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Geocaching - Advanced

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1. Have Basic Geocaching Honor

2. Briefly describe the origin of the global positioning satellites? What is their history – when and how did they get there? By whom?

3. Define latitude, longitude. What is meant by degrees, minutes, seconds?

4. Complete two or more of the following:

a. Establish and maintain a new geocache in your area for at least 6-months.

b. Send out and follow a TB (travel bug) for 6 months.

c. Find 2 travel bugs and follow for 6 months

d. Participate in a geocache meeting or event in your area (attend).

5. What are the laws/rules/guidelines for placing caches in the following locations?

a. State Parks National Park Service

b. Roads and Railroad Right-of-Ways

c. Placing caches while traveling

d. Wilderness Areas in National Forest Areas

e. USDA Forest Service

6. Find and record at least 18 geocaches; include:

a. Traditional cache with 3-star difficulty

b. One Multi-level

c. One virtual

d. One micro

7. Write about your geocache find in your logbook on the geocache website.

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