Geocaching

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Geocaching Rules When hiding or searching for a cache it's important to make sure that we don't damage the natural environment or our relationship with land managers whose duty it is to protect the places we frequent. These few simple guidelines should keep cachers happy and places open to Geocaching.

Geocaching on San Antonio TV Moosiegirl, The Outlaw and TreyB do a fine job representing geocaching, but this San Antonio TV station manages to put a weird spin on it concerning addiction!

Geocaching on KXAN Firstcast This Austin morning news segment presented geocaching in a positive light. Once again, Moosiegirl does the geocaching community proud!

Treasure Hunting With Your Kids Getting kids moving and outdoors can be a challenge sometimes. The lure of hidden treasure may be just the key to getting them off the couch. DadLabs.com provides a brief, but thorough, video introduction to Geocaching.

A close up of the wagon wheel ruts in the creek bed next to the Round Rock. The Round Rock

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Geocaching, 2nd Edition
The Editors of Geocaching.com
List Price: $16.95 Our price: $5.96

The ultimate global game revealed!

The Complete Idiot's Guide(r) to Geocaching, Second Edition is a comprehensive, yet entertaining and easy-to-understand book for getting started and having fun with geocaching-the high-tech version of hide-and-seek for global positioning system (GPS) users. In this edition, two new tools of the game-Waymarking and Wherigo-are included.

• The Geocaching website, which began operating in 2000 and is owned by Groundspeak, Inc., is the first and currently the largest website devoted to Geocaching
• Today, well over 800,000 geocaches are registered on various websites devoted to the pastime
• Geocaches are currently placed in over 100 countries around the world and on all seven continents, including Antarctica