Everything old is new again…

I’m told that GeoCaching.com has re-introduced a previously-suspended cache type — the EarthCache.

So, what’s all the fuss? Well, this type of cache aligns with one of the reas­ons many of us use to help con­vince non-cachers of the cred­ib­il­ity of our activity…it’s educational:

Earth­caches are developed by geocach­ers, geo­lo­gist, pale­on­to­lo­gist, or people that have an inter­est­ing and unique earth fea­ture near them and would like to share it with the world. All you need to get star­ted is a GPS receiver and a good idea.

To develop your own Earth­cache and share it’s edu­ca­tional value with oth­ers, fol­low the simple Earth­cache guidelines and sub­mit the GSA Earth­cache Sub­mit­tal Form for review and approval. Once your site had met the guidelines and is approved by GSA, you can view com­ments by people who have vis­ited your Earth­cache and benefited from it.

Curi­oi­usly, Earth­Caches are NOT lis­ted on GeoCaching.com’s Cache Type page…though if you do a keyword search you can pull up a listing.

Spe­cial cri­teria are used to eval­u­ate Earth­Cache submissions:

Because of the nature of Earth­caches, they go through a spe­cial approval pro­cess in where the lan­guage and appro­pri­ate­ness of the cache are tested by the Earth­cache team. The Team uses a set of guidelines as well as their own earth sci­ence exper­i­ence to ensure that the qual­ity of Earth­caches is main­tained. The Earth­cache team is also expand­ing to make sure that caches in lan­guages other than Eng­lish are not excluded from the project.

EarthCache.org’s cache list­ing page shows fewer caches…but has more detail as to the cre­ation and approval of qual­i­fy­ing caches. After parus­ing the list, it appears that some of these would be quite challenging…and fun!

Source: EarthCache.org, Today’s Cacher Art­icle
Tech­nor­ati Tags: GeoCach­ing, Out­door, Edu­ca­tion, Earth­Cache, Adven­ture

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