Drop hunting stories

Stories and guides from trouvé: how drops work, local discovery, and making the most of your city. In Missoula, the drops are also a free, self-guided scavenger hunt.

• Where a dollar goes: what actually happens when you buy the cookie downtown

  October 20, 2026

  Forty-eight cents of a dollar spent at a local business stays in town. Fourteen cents of a dollar spent at a chain does. Here is why, and what it has to do with walking.

  • local business
  • economics
  • Missoula

• Is geocaching still a thing? A bucket in the woods, twenty-six years later

  October 13, 2026

  On May 3, 2000, a man in Oregon hid a five-gallon bucket in the woods and posted the coordinates. It has not stopped since.

  • geocaching
  • drop hunting
  • dropcaching
  • history

• Apps that pay you to walk: what they actually pay, and what a walk is actually worth

  October 6, 2026

  The apps are real and they do pay. The question is what a walk is for.

  • walking
  • apps
  • drop hunting

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