Planking and geocaching

[Conan The Librarian]

A friend told me his son is into geocaching and I thout it would be much more interesting without gps. I also thought that he is making an activity of the most mundane aspects of fishing and hunting. Oh well, to each his own.


Then there's planking in the news, which is making an activity of rest. But some are dying doing it. Around here we have people occasionally planking on rail road tracks, but we just call them suicides. Little did we suspect that they might be doing it for fun.

Maybe the next step is competitive reclining, using heavily modified lazy boys and specially made house slippers.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110519/od_nm/us_australia_planking

[wreckhog]

Geocaching is a fun family activity if you have never tried it. Mapping and directing yourself are lifelong skills, very useful for a child to pick up. The GPS only gets you to the spot, and it is trivial to use a GPS, that spot could be deep in the woods or in the middle of the mall, then you really start looking.

[coss]

I just got back from a geocaching trip this morning.  I do it as an excuse to get out into the woods, and I use the maps in www.geocaching.com to find new wooded areas to explore.

Plenty of non-outdoorspeople like to search for caches in populated areas.  For me, finding a cache attached to a bridge abutment with a magnet seems like a silly waste of time, but to each his own.  I prefer the caches in forests.

[beerbelly]

I am not sure what geocaching is , but it seams to have some thing to do with finding your way from one place to another. I spent a great deal of time once learning to find my location with a sextant. I never expected that I would have to be able to do it . as I had a very good GPS. But it sure was  nice to know that I could if I had to.