geocaching basics

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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Contact Me!

Sonny Portacio

sonnyportacio@gmail.com

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