Anyone, on here into finding those little survey disks called benchmarks? There's a listing (database) of them all here: http://www.geocach.../mark/default.aspx

I randomly found one then discovered the database, never knew about them before, and now I'm hooked. Most are in boring locations like street curbs near storm drains, but I'm more into finding the hard to access ones. Like the other day I found 3 that have never been logged before, two from 1950 and one from 1959. The ones from 1950 where recovered and logged by NGS in 1960. So pretty cool no-one has bother looking for them, for at least 50yrs haha

Right now I'm trying to find one for every year so like 1920, 21, 22, 23, and so on... up to like 2000.

Easier to view locations on a map
http://beta.ngs.no...GSMap/NGSMap.shtml

The above link works better than the Geocaching database. Once you find one just use the PID designation for example: DY2662 then you can search/log them on geocaching.com

I've never tried to do anything but standard caches before really. I figure I'm so hooked already that adding fuel to my fire would burn myself out lol

One of my friends is addicted to geocaching. I've gone hiking with her before and had fun, but never really got into it. For me I like the searching part but plastic containers don't appeal to me that much. Finding benchmark disks is sort of like collecting coins, plus their kind of hard to steal.


Here are a few recent finds
1945


1950


1937