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Geocaching is a worldwide scavenger hunt that uses a GPS or phone app with GPS. There are over 3 million active caches around the world. Some are as small as a dime, others are big enough to walk into, all of them provide a unique adventure. We invite you to share your stories, photos, and experiences!
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So I've found a few of these doing trail maintenance and forestry in the rockies on accident, and I remember hearing about them when I was a kid, but how are you supposed to find these things?
There's a website, geocaching.com -- it's free to make an account, and there is a world map showing where geocaches are hidden.
The easiest type (traditional caches) will just have a location on the map where you go to find the container. Some of the more difficult ones, you might have to solve a puzzle before you can find out where you need to go looking
Fascinating, I wonder if the one's I've found before are on there, they were in an area that, while not closed to the public, I've never seen in 3 years of arbory anyone there that wasn't there with me. Deep woods in-between ski trails.
EDIT: Well, the map pulled up nothing anywhere near this town, so I wonder how else people are finding them.
IIRC on a brand new account, some caches won't show up on the map, depending on the difficulty rating