When: Sunday, May 3rd from 1:00–2:30 PM.
What: All geocachers are invited to come eat and meet with other local geocachers, regardless of where you live or how much geocaching experience you have. There is no membership, and you aren't required to purchase food or beverage from the venue.
Please log your visit with Will Attend as soon as you can and include how many people will be coming with you so that the host and restaurant can be prepared to accommodate our group.
About NMAC: With a large number of geocachers between I-20 and I-75, the Northwest Metro Atlanta Cachers moniker was created to bring these cachers together! We host "Eat & Greet" dinners on the second Thursday of every month and will occasionally have informative meetings, CITO events, flash mob events and other group events. The goal is to get to know the other geocachers in our community and have a good time fellowshipping with each other. Finally put faces with the names you keep seeing in the logs!
Visit the Northwest Metro Atlanta Cachers profile page and join our Facebook group to stay updated on upcoming NMAC events as well as make suggestions.
Where: Fuddrucker's, Kennesaw.
On May 2, 2000, at approximately midnight, eastern daylight savings time, the great blue switch* controlling selective availability was pressed. Twenty-four satellites around the globe processed their new orders, and instantly the accuracy of GPS technology improved tenfold. Tens of thousands of GPS receivers around the world had an instant upgrade.
For GPS enthusiasts, this was definitely a cause for celebration. Internet newsgroups suddenly teemed with ideas about how the technology could be used.
On May 3, one such enthusiast, Dave Ulmer, a computer consultant, wanted to test the accuracy by hiding a navigational target in the woods. He called the idea the "Great American GPS Stash Hunt" and posted it in an internet GPS users' group. The idea was simple: Hide a container out in the woods and note the coordinates with a GPS unit.
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."
On May 3rd he placed his own container, a black bucket, in the woods near Beavercreek, Oregon, near Portland. Along with a logbook and pencil, he left various prize items including videos, books, software, and a slingshot. He shared the waypoint of his "stash" with the online community and geocaching was born.
This event will be at Fuddrucker's in Kennesaw from 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm.
What better day to gather together and talk about each of our adventures from the last year and set goals for the next?
*a blue switch really doesn't exist—but it sounds cool...