Which book do you recomend for new cachers?
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Which book do you recomend for new cachers?
Hi All,
Which of these books would you recomend for new cachers?
Weewillie
Which of these books would you recomend for new cachers?
Weewillie
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I think it'd be more fun to just do it!
Spend the money you save on the book on some good containers and/or swaps for your eventual first cache, read the wiki entries on finding caches, maybe see if there's someone listed as a guru near you (look under help on the front page here) who could take you out and show you some tricks.
I can waffle on about geocaching with the best (worst?) of them, and I can't think what I'd fill a whole book with! So there's got to be a lot of padding and endless examples and so forth, probably with lots of space-filling pictures! They're also all American and won't have much useful information about drop bears and hoop snakes and Pesky and the other perils of Aussie caching...
Spend the money you save on the book on some good containers and/or swaps for your eventual first cache, read the wiki entries on finding caches, maybe see if there's someone listed as a guru near you (look under help on the front page here) who could take you out and show you some tricks.
I can waffle on about geocaching with the best (worst?) of them, and I can't think what I'd fill a whole book with! So there's got to be a lot of padding and endless examples and so forth, probably with lots of space-filling pictures! They're also all American and won't have much useful information about drop bears and hoop snakes and Pesky and the other perils of Aussie caching...
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I bought The Complete Idiot's Guide to Geocaching which was a useful reference at first because I am the lowest common denominator it's aimed at. I had never even used a compass before so needed something that would explain the basics of navigation.
The book was good, but the best reference I found for actual hands-on caching is this:
http://factsfacts.com/geocacher.htm
The book was good, but the best reference I found for actual hands-on caching is this:
http://factsfacts.com/geocacher.htm
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I'm going with the majority here, half the fun is learning as you go, whenever you do something different you learn more and more, like when you do your first puzzle of multi, we were a bit confused at first but are liking the challenge, even planning to put 1 out soon, so go out there and find' real experience, better than any book!!
Cheers....
Cheers....
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<p>There is absolutely no need to contribute to the coffers of any author cashing in on Geocaching with the abundance of information on the www and in forums such as this </p><p>You could always hire that 1955 Grace Kelly/Cary Grant Hitchcock classic..... To Cache a Thief </p>The Ginger Loon wrote:Cache 22rhinogeo wrote:The Cacher in the Ryegrass
But seriously, don't bother reading any books, just get out there and do it...