Whopping 83.3% Choose All 15 Trails
Posted on July 28th, 2009 by Glenda
Categories: General, Nature, Sports
An initiative of the all-volunteer Friends of the Parks Foundation, the year-long FREE program is design to inspire residents and visitors to become involved and active in the outdoors, and features 15 sites within Polk County’s more than 125-mile trails system. All trails include approved geocaches which can be located with or without a GPS unit. Instructions for all hikes, including walking directions for finding cache hides, are posted on the Friends of the Parks website and available for downloading at www.friendsoftheparks.net. Each geocache includes a self-inking stamp which trekkers use to validate their hike.
Trekkers are encouraged to set-up a free profile account at www.geocaching.com for logging hiking experiences and posting photos. Logs are shared with program administrators who monitor postings for an update on the condition of each cache. Volunteers re-stock with trinkets or logbooks as needed, or occasionally replace a cache “gone missing” or destroyed by a control burn.
Logs also give organizers a look at how many trekkers are just beginning or nearing the finish line.
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An initiative of the all-volunteer Friends of the Parks Foundation, the year-long FREE program is design to inspire residents and visitors to become involved and active in the outdoors, and features 15 sites within Polk County’s more than 125-mile trails system. All trails include approved geocaches which can be located with or without a GPS unit. Instructions for all hikes, including walking directions for finding cache hides, are posted on the Friends of the Parks website and available for downloading at www.friendsoftheparks.net. Each geocache includes a self-inking stamp which trekkers use to validate their hike.
Trekkers are encouraged to set-up a free profile account at www.geocaching.com for logging hiking experiences and posting photos. Logs are shared with program administrators who monitor postings for an update on the condition of each cache. Volunteers re-stock with trinkets or logbooks as needed, or occasionally replace a cache “gone missing” or destroyed by a control burn.
Logs also give organizers a look at how many trekkers are just beginning or nearing the finish line.
“Log Date: 7/27/2009 skipanator found Bok Bonus Trek - YEAH!! Finally our last stamp. Thank you for introducing us tot his most awesome, adventurous, challenging past time. Gathering each and every stamp took us to new places, even for us native Polk County’ns. We had a great time and met some great people along the way. Can’t wait for TTT 2010!!!!”
If you’re not trekking, it’s not too late. Official Validation Game Cards are still available – online, at Polk Outpost 27, and most Polk County public libraries. Validated game cards must be received by October 5 to be eligible for prize drawing
