For the last two decades, millions of people have been hiding small containers (called “caches”) around the world for others to discover, and uncovering caches that others have hidden. It’s not what’s inside what counts. Instead, geocaching is all about the process of using the Global Positioning System (GPS) to locate and log one’s finds. Melissa Rodman meets some competitive geocachers on the 20th anniversary of the hunt.
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