05-24-2011, 09:25 AM
It's essentially a GPS-based scavenger hunt. People hide stuff, sometimes incredibly well, and then post hints or a riddle and the GPS coordinates. When you find the cache, you leave your name, and often take a small item from the cache and leave one of your own. The caches range from the size of ammo boxes down to "micro", "nano" and the specialty ones camouflaged to look like bolt heads, rocks, acorns and similar stuff.
We recently got a marble which is a "tracker", being sent as far as possible and tracked to see how far it gts from it's origin.
We found a little Hummer once that finally made it to Iraq.
The fun is in the hiking around and searching, and the pleasure of logging the find and then reaching the stage when you start planting your own caches.
We found an old, abandoned stone dam in Canon City while looking for one cache.
We recently got a marble which is a "tracker", being sent as far as possible and tracked to see how far it gts from it's origin.
We found a little Hummer once that finally made it to Iraq.
The fun is in the hiking around and searching, and the pleasure of logging the find and then reaching the stage when you start planting your own caches.
We found an old, abandoned stone dam in Canon City while looking for one cache.