Geocaching

Brian is writing this blog post:

I've been getting into geocaching lately and have really enjoyed it. Geocaching is for people who like the outdoors and/or gadgets and/or treasure hunts (doesn’t everyone fall under at least one of these categories?). It’s basically a game where people hide “geocaches” (also called “caches”) all over the world, post the gps coordinates online, and people with internet access and a gps can go and find them. Caches are a container of some sort that contain a log book to be signed by everyone that finds it and little trinkets that you can take if you leave one of your own. There are over 900,000 caches in existence right now, so no matter where you are living, they are probably all around you and you never knew it. Within just 15 miles of our apartment there are over 1700 geocaches.

This is how it works:
1. Register for a free account on geocaching.com.
2. Look on geocaching.com for geocaches near you.
3. Write down the information, or print it off, or send it to your pda, or send it straight to your gps unit (some gps units are able to do this).

a. The information includes:
i. What the name of the geocache is
ii. How big the cache is
iii. How difficult the cache is to find

iv. How difficult the terrain is around the cache
v. Sometimes hints on where to find it
vi. People’s logs of whether or not they found it.
4. Go out and try to find it!

You can read more about it here - http://www.geocaching.com/about/