Geocaching!

So Trent and I started geocaching! What is that?! Well, here is a pretty good description from Wikipedia:

Geocaching is an outdoor sporting activity in which the participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called "geocaches" or "caches", anywhere in the world. A typical cache is a small waterproof container containing a logbook. Larger containers such as plastic storage containers (tupperware or similar) or ammo boxes can also contain items for trading, usually toys or trinkets of little value. Geocaching is often described as a "game of high-tech hide and seek," sharing many aspects with benchmarking, trigpointing, orienteering,treasure-hunting, letterboxing, and waymarking.

Geocaches are currently placed in over 100 countries around the world and on all seven continents, including Antarctica.^[1]After 10 years of activity there are over 1.2 million active geocaches published on various websites devoted to the activity.

We did our first geocache the first week of November. Besides what they mention above, they also have containers called "micro" containers, as small as a little film canisters or a magnetic box that holds keys, etc. We chose our first one at the Ogden Union station. On the site, or app, cause we use our phones, we can choose one we want to do, which there are tons in Ogden!

We look at the info, usually they give you a clue you have to decipher, to help locate the cache, which is way fun, but then I found out my geocache phone app, automatically deciphers it for me. Well the first one, we had to decipher, which I figured out right away, and we got the pretty much the exact location! Well we looked and looked, but we couldn't find it. They usually will rate them 1-5 on how hard they hid it, it was a 1.5, but we still couldn't find it. Well tried another one after that, but we couldn't find that one either. As we went back to the info of the caches, it said if your a first timer, don't try the micros, cause those will be hard, which they both were micros.

Well the next one we try, will be a bigger one so we can feel like we actually accomplished it. Oh, when you find the caches, you cant take it with you. You find it, open it, log it, then put it back exactly how you found it, or you can replace it with something else of equal or greater value.

We decided any time we go on a vacation, we are going to search for a cache. We are planning on going to Wisconsin next spring, so we are planning on doing one then. It is way fun, like a treasure hunt! I will post a pic of the next cache we find!