Geocaching

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Anybody here consider geocaching one of their hobbies?

I heard about it a couple years ago and thought it was pretty fascinating.

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For the uninformed, you basically use a GPS device to find little hidden "treasure".

The "treasure" is some sort of canister, commonly a film canister, Tupperware container (like for lunch meat) or a small ammo box. Inside there's a roll of paper or a notebook to log that you found it, and in the larger canisters there might be some cheap little trinkets which you can swap for.

According to Wikipedia (always a great source), there are about 950,000 hidden caches around the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocaching

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So anyway, I looked up my address and noticed about 25 of them within less than a mile from my doorstep, so I decided to give it a try. The GPS is surprisingly accurate, and led me within a couple feet of the cache. A tip from the website mentioned it'd be near a boulder, so finding it was pretty easy at that point.