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Anyone do this? Two of my friends picked up the kid and took her out exploring today-she really enjoyed the blend of using technology and nature as a modern day treasure hunt.

There are a few kids in this club, maybe we could incorporate geocaching for the kids at events?
 
Guess they don't have geocaching out by the coast??

Geocaching is basically the new orienteering for lazy people :lol:

Well that's how i've always explained it but that doesn't mean it isn't fun.

Most outdoors places such beaches, forests, mountains, deserts have things like this.

It can be something you pay to do through a company that have left the markers in certain locations or ones that people have left themselves and put the coordinates on a website for all to use.

You get a bunch of GPS coordinates and you need to find the markers (normally an ammo can with a stamp in it) to prove you have done it.
 
custyota said:
Well s*** I have done is 10 years ago in the Marine Corps its called Land Navigation. Darin I'm sure is an expert. :)
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I have a piece of paper from somewhere in the military saying I am a perfect go at land nav . Too bad I hurt my back later on before I could go back. If you can land nav thru that course you are golden. It goes thru a few States . All I will say on here.
 
custyota said:
Well s*** I have done is 10 years ago in the Marine Corps its called Land Navigation. Darin I'm sure is an expert. :)
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It would be hard not to be good at it.... I guess the faster you move the better you will be. The GPS points with an arrow in the direction you need to go.

It's more of a kids thing. If someone had a bunch of GPS's we could set up something for the kids at an event.

The only time it can be difficult is when it is in a set of trails that inter-cross and you need to stay on. Without a map you don't know which way they will turn and can go down the wrong one. :cheers:


I prefer orienteering. Doing it in the mountains of the high dessert could be quite difficult in the terrain.
 
custyota said:
We used compass and a map in the Corps Im sure Darin did too. You can not rely on tech
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That's basically orienteering. Geocaching is something else. I did an orienteering challenge in the sierras. Took 14 hours and we came in 5th out of 62.
 
I used to love orienteering in Scouts and it was interesting to do the long treks. I definitely think doing more map/compass/GPS familiarization would be a great class for the club to take, especially with the former/current military experience we have in the club.

I've tried to incorporate geocaching in past rides, but the setup factor is the limiting step. It takes a while to set new points, log them, hide the cache...

But it could be intersting for the kids to be able to occupy their time while they're waiting for people on the ledges at Daniel, play area on the back side of Daniel, Kodak, Dickey Bell, etc.
 
FJinTegaCay said:
The US National Whitewater Center here in Charlotte has two courses. We've done both as a family and our girls (6 & 8) enjoyed it. It was good family fun.
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We did it too with our nephews. The problem we had there were a lot of the stamps were missing and 3 of the points were underwater do to the high rain we had gotten at the time.
 
GarnerFJ40 said:
I used to love orienteering in Scouts and it was interesting to do the long treks. I definitely think doing more map/compass/GPS familiarization would be a great class for the club to take, especially with the former/current military experience we have in the club.

I've tried to incorporate geocaching in past rides, but the setup factor is the limiting step. It takes a while to set new points, log them, hide the cache...

But it could be intersting for the kids to be able to occupy their time while they're waiting for people on the ledges at Daniel, play area on the back side of Daniel, Kodak, Dickey Bell, etc.
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Agreed on doing the class for map/compass, not sure a GPS class is needed gps's these days are just point and shoot.... it could easily be set up in a large area. Maybe Kenny would offer up the barn for it as it is 50 or so acres of theirs up that creek.
 
Map reading / landnav is too darn easy. But when you do it with 100+ miles between points the rest is meh.

This was all on foot and you could not even use deer paths . Gentleman's course.
 
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Correct me if i'm wrong but doesn't gentleman's course mean easier than it used to be or just plain easy.

Meaning "That course is a gentleman's course now and much easier than when I did it back in the day"


I've heard it mean something like that in other area's but since i've never been military i'm not sure if it means the same.
 
lt1fire said:
Correct me if i'm wrong but doesn't gentleman's course mean easier than it used to be or just plain easy.

Meaning "That course is a gentleman's course now and much easier than when I did it back in the day"

I've heard it mean something like that in other area's but since i've never been military i'm not sure if it means the same.
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Sent you a pm. Keep it between us please.
 
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