About two years ago I discovered Geocaching. This fun activity revolves around people who hide caches of small items in out-of-the-way locations. Typically these caches will be small watertight compartments with a dozen different tiny trinkets and a log book for finders to sign. A popular web site, geocaching.com, serves as the central point for registering and discovering different caches. The Geopher Lite application for iphone integrates with geochaching.com so that you can instantly search your current location to find any nearby caches. Make no mistake that you are probably NOT going very deep into a heavily wooded area with your iPhone GPS because the signal won’t penetrate the dense woods. But for adhoc geocaching when you want a quick look a what cache’s may be hidden nearby – this could be worth far more than the $1.99 that the App Store charges.
