Magellan launches UK's largest Geocaching contest

By LFTO News Team

Events

16 September 2011 09:30

This month GPS company Magellan launched the UK’s biggest ever geocaching competition, in association with the Boys’ Brigade and the Woodland Trust’s VisitWoods project.

If you’re unfamiliar with the term, geocaching is a high-tech, 21st century “treasure hunt” game where adventure seekers use GPS technology to hide and find physical objects anywhere in the world. Players download and follow clues and coordinates to find the hidden items (of which there are now over a million worldwide).

Magellan’s competition has seen volunteers from the Boys’ Brigade hide hundreds of caches in Woodland Trust woods throughout the country, with over £30,000 worth of prizes to be won. Users of Magellan’s eXplorist GC device can log into www.exploristgctreasurehunt.com and download clues to the cache they want to try and find.

The prize fund includes:

     ·5 x Ironhorse Mountain Bikes

     ·5 x Toshiba BW10 camcorders

     ·1 x family adventure holiday for four to Andorra

     ·5 x two nights stay for two people in any UK Holiday Inn

     ·5 x Coleman Seryler Colerados Kayaks         

     ·20 x Coleman Northstar Lanterns

     ·Plus many more…

See www.exploristgctreasurehunt.com for the full list of prizes, plus terms and conditions for entry.