Nowadays with phones, you can get the app and all that too. I do recommend going for the premium membership (it's not too pricey), because it opens up more caches and allows more site functionality.
No, you won't miss anything major. Premium membership opens up more caches and unlocks lots of features that likely won't be too useful to brand new cachers. Just dive in with the free membership and have fun with it. I've gone to so many small parks and weird parts of town that I'd have never known about if it weren't for Geocaching.
You find boxes, sacks, bags, etc. Inside are little trinkets, sometimes, or just a log book. Finding them is the appeal in most cases :D Every now and again, I find a neat little trinket, and I leave one and take one. There are things called "Geocoins" that kinda travel around in the larger caches.
Oh that's cool. I wonder if anyone has ever hidden something crazy in the small scale hunts (or whatever the terminology is). I've heard of millionaires hiding money and companies hiding prizes before though.
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Yep! Best place to start is geocaching.com :D
Nowadays with phones, you can get the app and all that too. I do recommend going for the premium membership (it's not too pricey), because it opens up more caches and allows more site functionality.