In my case, I learned about geocaching from my neighbor, Dick. I use to walk thru his back yard to access a nearby public woods on a frequent basis with my dog. I noticed a place in the woods that often had tracks going to in the snow, that made no sense. I couldnt figure out why people kept walking to a particular part of the woods, and only there during the winter.
I mentioned it to Dick, and he told me it was geocachers. He had a gps unit, and showed me how it works. That place in the snow, was then the first cache that I found, though not the first that I logged, since it was part of a multi without a log book, and a fairly difficult cache, courtesy of the Bobcat.
Unfortunately, Dick died shortly after that, but he lives on in our memories. Bobcat and Dick’s wife Carol put out a great cache in memory of Dick, that is one of my favorites, right where I use to walk across his land. That cache page can be seen by clicking here:
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=9d57ea41-734c-4e7f-b0c8-c7c8f13d8207
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