Celebrate Great Outdoors Month
What better way to celebrate Great Outdoors Month than to geocache at a new park or even a familiar park. In recognition of the high value people place on outdoor recreation, Great Outdoors Month was declared by Presidential designation in 2004.
As geocachers, we have a unique relationship to the outdoors. We often find ourselves in the places that no one wants to go. We’re rooting around old tree stumps and forest debris. Before you got into geocaching, did you ever think that you would look fondly upon an old dead tree? Or that you won’t mind trashing through brambles, poison ivy, tick-infested woodlands all to find a tupperware box? No, we geocachers see beauty with a unique set of eyes.
This month, let’s celebrate the outdoors that has given us a new and exciting form of recreation. Let’s celebrate all the great parks that give us such wonderful hiding places. Let’s celebrate the muggles in the parks that add that extra bit of excitement to placing and finding a cache. Certainly, let’s make it a point to do at least one CITO cache this month.
Photo by axel-d
Thanks for the reminder.
June 5th, 2009 at 7:34 am