Geocaching is the widely popular, high-tech game of treasure hunting, and Garmin is at the forefront with a host of Geocaching Gps units to ensure you find that big cache. With a Garmin in hand and an appetite for adventure, you're sure to find hidden treasure and see the world. Whether it's finding caches, moving hitchhikers (or travel bugs), locating NGS benchmarks or more, 
Garmin has the Gps unit for you . Garmin manufactures several lightweight, rugged, waterproof GPS handhelds perfect for geocaching. These units have long battery lives and lots of waypoint storage some even come with built-in altimeters, compasses, mapping capabilities and more. Geocaching has become very populiar especialy in the past couple of years and to some is even a sport.
The basic idea of Geocaching is to locate hidden containers (called geocaches) outdoors, once you have found a geocache with your Geocaching Gps, sign the logbook and return the geocache to its original location, then share your experiences online with websites like Geocaching.com and Groundspeak.com. With the Wherigo Player on the Garmin Colorado and Oregon handheld Gps units you can download the Geocaching locations and hints directly to your Garmin Geocaching Gps receiver and go treasure hunting without carrying all of those printed maps with you. Garmin Colorado and Oregon Gps systems are the first Gps recivers to have the Wherigo Player already installed. There are about 700,000 active geocaches around the world and it is easy to find Geocache's near you or in a location that you plan to visit through the online websites. 
Geocaching and Travel Bugs
Want more fun Geocaching, try a Travel Bug, a Travel Bug is a trackable tag that you attach to an item that moves from cache to cache, picking up stories along the way. This allows you to track your item on Geocaching.com. Find a Travel Bug and move it to a new cache and add your story, pictures and the new location online for others to find. A Travel Bug may have a goal to reach like going to a specific country, or even travel to all 7 continents. Each Travel Bug has its own unique tracking number and a "diary" that follows it's Geocaching adventures.
Geocaching and Geocoins
Like a Travel Bug you can follow the Gps location of of a Geocoin. A Geocoin is a special coin created by individuals or groups of geocachers as a kind of signature item or calling card. Having your own Geocoins minted to reflect your state, business, group or personality can be an exciting process. Geocaching.com has a list of approved Geocoin manufacturers so you can have your own Geocoin made, then follow the Gps location and Geocaching adventures online. Like Travel Bugs, each Geocoin is assigned a unique tracking ID which allows them to travel from geocache to geocache or to be passed among friends, picking up stories along the way.
Are Garmins Geocaching Gps recivers toys?
With all this talk about Geocaching fun it may seem like Garmin's Geocaching Gps receivers are a toy but rest assured that Garmin's Geocaching Gps systems are not a toy. 
Garmin's Geocaching Gps systems are a High-sensitivity GPS receiver, built rugged to withstand your outdoor adventures no matter the weather or your location and are the best Gps systems available . All of Garmin's Gps systems are built to the same High standards and Garmin's Geocaching Gps units are no different. Garmin's Geocaching Gps receivers just have pre-loaded software that makes them a Geocaching-friendly Gps unit as an added feature for your outdoor adventures.
paperless Geocaching GPS receivers make it easier to enjoy your Geocaching adventures. Along with a host of Geocaching friendly features, they easily store all of your Geocaching data right on the GPS receiver. Store data for dozens of cashes at once and don't worry about caring around all those
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