Everyone can do it. All you need is a GPS unit and some sense for outdoors and adventure. It is all based on the coordinates, Longitude and Latitude. Everywhere on earth people hide and seek hidden treasures (caches), but the treasure itself usually contains nothing valuable. Only small trade items (toys, cards etc.) Some of them contain trackable items-thats another chapter.
Usually it begins like this: you are searching the geocaching homepage for hidden caches. The coordinates are given there or you have to solve a quest of one or more stages to find out the final coordinates of the cache.
Your GPS unit will lead you to the location where the cache is hidden. Finding the cache box is sometimes easy, sometimes really hard. It can be hidden on the ground, in a tree, under a bridge...or..or..or...million other possibilities-be creative.
Once you found the box, you will find a logbook inside and you should log your visit there. If there are trade items inside the cache box, you can take something but you should also leave something.
To show you how an easy quest looks like, you can click here for an example. This is one of the category easy.
That's it in brief description. Now you know how I spend a lot of my freetime. I like it a lot and some of the quests are really challenging and I am working on their solvation since months.
This is how my profile looks like on geocaching.com:
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