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Latest revision as of 17:14, 21 July 2022
Geocaching - Advanced
Skill Level
2
Year
2005
Version
28.11.2024
Approval authority
North American Division
1. Have the Geocaching honor.
2. Define the following terms:
- a. Attributes
- b. Favorite points
- c. Message center
- d. Souvenir badges
- e. Lists or Pocket Queries
- f. Reviewer
3. Define latitude and longitude. What is meant by degrees, minutes, seconds? Demonstrate how to find the latitude and longitude on a geocache listing. Show how to enter latitude and longitude in a GPS receiver/app.
4. Give the history of the following:
- a. The origins of global positioning satellites
- b. When and how geocaching started
- c. The basics of the first geocache (stash)
5. What are the laws/rules/guidelines for placing caches in the following locations in your region?
- a. City, regional, or county parks
- b. State parks/provincial parks
- c. National parks, WMAs
- d. Limited access highways and railroad right-of-ways
- e. Placing physical caches while traveling
- f. Other public lands or areas in your area with permitting guidelines
6. Complete two or more of the following:
- a. Establish and maintain a new geocache in your area for at least six months
- b. Attend a geocache meeting or event
- c. Complete a geotour, geotrail, geoarts or its equivalent (minimum of 6 geocaches found)
- d. Find two travel bugs or geocoins and place them in another cache.
- e. Hike five or more miles while geocaching.
- f. Find the two oldest caches hidden in your state or region.
7. Find and record at least 18 geocaches and include:
- a. One traditional cache with three-star (or greater) difficulty and/or terrain rating*
- b. One multi-level cache or Mystery (Puzzle) cache
- c. One virtual or earthcache
- d. One cache with at least ten favorite points
8. Write about your geocache find in your logbook on a geocache website.
