Whitewater Wonder (Minden)

So, what is this thing called "geocaching" anyway?

Geocaching is an adventure sport where participants use handheld GPS receivers to hunt for hidden "caches" around the world. 

GPS stands for Global Positioning System, a bunch of satellites circling the earth that use triangulation to pinpoint exact locations and elevations on the surface. Actually, before May 1, 2000 only groups like the US military machine could get accurate readings. The rest of the populace had to settle for purposefully degraded readings that really weren't accurate at all.

This all changed on May 1, 2000 when the Clinton administration discontinued the intentional degradation of GPS signals to meet its goal to "encourage acceptance and integration of GPS into peaceful civil, commercial and scientific applications worldwide."