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Geocaching as a SAR Training Tool

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Guest Author: Rick Sylvia

“Base, this is team Bravo. We have arrived at our task location, have a ‘ find’ and are awaiting further instructions”.

“Bravo, this is Base. Roger the find, stand by for new coordinates”

Admittedly, the radio conversation above isn’t between Geocachers. Not exactly, anyway. But it could be between members of a Wilderness Search and Rescue team on a navigation and clue awareness training exercise. Beyond that difference, though, the SAR training exercise [...]

Build Your Own GPS – Caching for Nerds

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Techno Geeks – Bre Pettis and Joe Garland have posted a fun video/article on just how easy it is to build your own GPS using a few simple components.  Now I somehow think there was a bit more done than what we see in the brief video, but it is fun to watch and if you have the winter geocaching blues it might be a good project.  As they indicate schematics and code are [...]

Treasure Hunting with the iPhone 3G

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As many of you know I am an RSS and News Feed junkie…  As such you may see me make some posts here that are references to works that I have read that I believe might be of interest to you.   This post is one of those.

While surfing through the Mashable website I came across this article on using the iPhone for your geocaching.    I like the single device idea.   IE… one [...]

Geocaching – A Beginner’s Guide

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Author: Heather Bayer – posted by BillNPegz

Geocaching crazy – join the hunt!

I’m a self-confessed technophobe. I have never sent a text message or taken a photo with a cell phone; played a video game or watched a movie on a personal DVD player. In fact, I never quite mastered working the video machine [...]

Geocaching, Technology and the Outdoors!

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I’ve had my GPS unit for quite awhile.  In fact I even knew about geocaching but never really embarked on the adventure until this past summer.   I must say after about 30 cache finds so far I am hooked!

Geocaching, for those of you that are curious is an international “treasure hunt” of sorts.  Individuals will hide a cache that may contain small trinkets for trading, and post the coordinates to this cache online for others [...]