WARNING: BLOG MAY CONTAIN TYPED AND VISUAL SPOILERS TO GEOCACHE LOCATIONS.
Bold info retrieved from www.Geocaching.com:
Getting Started with Geocaching
Geocaching (pronounced geo-cashing) is a worldwide game of hiding and seeking treasure. A geocacher can place a geocache in the world, pinpoint its location using GPS technology and then share the geocache's existence and location online. Anyone with a GPS device can then try to locate the geocache.
What a fun idea...I think I had heard of it before, but never really felt interest in pursuing it until the other day when my husband, Jeremy, told me he was placing a cache box in Attu, Alaska - the little island at the end of the Aleutian Chain. He said it will be the first geocache Box on the island, and the farthest West you can go in the North American Continent.
Then he told me that there are 67+ caches on the island of Kodiak alone and that we should go try and find some. So what we did yesterday was went out in search of a couple. Out of the three we were looking for, we found two, and now we're hooked. What a perfect opportunity to get out and see parts of the island that we never thought to explore before. And with the help of GPS, we won't have to worry about getting lost...just eaten by a bear. And with the Coast Guard giving us the opportunity to live in exciting new places every few years, who knows how many locations we can find these little treasure boxes in?
Then he told me that there are 67+ caches on the island of Kodiak alone and that we should go try and find some. So what we did yesterday was went out in search of a couple. Out of the three we were looking for, we found two, and now we're hooked. What a perfect opportunity to get out and see parts of the island that we never thought to explore before. And with the help of GPS, we won't have to worry about getting lost...just eaten by a bear. And with the Coast Guard giving us the opportunity to live in exciting new places every few years, who knows how many locations we can find these little treasure boxes in?
How it works is you find boxes (usually a Tupperware container or other leak proof container) hidden in places that the geocacher would think to look, but the common hiker, passerby, or cleanup crew wouldn't. Inside the box, there are a bunch of little treasures (like a novelty coin, a matchbox car, key chain, stickers, etc.) There's also a log book where you write your name and a few comments and what you took from and left in the box. You want to leave something of equal or greater value than what you took. Then you place the box back in it's hidden home and leave it of the next geocacher to find. You can choose to keep a treasure you found, our you can move it to the next box. Then you can log your find on the internet just like you wrote in the log book to let people all over the world that you found a cache. Occasionally, you'll find what's called a travel bug or geocoin. These are little individual key chains or coins with a tracking number on them and it asks you to log that you found it and also log when you put it in a new cache box. These treasures are not for keeping as the original owner(s) of the tracker usually has a goal for the item to travel great distances and see many places and possibly make it back to them in the future.
This blog will be all about our adventures geocaching together...In addition to logging our findings on www.geocaching.com, I'd love to blog about it in hopes to get more people involved in this awesome adventurous activity! And please take note if you already are a geocacher, this blog may contain spoilers and pictures showing the hiding spot of certain caches. If you find one of these little treasures and you don't geocache, please don't take, alter, or hide it somewhere else. Keep this a fun family activity.
Enjoy our blog and happy hiking!!!
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