ACVB, students create geocache trek around anchorage.Anchorage Convention & Visitors Bureau and Central Middle School have developed a geocaching Geocaching is an outdoor treasure-hunting game in which the participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers (called "geocaches" or "caches") anywhere in the world. adventure to explore city landmarks. Geocaching Journeys combines global positioning systems technology with riddles, puzzles, geography and sleuthing skills to provide a citywide trek for individuals or families. Geocaching involves hunting for a location using GPS coordinates. Participants log their find on www.geocaching. com, the certified Web site for geocaching. ACVB's Geocaching Journeys has three geocache locations in the Anchorage area: Anchorage Big Wild Life, Trailbreaker trail·break·er n. A trailblazer. and Icebreaker icebreaker, ship of special hull design and wide beam, with relatively flat bottom, designed to force its way through ice. When the icebreaker charges into the ice at full speed, its sharply inclined bow, meeting the edge of the ice, rises upon it, and the weight of . Central Middle School of Science's Landmark Program helped name the sites, developed the brochure and helped train ACVB ACVB Atlanta Convention & Visitors Bureau (Atlanta, Georgia) ACVB Anchorage Convention and Visitors Bureau ACVB American College of Veterinary Behaviorists ACVB Albuquerque Convention and Visitors Bureau staff on the activity of geocaching. A geocaching brochure is available at ACVB Visitor Information Centers. ACVB also developed a special Web site, www.Anchorage.net/geo. |
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