Given the hide and seek quality of geocaching, the early hiders and hunters set up some rules to help geocachers avoid being dangerous to themselves, other partipants and the public. The online geocaching websites have guidelines for setting up a cache. The guidelines vary among the groups; guidelines can be found at Geocaching.com and at Terracaching.com.
Diplomacy and savvy have to be used to avoid being noticed by the general public (muggles). An ethical hider will take this into account so the hider and later the hunters don’t cause alarm. On occasion, people have been approached by law enforcement and questioned.
While not specifically connected to all geocaching, the principles of Leave-No-Trace reflect how some hiders and hunters feel geocaching should be done.
Originally, geocaching was called GPS stashing and similar terms. On May 20, 2000, Matt Stum suggested changing the term ‘stash’ to ‘cache’ because of negative connotations connected to the word ‘stash’ and further suggested naming the activity ‘geocaching’. It has been working.
Today, literally hundreds of thousands of sites are located in numerous countries all over the planet and registered one of the various websites.
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