Visit Rainier to Launch Final GeoTour at Mount Rainier on Friday

Outdoors adventurers are invited to flock to Mount Rainier on Friday to participate in the final GeoTour of a celebratory four-part series.

Over the last two years, Visit Rainier, in conjunction with Mount Rainier National Park and the Washington State Geocaching Association, has worked to build a 100-cache educational GeoTour intended to promote exploration activities around the mountain. 

The project was put together to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the creation of the National Park Service.

According to a press release from the Visit Rainier tourism group, “Geocaching is a real-world, outdoor treasure hunt using GPS-enabled devices. Participants navigate to a specific set of GPS coordinates and then attempt to find the geocache (container) hidden at that location.”

The geocache sites that are scattershot across Mount Rainier and its surrounding communities were distributed in a series of four releases, with 25 sites being added each time. The first release was on June 13, 2015, with the second series of caches being released on Oct. 9, 2015. The third set of cache sites were launched on July 1 of this year, with the final round set for Friday.

Each hidden cache contains a codeword for participants to mark down in a passport. The passport, which can be downloaded online at http://visitrainier.com/centennial-geotour, also includes official rules for the GeoTour chalenge. Once a passport has been filled out with all 25 passwords it may be submitted in exchange for a trackable pathtag. A new pathtag is available for each series of caches and any participant who logs all 100 caches is eligible for a commemorative geocoin.

A full list of the geocache sites can be accessed online at https://www.geocaching.com/play/geotours/visit-rainier.