Join us for Breakfast event to celebrate the birth of
Geocaching. You will get a special icon and this will be a
great start to your geocaching day.
This is the location of the very first event ever held in
Dealware (GCHKHM) that started the Delaware Geocachers
organization.
Purpose: Celebrate 10 years of geocaching
Date: May 1 (Saturday)
Time: 7am to 8:30 am
Location: Bob Evans Family Resturant
Newark, De
Selective availability was removed on May 1 greatly
improving the accuracy of GPS units. Two days later Dave Ulmer
placed the first stash in Oregon and published the coordinates to a
GPS user group. The stash was found within days and Geocaching was
born! It took about 6 months later until a cache was placed in
Delaware as the sport slowly grew. There are now over a million
caches worldwide, with Delaware contributing over 1,200
This is to be a festive occasion and a pictured is required. To
help this along you are requested to wear a unique hat (or costume
or unusual dress if you want.
Lets have some fun and celebrate. After talking about the start
of geocaching, then you can do what we all like best---go out and
find some caches. Or perhaps cache on the way to attend another 10
year celebration such as in Laurel De (GC2648N) or SE Pa.