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Geocaching: Your First Find

People have hidden small waterproof boxes in parks, on trails and behind signs all across Lambton County, and posted their GPS coordinates online. Your job is to find one. There's a logbook inside to sign.

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Geocaching: Your First Find

Read the full instructions and gather your supplies before starting.

Step 1 of 6

Open the app's map. Every green dot is a cache. Pick one close to home with a low difficulty and terrain rating, both 1.5 or under to start.

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Activity timer

Set the time from your instructions.

Time1 hr
You getyour first cache, logged
DifficultyMedium
WhereAll over Lambton County

What a grown-up does

Setting up the app, and coming along. Caches can be near roads.

What to do there

6 steps. Tap one when it's done.

Why it's like that

Your phone listens to satellites orbiting about 20,000 km up. Each one is broadcasting the exact time; the phone compares how long the signals took to arrive from several of them and works out where it must be to hear them all with exactly that delay.