Level: 1
Category: Recreation
Year: 2005

Geocaching

  1. Define geocaching.
  2. What is a GPS receiver?
  3. Demonstrate two ways of finding the location of a geocache in your area on the geocache website.
  4. Demonstrate entering the latitude and longitude coordinates into the GPS to find a geocache in your area.
  5. Define the following terms:
    1. Traditional cache
    2. Micro-cache
    3. Virtual cache
    4. Multi-level cache
    5. Travel bug
  6. What items may be left in a geocache? Which items may not?
  7. Know and practice good Travel Bug Etiquette.
  8. Find three geocaches in your area, at least one of which must be a regular (traditional) cache.
  9. Write about your geocache find in your logbook on the geocache website.
  10. Discuss Matthew 6:19-21 and Jeremiah 29:13 and compare them to geocaching.
  11. Discuss safety concerns you should consider when geocaching.