The essential guide to geocaching : tracking treasure with your GPS

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Dyer, Mike, 1977- (Author)
Format Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Golden, Colorado : Fulcrum, [2004]
Subjects
Online AccessObsah
ISBN9781555915223
Physical Descriptionix, 147 stran : ilustrace, mapy ; 22 cm

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Table of Contents:
  • What is geocaching?
  • A brief history of geocaching
  • Who should get involved in geocaching
  • Where is geocaching today?
  • Getting started
  • Tools of the trade
  • GPS receivers
  • GPS accessories
  • Compasses
  • Maps
  • Outdoor ethics and wilderness safety
  • General wilderness principles
  • Outdoor ethics
  • Basic geocaching principles
  • What is in a cache?
  • Game types and cache sizes
  • Rules and general guidelines
  • Finding your first cache
  • Creating your first cache
  • A geocacher's guide to land navigation
  • Reading topographic maps
  • Basic functions of GPS receivers
  • Map scale, distances, and working with a compass