The Essential Guide to Geocaching: Tracking Treasure with Your GPS

by Mike Dyer

Overview

Here's everything you need to know to participate in this increasingly popular outdoor activity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781555915223
Publisher:	Fulcrum Publishing
Publication date:	08/04/2004
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Mike Dyer is a self-proclaimed map geek. He helped launch Wildflower Productions, a San Francisco-based software venture that created the TOPO! mapping software, which was later acquired by National Geographic Maps. Dyer got into geocaching in the late nineties and used it as a means to learn about all the great places in his new home state of Colorado.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	vii
Chapter 1	What Is Geocaching?	1
	A Brief History of Geocaching	2
	Who Should Get Involved in Geocaching?	6
	Where Is Geocaching Today?	10
Chapter 2	Getting Started	13
	Tools of the Trade	13
	GPS Receivers	14
	GPS Accessories	21
	Compasses	23
	Maps	26
Chapter 3	Outdoor Ethics and Wilderness Safety	37
	General Wilderness Safety Principles	37
	Outdoor Ethics	40
Chapter 4	Basic Geocaching Principles	43
	What Is in a Cache?	43
	Game Types and Cache Sizes	47
	Rules and General Guidelines	58
Chapter 5	Finding Your First Cache	61
Chapter 6	Creating Your First Cache	75
Chapter 7	A Geocacher's Guide to Land Navigation	89
	Reading Topographic Maps	92
	Basic Functions of GPS Receivers	109
	Map Scale, Distances, and Working with a Compass	111
Appendix A	Geocache Resources	121
Appendix B	Bibliography	141
	Index	143