Treasure hunting!
A couple of weeks ago I discovered the site Geocaching.com, after reading a tweet from Anders Brenna. Since I recently got a new phone with built in GPS, a HTC Hero, I started thinking this could be a cool way to use it a little more than just confirm my position whenever I am on the loo.
So this evening I invited my friend Monique out for a adventurous treasure hunt to find two caches hidden around Fjære in Grimstad. The first cache was found after just a couple of minutes, as it was only a couple of meters from where we parked, but the second cache turned out to be a real adventure! Of course it helped a lot to have a companion with unnatural need for climbing mountains and taking the steep route over instead of the long way around! 
So we climbed an enormous 40-50 m tall mountain and was very pleased with ourselves – until we discovered that we had just climbed the wrong hill… So much for the incredibly detailed Google Maps!
Luckily after fighting our way through the thick jungle, fighting enormous animals – also known as giant killer mosquitoes (!) – we found a small road and followed it until we were on the correct hill, and found our second cache! Boy, were we pleased with ourselves!
I think I’ve found a new inspiration for walking in the woods, or just go out walking in general, and I doubt I’ve gone searching for my last geocache!
It’s definitively a tiring sport for an untrained geek, so I am too tired to explain Geocaching in detail now, but you’ll learn it all after checking out Geocaching.com. It’s basically modern day treasure hunting
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Haha, sounds like fun. Nice excuse to get out of the house too, loot and all! Remember to check out the graphics out there, it’s really impressive! Was that an used condom in the box? How is the HTC Hero, is it the newest one? How does the “flip” feel like? I could do with a touchscreen toy, but I do not want an iPhone out of pure principle
Absolutely love the phone. It’s the newest Android as far as i know. The “flip” actually feels very natural. Makes the phone sit better in your hand. Doesnt feel any different than any other phone in your pocket. iPhone sucks, unless you’ve got Steve Jobs up your ass.
Yeah, and I coworker made me realize that if you use spotify on an iPhone that’s all you can do with it. What the hell – single execution, that’s like DOS or windows 3.11! But then again it IS very shiny