Geocaching: Treasure Hunting In Your Backyard

This summer my childhood best friend and his girlfriend came to Atlanta for a visit, but unfortunately they’re straight edge (The movement didn’t end with Minor Threat!). So Instead of bellying up at a local bar, we had to get a bit creative in terms of what we did on a Friday night. Thankfully, they had discovered geocaching!

If you’ve never heard of geocaching, it’s treasure hunting with a GPS. The treasure hunted for is called a “cache”. They range in size from small film canisters to large tupperware containers or “ammo” boxes. Small caches usually just contain a log book that you can sign, but the larger ones have “treasures” that people trade in an out each time the cache is found. Geocaching is done world wide and there are over 1 million caches in circulation.

We hit the streets one afternoon to see what treasures Atlanta had to offer.

To learn more about this new kind of treasure hunting visit www.geocaching.com.