geocaching basics
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Basic Geocaching
By Sonny Portacio
Do you like to hike?
Do you like to solve mysteries?
Would you hunt for hidden treasure?
Try Geocaching!
Discover
What is Geocaching?
Summary
Choose your location online
Put the coordinates in a GPS receiver
Hunt down the cache container (be discreet in urban areas)
Sign the log book
Summary
Trade items (optional)
Replace the cache
Leave no trace
Log your experience online
Some Terms
Geocaching
GPS (receiver)
Cache
How Does the GPS Work?
Satellites
A Brief History
Selective Availability (SA) is removed on May 2, 2000
May 3 the first cache is hidden
Related Activities
Orienteering
“T” Hunts
Letterboxing
What do you need?
What do caches look like in “the wild”?
SWAG(trade items)
Stuff We All Get
Souvenirs, Wearables And Gifts
Stuff We Acquire, Gratis!
Where to get SWAG
Happy Meals
Dollar Stores
“Teacher” Stores
http://www.orientaltrading.com
Hiding a Cache
Containers
Waterproof
Durable
Where?
Variants
Micros
Variants
Specialized
“Cammo”
Variants
Multi Caches
Virtual Caches
Puzzle Caches
Some Examples …
Other “games”
Travel Bugs or “hitchhikers”
Travel Bugs
Travel Bugs
24,000 Miles!
Travel Bugs
Social and Fun!
Caching Events!
Camouflage
What is “Cammo”?
Concealment and camouflage
Some Examples
Now what?
Sign up for an account and go find some Geocaches!
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