Today we (Jill, Mark and I) went on our first geocaching. Geocaching is hiking to a location that someone has stored a cache (usually a waterproof container with little prizes and a log book) at a set location. The location is then loaded on to the site www.geocaching.com with the coordinates a story and a few hints. With a hand-held GPS the hikers (in this case us) find the cache.
We set out to find two geocaches, loaded our coordinates and with our new GPS (and the instruction book) started our adventure. On a beautiful day - the hike alone was nice - but knowing that you are going to find a treasure at the end - well - that sounded like fun.
Our first geocache started with the three of us just trying to stay on course - but after a while we got the hang of it. Unfortunately, we couldn't find the cache -- even after 1/2 hour of searching. We were disappointed and we gave up the hunt and went to the next set of coordinates and hurrah - we found it.
We logged our entry that we found the cache, left a little prize and took one (this is the normal procedure - we weren't stealing....).
We may be hooked on a new hobby. Next time I will bring a camera to capture the event.
Sunday, June 10, 2007
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