NORAD Tracks Santa Traditional Cache
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Yudicky Farm Park - The park entrance is located on route NH-111A (Main Dunstable RD)! Beautiful area with wonderful meandering trails! Placed a cache out here so I would have a reason to come back once and a while! Off trail a bit to bring you in to the area!
For more than 50 years, NORAD and its predecessor, the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) have tracked Santa’s flight.
The tradition began in 1955 after a Colorado Springs-based Sears Roebuck & Co. advertisement for children to call Santa misprinted the telephone number. Instead of reaching Santa, the phone number put kids through to the CONAD Commander-in-Chief’s operations "hotline." The Director of Operations at the time, Colonel Harry Shoup, had his staff check the radar for indications of Santa making his way south from the North Pole. Children who called were given updates on his location, and a tradition was born.
In 1958, the governments of Canada and the United States created a bi-national air defense command for North America called the North American Aerospace Defense Command, also known as NORAD, which then took on the tradition of tracking Santa.
Since that time, NORAD men, women, family and friends have selflessly volunteered their time to personally respond to phone calls and emails from children all around the world. In addition, we now track Santa using the Internet. Millions of people who want to know Santa’s whereabouts now visit the NORAD Tracks Santa website. Finally, media from all over the world rely on NORAD as a trusted source to provide updates on Santa’s journey.
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My Holiday gift to the Geocaching Community! FTF will get the FTF Christmas Stocking!
Congratulations to HollisRidgeback & Azure Sky on the CO-FTF!
Honorable Mention to Summit Seeker w Kids on the STF!
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Znxr fher guvatf qba'g trg gnatyrq!