The joy of treasure hunting - for the 21st century!

About a week ago I was at the park with the boys. Next to us was a dad and his 3 boys. They appeared to have lost something so, in an attempt to be a nice neighbor, I asked if they needed help finding what they had lost. He then began to explain to me that they were geocaching and looking for a hidden object placed in the park by someone else.

He had purchased a hand-held GPS unit and would take his kids on hikes. The difference on these hikes is that they would go with a purpose to find something. I was intrigued. So I did a little research (google: geocaching) and yesterday bought a gps unit (about $150 at a sporting goods store) and took the boys and my dad on our first geocach hike. There are over 7,000 hidden in my zip code alone! In any case, the site I have used is www.geocaching.com.

Here is the final product of our hunt;