Geocaching

We found more Treasure!

Mr. Tags holds up a small trinket found in a traditional geocache

Youth gather around as we go through
the treasures in a geocache.

   A small plastic Dora the Explorer ring may not seem like a treasure. But after walking a few miles through the woods, it seems nearly as valuable as gold! After School last Friday the youth met in the youth room and we embarked on a geocaching journey into Goodwill Park. We completed 3 stages of a 10 stage geocache and also found a more traditional cache along the way. For all you muggles out there (muggles are people that do not geocache), geocaching is kind of like a high tech treasure hunt. People upload the coordinates of "caches" to a website and other people like us can download them onto our handheld GPS device and go find them.

  

   Some caches like the one we did last Friday involve multiple steps. We were directed to locations and then we had to find letters that were either found on a plaque, written under a rock, or stapled to a tree. Once we collect all the letters, we will be able to figure out the coordinates to the final cache and collect the treasure!

   

   At the end of a long and tiring afternoon, we closed with a circle prayer and thanked God for our wonderful group of young people and for the adventurers out there that hid and maintained the caches we enjoyed. Thanks geocachers, and thank you Mrs. Harbison for being a volunteer chaperon!