The Wave Magazine : High-Tech Hiking
An article in The Wave Magazine touches on one of the most important reasons many people like geocaching — it gets you to new places in your area you might never have seen otherwise.
“The idea is to get you out to places that are in your own backyard,” says Ron Dorsey, a geocacher from Scotts Valley. Indeed, geocachers we spoke with were most excited about discovering a cool new place while out hiking with a GPS unit.
On a recent Sunday, it is Dorsey who finds the cache hidden beneath a low-hanging tree in San Jose’s Almaden Quicksilver County Park. The ammo box is battered, sealed, nondescript – exactly the type of “suspicious package” that would get airport security all wound up. But Dorsey thinks nothing of it as he pops open the lid and begins rummaging through sandwich bags filled with little trinkets. A green plastic army figure, a rag doll and a stuffed hippo are just some of the items left inside.