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 The
vision we have for Off The Beaten Path is a family friendly, kid friendly
site that promotes interest in outdoor activities, curiosity about the
world around us and lifelong learning. We'd like to think we have the
market cornered on all that but we know we don't. There are lots of other
sources, sites and writers that have similar ideas. Geocaching has
exploded in popularity over the last several years. In addition to
family recreation, it's being used by schools, businesses, parks,
festivals and a host of other entities because it draws people and is a
good outdoor activity. You see this in the news a lot. Then there is the
human interest side, such as a recent article about two lost hikers on
Mount Hood who were saved because they stumbled upon a geocache and got
the latitude and longitude from it. Geocaching leads to other activities
and challenges like orienteering, letterboxing, hiking, biking and
history. There's also all kinds of GPS games out there such as
Geodashing and Whereigo. We started GeoNews to pull in news articles from
around the world that talk about all this - just the good ones that we
think our readers might like. We keep them on topic, proof read them
carefully to ensure high standards and give attribution to the source. We
may add some comments of our own, which will appear in
bold red. We may also add some imagery from
our archive.We're constantly looking for new stuff. If you have something that would be good here, feel free to drop us a line. If you want to see our latest adventures, check out the Cachemanian Devils blog. We write something every time we go out or something of interest pops up. In the meantime, we hope you find something useful, helpful or interesting on our website.
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