print email comment close Geocaching URL: http://www.geocaching.com/ Description: Treasure hunt for global positioning system (GPS) users. Individuals and organizations set up caches all over the world and share the locations of these caches on the Internet. GPS users can then use the location coordinates to find the caches. Once found, a cache may provide the visitor with a wide variety of rewards. Visitor is asked to leave something in exchange for an item in the cache and to indicate the visit in the logbook included in the cache. Site includes a guide to purchasing a GPS unit. Also called GPS Stash Hunt and Global Positioning Stash hunt. Author: Irish, Jeremy Publisher: Grounded Inc. Library of Congress Subject Headings: Games Global Positioning System LII Database Information: Record 12306 created by Ruth Seid on 03/14/2001 Last modification on 03/19/2001 Published: 03/14/2001   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/12306