Once a month, the youth leaders get together for a Patrol Leadership Council meeting where they plan troop meetings and camping trips for the upcoming month. The theme for this month was geocaching. A couple of the scouts volunteered to run demos to explain geocaching. The scouts learned the background on geocaching, fun facts about geocaching, available geocaching apps, guidelines for geocaching, and how to create and register your own geocache. The troop picked a weekend to go out into the field to apply what was learned in the troop meetings.
We met at Lawton Farm and broke up into groups to adhere to the social distancing guidelines. The troop found three geocaches and placed four Troop 8 sponsored geocaches. The geocaches the troop placed are named: Twin Trees, Rock Family, The Fishing Hole, and Rocky Road. For geocaches to be registered, they have to be approved before they are published. The geocaches are currently pending approval. Once approved, links will be provided.
For those who participated, Geocaching was a great opportunity to get up and outside, get in a short hike, and at the same time put into action what we learned about geocaching.
Troop 8 Cranston, RI 