the cache, which I did without much difficulty. It was under a pile of rocks, which as soon as I saw it, I suspected that was the cache. But MotionGPX was showing I still needed to go further up the ridgeline. So I went on a few more paces but then turned back and checked out the rock pile. That was it. I had climbed the ridge and MotionGPX was showing I needed to go down the other side. Then after I went down, it showed I need to to go back up on the ridge! So I don't know what was going on with that. If it is the app or user error
There is another cache nearby with higher difficulty that I want to try. I think I will download the geocache app though and try it out. Right now I don't want to pay for a premium service and will stick with a free app.
My first adventure was a success and I will try a few more to see how I like it.