Jack Dugdale of Hubbell uncovers a hidden cache in Lake Linden on Wednesday afternoon. Dugdale has been geocaching since 2004, discovering over 300 caches across 30 different states. For more photos visit cu.mininggazette.com. (DMG photo by Michael H. Babcock)

LAKE LINDEN — For today’s youth, there is an unlimited amount of entertainment options. Computers, video games, television and movies often times replace outdoor activities such as hiking and camping. When President Bill Clinton signed an executive order that made the Global Positioning System available to the public, an opportunity was born to mix technology with the outdoors into an activity called geocaching, which now, nine years later, is a very popular activity. Geocaching doesn’t have a defined set of rules, but has user-defined guidelines and several different ways to participate. For instance, the most basic and popular style of geocaching involves going to geocaching.com, searching for a ‘cache’ (pronounced cash), putting the coordinates into a GPS device and then following the directions to the cache. The GPS will bring a person to within 5-20 feet of the cache, which will typically be hidden.