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.

Beginner's Guide to Hiding a Geocache Ready to take the plunge and hide your own cache? Follow these few simple steps to get in on other side of the game.

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.

The cache contents of the Cactus Tree cache as they appeared on November 18, 2001. Cactus Tree Cache

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Geocaching, 2nd Edition
The Editors of Geocaching.com
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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