For those who do not know what geocaching is:
Geocaching is an outdoor treasure-hunting game 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.
We parked the car near the trailhead and headed up the mountain with the aid of the GPS. I had pre-programmed the cache's coordinates in the unit so it simply points me in the right direction. We traveled straight up the mountain without using much of any deer trails - because we thought the cache was near. After about 20 minutes of continuous climbing, we found the cache at the said coordinates.
We really werent sure how high we had climbed until we arrived at the cache. My GPS showed our elevation at 3850' - with our car below at 3150', we climbed 700'! What a view!
In the cache we found a geocoin - a unique coin placed in a cache and tracked online by users to see its activity and travels. We grabbed a geocoin and will move it to a new cache this weekend. Anyways, it was great exercise and a fun adventure.
For more information on geocaching, see www.geocaching.com.
