World Traveling “Bug”

October 12, 2011 at 3:41 pm (Activities, geocaching, Montour Preserve, outdoors, Pennsylvania, recreation)

Travel Bug

In the world of geocaching, getting a bug is a good thing, at least when it is a Groundspeak Travel Bug. This is a trackable tag attached to some item. In this case, the tag was attached to a PPL keychain. The tag has a unique number on it allowing it to be tracked online as it is carried from geocache to geocache until it reaches its goal, aided, of course, by the humans who find the geocache. The task of this PPL travel bug was to reach Wales, United Kingdom, the home of Western Power Distribution, PPL’s electricity distribution company in the UK.

After beginning its journey at PPL’s Montour Environmental Preserve in Pennsylvania in March of 2007, it made its way to Maryland within a month and then to North Yorkshire, United Kingdom. It arrived in Wales on July 1, 2007. From there the travel bug has moved around the United Kingdom for almost two months before going to Scotland and then to Spain. From there it traveled to the Netherlands and is currently in Switzerland. So far this travel bug has traveled almost 7,000 miles from its point of origin in three and a half years.

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Geopalooza 1

September 1, 2011 at 12:47 pm (Activities, geocaching)
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That’s the name for the biggest event yet that the new Hazleton Area Geocaching Society will host. Set for Saturday, September 3rd at noon at PPL’s Susquehanna Riverlands, Geopalooza1 will feature five hand-made geocaches that searchers will try to discover. The caches will be hidden throughout the Riverlands, and searchers will get GPS coordinates that will lead them to the caches when the register.

Each cache will contain a punch that searches can use to mark their log as proof of discovery.

After the participants find all five caches, prizes will be raffled off. The prizes include Trackable Geo Gear, Travel Bugs, Geo Coins and gift certificates from area businesses.

Everyone is invited. The event is free and will be held rain or shine. Participants can bring food or drinks for a picnic that will be held afterward.

For more information visit www.geocaching.com and enter the GC Code: GC31ZKY or telephone 570-926-7669. Also the club posts information on its facebook page at “hazleton geocache.”

The club formed in July and has held daytime and nighttime events on weekends that have drawn up to 40 people since then.

Geocaching gives people a chance to enjoy the outdoors as use GPS devices to find hidden objects called geocaches. The coordinates entered into the machines typically take people near the caches, but they have to look closely to spot where the caches are hidden.

 

Read more: http://standardspeaker.com/geocaching-society-to-host-event-sat-1.1194409#ixzz1WiKckLzL

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