If you have heard about geocaching and want to learn what it is all about come to The Lost River Cave Sunday, September 3rd at 1:00 and meet at the porch at the Gift Shop.. This is a free event and is open to all ages. The class will be a be an overview of the basics of geocaching. There will be plenty of GPSs on hand but if you want to bring and use your smart phone instruction sheets will be available with third party apps that will allow you to cache at the event. The Lost River Cave has 8 active geocaches and there will printed lists of the coordinates. The class will also include a practical demonstration (an easy hike in the woods).
Geocaching has been part of The Lost River Cave experience since 2005. If you have ever hiked the trails at Lost River Cave you have walked by a hidden treasure that is waiting to be found and didn't know it. Geocaching is a System (GPS) receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called "geocaches" or "caches", at specific locations marked by coordinates all over the world. A typical cache is a small waterproof container containing a logbook and sometimes a pen or pencil. The geocacher signs the log with their established code name and dates it, n outdoor recreational activity, in which participants use a Global Positioning in order to prove that they found the cache. After signing the log, the cache must be placed back exactly where the person found it. Larger containers such as plastic storage containers (Tupperware or similar) or ammunition boxes can also contain items for trading, such as toys or trinkets, usually of more sentimental worth than financial. Geocaching shares many aspects with benchmarking, trig pointing, orienteering, treasure-hunting, letterboxing and way marking.