10 Years! Gainesville, Florida Community Celebration Event
amtg: It was super and now I just have to wait 10 years for another one like this....
10 Years! Gainesville, Florida
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Saturday, May 1, 2010
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ADD PHOTOS PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
UPDAE 2: Bring photos or scans of GCs and I will have my laminator to make them into proxy (virtual) coins, No cost. Plus giving away GC buddy tags for virtuals.
UPDATE: Fellow OUTLAW CACHER Goat Guru has agreed to handle door prizes and games. Sooooo there will be gifts of unactivated travel bugs, geocoin buddies, swag, adoptable GeoCoins, cool silver small coins for swag, bandanas AND Hikemeister has said that he is bringing some ready to set cache containers (it is rumored that some are ammo cans). If you have anything that you want to donate to the door prizes, feel free to give them to Goat Guru when you get there and the more the better. There may be enough for everyone to get more than one prize!! Gosh, HM caches to blings....who could ask for anything more. Thanks Hikemeister, Hike Jr and Goat Guru!!
PS TO THE UPDATE: I have reservations for 25 folks (give or take) and the outside tables so cachers can just attend and not feel like they have to order food. This will also allow us to make a little noise.
In addition, the "sign in log" will be the sign for the event. A photo of the event and the sign needs to be submitted for the event to get the icon. Be SURE TO SIGN THE SIGN!!!
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A meeting in Gainesville to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of geocaching!
If 10 people attend and we have a photo taken we will all get a ONE TIME icon!
There are so many new cachers in Gainesville that this is a super way for them to get to know some of the older (HA!) cachers.
Having a wonderful breakfast is the best way for us to meet and help new cachers as well as say hello to our old friends!
Bring some TBs, GCs, Path Tags, photos and good caching stories and advice to share with others or trade amongst fellow cachers.
The event will take place at the 43rd St Deli on Williston Road (Right off I-75) on Saturday May 1st, 2010 9 AM. Breakfast costs around $5-8 range but you do not need to eat to attend.
Please attend and get this one time icon and get to know the new folks in our great town.
MORE INFO ON THE EVENT:
On May 2, 2000, at approximately midnight, eastern 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.
The announcement a day before came as a welcome surprise to everyone who worked with GPS technology. The government had planned to remove selective availability - but had until 2006 to do so. 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 on sci.geo.satellite-nav: N 45° 17.460 W 122° 24.800
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