- Here's another way to promote Geocaching. El Presidente John was approached by a Girl Scout leader to teach adult leaders about Geocaching and, since it was in my area (near Troy, MO), he asked if I could take on the task, which I did. I used the SLAGA presentations, along with a portion of the waypoint course the Girl Scouts have at their camp near Cuivre River. Pennefred (Penny), a cacher who works with me at Qinetiq-NA, helped, which was especially handy during the hands-on portion, teaching the ladies how to enter waypoints into the Council's Etrex units. Bottom line: the leaders enjoyed the class and outdoor exercise (we heard ourselves referred to as great new resources) and will probably be teaching more leaders in the future. You all can do the same for scouts in your local districts. Also, the following was in an e-mail from a fellow Scouter who attended the district round-table this past week. I thought you all would be interested to see that the local Boy Scout Council has us listed as a resource: There is a big push by BSA and the local council to promote Geocaching and since I overheard a couple boys talking about how the upcoming cabin camp-out means electricity, and electricity means video games AND since we now have a resident expert in this (Wayne), perhaps that should be our activity for that weekend. There are no geocaches at Beaumont itself (there is a course at S-F), but I am certain there are many others in that area. Perhaps we still do the pioneering on Saturday if that is already set up, but on Sunday pack up early and do a geocache find. A couple links they provided: www.geoscouting.com www.geocaching.com www.geocacher-u.com www.slaga.org www.mogageo.com Wayne **************************************** For List Info or To make _ANY_ changes to your account, including unsubscribing from this list, click -----> //www.freelists.org/list/geocaching Missouri Caches Scheduled to be Archived http://tinyurl.com/87cqw Missouri Geocaching land policies --> http://tinyurl.com/lgyy84 Missouri Geocachers Forums -->http://mogeo.ipbhost.com/index.php