The Art of Hiding a Geocache

  • Navigating using a GPS unit
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    Tried it and loved it.  Now is your chance to hide caches in your woods and share the love with your friends and family. 
  • Seek, and then hide. If your goal is to hide geocaches on your own property, wait until you’ve found a few elsewhere so you understand the elements of a fun and successful geocache.
  • Public or private?
    • You can share your geocache locations only with friends and family who visit you, by giving them the GPS coordinates and sending them off into the woods with a GPS unit.
    • Or you can publish them on a site like geocaching.com (see others below) and open your geocaches to the public. If you go public, consider liability issues.

Resources

  • Read everything you need to get started at “Geocaching 101”
  • Learn more about hiding geocaches with the video and written explanation of “Hiding Your First Geocache”
  • The “Geocaching Guidelines” on geocaching.com not only tell you the rules for hiding a geocache, but they also guide you in finding your first geocaches. Rule number one is no digging.

Looking for some geocaches to find?  Check out these sites:

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