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Geocaching: The sport for gifted kids of all ages

"This GPS "treasure" hunt is a high-tech hide-and-hike-and-seek game, a cache-smash worldwide scavenger stalk. [One geocacher] sees it as an opportunity to take kids on adventures to unfamiliar territory. "Geocaching is a way to give kids the idea that there's a whole world out there other than what they know from their home neighborhoods and video games," he said.  Geocaching within Philadelphia city limits has its appeal, too, particularly to history buffs. Old City is riddled with caches with names that suggest founding-father themes..." from Geocachers Get Around by Lindsay J. Warner, The Philadelphia Inquirer

Also visit Nature and Gifted Children for the research on why gifted kids and adults should Go Out And Play!

FTF: First To Find Magazine

The magazine for Geocachers everywhere!  Great stories, highlights on caching hotspots, and more... Also on Facebook as FTF Geocacher Magazine
 

Geocaching Swiss Army Knife (GSAK)

The "all in one Geocaching and waypoint management tool."  PC program to manipulate Geocaching.com PQs, download data to your GPS, log multiple caches simultaneously, generate statistics to confirm geocaching challenges, and lots more!
 

The Box That Watch Found by Gertrude Chandler Warner (Boxcar Children Mysteries #113)

One day in the park, the Aldens' dog, Watch, comes across a mysterious box with a note inside. "Congratulations!" the note says. "You've found it!" The box is part of a fun new treasure-hunting game...
 

Cache Me If You Can, the Geocaching Board Game (or from Amazon) (2-4 players, ages 8+)

There are an estimated 5 million people geocaching, and now you can bring that kind of fun to your living room. For those times when you and some friends just want to go on the hunt without going out, now you can. It's all here! Caches, geo-coins, hazards, multi-caches, puzzle caches, muggles, and even a Swag Store. Just like real geocaching, ther are surprise along the way! Never the same way twice...
 

Cacheopedia

A wiki-based online encyclopedia, reference, and guide for the sport of geocaching...
 

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Geocaching by The Editors & Staff of Geocaching.com or for Kindle

Comprehensive, yet entertaining and easy-to-understand book for getting started and having fun with geocaching-the high-tech version of hide-and-seek for global positioning system (GPS) users. This second edition includes two new tools of the game-Waymarking and Wherigo...
 

The Essential Guide to Geocaching: Tracking Treasure with Your GPS by Mike Dyer

With the introduction of the personal GPS unit, people everywhere use these new devices to participate in what can only be called a high-tech treasure hunt. By logging on to a geocaching website, anyone can locate coordinates to a hidden cache, plan their route, and be on their way with map, compass, and GPS receiver. The hidden cache contains a logbook and a number of trinkets that can be traded by fortunate seekers. The Essential Guide to Geocaching provides outdoor ethics and safety information, including resources and product guides...
 

Geocachers Get Around by Lindsay J. Warner, The Philadelphia Inquirer

This is geocaching. It's open to anyone - hiders or seekers - with a GPS and access to www.geocaching.com, where more than half a million registered users download and upload the coordinates of nearly 1 million hidden caches and relate their experiences from this worldwide scavenger hunt.  Although some adventures can take hours or even days, the contents inside the actual cache are rarely valuable - many times just a logbook and a small, worthless trinket.  But participants aren't in it for the goods...
 

Geocaching: Fun for the Whole Family

One of the great byproducts of caching has been discovering things in our own backyard that we didn’t even know were there. It allows you the chance to go to places nearby that you normally rush past. We’ve found...
 

GeoCoinfest 2014 Mega Event

Annual event to give geocachers an introduction to geocoins with workshops about designing your own coin, vendor tables for buying coins and trading tables for allowing collectors to meet and trade coins...
 

GeoScouting

Geoscouting is the partnership of Scouting and Geocaching to help promote recruiting, retention, advancement and public relations of your Scouting Pack, Troop or Crew...
 

GeoWoodstock

An annual get-together of geocachers from all over the world, the world's largest geocaching-related event. It is a relaxed, friendly, and free gathering. Typical activities at GeoWoodstock events have included meeting people, prize giveaways, geocoin trading, travel bug swaps, classes and seminars, and of course, caching like crazy!
 

How to Puzzle Cache

Not a website tool, but a comprehensive book... all about how to attack and solve puzzle caches. Ciphers, enigmatic photos, nonsensical text, or just a blank page -- it often isn’t clear what the CO wants or expects you to do, and even less clear how any of it will lead you to a cache. This book will help you ask--and answer--all the right questions...
 

Join the Geocaching.com Community

A basic membership on Geocaching.com is free and requires only a valid email address and your name to create an account. Premium Membership (per year or for 3 months) provides extra features and functionality that will help you get the most out of your geocaching experiences!  Download caches along a route, learn about new caches, and more. You can also give a Geocaching.com gift membership... a great gift idea for your teen or your favorite gifted webmaster!
 

Modern Treasure Hunts for the Whole Family

They found themselves in the parking lot of a suburban shopping center that she says she had probably been to hundreds of times. But the hunt did not end there. They walked around a bush to pinpoint the cache, and there, much to her surprise, was an 18th-century graveyard...
 

What the Heck is Geocaching? A Beginner's Guide

A more detailed introduction to basic and advanced aspects of Geocaching, including Premium Membership, pocket queries, programs for your computer including the free EasyGPS or reasonably priced GSAK, and hints on some of the basic hide types: light pole caches and magnetic key holders...

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