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 The party will begin with a 9 a.m. ribbon-cut.
Tom Hankins of the Central Illinois Geocaching Association will be
available to explain more about the sport.
Lincoln resident Marge Ott, who drew the designs for the cache
cards, will be on hand to sign autographs. Children ages 10 and
younger can participate in a free old-fashioned pumpkin hunt for
door prizes. Refreshments will be served.
Geocaching is a modern-day treasure hunt that relies on global
positioning system units or GPS-empowered phones to find containers
known as "caches." The six caches on the new trail will contain
cards that can be redeemed for souvenir postcards.
The new Logan County trail has caches hidden at sites that relate
to Abraham Lincoln and his relationship to communities throughout
the county.
Typically, a cache is a waterproof container with a logbook where
the geocacher can enter the date the cache was found and their
established code name. Then the cache must be replaced exactly as it
was found.
Hunters can also register their finds at an official geocaching
website, www.groundspeak.com.
Groundspeak offers free membership, although users have the option
of purchasing premium memberships.
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Groundspeak's website claims millions of caches and members in
more than 200 countries. The international sport even extends into
outer space, with a cache aboard the International Space Station.
The Abraham Lincoln Geocaching Trail in Logan County was made
possible through funding from the Looking for Lincoln Heritage
Coalition with support of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial
Foundation, dedicated to perpetuating and expanding Lincoln's vision
for America and completing America's unfinished work. Matching funds
were made available by the Abraham Lincoln Tourism Bureau of Logan
County.
[Text from file received from
Abraham Lincoln Tourism Bureau of
Logan County]
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