Geocaching

Geocaching By Ross
Geocaching is a treasure hunt that uses a GPS. A GPS provides co-ordinates that will get you to the treasure. If you like walking on nature trails or just even walking in the city you can find geocaches in many different places.
There are different kinds of caches that you can find - normal or traditional geocaches, mystery geocaches, multi caches, virtual caches, event caches, and Earth caches are the main ones. Normal geocaches are ones that usually involve a container with a log sheet to sign, Mystery caches is where you have go somewhere and find something out to get to the cache, Multi caches is when you have to find more than one geocache to get to the final part. Virtual caches are where you have to  take a picture and answer  questions. Earth caches are special places that  people can visit to learn about a unique feature (like a landmark with a historical plaque) and you might have to answer questions about the spot.
Geocaches can be many different sizes and are almost all the time camouflaged with camouflaged tape . The smallest cache is called a micro and it could be something like a pill bottle. The second smallest one could be a peanut butter jar. The third largest size is something like an large container. The biggest size is a very large ammo box. The most usual size you would find is a micro or a peanut butter jar. You can usually find ones like ammo boxes a little bit off a main trail.

Examples of traditional geocaches: 

This is a example of what a camouflage peanut butter jar that is hidden in a tree. A tree is one of the many different places that it would usually be hide.

These next 2 pictures are of a unique kind of geocache  that has a Pepsi can and then at the bottom is the part where the geocache is.

This a picture of a little micro that is called a nano stuck on this sign.

This is a example of a micro that is a film canister that has a magnet that is hidden on a guard-rail where you could sometimes find them.

This is an example of a larger container and this one sometimes would have a lot of stuff inside of it that you could bring on to another geocache.

Step 1
	Before you start doing it, think to yourself  would you rather be on a hiking trail or would you like to be on a city street doing this. If you don’t like walking then if you have an ATV or if you don’t have one than you could easily use your car and drive as close as you  can get from the place that you are at.
Step 2	Once you have found out which one you would rather do, you head for the car and start to follow your gps where it tells you to go.
Step 3	Once you have arrived at the area then and start to look around for the geocache. If you find it - take out the log book and sign then take something inside it if you want to. Or if you did not find it then you can go on geocaching.com and say that you didn't find but if you don’t want to do it that way than don’t go on geocaching.com or put you didn't find it on the smartphone.
Step 4	Then return home and if you enjoyed doing it then you can do it again another day.