P - Project A.P.E. Cache Meet & Greet 

Who?              Anyone who is a Geocacher, interested in becoming one, or even a muggle friend or family member

What?             Weekly RGV Geocaching Breakfast Meet & Greet *NOTE* purchase of food items is always optional however, fun and fellowship is a given.

Where?        Country Omelette, 3420 N. 10th St., McAllen, TX 78501

When?         Thursday, March 2, 2023,  9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

Why?           Share stories, tips & tricks of the game, assist with solving mystery/puzzle caches and share/trade trackables.

This season each event is part of an alpha series of titles highlighting a term used in Geocaching. Today’s event is brought to you by the letter “P” for the acronym for Project A.P.E. Cache.

PROJECT A.P.E. CACHE:  Originally, a set of 14 Geocaches were hidden in conjunction with the 2001 movie Planet of the Apes.  Props from the movie were put in specially marked ammo cans for the First To Find.  

The series of caches typically involved larger ammunition cans painted with images of apes from the film on the outside. Fourteen caches were placed in a series of missions numbered 1-12 (one was "Special Movie" for the movie premier and there was a Mission 10a & 10b). Evidence points to a potential Mission 13, but no cache page has been found for it. Some of the caches didn't last beyond a couple of finds. To date, only one remains active in the original form: Mission 4: Southern Bowl, which is located in Brazil.

Mission 9: Tunnel of Light was located outside of Seattle, WA but was archived in summer of 2011, after the cache was mugged. In late 2016, the cache was found. On march 10th, 2017, Geocaching announced that it was going to reactivate the cache in August. 

The Mission 9 cache was one of the GeoTriad caches in the Pacific Northwest (also referred to as the Geocaching Trifecta).

For more of the story: http://www.markwell.us/projectape.htm