The Ultimate Treasure Hunt: Geocaching Trackables

Have you enjoyed geocaching so far? Are you ready to own a geocaching trackable or host your own cache? Then you’re a treasure hunter for sure and you know the excitement of geocaching. Congrats!

If you haven’t already read my post on geocaching 101, click here. It will give you a good overview of the basics of geocaching.

This Wonder Woman trackable was put in a cache in Massachusetts and is owned by my daughter Evelyn’s Girls Scout Troop. I hosted the geocaching badge for her troop and they put this travel bug, along with the Wonder Woman LEGO figure out in a cache with a fun mission, to meet Girl Scouts and Girl Guides in 2 other countries. I’m not sure how long it will take Wonder Woman to achieve her mission but the girls are excited to track her progress as she makes her way around the world. The girls are Junior Scouts right now in 5th grade. I hope they keep up with this activity as they get older and they send her on more missions.

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The Ultimate Treasure Hunt: Geocaching 101

If you or your kids like scavenger hunts, puzzles or hide and seek, then geocaching is for you. It's the ultimate treasure hunt and it can take you all over the world. My family and I started finding geocaches 3 years ago. The first one we found was about a mile away from our house and from that moment on we were hooked! The challenge of finding the cache and the thrill when found is a rush and will have you hooked immediately.

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