[GeoStL] Re: Geocaching in Cub Scouts
- From: "Lazylightning" <lazylightning7@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 10:02:17 -0500
I am Cubmaster and Assistant Den Leader for the Ashland Pack 134 Cubscouts and
I've done a little with our Den with Geocaching. There is a Map & Compass
beltloop and academic pin they can earn and I did a little with GPS/Geocaching
along with the curriculum. They liked the GPS a lot more than the compass!
Our den is Webelos 1 and they are up for Geocaching, my son Mark (whoops I mean
GeoDudeGPS - he's up to 64 official finds) is always telling them about caches
and what he found, travel bugs and the sort. Most of the kids are interested
in trying it out. I'm going to do an activity (hike/cache) this summer with
them now that I have a couple GPSr. We're going to do some of the ones that
have nice longer hikes. I think the youngest I would go would be Bears, and
I'd be a little cautious with them (I'd hate to trash a nice GPS and I know how
kids are!)
Mark keeps saying there should be a Geocaching achievement. Does anyone know
how to get that included in the scouts?
----- Original Message -----
From: Bridget Griffin
To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 8:43 AM
Subject: [GeoStL] Geocaching in Cub Scouts
Last Tuesday evening I had an opportunity to visit another scout district
than my own. (A district is like a county) The district I went to was New
Horizons in which Jim Williams attends. I was making announcements for Tiger
Day (the annual cub scout event I put on out by Eureka). I made announcements
on the Boy Scout side first (in which I got to say hi to Jim) then went over to
the Cub Scout side. As I was waiting for my turn on the Cub Scout side, the
group was talking about activities that their packs could do in the summertime.
They named off various activities. Then they talked about Geocaching. It
seems there was a cacher in the crowd besides me. Unfortunately, I could not
stay until their meeting was over so I could meet this cacher. (Maybe I
already know him, but from where I was sitting I could not see him.) There
must have been over sixty adults there.
So, I just wanted everyone to know that geocaching was mentioned as a child
friendly activity that cub scout packs could do together in the summertime.
Pretty soon, geocaching will be a household word. What do you think? :)
Bridget
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