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.
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2 comments:
very interesting, haven't heard of the activity.. but sounds like fun, just getting back into Hiking now that the smallest one can walk a while.
was shocked to see the post, I keep checking everyone and while and today I got the prize ;)
take care
Trace
Have heard about this but have yet to try it. You have inspired me to put it on our 'things to try this summer list'!
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