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Who, What, Where & how Around the Parks

Geocachers show off their finds in Arlington and Crystal Lake.

to an Arlington park cleanup, where they
picked up more than four truckloads of
trash.
Though CITO events have been going on since 2002, parks are devising
ways to keep the events new and interesting. In one CITO variation, cachers
in Crystal Lake Park District in Crystal
Lake, Illinois, helped pick up trash and
clear invasive brush for a couple of hours
in exchange for a two-hour head-start on
newly released cached coordinates-before they were made public-for a better

chance to be " first to find. "
Geocoins were the reward for a Crystal Lake passport program, where participants solved puzzles or figured out clues
to find 8 of 12 caches. Those who collected eight stickers (created to be unique to
each cache) received one of 150 minted
geocoins: metal, wood, or clay coins the
size of a quarter that bear a unique code,
which can be tracked on the website Geocaching.com. Unlike a pathtag-which is
meant to be collectible-geocoins can
be logged online before being sent out

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on a cache-to-cache journey. Then, when
another geocacher finds the geocoin, he
or she can enter the coin's tracking number and where they moved it to-thus a
coin could be tracked around the world,
explains John Fiorina, manager of natural resources at Crystal Lake Park District. This year, Crystal Lake is having
250 geocoins minted with a special color
logo to celebrate the park district's 90 th
anniversary.
Crystal Lake also loans out GPS units
for free. Cub and Girl Scout groups have
been especially interested in borrowing
the GPS units, Fiorina says. Parks can also
explore new geocaching possibilities by
partnering with local geocachers, visitors' bureaus, and businesses which can
offer coupons and other freebies to add
to caches.
Another trend is for park caches to
have themes-cultural or natural history-based caches, for instance, may have
interesting facts online about natural features or historical sites near the cache.
Partner with a local geocaching group
to place new caches in areas where you
want to draw hikers.
" If the caches are listed on our website [Geocaching.com], they'll get a ton
of people, " says Jen Sonstelie, marketing
manager at Groundspeak, which runs
Geocaching.com.
Geocachers themselves are evolving -no longer must a hiker have a pricy
GPS system in hand. Tech-savvy individuals are now using GPS apps on their mobile phones to geocache, Sonstelie says.
Such apps are available for Windows
Phone 7, Androids, and iPhones. " That
way, you can search for caches, navigate
and log them-all from your phone, " says
Sonstelie. " It's made geocaching more
accessible. " 



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