S.C. Geocaching 10th Anniversary Meet and Greet Event Cache
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S.C. Geocaching 10th Anniversary Meet and Greet
Hidden
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Saturday, December 10, 2011
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The oldest active geocache on the Sunshine Coast is:
“Gnome for the Holidays” (GC308C) and it is
located a distance up Chapman Creek from Brookman Park and it was
set out by ‘Shybudda’ on 31 December 2001. This is a
busy time of the year and rather than pick the actual 10th
anniversary date, I chose one a little earlier and hopefully a
little less busy than New Years Eve.
So, mark 10 December 2011 at 10:00am on your calendars.
The lowest geocache number still on record that I could find is GC4
and it was set out on 07 May 2000. The lowest numbered one that I
have personally found is GC92, the “Un-Original
Stash” set out on 22 October 2000. It is located within
25 metres or so of the very first geocache and is located south
east of Portland, OR. There is a plaque at the original location
and that geocache is called “Original Stash Tribute
Plaque” (GCGV0P).
The Original Stash Location Plaque.
Other early ones that I have found are: “Treehugger
(BC’s First Cache)” (GC1DD). It was set out on 02
February 2001 and I found it on 02 February 2011. My next oldest
one was “The Map Maker Virtual Cache” (GC5D6)
and it was set out on 31 March 2001 and I found it on 30 March
2011. One was on the tenth year anniversary and the other was only
off by one day from its tenth year anniversary and both of my find
dates were by accident and not by design.
The Map Maker Virtual Cache Near East Hope,
Idaho.
I signed up to Geocaching.com on 16 January 2002 after reading
about it in one of the Vancouver Newspapers. I had had at least one
handheld GPS by that point but I was too busy at work to even think
about geocaching. However, on 07 June 2009 I got into it again and
found my first geocache and I have enjoyed the sport ever
since.
This Meet and Greet will be held in Sechelt’s new Mission
Point Park. Bring your GPS and if you have any questions about how
to use it, we will try to help you out. Bring your compass if you
have one and like your GPS, if you have any questions about how to
use it, we will try to help you out with it as well.
I hope to have two or three new geocaches set out and available for
that day although I don’t expect them to be published until
the next day or two afterwards. At least two of them will be within
walking distance and the third might be within a short drive or a
slightly longer walk. I will have two new uncirculated geocoins as
give-aways and I will try to gather up some other prizes as well.
Late flash: LANDSHARKZ.CA has just offered to donate some prizes
for the event.
We have some new geocachers on the Coast now and some veterans as
well so come out and put a face to the name. We hope to see you
there.
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