Boy Scout Geocaching Merit Badge

New Boy Scout Geocaching Merit Badge!

Here are a few highlights of what Scouts will learn while earning Geocaching merit badge:

• Precautions necessary to have a safe time while searching for geocaches
• Geocaching etiquette and how the principles of Leave No Trace apply
• Geocaching terms
• How GPS technology works
• Steps for finding and logging a cache
• How to use geocaching.com, the official online home of geocaching

And more about this and GCing in general (for the newbie) at the New York Times.

Geocaching Tip of the Day #43

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The First Geocache.



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Geocaching Tip of the Day #42

Looking to hide your own cache? Run past the disposable plastic containers.

They will not last through the elements.

Instead try an ammo can or a "Lock & Lock" containers.

Unless, of course, you're trying to make log-book soup...

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Geocaching Tip of the Day #41

Sun setting too early for you?

Try "night caching".

These are caches specifically meant to be found at night. Hiders often add clues that can only be found after sundown -- using reflectors and other items, usually indicated in the cache description.

You can find some of these by searching for caches in your area using the word "night" and by looking at the cache "Attributes".

Premium Members of Geocaching.com can also do a "Pocket Query" to search according to attributes.

Bring a flashlight!

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Geocaching Tip of the Day #40

Caching through the snow?

Oftentimes certain caches can be particularly difficult (or impossible) to find under Winter's blanket.

Geocaching.com has help for you there.

On the cache page, look at the "Attributes" on the right, and see the various symbols for the hide.

If you see the snowflake, you'll know that this cache is "Available During Winter".

Good luck and stay warm!

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Geocaching Tip of the Day #39

Late afternoon chacher?

As the days get shorter, be sure to pack a flashlight in your pack before you set out, just in case the sun sets sooner than you thought.

Walking along a pitch black path can be disconcerting...

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Geocaching Tip of the Day #38

Always bring along some basic first-aid supplies.

Sometimes you never know what you're gonna hit -- or what's gonna hit you...

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