Our First Geocaching adventure

Geocaching is a high-tech, treasure hunting game where you use a GPS to hide and seek containers. Some containers have simple logs that you can sign to show that you were there, others have pogs or treasures that you can take, others allow you to take something but leave something in return. You can find treasures close to you on this site:

Geocaching

We chose what we thought was a simple hunt... but since we didn't quite know how to use our GPS it was more difficult than we anticipated. A beautiful day turned windy quickly so we had to bring Jacob home. After some lunch we tried again. We went to the spot, but convinced ourselves that the tree containing the cache had been cut down. Luckily, Hannah is a good detective because she is the one who spied the cache in a nearby tree. It was fun and got us out of the house! Here's our detailed account of the hunt:

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We start out at a local ballpark, the hint was that it was close enough to the park to be a challenge to find if there was a game going on, but secluded enough to still be able to find it without interfering with the game.

Marc realizes he's not quite sure how to work the GPS.

Shortly after this, the wind picks up and we go home for lunch. Marc downloads some updates to the GPS and we go back...

Here Ashley is ready to give up.

Hannah finds it!

This is what it looked like:

And here's the whole gang (minus me)!

And just the girls!