so glad you asked. geocaching is a worldwide treasure hunt that anyone can join in on! the game began in may 2000. it's an outdoor location-based orienteering game focused on using gps to locate caches hidden all over the place. caches vary from a micro tube with a logbook in it, to major containers full of items to swap. some are hidden in plain site, some require hikes, and some require puzzles to open, but all caches have the same end goal: get out into nature, find it, log it, sign the logbook, and put it back.

there's a few other aspects to it as well - swaps, for one, are items you can place in a cache and trade for another. my favourite is trackable items, or tracker bugs (TBs). these guys are an item with a code on it and sent out in the world with a goal in mind, and their progress is tracked every time a geocacher moves it to a new cache!

it's loads of fun, and there's caches all over the place - from the cities to the dead wilderness, if you check out the site or the app, you're bound to find something! you can read more about it on the official website!

i started geocaching in 2020 and found it a fantastic way to get out into my local nature sites, whether through hiking or just visiting local parks i didn't know existed. it's taken me to some beautiful places, some wacky places, and some downright bizarre ones. this page is going to be a place for me to archive the physical notebook i take geocaching with me, where i jot down interesting things and keep notes about my trips to caches.