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Unique Hobby - GeoCaching
Apologies if this old news but I just learned about this a couple of weeks ago... www.geocaching.com

Basically, someone hides a "cache" somewhere (legally) and posts the coordinates on the website. You then enter the coordinates into your hand-held GPS and go find it.

I was surpised to find 3 caches hidden in the neighborhood park a couple of blocks from my house. It seems like good, clean, family fun.
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It's been around for quite some time, but I've never actually tried it. Did you hunt yours down with a GPS? Find anything interesting?

Cheers,

Alex
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Yep. The GPS will get you within 50 to 100 feet and from there on you have to start turning over rocks and looking under piles of stuff. The first one I found was a "book exchange" - literally a box of paperback books hidden out in the woods. The second one was a box of military items (patches, buttons). The concept is to take something and leave something.

Find #1

Find #2

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Watts: Jun 15, 2004, 1:35 PM