Treasure Hunt!!

Everybody mark your calendars for Saturday, May 14!!  We will be holding a geocaching treasure hunt pack meeting all over West Brookfield!  We will start at 3pm with an instructional session on how to use the equipment and even try a few practice finds around the common.   What is geocaching, you ask?  Geocaching is essentially a treasure hunt, but you use a handhld GPS device and a set of longitude/latitude coordinates to lead you to the treasure, or cache (typically a type of Tuppeware container).  We will be hiding some caches around the town and giving every group a GPS to use to find these caches.  Each cache will contain some surprises, but also a puzzle piece.  Once you collect all the puzzle pieces, you'll have the very last, very special, set of coordinates where a very secret prize awaits!  Parents will be very much needed for this event, as we will need adults to drive the boys from one location to the next.  Trust us when we say that geocaching is addictive and SO MUCH FUN!!

We are asking that boys wear their pack 118 t-shirts (the new ones, preferably) and their hat.  While hiding the caches, we found that the ticks are already horrible this year (we pulled off 6 total) so bug spray will be necessary, as will sunblock (because we all know it will be hot and sunny that day--at least that's what we're hoping for!)  Feel free to bring bottles of water and small snacks, as we're not really sure how long this event will last.  

If you'd like more information about geocaching, feel free to visit www.geocaching.com.  For those families wishing to do so, there are tons of geocaching GPS apps that you can download to your phone if you want to help with the search.  However, we are asking that the kids be able to do most of the navigating.