The bright orange sun is setting in the distance as Jacob and Helen Barlow's Jeep Cherokee rumbles off the pavement and onto the gravel shoulder near a softly glowing field of cattle in Spanish Fork. Jacob parks the Jeep and looks at the handheld GPS that Helen is holding.

"Only 60 feet away," they say, almost in unison, as they hop out of their truck and start walking in the direction that the GPS is pointing.

The Barlows are out for an evening adventure of geocaching, a new-age treasure hunt that combines technology with the outdoors. The game requires going online to find the latitude and longitude coordinates for a treasure that another geocacher has hidden, and then going out to find it using only the provided coordinates and a handheld GPS, like those used by hikers and mountaineers. Hunters sometimes just sign a book indicating that they found the cache. Other times, there's a prize, and they're expected to take it and leave something in its place for the next hunter.

Jacob and Helen met through their shared hobby of geocaching. Helen's older sister, and treasure hunting friend of Jacob's, introduced the two geocaching singles.

"We went out on date to dinner and then found a cache at a Provo elementary school and a couple of others," Jacob said. "She had the habit, too. She had already found three or four hundred caches before I even met her."

Jacob has been geocaching since 2001 and has found more than 4,400 caches.

Most of their courtship was long distance, with Jacob in Utah and Helen in California, so they made trips to visit each other. Most of their dates revolved around their shared hobby.

"I flew up twice. The first time we went to a geocaching event down by Green River," says Helen. "Then I flew up again two weeks later and that's the weekend that we got engaged at his birthday party in Genola with all the local geocachers."

"We went geocaching whenever we were together because it was our common hobby, it's how we met," Jacob said.

Jacob and Helen were engaged on May 4, 2007 and were married on June 21. Since then, they have been enjoying their lives and newlyweds and geocaching almost every day.

Not all of the caches hidden in Utah are as easy as the one that the Barlows practically drove up to in Spanish Fork. Because of the variety of people who participate in hiding and seeking caches, there is an equally wide variety of time and difficulty involved in each hunt. There is a geocache hidden less than 600 feet from the front door of the Daily Herald, and there is another hidden just south of Y that involves a hike.

Jacob says that the best part about the hobby is how it takes him to places he would have never known about if not for geocaching (like the stone furniture located on mountainside near the University of Utah). Helen, on the other hand, says "My favorite part about geocaching is that it is a hobby that we share together."

For more information on geocaching, log on to www.geocaching.com, which lists caches all over the United States and their difficulty. It also has a guide to getting started, including how to choose the right GPS unit. The simple and less expensive units have all of the functions that are required to find any cache.