Geocaching
A recreational activity using GPS devices to hide and seek containers.
What is Geocaching?
An imaginary vertical line that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole.
What is the meridian?
BYOP
What is Bring Your Own Pen/Pencil?
When you find a cache, this is the proper action to show you were there.
What is signing the logbook?
This type of geocache is hidden in plain sight and blends in with its surroundings
What is a camouflaged cache?
GPS device or smartphone, a pen/pencil, and small trinkets
What are the tools needed for Geocaching?
What are lines that run east-west and are parallel to the equator, never touching.
What are parallels?
DNF
What is Did Not Find?
This should be left exactly as you found it to respect the cache owner’s effort and future visitors
What is the cache container?
These are multi-stage geocaches where you find clues at each stage leading to the final cache
What are multi-caches?
Items that move from cache to cache.
What are trackables?
The largest units used to measure positions on Earth in the latitude and longitude system.
What are degrees?
FTF
What is First To Find?
Before taking a swag you should always do this to keep the trade fair
What is leaving something of equal or greater value?
This type of cache is designed to be solved like a mystery before you can find its location
What is a puzzle cache?
This tool or device is essential for finding geocaches by providing your coordinates and helping you navigate to them
What is a GPS device?
Subdivisions of degrees used to give 2nd to the most precise location information.
What are minutes?
TFTC
What is Thanks For The Cache?
This is what you put in the comments section to show the cache is in need of repair or replacement.
What is reporting the cache as “Needs Maintenance”?
This item moves from cache to cache and you can track its journey
What is a trackable?
Small items or trinkets left in a geocache for trade.
What is Swag?
The smallest standard unit used to describe a position on Earth.
What are seconds?
TNLN
What is Took Nothing Left Nothing?
This is what you call picking up litter while you look for geocaches.
Cache In, Trash Out
These are temporary caches placed for special events.
What are event caches?