Coppercache

On July 4th, we went to Dr. Mike and Teri's house for barbeque. When we got there, Teri said to Jeni, "You have a choice. Either we can eat steaks and hang out, or we can go geocaching." Well, Jeni was intrigued, and she learned from Teri that this is a kind of interactive game/sport where people hide little packages called caches, then go on this website and post the GPS coordinates of the location of their cache. Then, other people go on the website, look up the GPS coordinates and go on a treasure hunt to find the cache. Here is a quote from the website:
" Geocaching is an entertaining adventure game for gps users. Participating in a cache hunt is a good way to take advantage of the wonderful features and capability of a gps unit. The basic idea is to have 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. All the visitor is asked to do is if they get something they should try to leave something for the cache."
Needless to say, we were eager to go treasure hunting, so off we went to an abandoned copper mine near Loon Lake. After almost an hour of searching, we found the cache inside an old dynamite shack. It was awesome! The cache contained a log book for people to chart their presence, and an assortment of trinkets to trade. the four of us traded a fishing fly and took an old bullet casing.
So yesterday we went to Best Buy and bought a GPS unit, and set off today to begin our search.