WICHITA, Kan. _ Selena Rotz is a treasure hunter, and on a recent afternoon she made a good find in the tiny town of Peck.
"This puts me at 333," said Rotz, who has been into a game called geocaching a little more than a year.
Kansas has more than 12,000 geocaching treasures waiting to be discovered. Sedgwick County alone has 1,700, and there are more than 3 million worldwide.
Geocaching's treasures, called caches, have all been hidden by other geocachers. The global positioning coordinates to the caches, plus more directions and fun clues, are posted online.
Hopeful geocachers can enter a location, and a map will show nearby caches. Once a person picks a particular cache to hunt for, they follow arrows, directions and clues to find it. All caches contain a logbook for finders to sign, and some have trinkets or other small treasures.
"There's so much to like about geocaching," said Rotz, of Belle Plaine. "Anybody can do it, and there's not any place you go where you can't geocache."
According to geocaching.com, the official site for the game, 191 of the world's 193 countries have caches, including more than 40 on Antarctica and one on the international space station. That's a lot of growth, in what's really a very short history.
