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Message: [QUOTE="JWW, post: 410198, member: 17971"] What is Geocaching? Geocaching is an entertaining adventure game for gps users. Participating in a cache hunt is a good way to take advantage of the wonderful features and capability of a gps unit. The basic idea is to have individuals and organizations set up caches all over the world and share the locations of these caches on the internet. GPS users can then use the location coordinates to find the caches. Once found, a cache may provide the visitor with a wide variety of rewards. All the visitor is asked to do is if they get something they should try to leave something for the cache. A Few months back somebody posted a link to [url]www.geocaching.com[/url] . Well my friend Tony and I finally tried it last night. With a GPS unit and no real knowledge of how to use it we headed out to Lytle Creek to find our first cache. This first find would turn out to be a little confusing. After parking at the bottom of the trail we hiked in about 1/2 a mile. This was all up hill so my body was already hurting. At this point we run into the inevitable fork in the trail. Now this would be a good time know how to program you GPS unit. We of course didn’t know how so we took the wrong trail. We went in another quarter mile when we hit the correct latitude reading. After debating about the longitude position we decided to head back to the lower trail. We walked for all of 30 seconds before we saw a semi steep hill we could jump, slide or at least hope we could make it down with out getting hurt. We finally made it to the bottom and continued on. When we finally reached the approx position we searched for about 30 minutes before almost giving up and heading back to the truck we finally found the box. Inside the box their were things like a pack of cards, some seeds, cd cover, a cassette tape and a few other little things. The idea is to trade items in the box so Tony left a pack of trading cards and took some playing cards from the old Sahara Hotel in Vegas. After that we took off for a pretty uneventful trip back to the truck. I learned a couple things on this little trip. We were able to somewhat track our mileage and it came out to about 2 miles with our wrong trail included. 1. I need to quit smoking 2. Knowing how to use a GPS would be cool 3. Exercise can be fun. If you have a GPS I encourage to check out [url]www.geocaching.com[/url] and give it a try. Jeff [/QUOTE]

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