Magellan GPS and Sports Chalet to Sponsor Cache In Trash Out Event to Clean Up the Environment

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Magellan GPS and Sports Chalet to Sponsor Cache In Trash Out Event to Clean Up the Environment

Pink's Famous Hot Dogs!!! - Will Be Catering The Event

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 16 -- Magellan GPS and Sports Chalet announce a Cache In Trash Out (CITO) event. CITO is an ongoing environmental initiative supported by the global geocaching community dedicated to cleaning up parks and other cache-friendly places around the world to help preserve the natural beauty of our outdoor resources.

Magellan GPS and Sports Chalet will host a Cache In Trash Out (CITO) event at Griffith Park in Los Angeles on Saturday, August 21, 2010. The CITO event, hosted in cooperation with the Sports Chalet, challenges people to a geocaching adventure in addition to cleaning up litter throughout the world famous park. Come prepared with your own GPS device or borrow a new eXplorist GC product that Magellan will have on hand.

The family friendly event in Los Angeles will include geocaching competitions, free Pink's Hot Dogs, and prize giveaways.

  The Official Magellan and Sports Chalet GPS Cache In Trash Out Event
  --  Saturday, August 21 from 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.
  --  People can sign-up to participate on the day of the event
  --  GPS coordinates 34 degrees 07' 00.10" N   118 degrees 18' 27.21" W
      Located near the parking lot next to the Fern Dell entrance near
      picnic tables
  --  The person who collects the most trash will win a prize

  RSVP: cito@magellangps.com

Magellan GPS will showcase the recently launched eXplorist GC at the event. eXplorist GC is the first dedicated GPS device for geocaching that includes out-of-the-box paperless geocaching, pre-loaded with the most popular geocaches in the world, a brilliant color screen, rich graphics and an easy to use interface all packed into a rugged and waterproof device that connects seamlessly to http://www.geocaching.com/.

  For more information visit http://magellangps.com/ or http://geocaching.com/

  About MiTAC Digital Corporation

MiTAC Digital Corp. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of MiTAC International Corporation and promotes and sells products and services under the Magellan brand name. Magellan assists people to travel, work and play with leading portable navigation and positioning solutions across multiple consumer markets. Recognized as an industry innovator, the company is the producer of the award-winning Magellan RoadMate, and Maestro(TM) series portable car navigation, Outdoor and Mobile navigation devices. MiTAC Digital Corp. is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. For more information on Magellan, visit http://www.magellangps.com/.

© 2010 MiTAC International Corporation. The Magellan logo, Magellan, and eXplorist are registered trademarks of MiTAC International Corporation and are used under license by MiTAC Digital Corporation. All rights reserved.

  CONTACT:
  Raphel Finelli
  Magellan GPS
  408-250-1778
  rfinelli@magellangps.com

Source: Magellan GPS
   

CONTACT:  Raphel Finelli of Magellan GPS, +1-408-250-1778,
rfinelli@magellangps.com

Web Site:  http://www.magellangps.com/
http://www.geocaching.com/

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