Archive for December, 2007
Winter Caching
This is our first winter doing Geocaching. There are some obvious differences for us who live in the great white north (also known as Canada) - there is snow. With snow come snow tracks - footprints that sometimes can lead directly to the cache. This can be an advantage for the finder or possibly boring - the snow hints sometimes make it just too easy.
I have seen it a lot in the logs of our caches recently:
GC17K55: Nice little winter geo-trail to follow! - So grateful for large footprints in the snow!
GC17Q5J: It looks like somebody shoveled a path to the cache…
GC16Z1T: Must have been there a few min after Avanar, I followed the tracks in the snow.
While snow-caching can be easier in some ways - hiding a cache that is winter friendly might pose a few challenge. I posted a question in some local Geocaching forums to get some good hints on hiding winter-friendly caches. This is what I learned:
No commentsTeachers utilize GPS units to hone students’ skills
An article recently posted in the Rocky Mount Telegram highlights two teachers using Geocaching as a learning tool;
No commentsSeventh grade teachers Anica Weeks and Susan Pridgen both are avid Geocaching players. The high tech treasure hunt – as Pridgen refers to it – uses global positioning systems to find objects hidden by other geocachers. In order to tap into students’ tech-savvy lives, the teachers are putting GPS units in the hands of students to get them out of their seats to search for things they once found in textbooks.
