2010
This series is dedicated to the first 20 years of geocaching and celebrating the community it created around the world.
The caches in this series should be pretty easy finds. The fun part should be reading the fun facts and historical notes on each page.
The fun part should be reading the fun facts and historical notes on each page.
As always, be safe and watch out for nature’s hazards like wild animals, snakes, poisonous plants, and stinging critters.
As you log these caches, please feel free to share any fun facts, trivia, or memories about this particular year.
In 2010:
The One Millionth cache was published.
Geocaching.com organizes a series of "10-10-10" events around the world and successfully sets a new site record for most users logging at least one find in a single day (over 70,000).
The ET Highway power trail in Nevada is published for the first time. It would be archived in March 2011 at the request of the NVDOT.
Alamogul and Bobcat became the first geocaching accounts to log more than 10,000 finds in a year.
Barak Obama was President and Joe Biden was Vice-President.
U.S. population was 308,745,538.
The average price for a gallon of gas was $2.96.
Twenty-nine miners died after a series of explosions rocked the Upper Big Branch mine near Charleston, West Virginia.
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill took place in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Game of “Life” was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame.
Demolition of Yankee Stadium in New York City was completed.
China had a traffic jam that lasted for 12 days and spanned 62 miles.
Andy Schleck of Luxembourg won the 97th Tour de France.
Dario Franchitti won the Indy 500.
Jamie McMurtay won the Daytona 500.
The San Francisco Giants won the World Series.
The New Orleans Saints won the Super Bowl.
The Los Angeles Lakers were NBA champs.
The Chicago Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup.
Manhattan had 1.5 million residents in 2010 versus 2.3 million people in 1910.
The average American drank 30 gallons of bottled water.
There were 266.2 million Internet users in North America .
Apple introduced the iPad.
Toy Story 3 was the highest grossing movie of the year.