Geocaching Hunt

What a fun activity!
Having the class go on a geocache was an awesome way to put to practice some of the things we learned in lecture...definitely a more interesting way to put our knowledge to use. More activities like this would be greatly appreciated.

My group was sent to the clue that was supposed to throw the team for a loop. After we received our gps, we followed its direction to the south part of campus by the Union, where we found our clue under a rock. It was interesting to me to watch the gps recalculate the line we were supposed to follow as we moved...there were a couple of times we had to stop and wait on it to re-load the line because we had moved too fast or gone in the wrong direction (because of buildings).

Before the classroom activity, I read up online and watched the video that was posted to acclamate us to what we were going to experience. I have to say, when that movie comes out, I will definitely go see it.

It also makes me want to do a larger scale geocache...I find it fascinating that people would lwant to hide some type of treasure for others to find. I think it shows how far we have come as a human race that we are willing to pop in coordinates and hunt for someone else's treasure. It also amazes me that technology has led us this far, and makes me very curious to see where it might lead us in the future!