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Hi my geocaching name is SEARCYKID and this is my online home for my GEOCACHING adventures. GEOCACHING First of all, What is Geocaching? Well people have described geocaching in various ways. My favorite description is "It is High Tech Treasure Hunting". Others have been a little more colorful in describing it, such as "Using billion dollar satellites to find Tupperware in the woods." Actually, geocaching is a worldwide recreational activity enjoyed by GPS (Global Positioning System) users. It involves a GPS user hiding a cache (usually a waterproof container of items) and posting the coordinates on the Geocaching.com website so others can come on a "scavenger hunt". There are a few rules that we must follow when we hide a Cache. Some caches contain only a log for the finder to indicate that he/she has found the cache. All caches must contain at the minimum a log, but some caches contain a lot of dollar store trinkets that the finder can take. But if you take something you must leave something. We also cannot put anything dangerous, such as knives, exposives, or sharp objects in the cache. It is also not advisable to put any kind of foodstuffs in the cache. These caches are hiden in the woods and animals can destory caches looking for food. Throughout the world there are about a half million caches hidden. The coordinates (The Latitude and Longitude as shown on a GPS Unit) for these caches can be found on the Internet website WWW.GEOCACHING. COM. The services of this website are free at the time of this writing and anyone can participate simply by signing up an account. This activity is a family oriented hobby and many children enjoy geocaching as much as their parents. It teaches the children how to use a GPS handheld unit for finding GeoCaches but it also teaches them safety in the great outdoors by showing them how to set a Waypoint when they leave a trail, vehicle, or campsite and how to use the GPSr to backtrack to the original point if they get lost. I have found that the uniqueness of each cache and the postings of each finders comments on the Internet are as much fun as actually hunting the cache. That is the purpose of this site. To show how different each cache can be and how entertaining the comments of the finders can be. Hi my geocaching name is SEARCYKID and this is my online home for my GEOCACHING adventures. GEOCACHING First of all, What is Geocaching? Well people have described geocaching in various ways. My favorite description is "It is High Tech Treasure Hunting". Others have been a little more colorful in describing it, such as "Using billion dollar satellites to find Tupperware in the woods." Actually, geocaching is a worldwide recreational activity enjoyed by GPS (Global Positioning System) users. It involves a GPS user hiding a cache (usually a waterproof container of items) and posting the coordinates on the Geocaching.com website so others can come on a "scavenger hunt". There are a few rules that we must follow when we hide a Cache. Some caches contain only a log for the finder to indicate that he/she has found the cache. All caches must contain at the minimum a log, but some caches contain a lot of dollar store trinkets that the finder can take. But if you take something you must leave something. We also cannot put anything dangerous, such as knives, exposives, or sharp objects in the cache. It is also not advisable to put any kind of foodstuffs in the cache. These caches are hiden in the woods and animals can destory caches looking for food. Throughout the world there are about a half million caches hidden. The coordinates (The Latitude and Longitude as shown on a GPS Unit) for these caches can be found on the Internet website WWW.GEOCACHING. COM. The services of this website are free at the time of this writing and anyone can participate simply by signing up an account. This activity is a family oriented hobby and many children enjoy geocaching as much as their parents. It teaches the children how to use a GPS handheld unit for finding GeoCaches but it also teaches them safety in the great outdoors by showing them how to set a Waypoint when they leave a trail, vehicle, or campsite and how to use the GPSr to backtrack to the original point if they get lost. I have found that the uniqueness of each cache and the postings of each finders comments on the Internet are as much fun as actually hunting the cache. That is the purpose of this site. To show how different each cache can be and how entertaining the comments of the finders can be. Submit Cancel

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SEARCYKID As a footnote I have added the following information about the history of Geocaching: GPS, or Global Positioning System, was developed by the US Department of Defense. This satellite navigation system was intended for military use and therefore the signals were scrambled, limiting accuracy for civilian use to about 100 meters. On May 1, 2000, President Clinton announced that this scrambling, known as Selective Availability (SA), would be turned off. Civilians were then able to enjoy accuracy on the order of 10 meters. On May 3, 2000, Dave Ulmer proposed a way to celebrate the demise of SA. He hid a bucket of trinkets in the woods outside Portland, Oregon and announced its location in a posting made to the USENET newsgroup sci.geo.satellite-nav. This announcement is remarkable for laying out the essence of the hobby that is still in place today. It's all there. The container. The trinkets. The log book. The rule of take something, leave something, sign the logbook. Dave Ulmer invented geocaching in one fell swoop in that newsgroup posting. Within a day, the original stash had been found. Within days, more stashes had been hidden in California, Kansas, and Illinois. Within a month, a stash had been hidden as far away as Australia. The hobby was fast on its way to being a worldwide phenomenon. The oldest still active geocache in Arkansas is Gorilla Stash (GC1B) in Mountain Home, Arkansas. Gorilla Stash A cache by Ed Normandy Hidden: 6/27/2000 . This cache was hidden just a month and a half after the very first geocache was hidden by Dave Ulmer. As you can see by the name of this cache the original name of the hidden containers was called a "Stash" but by mutual consent of the geocachers the name of the hidden treasures was changed to "Cache" to get away from the bad connotation of the word stash. The GC1B is the coordinates (or Waypoint) of the cache as shown on the Geocaching.com website. SEARCYKID As a footnote I have added the following information about the history of Geocaching: GPS, or Global Positioning System, was developed by the US Department of Defense. This satellite navigation system was intended for military use and therefore the signals were scrambled, limiting accuracy for civilian use to about 100 meters. On May 1, 2000, President Clinton announced that this scrambling, known as Selective Availability (SA), would be turned off. Civilians were then able to enjoy accuracy on the order of 10 meters. On May 3, 2000, Dave Ulmer proposed a way to celebrate the demise of SA. He hid a bucket of trinkets in the woods outside Portland, Oregon and announced its location in a posting made to the USENET newsgroup sci.geo.satellite-nav. This announcement is remarkable for laying out the essence of the hobby that is still in place today. It's all there. The container. The trinkets. The log book. The rule of take something, leave something, sign the logbook. Dave Ulmer invented geocaching in one fell swoop in that newsgroup posting. Within a day, the original stash had been found. Within days, more stashes had been hidden in California, Kansas, and Illinois. Within a month, a stash had been hidden as far away as Australia. The hobby was fast on its way to being a worldwide phenomenon. The oldest still active geocache in Arkansas is Gorilla Stash (GC1B) in Mountain Home, Arkansas. Gorilla Stash A cache by Ed Normandy Hidden: 6/27/2000 . This cache was hidden just a month and a half after the very first geocache was hidden by Dave Ulmer. As you can see by the name of this cache the original name of the hidden containers was called a "Stash" but by mutual consent of the geocachers the name of the hidden treasures was changed to "Cache" to get away from the bad connotation of the word stash. The GC1B is the coordinates (or Waypoint) of the cache as shown on the Geocaching.com website. Submit Cancel