A TREASURE hunt with a difference has come to York’s Bar Walls.
Geocaching involves using Global Positioning Systems (GPS trackers) to find a small “geocache” – about the size of a film cassette.
There are geocaches hidden around the world, from Antarctica to Australia, and Dave Moreland who works in City of York Council’s development and transport team and volunteers his services to manage the Bar Walls information on the official website, has now brought them to the Bar Walls.
Mr Moreland said: “I’ve been Geocaching for a few years now with my wife. “We’ve found over 300 to date in places like America and the Vatican City.”
To become a Geocacher, people should register for free at geocaching.com and find the co-ordinates for York.
They then need to use a GPS device – found on many new mobile phones – to track down the eight geocaches on the Bar Walls. Once they have found the geocache they can log their find in the book stored with the item before replacing the geocache for the next hunter.
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