I found a new fun hobby called Geocaching.  It involves using a GPS (Global Positioning System) receiver to find hidden "treasure" placed by others.  During my first month of geocaching, I found one hundred caches, and I still do a couple now and then.

I received my GPS'r (receiver) free, but you can get one for under a hundred dollars.  Of course, there are more expensive ones that have more features, but mine is small enough to fit onto my wrist, much like a very large watch.

Starting at geocaching.com website, I can find caches that others have hidden all over the world.  When I am going some place new, I will usually look up a few caches to seek while I am there.

I have also placed several caches of my own in and around Coarsegold area.  I enjoy reading about other people's finding of them.

When I find the cache, I will always sign the log.  Some caches also have little trinkets or other items to trade.  I can take something and leave something different.  I enjoy seeing what others have left.

One of my favorite parts of Geocaching is what are called Travel Bugs.  These are items that someone has registered and left somewhere to watch it travel around the world.  Some geocaching travel bugs have a set destination, while others are simply moving from place to place.  This is the first geocaching travel bug that I found.  I moved it from the middle of the desert in California to Las Vegas, Nevada.

Two of my favorite geocaches were both in Las Vegas.  One is called "The Las Vegas Amazing Cache", and the other is "Wanna Buy a Bridge?".  I admit that I did NOT like the Amazing Cache at first, but now I look back on it with fond memories.  The Bridge cache was inventive, and I have made a similar style of cache right here in Coarsegold.