Download or read book Geocaching written by Erik Sherman and published by Apress. This book was released on 2004-04-12 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * This is the only book out on a phenomenon that has been growing at exponential rates since its introduction in 2000: hundreds of thousands of people participate. * Geocaching has received wide coverage on television, radio, newspapers, and magazines—it is particularly popular with extreme sports and high-tech aficionados. * Teaches navigation techniques, including GPS, compass, and map; offers effective strategies for geocaching tournaments and events.
Download or read book Geocaching For Dummies written by Joel McNamara and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-02-23 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find a high-tech hobby in the great outdoors! Dig into this fast-growing detective sport that's fun for all ages Once you get your coordinates, your GPS receiver, maps, compass, and this book, you're ready for adventure! Seek out containers of goodies hidden around the world by other geocachers, hide a cache of your own, see new places, and get a little exercise to boot. Here's where to start! The Dummies Way * Explanations in plain English * "Get in, get out" information * Icons and other navigational aids * Tear-out cheat sheet * Top ten lists * A dash of humor and fun Discover how to: * Choose and use a GPS receiver * Find and download coordinates * Pack the right gear * Share experiences with the geocaching community * Search for benchmarks * Use geocaching as a teaching tool
Download or read book Geocaching Puzzle Solving Notebook written by Geo Cacher and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-12 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solve all your geocaching puzzles in one place! This notebook provides a page for each puzzle geocache you're working on, including a lined work space for puzzle-solving notes and places to keep track of your solved coordinates, date solved, and date found. No more hunting for bits of paper with your puzzle-solving method and final coords! Keep your notes together in a workbook with space for 200 solved puzzles. Need more than one book? Keep track by numbering them at the bottom of the spine.
Download or read book Geocaching Handbook written by Layne Cameron and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the reader to the fast-growing outdoor sport of geocaching, which combines aspects of treasure hunting, high-tech navigation, and exploration. New to this book: --Updates to technology and use of social media. --Full chapter on smartphone apps. --Updates to photography—showing more technology and diversity of participants. --Mention of National and State Parks, which are now promoting geocaching. --Updates to swag, with official geocaching containers, special edition coins, and micro containers, etc.
Download or read book Geocache Log Book written by Michael Sajdak and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2008-08-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A colorful logbook specifically designed to place in your personal cache. Provides spaces for entries by Geocachers who find your cache. Makes a great momento of your cache.
Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to Geocaching 3rd Edition written by Editors & Staff Geocaching.com and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geocaching has steadily grown into a fun and enduring outdoor adventure and with the popularity of GPS units and the development of applications for nearly all of the most popular smartphone platforms, it has become an adventure that's available to pretty much anyone. In The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Geocaching, Third Edition, the editors and staff of Geocaching.com open the world of geocaching up to a much broader audience and take the reader through all of the core essentials for caching including how to play, tips and tricks for finding and placing caches, variations on traditional caching, and much more. In addition, the reader can learn about exciting new changes to the game and the new GPS-enabled games that will take cachers to an entirely new level of fun and adventure.
Download or read book The Joy of Geocaching written by Paul Gillin and published by Linden Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describing the exciting and adventurous world surrounding geocaching--a worldwide hunt in which treasures are located using global positioning system (GPS) devices--this book offers an understanding and application of the principles and best practices of the game. What's different is that the authors wrap this knowledge in a tapestry of human stories that range from hilarious to touching. Paul and Dana Gillin interviewed 40 of the world's 50 most prolific geocachers as well as experts in container design, "extreme" geocaching and other dimensions of the game. They tell how this global activity inspires passion that has helped people heal frayed marriages, establish new friendships--and even save lives.
Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to Geocaching 2nd Edition written by The Editors & Staff of Geocaching.com and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate global game revealed! The Complete Idiot's Guide(r) to Geocaching, Second Edition is a 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. In this edition, two new tools of the game-Waymarking and Wherigo-are included. ? The Geocaching website, which began operating in 2000 and is owned by Groundspeak, Inc., is the first and currently the largest website devoted to Geocaching ? Today, well over 800,000 geocaches are registered on various websites devoted to the pastime ? Geocaches are currently placed in over 100 countries around the world and on all seven continents, including Antarctica
Download or read book How To Puzzle Cache Second Edition written by Cully Long and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: REVISED AND UPDATED WITH A NEW CHAPTER AND NEW INFORMATION. Geocaching novices and pros alike are often daunted by puzzle and mystery 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. 300 pages of lessons, tips, tricks and hints for dealing with even the trickiest puzzle caches, plus step-by-step techniques that start with examining the cache page and lead you through codes, ciphers, steganography, math, music, and dozens of other common puzzle cache types will have you on
Download or read book The Essential Guide to Geocaching written by Mike Dyer and published by Fulcrum Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a guide to geocaching, a type of hide-and-seek game supported by Global Positioning System technology, reviews the history of the sport, and includes checklists, a glossary of terms, and list of resources.
