by Jaimie Hall
My introduction to geocaching was a search for the
"Long Tube." At a rally last winter in Quartzsite,
Arizona, friends Pam and Steve Ritchie taught a class
on Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) devices and introduced
us to the adventure of hunting for geocaches.
After an introductory lesson, we
entered the coordinates of our start location and the
cache into our GPS devices, then caravanned to the Fisherman
Intaglio. After parking, we set off on a short walk
across the desert to the coordinates. A GPS device only
gets you within 10-20 feet so we then had to look for
the cache...[Read
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