This cache is placed for the “10 Years! Albuquerque, New Mexico” event to celebrate the 10th anniversary of geocaching.
The cache is not at the posted coordinates! You must solve the puzzle at the end of the background information to find the coordinates of the cache.
Even if you don't do puzzles, you might enjoy reading the early history of geocaching.
A May 1, 2000 Press Release by President Bill Clinton stated that, “Today, I am pleased to announce that the United States will stop the intentional degradation of the Global Positioning System (GPS) signals available to the public beginning at midnight tonight. We call this degradation feature Selective Availability (SA). This will mean that civilian users of GPS will be able to pinpoint locations up to ten times more accurately than they do now.”
The move itself was not entirely unexpected. The White House had earlier declared its intention to cease data degradation eventually – say by 2006. For the "switch" to be pulled six years early--and announced by President Bill Clinton's press secretary just one day before the fact came as a total surprise. Internet technogeek newsgroup sites immediately sizzled with ideas on how to take advantage of the new capability.
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, OR 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 logbook. 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.
And so the Great American GPS Stash Hunt was born, redubbed "geocaching" by the end of May 2000 to avoid the negative connotations of the word "stash". 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.
Early in March 2010, the one-millionth active cache listing was published. With more than 3 million high-tech treasure hunters in more than 150 countries, geocaching is the most popular location-based game on Earth.
To find the location of the cache you will need to answer the following questions relating to the original caches placed and put your response in the appropriate place to complete the following coordinates:
35 A B.C D E
106 F G.H I J
A = In the first 50 caches placed, how many are in Africa?
B = How many of the first 5 caches are still Active?
C = What is the total of the Difficulty and Terrain ratings of the first cache placed as a Virtual Cache?
D = In the first 10 caches how many were located in outside the US?
E = How many letters in the name of the nearest town to the first non-USA located cache?
F = How many letters in the name of the 6th cache placed?
G = What is the middle digit in the GC number of oldest cache placed in New Mexico?
H = How many letters in the name of the state that had 6 of the first 25 caches placed?
I = How many letters in the name of the nearest city to the 12th oldest cache?
J = How many letters in the name of the state with the oldest Active cache?
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO GO ON PRIVATE PROPERTY TO FIND THIS CACHE!
Good luck!