Geocaching

We met Wilt and Barbara Greenwood (from Richmond) and Chuck and Charlotte Hoelzel, who were all staying in Benson Arizona, for a day of Geocaching. We were excited about going out with the pros (both couples have found over 2,000 caches whereas we just passed 100).

Unfortunately we picked a very windy, cold day. After finding a few caches, including one at a former missile silo, we called it quits.

If you are not familiar with the sport, Geocaching is an entertaining adventure game for gps users. The basic idea is to have people 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. It sounds simple, however, people can be quite creative in hiding the caches which makes finding them challenging.

There are lots of geocaches in the Tucson area, so we enjoyed doing a little searching when we out in various areas of town. One day we almost got lost while geocaching on some back roads. There are lots of trails in the desert that are not on the map