How it all started.... Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

Skookum Bear: As the cache owner has not indicated that they have visited the cache location to replace it if it was missing, perform needed maintenance, or verify that it is still there within a reasonable amount of time, I am regretfully archiving the cache to clear it from the active cache database and open the area to new caching opportunities. If the cache owner would like to replace a cache at this location, please submit a new geocache listing and it will be reviewed under the current Geocaching guidelines.

Please do not respond to this note by sending an email reply - your response will go to an unmonitored location and disappear into the ether instead of being sent to me. If you need to contact me regarding this cache, please do so using the link on my Profile Page

Thank you for your contribution to geocaching.

Skookum Bear
Community Volunteer Reviewer

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Hidden : 1/30/2007
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

This cache is to tell new and old cachers about how Geocaching came to be.
This cache is being placed in conjunction with the ABC's of Geocaching Event January 2007 which was held in the nearby restaurant- strange place for a cache- YES - but great place for a Geocaching event.

In the beginning (Taken from an Idiots Guide to Geocaching)

On May 2, 2000, at approximately midnight, EST 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.

Now, said the White House, anyone could "precisely pinpoint their location or the location of items (such as game) left behind for later recovery."
How right they were."
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 Beaver Creek, 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.

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" (soon to be called, Geocaching) mailing list was created.
Soon after a web developer named Jeremy Irish found his first cache and was hooked. He worked together with Mike Teague's to create Geocaching.com !

There is much more to the story.... but this is the beginning. Go to Geocaching.com for the whole story !

There is very little room in the log book so please just sign your name and date. When you log this cache as a find, please give a quick description of how you started Geocaching !

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

abg "UNEQ" gb svaq. Ybbx haqre n ohfu.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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