Mr. dino_hunters has had a gps since 1996, but he didn't use it very much because of a thing called "selective availability" . On May 2, 2000, selective availability was turned off. This excited Mr. dino_hunters. The very next day, he saw the posting of the world's first geocache on the usenet newsgroup sci.geo.satellite-nav, just hours after it was posted. He thought it was an awesome idea. He spent the next 15 minutes, trying to plot where that was. It was in Oregon, and he was sad.
A year or so later, he stumbled onto www.geocaching.com and liked what he saw, but there were hardly any caches in Utah. For some strange reason he never thought of making a cache himself.
In January of 2003, he stumbled on our favorite website again, and punched in our zip code. Wow!!! There were over 100 geocaches within 50 miles of our house, and just over 800 geocaches in the state!
He tried for a few weeks to convince Mrs. dino_hunters to go on an adventure with him. On Saturday, February 22, 2003, he succeed, and packed up the 2 kids in the car. We had an unsuccessful first try at "Where are the Sardines?" (GCB2BC), and then a second failure at "Sardine" (GC8965). Then, we finally found our first cache, the "Weber County Line Cache" (GCB995). It was a tupperware container filled with McDonalds type toys. It wasn't much to look at, but it was our first.
Well, it's 10 years later, and we are still caching. We now have 6 junior dino_hunters, and there are over 25,000 caches in the state. My, how times have changed. We haven't found very many, for 10 years worth of geocaching, but we think it's the quality that counts.
Enjoy the cache, dino_hunters