The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) "Cache to Eagle" series is a National program to highlight past Eagle Scout projects. In addition to all of the typical Scout skills you would expect a Scout to have, an Eagle Scout has to do quite a bit more to earn their rank. This includes:
Earning 21 Merit Badges - 13 required ones and then another 8 from areas that interest the Scout. The required ones are: First Aid, Citizenship in the Community, Citizenship in the Nation, Citizenship in the World, Communication, Cooking, Personal Fitness, Emergency Preparedness or Lifesaving, Environmental Science or Sustainability, Personal Management, Swimming or Hiking or Cycling, Camping and Family Life.
Actively serve in a leadership position for 6 months.
Perform a service project: "While a Life Scout, plan, develop, and give leadership to others in a service project helpful to any religious institution, any school, or your community. (The project should benefit an organization other than Boy Scouting.) The project proposal must be approved by the organization benefiting from the effort, your unit leader and unit committee, and the council or district before you start".
The first stop for this Geocache is a sign at Hopkins Pond in Haddonfield. This stop highlights a project from a local Scout, who put up markers here and did trail improvement here.
The cache is located at N 39° 54.ABC W 075° 01.DEF
In order to find the cache, you must find the following information from the marker
A = second digit of Scout Troop, minus 1.
B = Number of Bs in the Scout’s first and last name combined.
C = Last digit in the year Haddonfield voted to approve a bond to buy and improve this park.
D = first digit of Scout Troop number
E = number of letter Qs in Scout’s first and last name combined.
F =third digit in year that Camden County Parks purchased the property to form the first park in the county park system
Checksum ABC = 9 & DEF = 8
The coordinates will take you to a spot in the park where you are looking for a small tupperware container.
Dawn to dusk only.