Be Excellent To Each Other

Geocaching is the use of 24 to 32 GPS satellites (and mobile phone masts) to find 'treasure' - typically Tupperware boxes of 35mm film tubes filled with tat & a log book.

Once you find one you sign the log book and take some tat and leave some tat.

I bought the official geocaching app (£5.99! Thats almost 800 Microsoft points!) and it's ace. It lets you look up ones near you and has it has all the facilities of the web site as far as I can tell (read descriptions, hints, upload and browse photos etc, post in the online log book etc).

But best of all it has satellite maps to help you find your geocache and it's own compass that points in its direction.

It's staggeringly impressive to have your phone lead you to a hidden tiny box in the corner of a hidden park you new nothing about.

Or in other words fucking hell WE ARE LIVING IN THE FUTURE!

Is there an app to call for help when you open the box releasing the sleeping gas, and your last vision is of large men emerging from their hiding places and unbuttoning their pants?

On an unrelated note: Who places these boxes, and can I place one somehow? Would people know it was me that placed a box?

You can place a box.
Look at the GeoCaching website: http://www.geocaching.com/

'Trinket Dogging'

Hitech version of Dartmoor letterboxing. I was dam good at finding them (well, all the ones that weren't listed on the card)

I just cached my first geo! This is quite cool. It was a wee little thing about the size of a jelly bean near Leicester Square. I think I shall do more of these, that was quite fun.

A while back we spotted a middle aged couple wandering around poking drains and stuff in the lane behind our office and someone discovered that there was a geocache hidden there. Roaming the countryside looking for these things seems like fun, but surely not so much dark lanes in Glasgow city centre?

The risk of being mugged by feral youths just adds to the thrill!

When looking for it I managed to find this piece of essential Police infrastructure.

I just registered on the site out of curiosity and there are shitloads in and around Glasgow. I like the fact that some of them are multi-stage treasure hunts where you build up the clue to the final cache as you go. I might see if Mrs B fancies trying some of them out whenever we get a spare weekend.

There's a whole bunch around my home town, which might make walking the dog a bit more interesting. There's also loads within cycling / long walking distance, so that might be an interesting Saturday afternoon.

There are quite a few near Ironbridge where me and the MrsKov had a ramble