Come celebrate the 10 year anniversary of Geocaching with
us!
We'll be providing some ice cream but if you would
like to bring some additional dessert/snacks to share, please
do.
Please post a will attend so we can plan how much to buy!
The theme is festive!
Please wear/bring something festive that we can include in the
event photo.
Event runs 6:30pm-8:30pm
Bring your own drinks and geocaching stories (maybe
bug spray too).
The event will be held at the Wisner Pavillion in Leslie Tassell
Park.
The pavilion seats about 50, Parking can be limited, please plan
appropriately.
There are three parking lots available:
1. immediately east of the event
2. immediately west of the event
3. across the street, one block up, at the Cascade Township
hall/museum.
On May 1,
2000, President Bill Clinton signed an executive order to
discontinue "Selective Availability" allowing users to receive a
non-degraded GPS signal globally.
On May 2, 2000, at approximately midnight, eastern time, the switch
controlling "Selective Availability" was thrown. 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 3, 2000 Dave Ulmer placed the very first geocache, The
Original Stash, a black bucket, in the woods near Beaver Creek,
Oregon. Along with a logbook and pencil, he left various prize
items including videos, books, software, a can of beans and a
slingshot. He shared the waypoint of his "stash" with the online
community on sci.geo.satellite-nav, and Geocaching was born.
On May 30, 2000 the word Geocaching was coined by Matt Stum on the
"GPS Stash Hunt" mailing list. Geocache was the joining of two
familiar words. The prefix geo, for Earth, was used to describe the
global nature of the activity, but also for its use in familiar
topics in gps such as geography. The word cache is described by
Merriam-Webster as "a hiding place especially for concealing and
preserving provisions or implements."
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