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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