10 Years! Marathon, Ontario, Canada Community Celebration Event
The Marathon Man: Event has been over for several weeks - all attendees have registered their attendance - time to archive this event - I do not know who took the GC that is still registered in the event - I did send a message to everyone but noone know where it is (Sorry) - hopefully it will appear sometime in the future.
10 Years! Marathon, Ontario, Canada
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Sunday, May 2, 2010
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This is part of a global event to celebrate the 10th anniversary of geocaching!
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It all started on May 1st, 2000 when President Clinton announced that the scrambling of the satellite navigation system, known as Selective Availability (SA), would be turned off.
On May 2, 2000, at approximately midnight, eastern savings time, 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.
On May 3rd Dave Ulmer 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 on sci.geo.satellite-nav: N 45° 17.460 W 122° 24.800. The location of the original GPS stash now features a tribute plaque.
On May 30th, 2000 Matt Stum suggested the name geocaching which our great activity as been known by ever since.
Groundspeak has a page with more information about the history of geocaching.
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1st CACHE IN MARATHON AREA:
The first geocache in the Marathon area was “Hawk’s Ridge” (GC88E3) hidden by Don & Barb Gainer on September 2, 2002. Unfortunately this cache was archived on April 24, 2008. With this first cache in Marathon, the number of caches in the area has slowly grown to almost 150 caches within a radius of 80 kilometres from the site of the first geocache in Marathon.
If there is enough time, we will include a hike to the original location of this first cache (GC88E3) (N48° 41.161, W086° 21.828)
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PENN LAKE PARK ACTIVITIES:
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of geocaching and the first cache established in the Marathon area, we are planning an afternoon of geocaching activities in Penn Lake Park.
A series of 10 caches (10 Years! – “………..” on the PLPHT) have been created for the event. These caches will be released on April 30, 2010.
Please do not search for these caches until the day of the event – May 2, 2010 – 12:45 PM.
There will be a wrap-up B-B-Q at the end of the activities.
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TO START THIS ADVENTURE:
- Meeting Coordinates: Posted coordinates for the event
- Meeting Location: Marathon’s Penn Lake Park former Lion’s Den
- Start Time: 12:30 PM
- Penn Lake Park Activities: 12:45 PM
- B-B-Q: 4:30 PM
- End Time: 5:30 PM
- Equipment: Hiking boots, Water Bottle, Snack, Extra Batteries
- We should be able to wrap up activities by 4:30 PM so any geocachers coming from out of town will be able to get away and home at a decent time.
In order for us to get an indication of the amount of geocachers and non-geocachers who will be attending this event, please confirm your attendance on the event listing.
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