While visiting, remember to place your GPS unit on top of the
plaque for a moment or two in order to receive extended battery
life and super-accurate satellite reception! 
Our local maintainer notes that cachers occasionally place a new
cache container or log sheet if they can't find the one we placed
there. This is a bad idea and should not be done. Please do not
leave a new container. The real container is there and a slightly
longer search is simply in order.
On May 3, 2000, a five-gallon bucket was placed right at this
very spot by Dave Ulmer containing a Delorme Topo USA, 2 CD
Roms, a cassette recorder, a "George of the Jungle" VHS tape, a
Ross Perot book, 4 $1 bills, a slingshot handle and a pretty
notorious can of beans (now the O.C.B. trackable). The coordinates were then listed on the internet and modern-day
geocaching was born.
The first finder of that first cache was Mike Teague who took
the money and left some cigarettes, a cassette tape and a pen.
That original bucket was severely damaged by an Oregon road crew
mower and is no longer around. TEAM 360 and other concerned
geocachers recognized the importance of the event that happened
here and dedicate this Original Stash Tribute Plaque on behalf of
cachers everywhere.
You can read more about the history of geocaching.
We appreciate Lance Christensen and Port Blakely Tree Farms on whose land this cache is
located. We thank them for giving us their permission and
cooperation. Please continue to show respect to their property
while visiting.
Many thanks also go out to all the geocachers who made this
possible: Junglehair, DapperDanMan,
Moun10Bike, -=(GEO)=-, Bitbrain, Mzee & Associates, Ajetpilot,
RJFerret, Team DaSH, Badmojoe, Cacheola Crew, GrizzlyJohn,
Geospotter, Yumitori, Dalenis, Rothstafari, Spzzmoose, Team
GPSaxophone, CacheUsOut, Scoobie10, RomadPilot, Tsegi Mike and
Desert Viking, Makaio, and Crashmore. Let's not forget to
send out thanks to Dave Ulmer, inventor of geocaching!
We send continued thanks to sonorazark who lives in the area and is our
generous local geocaching maintainer for this cache.
We like seeing your photos. Please consider attaching some to
your online log. Thank you.
Happy Geocaching!
