Join GeoQwest on a unique opportunity to see some of the most spectacular scenery in Canada on a high tech treasure hunt!

Geocaching has become a global recreation combining adventure, travel and satellite technology. From a constellation of satellites circling the earth, inexpensive GPS (Global Positioning System) receivers can guide you to places with an accuracy of mere meters and that would be the envy of explorers only 15 years ago.

A Geocache is a waterproof container containing a number of common or not so common articles. The principle of geocaching is to keep the cache alive by taking from it an article you want and replacing it with a different item of equal or greater value. Most caches contain a notepad to log visitors and comments of those skilled enough to find it.

These caches can be found in the deepest woods or in the downtown center of major cities. The challenge is to vector into them with GPS coordinates and find the hiding place.

The GeoQwest Geocache Safari selects existing sites around the Okanagan and challenges you to find them. Of course, we encourage you to pick the caches in the most remote wilderness areas to fully appreciate the accuracy and ease of use of modern GPS as well as GeoQwest's specialty of accessing BC's most remote backcountry. For an added dimension to the safari, build your own geocache and find a special place somewhere out in the wilderness for others to find.

Your GeoQwest guide has trained field staff in mineral exploration in the science of applied GPS technology on programs throughout Western and Northern Canada. He takes the mystery out of these marvelous instruments. Bring your GPS and have GeoQwest program it and teach you to use it like a professional.

All that is required is your GPS or follow the GeoQwest unit and bring a few articles to replace anything you take from a geocache so as to maintain it’s perpetuity. Objects range from the common to the bizarre with items found in caches to be everything from pencils to wool socks to a rumoured $1,000 bill!