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NYPaddlerCacher, The A-Team, speakers-corner, and hzoi, thank you for your input! Although I don't have any hides to my credit, I have found a few dozen caches, although none recently. (Going to school full time at my age is a full time job with no time off. ) Your suggestion to contact a local cacher is a good one, but I wasn't planning on covering the ownership part of geocaching. I considered it, but my column was already a bit long and in order to do justice to the process of hiding a cache, there just wasn't going to be enough space. If I ever end up doing a research project on geocaching I will definitely use your suggestions! The column I have to write is for a Natural Resources Interpretation class. I chose to write about Geocaching because I enjoy it (when I have the time and someone to go with), and I want to promote it to others who may not be familiar with it. I don't know if anyone, other than my instructor and his teaching assistants, will get to see it, but I wanted it to represent geocaching, and geocachers, as accurately as possible to the potential newbie's point of view. That being said, I changed the original sentence to the following: "Although the numbers vary according to what source you look at, it is probably safe to say that there are over 1 million caches worldwide which can be found in over 200 counties."

Oh, I Love that!! Too funny.

True that. Have you noticed people quit asking before Pokemon GO came out or mostly afterwards?

Thank you for your input cerberus1, niraD, and Viajero Perdido, you put into words what I felt, but couldn't put my finger on. You're entirely right about the connotations of the word 'treasure'. This is why I was kind of hoping that someone in the community might want to see my article before I turn it in. (I could post a Google docs link to the paper). I really do want to represent both the game and the players accurately. All I know is what I have read (here) about geocaching and the few experiences I have had personally. Currently the teacher's assistants are taking a look at it and I will have a chance to make changes they suggest (and any of my own) before I turn it in officially. I will delete the slogan completely and rephrase the remaining sentence. What I have always used to help explain geocaching to people is this: It's like 'high tech hide and seek"; from there I explain how the game works. Once again, thanks for your help.

Sure, I can do that!

Thanks so much for all your input, I really appreciate it! I decided not to specifically say how many geocachers there are right now, but what I did say is this: "Geocaching.com bills it as “the world's largest treasure hunting game” with over 3 million geocaches in over 190 countries." with a citation at the end of the article for Geocaching.com. If anyone would like to read my article, please me know and I'll post the link. Thanks again!

Good morning everyone! I am writing a column for a class assignment and I need some background information and I was hoping the community could help. I have a few questions and I thought this might be where I can get the most accurate, up to date answers. Are there any numbers regarding how many people, worldwide, go geocaching? Approximately how many geocaches are there now? Thanks!

Actually, The A-Team, I suspected that might be the missing cache and I've already emailed the owner. Thanks for all your help, everyone!

Ok, so I looked at this a little closer and here's what I've got. The note inside is dated Oct 12, '14 and signed "Grunty old fart". I don't know if it is a joke or what, but that's what it says. The coordinates where I found the cache are: 42 01.159N 093 37.892W. Also I took pictures which were too big to upload here, but you can view them on this Google doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12JASlM302d9WBct3_-wbxFT1jK4MsV9q9Tx2yMKOdlk/edit?usp=sharing. Let me know if anything looks familiar. Thanks!

I was walking along the paved trail in my local park today and saw an ammo can lying about 3 feet off the trail. I thought it looked like a geocache container, but was clearly not hidden. Upon opening it I found that it was, indeed, once upon a time, a geocache, but a muggle had taken it home to investigate what it was and didn't return it properly. The paperwork inside did not include any logs, except for a note from the muggle, and although it had the Geocaching.com standard paperwork stating what it was and how to play the game, it was not filled out as far as who the owner was or any other contact information. Not only this, but the muggle placed the original, tupperware container inside of the ammo can, included a knife and bullets in the cache, and left a slightly rude note. How do I get this cache back to its original owner?

Hi! Although I've been caching for a few years I only have 20 finds because I can rarely find anyone to go with me and, being a woman, I don't feel safe going out by myself. I've only been lurking here for a few days - I've been trying to find someone to team with in my area and I had the idea that maybe I could find someone though the forums. I've only looked in a few of the threads so I can't say as I've seen any of the flaming that's been mentioned but I would like to say that I have enough drama in my life and I don't need to waste my time in the 'virtual' world reading Jerry Springer wanna be's. I will say that now, before I team up with anybody, I will try to see if they've shown their butt in some of these forums before I go caching with them. Thanks for the thread.