Hobbies built around finding a location, following a route or exploring a place using a device, a map or a published clue, an activity-participant hobby in Stebbins' typology. Belongs here: geocaching, geohashing, letterboxing, Munzee, urban exploration, roadgeeking and magnet fishing, all sharing the same find-and-record structure even though their tools range from GPS coordinates to a printed clue to a magnet on a rope. Does not belong here: hobbies that observe rather than search, grouped under Nature Observation and Husbandry Hobbies or Astronomy and Amateur Investigation Hobbies.
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1. Geocaching (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationGeocaching (Wikipedia), introduction, first geocache placement sentence (bucket-level citation)Quote, Geocaching (Wikipedia), introduction, first geocache placement sentence (bucket-level citation)
The first geocache was placed in May 2000, and as of 2023 there were over three million active caches worldwide.
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