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Beginner's Guide to Hiding a Geocache Ready to take the plunge and hide your own cache? Follow these few simple steps to get in on other side of the game.

What To Take Geocaching Before heading out for your next cache hunt make sure that you have the supplies that will help you ensure a successful find. You'll even help out your fellow cachers in the process.

Geocaching Terms What do all of those terms and abbreviations mean in cache logs? Find out what's really being said in our list of Geocaching terms.

Geocaching Rules When hiding or searching for a cache it's important to make sure that we don't damage the natural environment or our relationship with land managers whose duty it is to protect the places we frequent. These few simple guidelines should keep cachers happy and places open to Geocaching.

Faire Maiden was a challenging cache that has since been archived. Don't overlook dark places in your future searches! Faire Maiden

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Geocaching, 2nd Edition
The Editors of Geocaching.com
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The ultimate global game revealed!

The Complete Idiot's Guide(r) to Geocaching, Second Edition is a comprehensive, yet entertaining and easy-to-understand book for getting started and having fun with geocaching-the high-tech version of hide-and-seek for global positioning system (GPS) users. In this edition, two new tools of the game-Waymarking and Wherigo-are included.

• The Geocaching website, which began operating in 2000 and is owned by Groundspeak, Inc., is the first and currently the largest website devoted to Geocaching
• Today, well over 800,000 geocaches are registered on various websites devoted to the pastime
• Geocaches are currently placed in over 100 countries around the world and on all seven continents, including Antarctica