What is a hobby you enjoy, but seems too quirky or obscure to bring up in most conversations?
Mine would be creating pen and paper ciphers for my made up secret communication needs.
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Mine would be creating pen and paper ciphers for my made up secret communication needs.
Geocaching used to be really big but now is pretty low key and niche.
A lot of people I talk to have no clue what it is, and the rest know what it is but have some wildly wrong preconceived notions about it. Stuff like "It's only for hikers" (no it isn't) or how the geocaches are only in the woods. I had a friend who literally did not trust me to go geocaching with her because apparently she thought somebody would be waiting at the location of the geocache to murder us. I had to sit her down and show her that a large majority of geocaches are located in bustling cities and on the sides of major roads.
Sucks that a lot of people also just did not understand it. I once told a friend that there's no monetary reward and they looked at me slackjawed. Like yes you just go find things and then when you find it you have the satisfaction of having found it and shared your find with your friends online. You don't make money doing it lol.
I used to work with the "king" of geocaching in our area. If a new cache went up, he was always the first to get it. I figured out it was him from comments he had made online, not from talking to him. I often thought about ways I could mess with him, like making a new cache and waiting for him.
Geocaching is something I could get really into and just never did. I don't know if my current area is too rural now.
I did it In a rural town and the lack of caches was a bit disappointing but as long as you're in the us, Canada, UK, Australia, or Europe there's probably an enthusiast in your town who placed a few. I remember my town had 10 caches and 9 of them were placed by 1 person
I've actually started 4 months ago! It's really fun, sadly for the summer I am at my parents house, and there is nothing around, plus I don't have enough finding to be someone that hides (I think it's 50 if i'm not wrong)
Technically you don't have to find any to hide any I don't think. Pretty sure they just recommend finding like 50 caches so you know what to do when you hide one
Time to change this city
Geocaching makes walks with family fun again. I see new caches popping up in our area, so I never would have guessed that it's a niche thing.
Hmm, would you happen to have suggestions for smaller containers to use to make caches? I've read of like ammo boxes being decent, but that always struck me as working best for more remote spots, or maybe I've overestimated their sizes a bit.
(Also this is how I found that there aren't many geocaching communities across instances to ask this in, lol)
I've seen many Bison Tubes sold online, small Tupperware containers that have a locking lid, even peanut butter jars covered in camo tape are somewhat common. The best ones are custom made. Some great ones are 3D printed to fit in (think oversized acorn in a tree). I also enjoy everyday objects that are out of place like a pop up sprinkler head placed in the ground with the log inside. I made one that was a log where I bored out the middle. Those hide a key fake rocks work nicely as well.
most people who do "micro caches" use pill bottles, like when you get a prescription.
geocaching.org also sells cache containers.