Georgia Magazine - October 2016 - 33B

'You learn so much more about an area when you geocache. We have seen amazing sights and learned so many things through this activity.' -John "Doc" Anderson Cache treasure ideas * Small, lightweight, familyfriendly items that will not degrade * Toy cars * * Tiny plastic figures or animals * Erasers COURTESY JOHN AND LINDA ANDERSON * Stickers Above: Linda and John "Doc" Anderson document a recent geocaching trip to Louisiana with a souvenir photo. with success after two days. They logged it online and within 10 minutes were surrounded by local geocachers wanting to know where. In Georgia, they found the 19 caches of the Peachtree City Geo Tour while attending a reunion and rented a boat to take them to an island in Lake Lanier to find "Marooned," one of the oldest caches in the country. That helped them fulfill the Jasmer Challenge of finding a cache hidden in each month of every year since geocaching started-172 caches in all. John Anderson added to the activity by hiding a series of 100 caches in Las Cruces, N.M. The caches, called Heroes MOH, honor Medal of Honor recipients from the Vietnam War. "You learn so much more about an area when you geocache. We have seen amazing sights and learned so many things through this activity," says John Anderson. "Our advice is, 'just do it!'" October 2016 Geocaching terms Traditional: A container (ammo box, plastic box, fake rock or pine cone) hidden at given coordinates. Always contains a log book. Larger ones may contain items for trade and trackables. Mystery or Puzzle: May involve solving a puzzle to determine the correct coordinates where the cache is hidden. Multi-cache: Caches at two or more locations. At the first stage you receive a clue to the next and so on, until you reach the final physical cache. EarthCache: A special geological location that people visit to learn about a unique feature of the Earth. Educational notes are included with the coordinates. To log this cache, you have to answer questions that show you were there. * Souvenir medallions or keychains * New AA batteries * Patches * Marbles a stamp that remains in the container and is used to record your visit. Nano: Tiny caches that contain only a rolled log book. Cache In Trash Out (CITO): An environmental initiative supported by the geocaching community. Virtual and Webcam caches: No longer placed, because they are used in the game of Waymarking, but they still exist and can be logged. There's no physical cache. It's about discovering a location and taking a photo to prove you were there. Travel Bug: A trackable tag is attached to an item that moves from place to place, picking up stories along the way. With a number, it can be tracked on geocaching. com. Some people leave them with specific instructions, such as "this one needs to get Letterbox Hybrid: Letterboxing is another back to Atlanta, Ga." The fun is following its form of treasure hunting that involves path as people take it from cache to cache. clues instead of coordinates. It will contain Source: geocaching.com More online at www.georgiamagazine.org 33B http://www.geocaching.com http://www.georgiamagazine.org

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