Gee-oh-cash-ing

Hiking straight up a mountain in the middle of the day looking for a small aspirin bottle with a log to write who's found it sound like fun to you? No? Well, it's fun for us, dangit.

I've heard about geocaching before, but never really got motivated enough to actually do something about it. But Travis and Sarah took us out while we were in Spokane, and I have to say, it's pretty addicting!

For those of you who don't know what geocaching is, the gist is that you use a GPS to find containers that others have hidden (I know--sounds like a laugh a minute--but it really is fun. Plus, it gets you out hiking around and enjoying the outdoors. For those of you who have Tivo--yes, the outdoors still exist). There is a website, geocaching.com, that has a bunch (and by a bunch, to give you an idea, there are about 4,000 geocaches in Draper alone) of geocaches that people have made. They will go up and leave some sort of container with paper in it for people to log their names and date of the find, and then they will post the GPS coordinates on the website for others to find.

Some are trickier to find than others. The cache we found in Spokane was about the size of a shoe box. Our most recent find was a tiny little container about half the size of your pinky finger hanging in a pine tree. When you find one, you're supposed to take something along to leave in it (we are currently using little green army men).

Here is a picture of our first found geocache in Draper. It was an extremely arduous hike that sent us wandering miles and miles from our basecamp (no, that's not our car in the background. . .I promise. . .)


I guess this takes us one step closer to us becoming hippies. Oh well.....