My latest geocaches

This is part of my Challenge to make 26 things before 2017 ends.

Geocaching is a real-world, outdoor treasure hunting game using GPS-enabled devices. Participants navigate to a specific set of GPS coordinates and then attempt to find the geocache (container) hidden at that location.

The history of Geocaching goes back to the year 2000 and the invention of GPS itself, with The Great American GPS Stash Hunt as a way to test the accuracy of the devices hunting a hidden bucket in Beavercreek, Oregon, near Portland.

I fell in love with Geocaching a couple of years ago while browsing the web, my first reaction was “WOW! we are surrounded by hidden treasures”. I rushed through the door and rediscovered streets and places I used to know, swollen with secrets and containers hidden at plain sight from muggles.

I had to make Geocaching a part of my 2017 challenge: find three geocaches in three different cities.

To be completely honest, I rushed this hunt to the last moment (the day before new year’s eve), thus I had to technically narrow my town’s boundaries to find two geocaches in two different cities, although Bellaterra is a quarter of Cerdanyola del Valles. The first one of the challenge was in Berlin. I missed the chance to find Geocaches while traveling to the Czech Republic and Hamburg, and now I regret this fondly.

Here are my latest three geocaches:

GC3PV5N: Linie 1 der Tradi: No photo from that day, however a nicely hidden container below the U-bahn line 1.

GC5KWJA: Cerdanyola Modernista - Torre Vermella: we (my family) came looking for this one almost two years since our last attempt to find it.

GC71BBX: Hay que hacer deporte: found late afternoon while taking a long walk with our dog.

I will definitely include this challenge in 2018.