Awesome Ways To Get Outdoors!

Are you looking for fresh ways to spend timemost geocachers enjoy playing the game in their
with your friends and family? Outdoor activitiesown neighborhoods. It's awesome!
getting a little boring are they? With your fastIf a GPS receiver isn't in your budget right now,
paced life gaining speed all the time, it's easy toperhaps you might give Letterboxing a try.
stick to what's familiar; but is that any way toLetterboxing is similar to geocaching in that you
live? Let's take a few minutes and look at howare searching for a hidden treasure, but in this
easy it is to break out of the same-ole-routinecase it is called a box not a cache and you use
and into the new with wholesome activities nearclues versus coordinates to locate the treasure.
home and out of doors. Read on to see why it'sThere are other components to the Letterboxing
tough to beat having fun with friends and familygame such as rubber stamps and log books.
outdoors in the fresh air.Letterboxing is inexpensive, loads of fun and
One of the first things we notice as we stepaddictive.
outdoors and into nature is that we are not alone.So what's next? How about the oldest of all
Life surrounds us. So the first thing to do is tooutdoor hobbies? That's right, stargazing. If you
slow down and have a look around. While you'relive in a large city and spend all of your time
looking, why not do some bird watching. It's fun,there, it's easy to forget about the night sky
easy to do and inexpensive. All you need are birdsbecause you can't see it. But it's still there and
and they are everywhere. Make a family gameprovides breath taking views that are impossible
out of it. Who can find the first bird with the colorto communicate. So grab a jacket, a pair of
blue on it? How many ducks are on the pond?binoculars and a loved one and go somewhere
Are they all the same kind? You get the idea. Butnearby where you can have an unobstructed
be careful, once you start bird watching you'll findview of the night sky with as little light pollution as
it difficult to stop. Before long you'll have a goodpossible. With a pair of binoculars you should be
pair of birding binoculars and a field guide for yourable to see man-made satellites, the moons of
part of the country. Then you'll be a bird watcherJupiter and craters on our own Moon. Once you
with birding fever. The best part of bird watchingcatch the stargazing fever you'll move up to a
is spending time with others outdoors; and birdingtelescope where you can point it virtually
is a hobby you'll love for the rest of your life.anywhere in the night sky and be awe struck.
If you need a sport that's a little more high tech,There is so much available to us outdoors. Try
give geocaching a shot. Geocaching is the sportsomething new like bird watching, geocaching,
where you use your handheld GPS receiver toletterboxing or stargazing. Each of these activities
find caches hidden by others using their GPShas a large on-line community ready to share its
receivers. This is something you can do bysport, its tips and its passion with you. Visit our
yourself, with friends or with your children.on-line education center and we'll point you in the
Geocaching teaches outdoor navigation in a funright direction.
and interactive way while allowing you to exploreNot everyone has the skill or desire to climb
your own neighborhood and beyond. You'll learnMount Everest, hike the Appalachian Trail or sail
new words and phrases such as cachethe world's oceans. But there is something
coordinates, travel bugs, micro-caches,everyone can do near their own homes that will
benchmarking and geoteaming. All you need isopen the eyes and their minds to the beauty of
internet access and a GPS receiver; some GPSnature. Take a few hours this week and spend it
receivers retail for many hundreds of dollars butoutdoors with someone you like. Use this
many models are available for around $100.information and you'll Get It Right The First Time.
Although the sport is active in over 200 countries,Get Outdoors!