June 27, 2008

If you enjoy solving puzzles and like to ride a bicycle, the Allegheny Highlands Trail might just offer the type of adventure you have been searching for. Trail directors recently announced the worldwide game of geocaching has come to Randolph and Tucker counties.
The game is played by using a global positioning satellite (GPS) locator to find small treasures, known as “caches” along the trail. This puzzle-cache hunt is recommended for bicyclists because almost all the cache sites are more than a mile from a trail entry point but located near the trail itself.
“We have created a one-of-a-kind event cache layout, unique to West Virginia, and the hunt is expected to attract geocachers from throughout the state and neighboring states,”  Highlands Trail Foundation President Gordon Blackley said. “Geocaching is world wide.

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