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Go Geocaching and Don’t Forget Your Sheep
Here’s a little geocaching scenario for you. You’re about to embark on your next geocaching adventure. Your mind starts racing through the all-too-familiar checklist: GPS (check), pen (check), extra batteries (check)… wait, you’re forgetting something. What could it be? Extra batteries? Nope. You almost forgot to bring your stuffed-animal sheep. Whew, that was a close call. That’s the actual geocaching checklist for Ontario’s Cheryl Shaw and her husband Dave Devine. They call themselves “Team Sheep.” Cheryl and Dave started geocaching just over a year ago. Almost all of their 401 finds share something in common— a picture of their stuffed [...]
Eric Schudiske on January 7, 2011, 2:58 pm
Boy Scouts Geocaching Merit Badge – Geocaching.com’s Lost & Found Video
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This year, the Boy Scouts of America announced their plans for a new Geocaching Merit Badge. Watch our latest Lost & Found video to see how Boy Scout Troop 75 incorporates geocaching into their program. The scout troop from from Manhattan, Kansas also demonstrates some of the critical thinking and problem solving skills needed to earn the badge. Requirements for the Geocaching Merit Badge are available online. The official Geocaching Merit Badge patch is in final development and expected to be released in the near future. Groundspeak is currently hosting a booth at the BSA 2010 National Scout Jamboree in [...]
Eric Schudiske on July 27, 2010, 3:44 pm
Geocaching: The Best Work Out for Your Hippocampus or is it?
Haven’t you always dreamed of a bulging hippocampus? Another question at this point, might be: what’s a hippocampus? The hippocampus is the portion of the brain believed to store maps of our surroundings. It allows us to navigate around this crazy mixed-up world. It’s your inner GPS. If you’re going to the grocery store, your parents’ house or the place by that Thai restaurant your friend told you about? Yeah, your hippocampus gets you there. A famous study into the inner wiring of London taxi drivers’ brains discovered something, well, unexpected. The late 1990′s research found the drivers hippocampi were [...]
Eric Schudiske on June 24, 2010, 10:24 am
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