BearOakDruid's Geocaching Site

What is Geocaching?

Geocaching is an entertaining adventure game for gps users. Participating in a cache hunt is a good way to take advantage of the wonderful features and capability of a gps unit. The basic idea is to have individuals and organizations set up caches all over the world and share the locations of these caches on the internet. GPS users can then use the location coordinates to find the caches. Once found, a cache may provide the visitor with a wide variety of rewards. All the visitor is asked to do is if they get something they should try to leave something for the cache.

For more information, see http://www.geocaching.com/faq

How did I get into it?

My wife first heard about geocaching from a friend and mentioned it to me as something fun for the family to do. I did a little research on the Internet and decided to give it a try. I found my first cache with a friend and a borrowed GPS. In January 2006, I bought my own GPS, a Magellan eXplorist 400, and have been caching ever since.