If you’ve never heard of it, the concept of geocaching is fairly simple.
Someone hides a box full of trinkets somewhere and then provides the GPS coordinates.
It’s up to geocaching enthusiasts to visit the location and take a stab at find the box.
Sometimes you get a clue and other times you don’t.
Or, if you want to get really creative, usegeocaching to propose.
I believe I’ve found them.
Your coordinates are listed at the top.
It doesn’t take very long for the system to locate dozens of geocaches near you.
According to Geocaching.com, there are now well over a million caches all throughout the world.
When you see a geocache title that looks intriguing, just press it for more information.
Then, we hit the trail.
There are a couple of cool options in c:Geo to navigate.
One is the straight compass mode.
It shows your current heading, and the distance from the cache in kilometers.
That app is calledGeoPointer, created by a firm called Sifra.
With GeoPointer, you get a compass with an arrow that points in the correct direction all the time.
However, on this sunny spring day, we learned an important lesson about geocaching.
Less than half of the battle is locating the vicinity of the geocache within a short radius.
The real adventure is actually locating where the cache is hidden once you’re there.
Is it under a rock?
Is it disguised as part of the rock wall?
Is it buried under the leaves and in the dirt right under our feet?
We searched for almost an hour, and found nothing more than a few ticks crawling up our legs.
