Treasure Hunting

If you’ve been through Polk County, FL (just outside of Orlando), you know there’s not a whole lot to do there. This weekend, the Trek Ten Trails program, developed by the Friends of the Parks foundation, hopes to change that. Polk county has over 125 hiking trails, and many of those will be used this weekend to encourage residents and visitors to experience the outdoors.

The Fort Fraser Trail will be featured in the first of 10 organized treks through next September in the innovative program that features hiking, exploring, and geocaching. We’ve covered geocaching on this site before, and it seems like it’s really gaining popularity. The organizers are hope that geocaching will encourage children and those who are savvy about technology to visit Polk’s paved and unpaved walking trails.

More more details on the event, visit the Orlando Sentinel, or contact the coordinator, Amy L. Edwards, at aledwards@orlandosentinel.com or 407-931-5946.

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We’ve mentioned geocaching on this site before, but Parks Canada is doing its part to help spread the word about this exciting activity.

Parks Canada has opened, and encouraging the use of, all of the national historic sites, national parks, and national marine conservation areas that they manage. New guidelines have been developed that will encourage wide and meaningful participation in this activity, which you can view here: Guidelines to encourage geocaching

It seems Parks Canada is asking the caches to be interesting stories about a favorite park area, hoping it will spread the enthusiasm for the parks and geocaching.

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Live in La Crosse, WI and looking for something to do tomorrow? The La Crosse Area Sports Commission is holding a geocaching event and seminar to excite people about this new hobby. If you’re unfamiliar with geocaching, it involves GPS users exploring wilderness and urban areas in search of hidden caches, with location coordinates listed on a Web site or provided by the person who placed the cache. In other words, people place a cache, which is usually a water-safe box, in a hidden location with a logbook, a pen, and usually some item left behind. Once you find the item, you write your name and date in the logbook, take the item, and put an item of your own in the cache for the next person to find. It might seem easy, but many times, the caches are located underwater, or buried - which is where metal detectors come in.

Here’s a map showing La Crosse, WI:

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For more information on geocaching, visit the geocaching website.

Here are the details of this weekend’s event:

• WHAT: Get Caching With the La Crosse Area Sports Commission, a seminar on geocaching
• WHEN: 9-11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 22
• WHERE: La Crosse Area Convention and Visitors Bureau in Riverside Park
• COST: $5
• RSVP: Call Brian Meeter at 782-2250 or sports@explorelacrosse.com or register the day of the event.
• NOTE: Attendees are encouraged to bring a GPS if they have one, but a limited number of units will be available for use or for purchase.

If you make it to the event, let us know.

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