My first Munzee find

I've been reading little snippets here and there about Munzee. I set up a Munzee account a few months ago and then forgot about it since there weren't any in my general location. And it seemed to numbers-centric.

I checked back a few weeks ago and there were a few but they seemed to be mostly guardrail and lamp post parking lot hides, which fueled my suspicions that it was a graffiti-numbers-centric game.

Last week I noticed that there were lots more munzees in the area and more variety so I got serious about it. I checked the Munzee forums to see what people were saying. There were a couple of well-respected geocachers posting in the forums so that peaked my interest. Today I gave it a try and found my first Munzee.

I used my iPhone4, didn't have my GPS with me.

First stop Malbec's Unleashed. I wasn't sure what I was looking for. I assume it's an in-plain-sight QR code on a post at the entrance but I didn't see anything. I checked the posts and the signage but no luck. Didn't have time to try the other nearby Munzee. Maybe tomorrow.

My first impression - using an iPhone isn't precise at all. It's very bouncy too - ground zero moves around. Having good clues and descriptions would help a lot.

Second stop Wizardsnake's Arboretum 3. GZ put me between 2 signs. I checked both out thoroughly but no luck. Headed over to Wizardsnake's Arboretum 4. The iphone put me in the middle of several likely trees. I checked about 5 of them before seeing the possible hiding spot. A little further investigation and I had the container in hand. My first find! :) It was decent. Very much like a nice micro hide. The location was good, a real hide, not a graffiti-ish type of hide which I had envisioned munzees to be, i.e. QR code stickers in ho-hum locations. This was a water tight container, in a park, in a tree, nicely hidden but easily accessible to everyone (might even be wheelchair accessible). Not having to fish out a pen/pencil to sign a log made it very convenient. I was pleasantly surprised to see that I could leave a comment and rate the munzee via the iPhone app. These are two features that I really enjoy about geocaching.

So my first day of munzeeing proved to be surprisingly difficult but in the end, rewarding.