Download or read book Skycircus written by Peter Bunzl and published by North Star Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a traveling skycircus arrives in town, Lily and Robert can’t wait to step aboard. But something sinister lurks there. And before Lily and Robert can do anything, they’re captured and whisked off in the mysterious flying circus to somewhere far, far away...
Download or read book Geocaching practical knowledge written by Them Entor and published by epubli. This book was released on 2023-12-09 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern treasure hunting has a name: Geocaching. 'Geocaching Practical Knowledge: Finding Hidden Treasures, Discovering Unexplored Paths' is your comprehensive guide to finding these hidden treasures. Learn how to use GPS devices and other tools to find hidden caches while discovering the wonders of nature and unknown places in your area. This book not only offers you practical tips and tricks for beginners and advanced hikers, but also takes you into the exciting world of geocaching adventures. Get ready to solve puzzles, explore new trails and have unforgettable experiences in the great outdoors. Pack your equipment and set off on your next treasure hunt!
Download or read book Ben and the Geocache Treasure written by Heather Gregory and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With help from his parents and the Internet, seven-year-old Ben learns about the exciting world of geocaching and also discovers that adventure, treasure, and secrets don't have to be fictional. In Heather Gregory's educational and adventurous book, Ben and the Geocache Treasure, your child will discover the hobby of geocaching and be inspired to get out and explore.
Download or read book GPS For Dummies written by Joel McNamara and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-10-13 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Need directions? Are you good at getting lost? Then GPS is just the technology you’ve dreamed of, and GPS For Dummies is what you need to help you make the most of it. If you have a GPS unit or plan to buy one, GPS For Dummies, 2nd Edition helps you compare GPS technologies, units, and uses. You’ll find out how to create and use digital maps and learn about waypoints, tracks, coordinate systems, and other key point to using GPS technology. Get more from your GPS device by learning to use Web-hosted mapping services and even how to turn your cell phone or PDA into a GPS receiver. You’ll also discover: Up-to-date information on the capabilities of popular handheld and automotive Global Positioning Systems How to read a map and how to get more from the free maps available online The capabilities and limitations of GPS technology, and how satellites and radio systems make GPS work How to interface your GPS receiver with your computer and what digital mapping software can offer Why a cell phone with GPS capability isn’t the same as a GPS unit What can affect your GPS reading and how accurate it will be How to use Street Atlas USA, TopoFusion, Google Earth, and other tools Fun things to do with GPS, such as exploring topographical maps, aerial imagery, and the sport of geocaching Most GPS receivers do much more than their owners realize. With GPS For Dummies, 2nd Edition in hand, you’ll venture forth with confidence!
Download or read book Bonnie of Evidence written by Maddy Hunter and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2013-02-08 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emily Andrew-Miceli, travel escort extraordinaire, and her husband, Etienne, are leading a merry band of globetrotting seniors on a tour of Scotland's highlands and islands. In addition to the usual haggis tasting and kilt shopping activities, Emily has organized a high-tech scavenger hunt—her own version of the Highland games that soon turns into all out clan warfare. When one feuding team member is found dead, Etienne—a former police detective—suspects an allergic reaction. But upon discovering that the victim's underhanded tactics may have accidentally unleashed an ancient curse, Emily realizes she'll need a truly brave heart to survive this ill-fated fling. Praise: "Laugh along with Hunter's eighth pun-laden expedition."—Library Journal "[A] delightfully deadly eighth Passport to Peril mystery."—Publishers Weekly
Download or read book Mapping Is Elementary My Dear written by S. Kay Gandy and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children need the chance to explore and understand where they live and all the places surrounding them to make sense of their world. Through geography, children can feel a connection with people they have never met and places they have never been. Through these connections, children can be inspired to care about their place and their communities. This book includes chapters explaining the concepts of location, perspective, scale, orientation, map symbols and map keys, and the five themes of geography. In addition, chapters are included on various types of maps and the use of technology to teach map skills. There are suggestions for 100 activities to teach the concepts, assessment questions, and annotated children’s literature that relate to the concepts. The book includes a suggested scope and sequence for teaching map skills in the elementary grades and a glossary of geographic terms.
Download or read book Silver Spring written by Ivy Kaminsky and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Estefan is the man every man wants to be and every woman dreams of...handsome, successful, and charming. But then he falls in love, and the trouble begins.
