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Wednesday, 30 March 2011 03:00

(Photo - Kris Kuhn making the bad luck mistake of walking under a black cat.)

Going Off Course - Robbinsdale by way of Starbuck triathlete Kris Kuhn is totally into a thing called geocaching.

What is that, you ask?

Well, it's like Hide & Seek and you're it. You're not trying to find hiding people, though. Your have to find hidden stuff. Here's where it gets weird and cool. The stuff that you have to find is not in or around your house. You'll not find what you're looking for under the bed or behind curtains. Or behind that maple in your back yard.

Where then is the hidden stuff geocachers are looking for?

In the lobby of an abandoned hotel in the modern ghost town of Pripyat in the "Zone of Alienation" in northern Ukraine. Or in a Sherpa's yak wool mid-bootie in Pangboche, Nepal. Or under a steaming pile of Water Buffalo dung in Chonburi, Thailand. Or by a Charlie Brown statue in St. Paul, Minnesota (photo below)...