A Beginner’s Step by Step Guide to Geocaching Geocaching is a great motivator to get outside and do some exploring, get some exercise and learn about areas you might otherwise never visit. You can think of geocaching as a high-tech treasure hunt where your...
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A Beginner’s Step by Step Guide to Geocaching Geocaching is a great motivator to get outside and do some exploring, get some exercise and learn about areas you might otherwise never visit. You can think of geocaching as a high-tech treasure hunt where your job is to find a geocache – deviously hidden by another player – using a GPS to guide you to the geocache’s location using coordinates that you obtain from a geocaching website. Once you get to the geocache’s location (you won’t get right to it because GPS receivers always have some error in their calculated locations) you then have to rely on your senses to search for and find the geocache which is always hidden and sometimes well camouflaged. To help you get started, here are some basic steps to follow. After you have found a few geocaches, these steps will become easy. First Steps: 1. Know your GPR: Become familiar with the operation of your GPS receiver and learn how to use it. You need to know how to manually enter or download l
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