20+ Years of Geocaching, there so many memories and so many souvenirs to share!
The following are ten events associated with geocaching. For each event, determine where it happened, by identifying either the Country, State/Region, or City/Town as indicated.
Take the first letter of each answer 1-10, and put that combination of letters in the checker to get directions to the final.
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First Earthcache – Earthcache I – a simple geology tour of Wasp Head. In THIS COUNTRY, you’ll find the first Earthcache, placed by geoaware on 1/10/2004. Every year on January 10th we celebrate the birthday of Earthcaching. It’s interesting to note that there are actually a few Earthcaches that have an earlier date, but they were submitted as virtuals and converted after the birth of Earthcaching. |
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First Mystery Cache – Octopus Garden. This cache is on the geocaching site maps since it was placed in September of the year 2000 in THIS STATE. The simple puzzle created by AdventureTom started a movement that includes paper and pencil conundrums, online searches for obscure facts, field puzzles, and some of the most epic enigmas in geocaching. There is one Mystery cache that was placed before this one, but it was never found and was archived quickly because the cache was removed by the property owners. |
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First Wherigo – Where I went, Hugo. rodz placed this in THIS REGION on 1/8/2008. There’s another wherigo with a date in 2004, but it was originally a traditional cache that was unarchived and relisted as a wherigo in 2010. |
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First Letterbox – Open Space 6. There were a number of cross-listed letterboxes in the past, but the icon was made available and this was the first legitimate hybrid, hidden on 01/15/2001, IN THIS STATE. |
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First Virtual – Rift Valley. This is also on our year 2000 list and was placed as a “Divine Cache” by hgmichna on 6/15/2000. These “Divine” caches were placed because they were directly on a crosshair of latitude and longitude. This particular one is in THIS COUNTRY, on the equator and at E 36 degrees. There is an older virtual in Australia, but it was converted to a virtual after the traditional geocache was removed (it was in a National Park). |
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First Event – Austin Geocachers Happy Hour (03/24/2001). These Geocachers (Eoghan) of THIS CITY thought it would be fun to get a bunch of local geocachers together, so he created this “one time cache”. As the first ever event, there was some confusion, so people kept going to the bar and logging it until it was archived in September. Cheers! |
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First Mega-Event – GeoWoodstock 4. On 5/26/2006 the first mega was held in NEAR THIS TOWN. Reading through the logs is quite entertaining, from people talking about the largest numbers of geocachers ever (in the hundreds!) to a needs maintenance because many attenders had symptoms of Lyme Disease. |
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First Giga-Event – Project MUNICH2014 – Mia san Giga!. Over 7,000 people attended this first Giga in THIS REGION, on 8/16/2014. |
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First CITO – CITO in MN (available ANY day) (09/01/2002). This was a bit of an odd listing as it is clearly a CITO, but it was a call to Geocachers to clean up anywhere in THIS STATE on ANY day. Placed by Centris, its purpose was commendable, but it clearly didn’t line up with today’s standards of a CITO event. It wasn’t archived until April of 2016, so technically the longest CITO event ever. |
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First GPS Adventures Maze Exhibit – GPS Adventures Maze Exhibit – Minnetrista. It was available in the summer of 2007 in THIS CITY, Indiana. |
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