JUST when geeks have finally found a sport worth leaving their computers for, someone tries to ban it. Some US national parks are starting to prohibit an oddball technocentric activity called “geocaching”.
A modern treasure hunt, geocaching involves using a GPS receiver to help find hidden troves of useless junk, simply called caches. People hide the caches and then post GPS coordinates on the web so others can find them.
But now Scottsdale’s Mountain Preserve in Arizona and the St Croix National Scenic Waterway in Wisconsin are concerned that the caches are becoming a hazard. And, they say, geocachers are damaging terrain with their off-road vehicles.…
