Geocaching, headquartered in Seattle, celebrates its 25th year

Geocaching is an activity where people hide items for others to find using coordinates and other clues.

SEATTLE — Geocaching celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. 

The global game of hide and seek started in May 2000, when the U.S. government flipped a switch that made GPS signals far more accurate for civilian use. 

Just one day later, a man named Dave Ulmer hid a container in the woods near his home in Beavercreek, Oregon and posted the coordinates on a website. Within just a few days, the container had been found by two people and the activity of geocaching had been born.  He

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