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Camping and Fire Building
- Boy Scouts of America®
- Camping Merit Badge Requirements
Note: Requirements 7B, 8D, 9A, 9B and 9C must be completed before coming to camp! - Firem'n Chit Requirements
- Fuels and Fire Prevention
- Leave No Trace
- Outdoor Code
- Trek Safely
- Winter Activities Safety
- Camping Merit Badge Requirements
- American Red Cross: First Aid, CPR and AED Courses
- Guide to Winter Camping
Maintained by the Outdoor Action club of Princeton University. - US Scouting Service Project
- Camping and Hiking in Black Bear Country
Important safety tips from The American Bear Association. Black bears have been seen in the greater Yawgoog area. - GPS Resources
(see GeoScouting®, below)
Geocaching
- Boy Scouts of America®
- Camping and Hiking in Black Bear Country
Important safety tips from The American Bear Association. Black bears have been seen in the greater Yawgoog area. - Major Manufacturers of GPS Receivers
The software (firmware) in the receiver can be updated!- Garmin® Ltd: What is GPS? | Software Updates
- Lowrance® Electronics Inc: What is GPS? | Software Updates
- Magellan®: Software Updates
- Geocaching.com
Commercial site that offers an introduction to geocaching and a database of caches people have hidden. The Patch Trader Geocache is listed in Geocaching.com.- A discussion on maintenance of Scouting-related geocaches.
- Abandoned? geocaches in Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.
- Bad Ideas
Cautionary tales of geocaches placed without landowner permission or careful thought about location (bomb scares, etc.). - Scouting Geocaches
Geocaches in southern New England created by Scouts or Scouters, or caches that may be of interest to them. Map. - Narragansett Trail
Selected geocaches on the Narragansett Trail, which starts at Lantern Hill in North Stonington, Connecticut, and ends at Ashville Pond in the village of Canonchet in Hopkinton, Rhode Island. The trail overlaps parts of Yawgoog's Blue, Yellow and Red trails. - Tippecansett Trail
Selected geocaches on the Tippecansett Trail, which runs from Stepstone Falls in West Greenwich to Yawgoog on the Rhode Island/Connecticut border. - Breakheart Trail
Caches on or near the Breakheart Trail in the Arcadia Wildlife Management Area in Rhode Island. - Blue Hills Skyline Trail
Caches on or very near the blue-blazed Skyline Trail in the Blue Hills Reservation in Massachusetts. - Cross Fells Trail
Caches on or very near the blue-blazed Cross Fells Trail in the Middlesex Fells Reservation in Massachusetts. - Middlesex Fells Skyline Trail
Caches on or very near the white-blazed Skyline Trail in the Middlesex Fells Reservation in Massachusetts.
- Navicache
Non-commercial site that lists geocaches around the world. - Buxley's Geocaching Waypoint
Non-commercial site that lists geocaches from the sites mentioned above and others. Maintained by Ed Hall, keeper of the online U.S. National Debt Clock. - GPS Waypoints for Yawgoog
Waypoints for Yawgoog's trails. Includes Long and Ell Ponds, as well as the Green Fall Pond area. (The Story of the Yawgoog Trails) - EasyGPS
Free Windows software that lets users create, edit, and transfer waypoints and routes between their computers and many GPS receivers. Provides full support for the GPS eXchange (GPX) format. (TopoGrafix) - More software packages that can be used to create maps and/or manage GPS data; version numbers are those that support the GPX format.
DeLorme Topo USA Version 6.0 and later Des Newman's OziExplorer Version 3.95.4j and later Des Newman's OziExplorerCE Version 2.03a and later Doug Cox's USAPhotoMaps (free) Version 2.07.3 and later Garmin MapSource Version 6.5 and later Google Earth (free) Version 4.0.2694 and later James Associates MacGPS Pro Version 5.0.0 and later Magellan MapSend Lite (free) Version 2.0 and later MyTopo Terrain Navigator Version 7.0.3a and later MyTopo Terrain Navigator Pro Version 8.51 and later National Geographic TOPO! Version 4.2.2 and later National Geographic TOPO! Explorer All versions Northport Systems Fugawi Version 4.0.12 and later RouteBuddy Version 1.1.1 and later TopoFusion All versions TopoGrafix ExpertGPS All versions - GPSBabel
Free software by Robert Lipe and other contributors that converts various GPS data files into other formats. Supports the GPS eXchange (GPX) format. - Geographic Information System (GIS) Data
States offer free GIS data, in "shapefiles," that can be added to maps with some of the packages mentioned above. Data include park boundaries, areas of critical environmental concern, recreational resources, etc.- Connecticut Geospatial Information Systems Council
- Massachusetts Geographic Information System
- New Jersey Geographic Information Network
- New York State Geographic Information Systems Clearinghouse
- Rhode Island Geographic Information System
- DNR Garmin
This free Windows utility, provided by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, can convert shapefiles to GPX files. It cannot process very large files, but MapWindow GIS, mentioned below, can be used to edit shapefiles into smaller files. A Garmin GPS receiver is NOT needed for file conversion. - MapWindow GIS
A free GIS package for Windows. At this writing, it does not support GPX files.
