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.