geocaching

Geocaching is an outdoor activity in which participants use GPS devices to hide and then find containers known as "caches", all around the world. Caches are usually small, waterproof boxes which hold a logbook where the players keep track of when and where they found the cache. Larger containers, such as ammunition cases, can also be used to trade items of symbolic value.

Some players like to refer to this activity as being a "game of high tech hide and seek". GPS tracking shows that geocaches can currently be found on any continent on Earth, including Antarctica.

Bearing similarities with the much older game of letterboxing (in which players were tasked with finding hidden boxes using only clues and their own puzzle solving skills), geocaching emerged as an activity sometime in the year 2000, after the removal of Selective Availability for GPS devices.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “geocaching”

• in Technorati Women
  Geocaching - Technology and the Great Outdoors
  Getting your children using their mobile phones in a new way
  by godders45 / on Sep 7, 2011
• in Travel
  DiveCaching: The New Underwater Treasure Hunt Game
  Divecaching, hunting for treasure under water with a GPS is a new sport with a new and eager following
  by kaleeltvp / on May 19, 2011
• in Travel
  GPS Travel: Treasure Hunting With Geocaching
  Geocaching is like old fashioned treasure huts but with a GPS and a passionate following
  by kaleeltvp / on Apr 4, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “geocaching”

 

• Downpour!

  
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  I received this note from the cache owner after posting my online log for the cache I did today: "I am glad you found it....   I am also glad that you didnt get swept away on your way back!   I was out with the family shopping while the skies opened up. Little did I know that some poor cacher was out ...
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• A sunny Sunday

  
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  Waking up to a lovely sunny day we knew we had to get out so we set out to find some of the local geocaches. At first we werent successful but soon we were finding them and enjoying being out in the sunshine. Getting to Eyam we had ice-cream before returning home via another two caches. After lunch I headed out on my ...
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• PCS 2013: Day 5 | Dawson Creek, British Columbia

  
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  We spent the evening in Fort Nelson, and enjoyed this beautiful rainbow just before we went to bed. The next morning, we got up and got on the road to Dawson Creek. We spent the night there at the “Mile 0 RV Park.” I wasn’t impressed with that place. The park itself looked nice enough, grassy, some trees, ...
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• Geocaching 101: How GPS Revolutionized the Treasure Hunt

  
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  What does a modern day treasure seeker look like? What tools do they use to find their prize? Perhaps the seekers are really just anyone game enough to try, and the maps are really just GPS tracking system coordinates.   In the past, looking for buried or hidden treasure usually required some kind of map. Not ...
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• Sasquatch spotted in Augmented Reality

  
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  Embark on a Legend Tracking geo-caching augmented reality adventure! Your goal is to explore and collect treasure such as Legend Tracking Tools that will enable you to find and see Legends. After selecting a Legend to track you will learn more about that Legend and the region it resides. When exploring a region, visit ...
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• Motorhome Vagabond Travel Bug – The Latest!

  
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  When I last updated you the VW Campervan toy had just been found by parvoboy in Eastern England. Since then it’s really begun to travel! Parvoboy took it with him overseas to Malta during which time it visited 3 different caches. On 17th March Geocaching user Vexatus grabbed it from a cache called TB Departure ...
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• 800 Hidden Plastic Jars

  
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  The other day somebody hid a geocache a short bike ride from my house at a spot where, I now know, an orienteering-themed fraternal order was founded in 1930. Today I rode out and became the second person to log the cache. And coming home I realised it was my 800th find since I started 8 years ago! My geocaching ...
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• Pressure Chambers, Hard Helmet Diving, Whale Sharks and the Adventure Girl

  
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  This year has been eventful to say the least. My time has been divided equally between a new job in the games industry, the scientific diving school, and a new very active and interesting relationship. Not to forget the novel thats finally starting to take its final form.[caption id="attachment_2716" align="alignnone" ...
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• A Kermit, a treasure trove, and a series of caches!

