GPS, Navigation & Geocaching Open Day

at Mungrisdale Village Hall

The Open day was so sucessful we plan to run another in October 2012

Learn how to stay safe in the hills by improving your map, compass & GPS skills at our free workshops

Find out how you and your whole family can get involved in the growing sport of Geocaching (GPS treasure hunt)

Half Term GPS fun for all the family

GPST have got together with our friends at Walkingworld, Kirkby Stephen Mountain Rescue Team and Shepherds Walks (Jane Monks is a specialist in Nordic Walking) to put together an Open Day at Mungrisdale Village Hall on the first Saturday of the half term holidays in October. There will be a full day of free activities and workshops with refreshments provided.

Its your chance to meet the GPST Team, get hands on with the new Garmin GPS ranges Montana & eTrex on one of our Garmin GPS workshops, try them out on the hill on our Chirp Geotrail (a series of linked chirp geocaches), find out how you can become involved in the growing sport of geocaching with the help of opencaching and learn how you can use your OS Discoverer mapping & BaseCamp to plan routes & trails and send them to your Garmin GPS - more information & booking

David Stewart of Walkingworld is a member of Kirkby Stephen Mountain Rescue Team and has arranged for some team members to come along and run a few Map Reading & Compass Skills workshops on the day. The workshops are free but we are asking for a small donation to team funds; in addition you could add to your map & compass skills on a Hillwalking skills course on the following day Sunday the 23rd October meaning you can undertake a very comprehensive series of courses over 2 days for minimal cost - more information & booking

Chris & Dave will be there and will be making available several local walks for you to sample to download the walks visit this page on the Walkingworld website we recommend that you download any walks you wish to do before the event. Use this link to go to the download page on the Walkingworld website (Download link will be added nearer the event)

Our friends Jon & Jane Monks of Shepherds Walks will be attending and running Nordic Walking taster sessions with six workshops arranged over the day - to book onto one of the taster sessions or to get more information & booking use these links. Jon will also be on hand to give advice on their guided walking holidays & Capricorn socks.

  

We hope you'll come along and join us; as well as the workshops and activities there will be a welcome drink (tea, coffee or soft drinks and a biscuit) and the opportunity to chat to the GPST Team and get hands-on with GPS & Geocaching on our Chirp multi-cache geotrail.

Chirp is a wireless geocaching beacon; to take part in the Chirp multi-cache geotrail you will need one of the new generation of wireless friendly Garmin GPS (New etrex 30, Dakota 20, Oregon, GPSMap62 or Montana ranges) - bring your own or loan one of ours on the day.

We will give you the co-ordinates for the first geocache in the trail; when you arrive at the first cache location you will be able to download the next cache in the trail wirelessly and so on until you've completed the trail.

Download A4 PDF file of event activities

Find out more about the workshops on offer

Book your places on any of our free workshops

 

You needn't go hungry either; as right opposite the village hall is one of the nicest pubs in the Lakes serving great food & beer!! Why not make a day of it and drop in to the Mill Inn for lunch or an evening meal.

Doors open at 9am - we look forward to seeing you there!!

Need a Geocaching deal on any of the current ranges of GPS then call Peter on 01768 885855 today!!