Even a pandemic can't stop the ever-growing popularity of geocaching

Uwe Stelzmann crawls out of a bunker in western Denmark. The 57-year-old German man first began geocaching with his family 11 years ago. — Claudia Stelzmann/UnitedChart/dpa

Deciphering codes, climbing trees, reading signs: Geocaching requires participants to fully immerse themselves. For more than two decades, people have been searching for hidden spots all over the world, and the pandemic has barely slowed the activity's growing popularity.

BERLIN: Is that Tupperware container nestled beneath a log in the woods somebody's discarded picnic, a piece of trash – or a carefully hidden cache? It's increasingly likely that it's a clue – and there may well be a geocacher hunting through the undergrowth.