What IS it you do?

homedg · Post by **homedg** » 15 March 07 3:02 am

How do you refer to Geocaching when talking to others?
PS: I deliberately left OBSESSION out!

nomad_penguin · Post by **nomad_penguin** » 15 March 07 9:13 am

homedg wrote:How do you refer to Geocaching when talking to others?
PS: I deliberately left OBSESSION out!

Then I can't answer the question

I only describe it as an obsession!

Horus · Post by **Horus** » 15 March 07 10:44 am

I thought Hobby and Pastime were pretty close so I looked them up in the dictionary to see how different they were.

Hobby - a pursuit outside one's regular occupation engaged in especially for relaxation

Pastime - something that amuses and serves to make time pass agreeably

So, given the lack of relaxation I've had wheezing up mountains, sliding down banks, getting scratched by blackberrys and straining to look under objects that shouldn't be looked under, I think I'll go with pastime

Papa Bear_Left · Post by **Papa Bear_Left** » 15 March 07 11:49 am

I typically use "game/sport/activity thingy"

mtrax · Post by **mtrax** » 15 March 07 12:06 pm

interesting I was thinking if you consider it a sport do people set-aside some specific time for this?
eg like football/soccer etc.. this involves training and game day times
Do people say "every saturday morning I go caching"?
or is it like a hobby where you fit it in between other interests?

The Rats · Post by **The Rats** » 15 March 07 12:41 pm

I think at various points of my caching lifetime I've called it all of these things.<P>Its definitely an obsession which is habbit forming.

pprass · Post by **pprass** » 15 March 07 4:29 pm

To us it is a high tech game that encompasses many attributes - such as adventure, sightseeing, bushwalking, using high tech equipment etc.

We don't consider it a sport, just like we don't consider bushwalking or bike riding down a bike track a sport. There is some physical exertion involved, but that is not the main emphasis of the game. There is some competitive element involved, but that is not the main emphasis of the game either.

We don't consider it a hobby - that sort of implies stamp collecting, building model airoplanes and crafty sort of things.

That was btw one of the first questions we asked when we started this game and we really didn't get a conclusive answer.

Cached · Post by **Cached** » 15 March 07 4:41 pm

mtrax wrote:Do people say "every saturday morning I go caching"?

There's a lot that do...

It's more like golf than a team sport tho

Team Pathfinder · Post by **Team Pathfinder** » 15 March 07 5:57 pm

What about addiction?????

In the years since we have been away from the "big smoke" - I still cant break the habit of:-
1. getting up
2. making breaky whilst waiting for the PC to crank up
3. Checking where the latest hides are - AND hoping beyond hope that some kind person just might have placed one up here

Sad isnt it? I am sure I cured my chocolate addiction quicker than that!

Thanks to Bear Left - you saved me the trouble of finding our dictionary to decided between Passtime or Hobby

as my second choice

Horus · Post by **Horus** » 15 March 07 7:49 pm

Team Pathfinder wrote: Thanks to Bear Left - you saved me the trouble of finding our dictionary to decided between Passtime or Hobby as my second choice

Cough

Team Pathfinder · Post by **Team Pathfinder** » 15 March 07 8:20 pm

Horus wrote:
Team Pathfinder wrote: Thanks to Bear Left - you saved me the trouble of finding our dictionary to decided between Passtime or Hobby as my second choice
Cough

Whoops

Sorry Horus - Its been a longggg badddd day here

and I AM getting on a bit, and they memory as I read through the posts does seem to be a bit iffy!!

excuses - excuses - excuses.

Mr Emu · Post by **Mr Emu** » 15 March 07 9:22 pm

After 100 caches in the first 50 days, I think I'm definitely in an obsession phase. Really loving the new places it has taken me and the family, but I'm also aware that the nearest caches are getting much further away. That might change things a bit, particularly once Daylight Savings ends. When the days get shorter I hope caching remains as an interesting and challenging family pastime, enjoyed when time avails. (Must resist developing an addiction that consumes my lunch-times

!)

On a related note: having found a few Romax caches in Bendigo recently, I think their inventive creation of caches could almost be classified as a hobby. So I guess it means different things to different people - at different times!

Hey, what's a "Pusuit" anyway?

Papa Bear_Left · Post by **Papa Bear_Left** » 16 March 07 12:27 am

Mr Emu wrote:Hey, what's a "Pusuit" anyway?

Google has over 61,000 webpages that can tell you!

Mr Router · Post by **Mr Router** » 16 March 07 12:33 am

homedg wrote:How do you refer to Geocaching when talking to others?
PS: I deliberately left OBSESSION out!

I'll go with OBSESSION

Thats why I'm on here all the time

Mr Emu · Post by **Mr Emu** » 16 March 07 7:15 am

Bear_Left wrote:
Mr Emu wrote:Hey, what's a "Pusuit" anyway?
Google has over 61,000 webpages that can tell you!

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction Bear_Left. There are over 120 in entries in Google that mention "pusuit" AND "geocaching" together, so it's all sorted now.

Sticking with pastime.

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