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It is a world wide treasure hunt. 'Caches' are hidden all over the place - in the UK you are rarely more than a mile from one. Their latitude and longitude are published on the geocaching website. You then use your GPS device to go to that location - typically accurate to about 10m - and you search for a small container. When you find it, you sign the log book inside and when you get home you visit the website and register your find.
The cache will not be hidden on land that you aren't allowed on. Finding the cache will not involve damaging anything - EG if the container is hidden in an ivy covered tree, then don't pull all the ivy off whilst looking for it.
Nowadays, most caches are very small (35mm film canister or smaller) that just contain a log book. Lots however are a little bigger - say ice cream tub sized - and have a log book and 'treasure'. You may choose a treasure to take away from the cache if you put another treasure in. Most treasures are inexpensive items - I've placed key ring torches, a tennis ball, padlocks, crayon sets and many other things. The treasures I've kept have included a small plastic nodding moose, a lego person, a clockwork dinosaur and a purple frog.
The are many more variations to the basic theme - caches with puzzles, treasures that attempt to travel from cache to cache to get somewhere, etc.
For full details, see the Groundspeak geocaching website.
Some of the caches that I have hidden have an encoded commentary in them. If you have the passphrase, coder will decode them for you.
That is to say, newly published caches that I have managed to find and sign the log before anyone else has done so:
+ 2 hides.
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