Observing & Recording · Outdoors & Adventure
Geocaching
Follow the coordinates to a box someone hid, sign the log, put it back
An app is all it takes to start. The coordinates bring you to a spot and the rest is searching, because the container is usually well hidden and holds a paper log to sign. Each cache carries a difficulty and terrain rating, so start easy. The best part is being taken to corners of your own area you have driven past a hundred times.
First stepInstall a geocaching app, find the three easiest caches closest to home, sign each logbook, and put them back exactly as you found them.
Barriers
Cost to start
Free
Going deep → $50–300
Alone or with people
On your own
Effort
You will sweat
Without a teacher?
Self-taught
One session takes
1–2 hours
Where
Outdoors, free
Why people take it up