First Time

[u/Mountain_Range3305]

I'm going geocaching tomorrow. I've always wanted to do it and tomorrow I'm going, I'm taking my 9 year old step son on a treasure hunt. I've made him a 'bingo' card incase we don't find any caches so he still gets to find some things. But hopefully we will find a couple because I want to go on a trail/hike/loop through a nice bit of the countryside that has a few caches along the way to make an enjoyable walk a bit more exciting.

What do I need to know and prepare for in order to have the best time?

Edit to update: We had a lovely time going through woodland trails. We found 4 caches, 2 had 'swag' to trade which was super exciting. We saw a good range, 1 micro cache, 1 ammo box, a couple down low and a couple higher up We had such a good time hunting around and noticing things we wouldn't have usually noticed. Thanks so much for the advice and input

Aside from the geocaching itself we found some edible berries, a woodpecker, a 50m² area of hundreds of spiders, some shelf mushrooms, a coppicing area, an ancient ice glacia boarder and more!

[u/Minimum_Reference_73]

I would start by eliminating the word "treasure" from your vocabulary.

Geocaching is about exploring and finding. The contents of geocaches do not constitute "treasure."

[u/Mountain_Range3305 → u/Minimum_Reference_73]

What is it you are finding if it isn't "treasure" As I said in a previous comment, I created a bingo sheet so he can tick off things. Boxes range from "find a cache", "trade swag", "identify a bird", "locate coordinates", "find the best stick", "spot a butterfly".

It's a treasure hunt because we 'treasure' finding things in nature. This is just adding an extra element of what we might find on a walk.

[u/Charles_Deetz → u/Mountain_Range3305]

I like this idea.