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Posted by Susan Spencer

It’s funny how an Internet post can lead you down a whole new path.  An out-of-state visitor on an online forum described a beautiful spot he discovered on a hiking trail along the West Reservoir in Harwich.  He described where to park, roughly how far to walk down the Rail Trail before heading off on a side path and which way to follow the winding trail.  At the targeted spot, there would be a small container holding a log book and trinkets hidden among the brush.

The forum poster was talking about geocaching.  Geocaching is a worldwide treasure-hunt game in which small containers, called caches, are hidden and their navigational coordinates (that’s latitude and longitude) and a few other clues are posted online at geocaching.com.  Other geocachers search for the caches by plugging the coordinates into their handheld GPS receiver and following the trail.  Geocachers log their finds both in the cache and online, and if there are trinkets in the cache, they may trade one from the cache with one that they brought.

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