You're dirty, you CITOed, now
Celebrate!!
Where: St.Albert Legion
6 Tache Street (by Lion's Park)
St.Albert, Alberta
780-458-3330
When: May 1st, 2010
6:00 pm (Saturday)
Just look for us, we normally have a Geocaching.com Logo on the
table.
Please post a note if you plan to attend, so we know how many
tables to reserve. Thanks!
On May 1, 2000, President Bill Clinton's executive order to
discontinue "Selective Availability" allowing users to receive a
non-degraded GPS signal globally was executed.
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.
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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." .