Note: Before downloading any software from the Internet, please make sure your computer's antivirus software is up-to-date. - Letterboxing North America
An activity similar to geocaching is "letterboxing" (also called "questing"). This is where a container is hidden and clues for finding it are posted; GPS may or may not be involved. The container includes a logbook, a rubber stamp, and, perhaps, other goodies. The finder carries his/her own personal rubber stamp and an ink pad. The finder stamps the letterbox logbook with his/her stamp; the finder also stamps his/her personal logbook with the stamp from the letterbox. The Pachaug State Forest and the Long and Ell Ponds area also appear to be popular places for letterboxes. - Note: Geocaches and letterboxes should only be placed in Yawgoog property by official campers and only for the benefit of official campers. Campers who place geocaches and/or letterboxes must remove them prior to leaving camp. The general public is not allowed to place or locate geocaches or letterboxes in Yawgoog.
- EarthCache
An Earthcache is a special place that people can visit to learn about a unique geoscience feature or aspect of our Earth. Earthcaches include a set of educational notes and the details about where to find the location. - GeoScouting.com
Resources for geocaching in Scouting, including the Cache to Eagle program. Maintained by Mary E. Stevens. - Geocaching to Promote Scouting
A supplemental training module from the Boy Scouts of America®. - GPSgames.org
Information about competitive games that use GPS. - Global Positioning System Drawing Project
GPS as an art form! - Degree Confluence Project
The project's goal is to collect images taken at every latitude and longitude integer degree intersection around the world (i.e., 42°N 70°W, 42°N 71°W, etc.). - GPS Activities
Compiled by the Virginia Cooperative Extension. - Trimble® Planning Software
Free software for advanced GPS users that displays satellite availability and estimated error for a given location and time. Trimble®, a manufacturer of professional GPS equipment, provides a satellite almanac/ephemeris file; the US Coast Guard Navigation Center also offers almanac files.
Note: Before downloading any software from the Internet, please make sure your computer's antivirus software is up-to-date.
Orienteering
- Orienteering Merit Badge Requirements
Boy Scouts of America® - Camping and Hiking in Black Bear Country
Important safety tips from The American Bear Association. Black bears have been seen in the greater Yawgoog area. - Topographic Map Symbols (also as PDF, 2.2 megabytes)
Introduction to topographic maps and symbols. (US Geological Survey) - Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
A searchable database of named geographic features found on topographic maps. (US Geological Survey) - Maps of Yawgoog Area
(The Story of the Yawgoog Trails) - Topographic Map: Voluntown Quadrangle (2.4 megabytes)
The entire 1:24,000-scale quadrangle, which includes the Yawgoog area, can be downloaded. Image editing software can be used to crop and print the map. The map is a zipped TIF file. (Rhode Island Geographic Information System - RIGIS) - Microsoft Research Maps
Free topographic maps and aerial photographs of any location in the USA, in various scales and sizes. - Magnetic Declination Estimator
A calculator for magnetic declination around the world, covering the years 1900-2005. Provided by the National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). To use the calculator, the latitude, longitude and altitude of the location must be entered. A ZIP code locator in the calculator can find the approximate latitude and longitude. Coordinates can also be found for a given street address at MyGeoPosition.com. Please note that declination values on topographic maps may be decades old. As of 2002, magnetic north is 15 degrees west of true north in the Yawgoog area. - International Orienteering Federation (IOF)
International organization that promotes and sets rules for orienteering competitions. Offers information on control description symbols. - US Orienteering Federation (USOF)
A non-profit organization that promotes the sport of orienteering. - New England Orienteering Club (NEOC)
Promotes the sport of orienteering, develops suitable maps and hosts competitions. - New England Scout-O
Information on orienteering events for Scouts. - ScoutOrienteering.com
A site devoted to orienteering in Scouting; maintained by Jeff Scott. - US Scouting Service Project: Orienteering
A list of online resources.
