Geocachers hold CITO event at Colfax Red Cedar Preserve and Recreation Area

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Editor’s note: Patrick Furey, an enthusiastic geocacher and retired math and science teacher from Colfax High School after 25 years of service, submitted the photograph and the information about the CITO event.

COLFAX — Twenty-seven geocachers gathered at the Colfax Red Cedar Preserve and Recreation Area for a Cache In Trash Out (CITO) event on Saturday, April 27.

The geocachers were from Wisconsin, some as far away as Appleton and Milwaukee, and one came from Woodbury Minnesota

This is an event where geocachers are encouraged to pick up trash as they are geocaching, although many geocachers do this on a regular basis anyway. 

Geocaching is a sort of high-tech treasure hunt. A geocacher will go out somewhere on property that is accessible to the public (parks, roadsides, parking lots and cemeteries) and hide a geocache.

Geocaches range in size from pea sized up to a telephone booth. The cache always contains a logbook to sign as verification of the find and may contain other trinkets.

The geocacher then publishes the coordinates of the cache on www.geocaching.com.

Other geocachers then go out and search for the cache. Upon finding it, they sign the logbook and return the cache to its original hiding spot so others can find it.

There are over three million geocaches in over 190 countries worldwide. Geocaching started on May 3, 2000, in Oregon, one day after “Blue Switch Day” — the day that the United States government made Global Positions Systems (GPS) technology available to the public.

There are currently 18 geocaches in the Colfax Red Cedar Preserve and Recreation Area, and 37 within Colfax.

This was the third year in a row that this event was held. The local geocachers are already excited about returning next April.

LOOKING FORWARD — A group of 27 geocachers gathered at the Colfax Red Cedar Preserve and Recreation on Saturday, April 27, for a Cache in Trash Out (CITO) event. Patrick Furey, who organized the event and who retired as a math and science teacher from Colfax High School several years ago, said this is the third year of such an event at the Preserve and that participants are looking forward to coming back again next year. —photo submitted