Glossary Of Geocaching Terms
BYOP
Bring Your Own Pen
Cache
A box or container that contains, at the very least, a logbook.
CITO
Cache In Trash Out - all serious geocache care about the environment and when going caching.... cache in and pick up trash on the way out.
DNF
Did Not Find
EarthCache
EarthCaches are a type of geocache that are listed on geocaching.com.
They use additional guidelines when developed so that they provide a
unique experience - a learning experience about Earth science! to learn more go to earthcahce.org
FTF
First To Find
Geocaching
an outdoor sporting activity in which the participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called "geocaches" or "caches", anywhere in the world.
GZ
Ground Zero - Where your cache should be located
LNTN
Left Nothing, Took Nothing
Muggles
non-geocaching people
1/2 muggles
non-geocaching children
Muggled
A cache that has been found by a non-geocaching person and disturbed, moved or destroyed.
PAF
Phone a friend (to help you find a cache)
Signature Item or SWAG
A piece of SWAG unique to a geocacher (mine is a believe glass frig magnet that I craft)
SL
Signed Log
Smiley
A cache find. Refers to the "smiley-face" icon attached to "Found It" logs on some listing sites
Spoiler
A spoiler gives away details of a cache or cache location and may ruin the experience for others.
SWAG
Stuff We All Get - the items in a geocache
TFTC
Thanks For The Cache
Trackable
a geocoin, cache buddy, travel bugs. They are NOT SWAG. They are only to move from one cache to another. They belong to a geocacher than released it "into the wilds". Never keep a trackable as SWAG.
*Wikipedia
