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Article #20: Awesome Ways To Get Outdoors!

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






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