Geocaching
View Related Episode: Murres & Eagles, Geocaching, Wind and Bats
Tag along with an Oregon family as they go Geocaching - a game that was born in Oregon and has swept the globe. Using hand held GPS devices players scour the countryside in search hidden treasure. Sometimes hidden in a cave or under a rock these caches contain a log book and some sort of trinket. Players sometimes leave a trinket of their own, if they take what they find, but the real reward is in the hunt for more and more hidden caches.
First Broadcast: 2010
Producer: Vince Patton
Videographer: Michael Bendixen
Videographer/Editor: Nicholas Fisher
Appeared in episode: Murres & Eagles, Geocaching, Wind and Bats
For more information:
Official Geocaching Site
- Online: Geocaching.com
FAQs
- Online: Geocaching.com/faq
Geocaching History
- Online: Geocaching.gpsgames.org/history/
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