Father’s Day, unlike Mother’s Day, seems to arrive as a surprise every year. The third Sunday in June is often buried beneath the last week of school preparations and looking forward to summer. This year, however, Father’s Day falls on the gateway to Calgary’s best season for learning how to geocache. Here are 5 great reasons to get yourself, your Dad, your husband or your Granddad involved in Geocaching now:
1. Guys like gadgets. A handheld GPS is the ultimate useful electronic device, a great starting point for geocaching and easy to put a bow around.
2. Guys like to adventure. Geocaching will bring out the Boy Scout in him. Or the pirate.
3. Guys need to be walked. Geocaching is a great way to get off the couch and out into nature. The best part is caching doesn’t seem like exercise.
4. Guys love to be with their family. Geocaching brings families together, no matter the ages, to go on a quest and strive toward a common goal.
5. Guys like to get things done. Finding a cache or list of caches satisfies the need for completion and strengthens a sense of self or group accomplishment. Simply put, geocaching makes a guy feel good.
Here’s the bonus gift, free for getting started: your favourite father has all sorts of resources available to him online, including this column. Get him subscribed today for tips on starting out, for deciphering the terminology or for the coveted “Cache of the Week.”
Have a Happy Father’s Day!
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