GC5RKRB 15th Anniversary of Geocaching - Jeppis Edition (Event Cache) in Finland created by ipoded

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15th Anniversary of Geocaching - Jeppis Edition

On the 3rd of May 2000, Dave Ulmer placed a bucket in the woods of Oregon, The bucket contained a number items including: a logbook and pencil, videos, books, software, a slingshot, and a can of beans (often refered to as the OCB - "original can of beans"). He recorded a gps position for his stash (waypoint) and shared the position with the online community at sci.geo.satellite-nav, inviting readers to go and find his stash. Whilst originally called "Great American GPS Stash Hunt", it was the birth of what we now know as Geocaching.

The finder would then have to locate the container with only the use of his or her GPS receiver. The rules for the finder were simple: "Take some stuff, leave some stuff."

Within three days, two different readers read about his stash on the Internet, used their own GPS receivers to find the container, and shared their experiences online. Throughout the next week, others excited by the prospect of hiding and finding stashes began hiding their own containers and posting coordinates. Like many new and innovative ideas on the Internet, the concept spread quickly - but this one required leaving your computer to participate.

Within the first month, Mike Teague, the first person to find Ulmer's stash, began gathering the online posts of coordinates around the world and documenting them on his personal home page. The "GPS Stash Hunt" mailing list was created to discuss the emerging activity. Names were even tossed about to replace the name "stash" due to the negative connotations of that name. One such name was "Geocaching."

The event is held between 18:00-19:00 at the designated coordinates.