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Hi FRiends. I started Geocaching this week; downloaded the app and bought a 3 month membership. Looked for 6 hides in the last few days and DNF any but I'm rather hooked! LOL. Anybody else got the bug? I thought this might be fun to do with grandbabies but ohmylanta! are the ones around here tricky! In Roanoke VA for another few weeks visiting, then back up to Yankee country. So looking forward to finding something and hoping I don't screw up the hide! :) I'd really like to hear any other experiences anyone has had. I don't know anyone...

.....It’s a geocache (gee-oh-cash). And finding these modern-day treasure chests is worth more than the hunt, devotees say. “It gets you outside — gets you exercise. And while your mind can wander while you’re walking, it makes you think, solve puzzles,” says Kevin Venator, 45, a Johnson County geocacher. Interest is very high in the sport right now, Venator said. “It’s exploding,” he said. Geocaching has become so popular that cities have had to wrestle with the hobby. If a geocacher looks out of place or suspicious, homeowners might call police. That could result in an altercation. The practice recently...

Good evening friends. I recently received a gift of a Garmin GPS 60CSx to replace my old model-t Magellan handheld unit which finally went toes up last week while on a fishing trip. It seems to be a good unit, perhaps a bit more complicated than I am used to. I was wondering if someone could recommend Mac compatible topographic map/software. It doesn't have to have tons of bells and whistles...it will be used primarily to mark spots for duck hunting, deer stands, fishing, etc. Thanks in advance for advice

I wasn’t a very good Boy Scout when I signed-up at 6 years old. It wasn’t that I didn’t have fun traipsing around the woods — instead, I spent most of my time daydreaming about my brand new computer, a 1982 ZX Spectrum.

Courts in recent years have been raising the evidentiary bar law enforcement agents must meet in order to obtain historical cell phone records that reveal information about a target's location. But documents obtained by civil liberties groups under a Freedom of Information Act request suggest that "triggerfish" technology can be used to pinpoint cell phones without involving cell phone providers at all.

GOVERNMENT CAMP -- A chance encounter with a plastic bottle early Tuesday helped two lost climbers find their way off the lower flanks of Mount Hood after a night spent huddled in a hastily built snow cave. The bottle, apparently left by someone playing an adventure game, held map coordinates giving their precise location. And the two Portland men spotted it just as searchers called their cell phones -- which they mistakenly believed had stopped working for good the night before. "That was something," said 27-year-old Justin Votos, still marveling at the turn of events an hour after he and...

In the Midwestern state of Wisconsin there's a new game in town. It's called Geocaching. The object of this game is to find an object - and perhaps replace it with another. This report is narrated by Crystal Park. People around the world are taking part in an ongoing high tech scavenger hunt. It's a new thing called Geocaching. There are Internet sites that list the latitude and longitude coordinates of where things are stashed. People with Global Positioning Satellite, or GPS, units use that information to try to hunt down what they're looking for. John Carvin GPS units are...

Walking through soggy grass amid a late afternoon drizzle, Nicole DiFede consulted the readings on her handheld GPS device. She walked north, going up a hill in Vista View Park in Davie, then veered slightly west.Soon, she came to a patch of bushes and sabal palms. Her GPS (Global Positioning System) device indicated she was within a few feet of the cache, or treasure, she was trying to locate.Poking around the browned palm fronds around the base of the sabal palms, DiFede found a large plastic jar stuffed with a variety of goodies, including a notepad, a pen, a plastic...