Geocaching.com Presents: Geocaching Without GPS

[briandrum1]

That is simply awesome! I may to try my hand at this a few times....maybe.. :-)

[TheNessiewolfe]

Would like to try doing it this way some time although I some times don't find them with the GPS either LOL thank u for the video - nessiewolfe

[Andyb3496]

Hello Ed Scott, Just wanted to say I think your awesome finding caches without a GPS. Ture master of mapping

[mpsteen3]

Love this video. It inspired my to write a blog entry about it. I think it's a really skillful thing to be able to locate the caches without a GPS. Awesome.

[GoGeocaching]

@mpsteen3 Awesome! Share the link with us?

[kkutube1972]

I wish I knew how to use a map. GPS is the best electronic ever invented for me. Geocach is addicting. You are having fun and good exercise without really knowing it. My last cache was Kayaking 2K stroke to an island in the middle of a lake. Thanks for sharing. I do have 2 GPS just in case one break.

[cedarhillhotpeppers]

Just to clarify the paper issue. I usually print 6 individual maps to a side of a single sheet, or in areas where there is a cluster of caches print one full page map for them all. Maybe 3000 caches per ream? Not a huge footprint.

[ClUbPenGuIn0wNz]

This is INSANELY cool, I wish i had the skill to find caches like that. The only problem is I thought GeoCaching was supposed to go paperless, and if he found 2,500 GeoCaches with maps and with 2 maps printed out like he showed in this video then he's used 5,000+ pieces of paper for GeoCaching =/.

[charlizeisme]

This is is how I'ved always geocached. Although I have only found 18 (been geocaching for only a few months), I think it is more difficult than w/ a GPS. I however, I do hope to get a GPS in the near future. TFTV! (thanks for the video!)

[BunanaPrincess]

I prefer using a map because sometimes my smartphone spazes 

[AngelFreak1981]

I found my first 507 caches without a gps! I used the satellite images to sketch out basic maps. It was a lot of fun!

[1matt210Geocaching]

I dont have a gps currently but I borrow my uncles alot.

when we want to find a cache and dont have the gps we take pictures of the map on my cell phone and do the same thing

we use landmarks such as trees and signs and phone poles to find the cache

abot half my finds were found that way. I love doing it like this.

[Chrissysen]

found 20 this way

[cachemonster]

Oh, i'am happy. I have a gps.

[halfportalstrike]

this is so me...

[Kiwibirdman1701]

That's how I found my first 10.

[sandmansande]

its always more accomplishing to find a cache without a GPS.

[DrMORO]

Domo!!! (Howdy! In Japanese) Cacher Dr.MORO here @ 725 finds.

Nice video! Nice Place!

My first 100 or so finds were done without a GPSr, since I didn't have one. Printed out TOPO & Google Earth Satelite views together with the cache description, and off to GZ. Looking at the vegetation just as edscott does, counting the trees' shadows, projecting significant structures as 'benchmarks' to triangulate the location. Once there, it's all 'geo-sense', which has really helped me gain it as a tadpole.

[kghere00]

My user name's Ianbball3, edscott actually found a couple of my own caches.

[bujingodai]

user names dagibbz, we did our 1st 200 this way, I sort of miss it

[no1tomissocool]

I don't have a GPS as well! I do the same satellite veiws, and thats how I find my geocaches!

[MalcolmElisha]

It's all well and good with a map or gps provided the person who hid the cache put down good coordinates that weren't 50 feet off.

[larryc43230]

@MalcolmElisha: If the coordinates are 50 feet off, Ed Scott with his maps and compass and I with my fancy GPS unit are going to be facing the exact same difficulty. It's all part of the game either way. I'm not that good at orienteering, myself, and I admire folks like Ed who can cache this way. --Larry

[larryc43230]

Forgot to add that I'd love to join Mr. Scott for a caching outing one of these days, his approach does look like fun.

[fingerboardingSK]

I have only 50 found caches without GPS, but it´s really fun. :) But I bought Garmin Etrex legend HCx. :) (Sorry for my ENG, I am from Slovakia.) :)

[SignatureStampsFan]

This guy must have blood relation to Chuck Norris... except Chuck finds caches by sense of smell.

[RHCVCacher]

Many respects!!! In the older days it was always like that. In the army I remember doing those co-ordinates-walks just the same way. Then they called it co-ordinate-walks and today they call it geocaching :-P

[broetchenmampfer]

Hehe I startet also like this, because i had no money for an gps but now i have, and it´s is really easier!

[Killlerbee]

Way to go Ed. I really miss caching in your area. It will always be home to me.

[HunterEisenberg]

And some caches I cant find With a gps...

[Tarzan07330]

i've found em without gps...but this also seems like a waste of paper in my opinion. i know we all waste materials in some way or another, but to print out the maps like his satellite view for all of them...seems a bit excessive when he's talking about 2,700 geocaches that he has found with maps.

[helloooanybodyhome]

im saving up for a gps and ive found all of mine without them but i dont use maps because i usually do urban geocaching and i just go by where i think it is ande i find them

[jomirife]

Sometimes I do it too, with no gps :)

[Sidavs]

Finding a cache in the forest without a GPS may be quite difficult but in urban areas it's no problem. I found my first 100 or more caches only by Google Maps images.

[geocachingouttakes]

This guys is impressive. Thanks for sharing.

[DScottakaFlippy]

Wow!! Thats all I can say, Thanks for a Video

[mistaecco]

I like looking for nano geocaches without a GPS. I usually use my GPS to find the ones closest to me, but after that it is just going by the hints, description, and comments!

[gaaraman082]

I've done all my geocaches by memory of a map only...

[redalertcrafts]

Thanks for pointing out some of the things that make Geocaching fun even without

a GPS!

[redalertcrafts]

I found my first fourty (40) without a GPS! I now have the app for my dumb-fone.

[mgbigman]

kind of old fashioned geocaching ;) cool !!