The strangest thing happened yesterday while the wife and I were out hiking in one of our state parks.

We get pretty adventurous at times, we tend to want to make our own trail and discover things off the beaten path so to speak.

We came across this huge log and decided to take a break. As we sit down, I look, and under the log is a tupperware container that seems to be somewhat hidden, but not very well hidden.

At first, the wife wanted to grab it, I would not allow it! "My God dear, you have no idea who has touched that!! What kind of stuff may be in it"! She wasn't happy, but left it alone and we continued our adventure.

On the way back, she could not resist the curiosity and against my best judgment, she had to open it.

It had a card in it that said geocache, and explained that is was a worldwide game, played by people with their GPS systems. Someone hides a container, notes the longitude and latitude, then puts the location on a web site so that other GPS players can try to find that container.

While very amusing, when I tried to log into the web page listed, geocache.org, it said that this was "very old" and listed an email address for a guy named Peter. I sent him an email but have not received any reply yet.

Has anyone here heard of this? If so, and it is outdated, how long do you think this container had been there? It has all kinds of nick knack type stuff in it, and the instructions said that you could take something from it, but you have to leave something else in it's place. Very intriguing to say the least.

I've heard of it, even saw a show on TV once about it. It was filmed in Seattle, where were you?

We are in Nebraska.

It didn't look like it had been there that long so I was surprised by the message I got saying it the web site was "very old".

Thanks for responding.

Sounds like it would be a lot of fun to do, would make hiking more interesting if you were searching for some hidden treasure.