Geocaching and Orienteering

Geocaching is a sport that consists of locating a box, or cache, with the help of a GPS (Geospatial Position System) unit, coordinates, and your own wilderness travelling skills. It can be as easy as finding a box under a log at the side of a path, or as hard as having to reach a cache hidden halfway up a rock face – it’s all about the experience you want to have. Geocaching is enjoyed all over the world by people every day, and is now an Adventure Sport program at ASCI with over 10 new caches for treasure hunters of all skill levels.

Orienteering is a family of sports that requires navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain, and normally moving at speed. Participants are given a topographical map, usually a specially prepared orienteering map, which they use to find control points. Originally a training exercise in land navigation for military officers, orienteering has developed many variations.