geocaching

Jefferson Highway Challenge Cache
Geocaching is the latest and greatest sport for the GPS generation. It is basically a world wide treasure hunt where things are hidden and using a gps you find them. There is a cult of people named "geocachers" who spend lots of their free time and even their holidays to hunt for these hidden treasures. All of this gaming is "refereed" by the website www.geocaching.com where you can find anything and everything about this excellent hobby. As people find these "caches" they register their finds with www.geocaching.com and grow in stature as more and more geocaches are recorded in their name. There are also games set up where people find geocaches in "challenges" with caches that are all related to something like our Jefferson Highway. We are pleased to announce that the Pine to Palm Highway has it's very own geocache challenge thanks to Jerry and Donna Piepmeier and Brian and Carlin Yonke all of the Kansas City, MO area.		Looking for a geocache in a Jefferson Highway town.
It is called the "Jefferson Highway Challenge Cache" and it is up and running on geocaching.com the world wide authority for geocaching. Check us out and start geocaching the Jefferson Highway by clicking here: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=gc297q It's code is: GC297QT
Then they drove the Pine to Palm Highway from one end to the other !
Donna and Jerry at the obelisk marking the End of the Jefferson Highway at St. Charles and Common Streets in downtown New Orleans.	Photo by Mike Conlin		Photo by David McDowell	Here are our geocachers at the Mile 0 stone marker in Winnipeg. (Why are Jerry and Donna wearing jackets in New Orleans and t-shirts in Winnipeg?)
In order to verify their research and have some geocaching fun on the Pine to Palm route Jerry and Donna traveled to both ends of the Jefferson Highway. Since they live in Kansas City, which is about half way, they headed first to New Orleans geocaching along the way and establishing some original caches of their own for the Jeff. In Texas they even found a cache already called "Jefferson Highway". Cool!			After returning to their home in Kansas City for a short break they again hit the road this time heading north and made it all the way to Mile 0 of the Pine to Palm Highway in Winnipeg where they met David McDowell our point man at that end.

BASIC RULES: If you find a couple of geocaches on the Pine to Palm Highway in each state that the Jeff passes through and you find the last special cache you will have "geocached" the Jefferson Highway. See all of the rules at http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=gc297q. We are looking for ideas on what to include in our geocaches to make them very special Jefferson Highway "finds". This geocache challenge is a work in progress and you are encouraged to place your own cache anywhere on the Jefferson Highway. It can be made part of game through the above link. Come on out and join us..... Become part of the Jefferson Highway facebook page to show us your pictures or interesting " finds" during your geocaching on the Jeff.