Our First Geocaching Experience N 36° 22.992 W 114° 41.3316 FAQs Favorites Our First Finding Creating Kids We bought our Garmin GPS12 online for Valentine's Day (how romantic) and were excited the day it came in the mail. We learned the basics from playing with the buttons, but needed the manual for some of the advanced functions. After we figured out how to enter coordinates, we were ready to try it out.   We got the GPS when we were in Phoenix, but didn't have time to try it out until we arrived in Las Vegas. We started at the Geocaching website and entered the zip code of the Valley of Fire State Park area north of Las Vegas. Up came several geocaches including Outdoor Nevada Geocache #1. The last time we were in the area we did some rockhounding on the Bitter Springs Backcountry Byway, so we had a pretty good idea about the geocache location. We entered the coordinates in our GPS, grabbed our map and set out on a beautiful afternoon. With the help of the directions and the GPS device, we found the cache with no problem. The cache was located on the top of a hill overlooking an old borax mine with desert wilderness in all directions.   It was exciting to unpile the rocks and discover the plastic tub. We opened the cache and checked out the "loot". The leather logbook was impressive. The official geocaching printout was included along with a pencil. You could tell the people that placed the cache read the guidelines at the geocaching site for creating an effective cache.   As we wrote in the logbook, we explored the treasures. The plastic tub was full of fun items to explore. After a successful first cache, we were ready for another one and set out for our second set of coordinates just a few miles down the road.   For more information about finding your first cache, check the Geocaching's Finding Your First Cache page. FAQs Favorites Our First Finding Creating Kids Created by Annette Lamb and Larry Johnson, 02/01. Updated 07/01.