Written by Moe Nightwalker  Print this Topics: Competition, GPS
Monday, 14 October 2013  image for Chaos and a surprise winner
at 2013 GeoCache competition  This year's International GeoCache
competition was headed toward the most successful ever until the
US government shutdown took out the GPS satellites, leaving a
91-year-old WWII veteran as the winner.  Geocaching is a growing
sport where participants use a GPS to guide them to a location
of a container or cache. Inside the container is a logbook to
enter the participant's name and date of discovery. "Usually
anybody can do it. Just turn on your GPS and follow the
directions," explains Fred Brain. "That's one of the joys of the
sport -- it's really easy."  The largest international
competition started this weekend but was immediately sent into
chaos when organizers realized that the US government shutdown
also stopped all GPS satellite transmissions. Some participants
tried using Google maps but as they zoomed in, they received the
"no data" message. App