Finding Treasure in the Mountains with Garmin® and OpenCaching.com

Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN), the global leader in satellite navigation, today announced its role as official GPS partner of the 2011 Teva Mountain Games, where fans and families are invited to search for hidden treasure June 3-5 with Vail, Colorado, as a beautiful backdrop. Anyone in attendance at the Games is welcome to join Garmin and OpenCaching.com for three days of geocaching, a free event that is fun for the whole family and combines exploration, education, entertainment and recreation.

“Partnering with Teva Mountain Games provides the perfect platform and audience to showcase Garmin’s outdoor and fitness products and OpenCaching.com in an exhilarating, interactive environment,” said Dan Bartel, Garmin’s vice president of worldwide sales. “The endurance athletes, outdoor enthusiasts, adventurous fans and active families who congregate for this unrivaled event personify the Garmin lifestyle.”

Throughout the day – whenever there’s a break in your schedule – you can stop by the Garmin booth in Gear Town to learn how to geocache, see Garmin’s newest outdoor handheld and fitness GPS devices and even borrow Garmin units to find geocaches around the Teva Mountain Games. If you have your own Garmin handheld, just stop by the Garmin booth to get the coordinates for the various caches, specifically created for cachers of various ages and experience levels. Whether you’re sneaking in some fun amid an action-packed afternoon or leisurely finding caches throughout the day, you’re sure to discover a unique way to enjoy the great outdoors. And you’ll even have the chance to enter to win exciting prizes – including Garmin devices GPS devices, Princeton Tec Headlamps, First Ascent Jackets, Teva Gnarkosis Water Shoes, Nutcase Helmets and more!

Also, in the Teva Mountain Games’ Volvo 10K Spring Runoff presented by Garmin (8 a.m. Sunday, June 5), competitors can race for a cash purse against elite trail runners and top professionals in a course that features with constant elevation changes and mountainous terrain at almost 9,000 feet.

About geocaching

Geocaching is a globally popular, high-tech treasure hunt where participants of all ages explore the outdoors, hiding and finding containers of various shapes and sizes that are filled with collectables, trinkets and logbooks for signing in and letting fellow cachers know you were there. In 2010, Garmin announced the creation of OpenCaching.com, a completely free online community for creating, sharing and finding geocaches around the world. At OpenCaching.com – or using Garmin’s OpenCaching apps for iPhone® and Android™ – everyone can enjoy all of the caches and helpful information – the tips, descriptions, previous attempts, mass downloads, etc. – for free. Creating a cache consists of placing a container in a public area, saving the GPS coordinates and uploading them to a website. Finding a cache is as simple as searching the website and downloading those details to a GPS handheld.

SCHEDULE: Friday, June 3, 11am-5pm; Saturday, June 4, 9am-5pm; Sunday, June 5, 9am-5pm

All day: Borrow a Garmin and start caching
10 a.m. Geocaching 101
1 p.m. Geocaching 101
4 p.m. Winners announced for daily giveaways and Grand-prize drawings!!

About OpenCaching.com

The strength and evolution of OpenCaching.com are thanks to the vibrant geocaching community, from diehard cachers to families and classrooms trying it for the first time (for which there is an informative how-to guide included on the site). Everyone – regardless of experience or numbers of caches found or placed – is welcome to the same information and invited to get as involved as they want. OpenCaching.com will work with any device or software package that can read GPX files, regardless of manufacturer.

About Teva Mountain Games: June 2 – 5, 2011

The 10th annual Teva Mountain Games are the nation’s largest celebration of mountain sport, lifestyle and music featuring top professional and amateur athletes from around the world. The environmentally-friendly adventure sporting event hosts approximately 3,000 outdoor athletes, along with an estimated 40,000 spectators. Athletes converge on Vail’s mountains and rivers to compete in eight sports and 24 disciplines for over $100,000 in prize money. Events include kayaking, rafting, stand up paddling, mountain biking, road cycling, World Cup Bouldering, amateur climbing, fly-fishing, trail running and a half marathon. Additional events at the Teva Mountain Games include: a film series, Outdoor Reels; a photography competition, Mountain Click; an interactive expo area, Gear Town; DockDog canine competitions; free concerts at Mountains of Music and the Teva Mountain Ball. The Teva Mountain Games are a project of the Vail Valley Foundation. www.tevamountaingames.com / 888-883-VAIL(8245)/@TevaMtnGames

A legacy of innovation

Since geocaching first began, Garmin has embraced the role of innovator and leader. Garmin was the first company to offer open and closed treasure chest icons on the screen of the device. Garmin devices featured the first dedicated application with the “Geocaching compass,” and the direct “Send to GPS” function started with Garmin. In considering the environment – and ease of use – the industry leader introduced paperless geocaching for increased efficiency and decreased waste as users could see descriptions and helpful hints right on the screen of the device instead of relying on numerous printouts for each cache. Garmin’s chirp™ wireless beacon is the latest breakthrough in geocaching. Affordable, durable and waterproof, chirp can communicate with, and be programmed by, any compatible wireless-enabled Garmin handheld for a more interactive and enjoyable geocaching experience. Cache creators and seekers alike will enjoy the benefits as chirp stores hints, transmits multicache coordinates, counts visitors and confirms the cache is nearby.

Since its inception in 1989, Garmin has delivered 85 million GPS enabled devices – far more than any other navigation provider – making Garmin a household name in the automotive, aviation, marine, wireless, outdoor and fitness industries. For more about OpenCaching.com and geocaching, go to www.opencaching.com, www.garmin.com/geocache and http://twitter.com/OpenCache.

About Garmin International Inc.

The global leader in satellite navigation, Garmin Ltd. and its subsidiaries have designed, manufactured, marketed and sold navigation, communication and information devices and applications since 1989 – most of which are enabled by GPS technology. Garmin’s products serve automotive, mobile, wireless, outdoor recreation, marine, aviation, and OEM applications. Garmin Ltd. is incorporated in Switzerland, and its principal subsidiaries are located in the United States, Taiwan and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit Garmin's virtual pressroom at www.garmin.com/newsroom or contact the Media Relations department at 913-397-8200. Garmin is a registered trademark and chirp is a trademark of Garmin Ltd. or its subsidiaries.