There will be many 10th Anniversary events held throughout the
world on May 1st and 2nd, to celebrate the 10 year Geocaching
milestone. Groundspeak will issue this unique 10 year "EVENT ICON
for attending an event using the "10 years! (town,state)" format.
Plan on sharing this geocaching anniversary by attending the
Northern New Jersey Cachers milestone event!
We have rented a Covered Pavilion which sits right next to the
scenic Loantaka lake. Plan to come spend the day with your fellow
geocachers at the NNJC "2010 Spring Picnic - 10th Anniversary of
Geocaching", venture out on the geo-Anniversary to do some local
caching, and return for some food, drink and relaxation.
GEOCOIN MINIFEST
In honor of the 10th Anniversary of Geocaching we would like to
give folks the opportunity to see the variety of geocoins minted
and have been collected since the inception of the geocoins. We
will have an afternoon geocoin minifest at the spring picnic.
Everyone is welcome to bring and share their geocoin collection to
show or trade. This gives new cachers the opportunity to learn
about geocoins, get a chance to see a variety of coins, and
possibly obtain a geocoins from veteran geocoin collectors.
NEW CACHES
There will be some new caches placed around Loantake Brook
Reservation, the area has a lot of existing caches for you to
enjoy, all while spending time at the NNJC picnic.
PICNIC TIMES:
11:00 Start of NNJC's Picnic
12:00 - 2:00 Pot luck Lunch
2:00 - Geocoin Minifest.
11:00 - 6:00 geocaching around Loantaka Park. - Hang out at the
NNJC Spring picnic with your geo-friends for some geo-stories
6pm Picnic ends
The park closes at dusk
FOOD
THIS IS A POT LUCK PICNIC ~ NNJC will provide hot dogs and
accompanying supplies. Please bring your favorite food, desserts
and drinks for all to share. (No Alcohol). Please post on your
attendance log what you will be bringing. Thank you
VOLUNTEERS
NNJC is always looking for volunteers, if interested, please
become an active NNJC member and volunteer your time. Contact Old
Navy.
THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF GEOCACHING / NNJC GEOCOIN
This special 10th Anniversary geocoin is 2" size and is
trackable on geocaching.com, and will be available at this
event.
The History of Geocaching fun facts:
2000 - President Clinton announced that this scrambling, known
as Selective Availability (SA), would be turned off. Civilians were
then able to enjoy accuracy on the order of 10 meters. GPS, or
Global Positioning System, was developed by the US Department of
Defense. This satellite navigation system was intended for military
use and therefore the signals were scrambled, limiting accuracy for
civilian use to about 100 meters.
On May 3, 2000, Dave Ulmer proposed a way to celebrate the
demise of SA. He hid a bucket of trinkets in the woods outside
Portland, Oregon and announced its location in a posting made to
the USENET newsgroup sci.geo.satellite-nav. This announcement is
remarkable for laying out the essence of the hobby that is still in
place today. It's all there. The container. The trinkets. The log
book. The rule of take something, leave something, sign the
logbook. Dave Ulmer invented geocaching in one fell swoop in that
newsgroup posting. Within a day, the original stash had been found.
Within days, more stashes had been hidden in California, Kansas,
and Illinois. Within a month, a stash had been hidden as far away
as Australia. The hobby was fast on its way to being a worldwide
phenomenon.
On May 8, 2000 Mike Teague announced a Web site for collecting
the locations of caches. The original Web page is gone, but thanks
to the Wayback Machine, a copy of the GPS Stash Hunt Homepage still
exists.
On May 15, 2000 James Coburn set up a mailing list on eGroups
(now Yahoo!) for discussion of geocaching. The list is still in
existence. Its archives contain the best record of the early days
of the hobby.
On May 30, 2000 a new name was coined for the hobby. Matt Stum
suggested "geocaching" to avoid the negative connotations of the
word "stash".
So, within a month, the hobby had in place the rules, its first
hides and finds, a mailing list and a home page. And the number of
caches was growing fast.
On September 2, 2000, Jeremy Irish emailed the gpsstash mailing
list that he had registered the domain name geocaching.com and had
setup his own Web site. He copied the caches from Mike Teague's
database into his own.
On September 6, 2000 Mike Teague announced that Jeremy Irish was
taking over cache listings, Jeremy Irish considered ways to make
money from geocaching. Geocaching.com was setup as a .com site, not
.org.
The NNJC is about promoting a quality caching experience in
Northern New Jersey. For information on The Northern New Jersey
Cachers group you can visit: www.nnjc.org