  
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  Its been a while since I wrote about Geocaching, but weve been steadily racking up the numbers (currently 356 finds!) - and the adventures. During the past week we managed to find a cache called Kermits Treasure Trove - but it wasnt as easy as just popping in some co-ordinates and rocking up for a cache and dash. Oh ...
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• Be part of Budbursts Summer Solstice Event!

  
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  Something fun to plan for the summer solstice on June 21st this year. To participate in Budbursts Summer Solstice Event , all you need is an internet connection and a desire to learn more about the plants around you. Of course, the super-eager can also make use of the phone app. So heres what you do: First, go ...
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• Geocaching, Warmer weather and Getting back on schedule…

  
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  Hello! It’s taken me a few days into May but I think I’m getting back to some semblance of a schedule. With the blog, of course – I had a lot of fun with the A-Z Challenge but I got off course with actually updates. I’m looking forward to getting back on track. Also just general life wise! There had been a ...
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• My Son the Swamp Wader

  
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  A while back the Youngest Island Boy came home with a pair of wading boots that his grandfather bought him. He is so proud of these boots and I’ve noticed that every time he goes off with my dad he takes the boots with him. But then the other day Dad asked me to download the pictures and video from his phone onto ...
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• Tick tock, tick tock

  
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  We hadn’t been caching for a week and I was itchy to go look for a few over this past weekend. I hadn’t been feeling good, so was ready for some fresh air too! Saturday I had missed a big Geocaching event and was a bit bummed by that. We drove over to the Landenberg, PA area to find the ‘Ticking Tomb’. Here ...
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• WWFM X at Idlewild Park. May The 4th Be With You

  
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  Today was an awesome day of geocaching. It is Star Wars day (May the 4th be with you!), and also World Wide Flash Mob day.  In fact its the 10th WWFM day.  This years event was hosted at Idlewild Park near Charlotte NC.  Idlewild is, quite possibly, the best place to geocache I have ever seen.   There are about ...
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• WARNING: Geocaching May Cause...

  
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  WARNING:  Geocaching may cause... extreme amounts of fun and excitement. you to think theres a cache behind/in every bush. dreams about potential hiding places. a desire to get out more and become much more active. an unquenchable desire for hiking. you to spend an unprecedented amount of time doing something ...
  3 weeks ago

• Birthdays Suck, Except They Dont

  
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  Mum in front of The Third Bay Restaurant in Martinsville, VA Mein Gott, how can another birthday have come and gone? I hate, hate, hate the ever-accelerating passage of years because, as each one falls away, the already complex tapestry of life grows only more complicated and often sad, as too many people close ...
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• The Toddler At Round Meadow

  
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  We spent the day up in the mountains, showing off some of the Blue Ridge Mountains beauty to a friend of my wifes who is visiting from Canada for a week. It should not be surprising to regular readers that we ended up driving along the Blue Ridge Parkway, and we found some geocaches along the way. The first stop was ...
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• Christophers Mountain in NC

  
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  BY SKEETER Garden Bloggers Spring Fling 2012 Asheville, flingers may recognize this spot. Well, those that were lucky enough to be able to hang out until Sunday afternoon before they had to get... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Caching, history and tulips

  
  Dianne Rambling on... — Authority: 115
  I realized it’s been a while since I did a blog post. I’m going to keep this blog as long as possible as it’s a good record for me. I now upload my camera photos right to Flickr and Instagram, so it will be semi-updated there on the sidebar. They won’t have details like my blog, but you can kind of see what I ...
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• Chicken City

  
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  Gainesville, GA, is often known as "The Queen City of the Mountains" and sometimes "The Poultry Capital of the World." This weekend, as we discovered, the latter epithet was succinctly condensed to "Chicken City" and plastered all over town because it was time for Gainesvilles 9th Annual Spring Chicken Festival . ...
  3 weeks ago

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