PHOTO GALLERY: Geocaching leads participants into the woods

From left, Joe Rowland, Tom Leak, Dustin Hoffmann and Richard Parsons walk along the beginning of the Rhett's Run Redeye geocache trail on Tuesday at Cosmopolitan Park. A group of eight geocachers set out to complete the adventure and be able to say that they found the cache.   |  Carrie Durkee

This sticker, called a Travel Bug, is a scannable codes that can be associated with various items or people, including cars, in order to track geocaching activities. It allows geocachers to follow the progress of different items on geocaching.com. When used on a car they show the number of miles traveled while geocaching, such as 816.5 miles for this bug.   |  Carrie Durkee

Tom Leak, left, chats with Joe Rowland as Rowland applies bug spray before a night geocache search on Tuesday off of Bear Creek Trail near Cosmopolitan Park. The cache creater warned participants to wear good hiking boots, bug spray, bring a flashlight and to beware of Sasquatches.   |  Carrie Durkee

Geocachers hike the Rhett's Run Redeye on Tuesday evening near Bear Creek Trail. The geocachers use flashlights to find reflective nails in the trees, called firetacks, that mark the trail leading to the cache.   |  Carrie Durkee

Dan Hickey signs a cache log to be placed inside the ammo box that contains the cache at the end of the search at about 10 p.m. Tuesday somewhere off the Bear Creek Trail. The cache log shows who has found the cache and when.   |  Carrie Durkee

Elonka Dunin, left, and Tom Leak remove the contents of the cache from an old ammo box on Tuesday off the Bear Creek Trail. The cache had a night theme and contained glow sticks, batteries and other items.   |  Carrie Durkee

After finding the cache, Joe Rowland and seven other geocachers return to a Cosmopolitan Park lot under a full moon on Tuesday night.   |  Carrie Durkee