Geocaching basics 2

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Basic Geocaching By Sonny Portacio

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Basic GeocachingBy Sonny Portacio

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Do you like to explore?

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Do you like to solve mysteries?

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Would you hunt for hidden treasure?

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Try Geocaching!

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What is GEOCACHING?

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GEOCACHING

GEO: Earth, Ground, Country, Land

CACHE: A hidden container of items

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Later that day …

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How many Geocaches are there?

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> 1.6 MILLION!!!

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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

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Summary

Trade items (optional)

Replace the cache

Leave no trace

Log your experience online

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How Does the GPS Work?

Satellites

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A Brief History

Selective Availability (SA) is removed on May 2, 2000

May 3 the first cache is hidden

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What do you need?

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What do caches look like in “the wild”?

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SWAG(trade items)

Stuff We All Get

Souvenirs, Wearables And Gifts

Stuff We Acquire, Gratis!

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Where to get SWAG

Happy Meals

Dollar Stores

“Teacher” Stores

http://www.orientaltrading.com

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Hiding a Cache

Containers

Waterproof

Durable

Where?

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Variants

Micros

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Variants

Multi Caches

Virtual Caches

Puzzle Caches

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Other “games”

Travel Bugs or “hitchhikers”

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Travel Bugs

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Travel Bugs

24,000 Miles!

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Travel Bugs

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Social and Fun!

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Caching Events!

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Camouflage

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A Geocaching Hunt

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Now what?

Sign up for an account at

www.geocaching.com

and go find some Geocaches!

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Contact Me!

Sonny Portacio

[email protected]

www.podcacher.com