Geocaching is a recreational activity which involves using a GPS receiver or mobile device to hide and seek containers.
The containers are called geocaches or caches and they are put at specific locations marked by coordinates. Dave Marshall is President of the Southern Alberta Geocachers Association. He says “the containers can range from just tiny, tiny fingernail things to like, well, garbage cans sized. There is a log book, most have a log book, you sign it and you go back online again and say you found it. It is like a treasure hunt.”
The Southern Alberta Geocachers Association is holding its Wild Rose Homecoming 2025 block party event this week in the Town of Olds. He says “we are just over – I think – 560 or 570 people planning on coming to attend this event but that’s not including their partners or their kids or whoever they have brought along with them. So we expect to see 1,100-1,200 people here in Town.”
He adds, they had a trivia event at Track’s Pub last night, today they will be at the Olds College Brewery, and on Saturday they will be a the Cow Palace.
Learn more online at geocaching.com or the Southern Alberta Association’s Wild Rose Homecoming 2025 page. Marshall notes this is the 25th anniversary of geocaching.
