Geocaching is an outdoor treasure hunting game in which you use a GPS to hide and seek containers hidden by other participants. There are city caches and mountain cahces. The city caches are geared more towards kids and hidden containers usually contain small toys. The geocaches in the mountain are geared more toward men with some cooler treasures. Once you find the cache you are free to take your treasure, but then replace it with another treasure for the next seekers.
There are quite a few in Utah and we have found several close to our home. It is funny to think of all those places you have been and not realizing there are hidden treasures at your feet. We think it would be so fun to find all the caches hidden in Utah and maybe even hide one ourselves. Apparently there are a lot in Zions National Park. Why not add a treasure hunt to your beautiful hike in Zions? We are planning a trip there this summer sometime; if we can fit in with all the other places we want to explore.
The boys have been having fun with it, but not as much fun as Brandon! Here are some pictures of our latest hunt several weeks ago. Our niece Morgan came along and had a great time. Here they are deciding what direction to go by looking at the GPS (doing this has helped Nash to know where N,S,E and W are).
Getting closer...is it under here?
We found it!!
Hunting for another one...
Here it is!
And our last hunt for the day, we head to the pond by our house...
I think it is by this big tree!
We found it!! Here are the kids deciding what treasure they want to take with them.
We will keep you updated on our future treasure hunts-we know there are many more of them to come!
6 comments:
what a fun hobby! looks like the bigger kids are really into it. pretty neat.
It looks cold there! Sounds like a fun hobby...Brad's not quite to that point in life, but I think he'll take up marathoning when he's done!
Jared would really like that too. The kid needs a hobby, this is one I can support!
Funny - when I mentioned this post to Ryan, he pondered for a minute, then in sort of a distant tone he mused, "Huh. Hobbies."
Yeah, it's obviously a foreign idea for us too.
Laurie, I have never heard of this, sounds pretty neat. I am glad Brandon is finding time for things he wants to do. Nice to be done with the school thing eh!
How do you find out about the caches? This sounds way too cool!
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