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Does anyone do this?
Essentially, you go out and hide something. A small container of some kind. Some are very creative, others are as simple as a film container with a note inside of it.
You then post coordinates to the location or near the location. Sometimes a clue or a riddle leads you to the hidden item.
When you find it, you sign the log and put it back. Some of these hidden containers have prizes in them that you get to take, though you're expected to put something back in most cases.
The underlying goal of these treasure hunts is that you're supposed to be conscientious of the environment, and most Geocachers I've met so far carry a small grocery bag with them to pick up trash as they walk along hunting for the prize containers.
The first one I ever found had prizes in it. I got a Wolverine Pez dispenser out of the cache, and put in a bouncy ball with a map of the world on it. I think I got the better end of that deal, but lots of people like balls too and it was a pretty cool ball.
It's sort of a modern day treasure hunting game, played mostly for bragging rights, requiring little to no investment. It's very inexpensive - essentially you're just walking someplace and looking around until you find an item, sign the log book, and then post about it on a web site, but even that's not required.
It's really just kind of a fun hide and seek game, or a riddle game of some sort.
I was recently introduced to it and have found five hidden caches so far. I was stunned to discover that there are three hidden items within 500 feet of my house!
If I expand to the list of things within 1 mile of my front door, there are 28. All within a mile of me.
Soon there will be 29, because I've built my own cache that I intend to add to the list. I have an additional cache that I'll be adding in the next couple of days to bring that total to 30.
Apparently, these things are all over the damned place.
Does anyone here play this game?
Essentially, you go out and hide something. A small container of some kind. Some are very creative, others are as simple as a film container with a note inside of it.
You then post coordinates to the location or near the location. Sometimes a clue or a riddle leads you to the hidden item.
When you find it, you sign the log and put it back. Some of these hidden containers have prizes in them that you get to take, though you're expected to put something back in most cases.
The underlying goal of these treasure hunts is that you're supposed to be conscientious of the environment, and most Geocachers I've met so far carry a small grocery bag with them to pick up trash as they walk along hunting for the prize containers.
The first one I ever found had prizes in it. I got a Wolverine Pez dispenser out of the cache, and put in a bouncy ball with a map of the world on it. I think I got the better end of that deal, but lots of people like balls too and it was a pretty cool ball.
It's sort of a modern day treasure hunting game, played mostly for bragging rights, requiring little to no investment. It's very inexpensive - essentially you're just walking someplace and looking around until you find an item, sign the log book, and then post about it on a web site, but even that's not required.
It's really just kind of a fun hide and seek game, or a riddle game of some sort.
I was recently introduced to it and have found five hidden caches so far. I was stunned to discover that there are three hidden items within 500 feet of my house!
If I expand to the list of things within 1 mile of my front door, there are 28. All within a mile of me.
Soon there will be 29, because I've built my own cache that I intend to add to the list. I have an additional cache that I'll be adding in the next couple of days to bring that total to 30.
Apparently, these things are all over the damned place.
Does anyone here play this game?
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