Acknowledgement of Country: I would like to pay my respects to the First People: the traditional custodians of the lands and waterways of the Ngunnawal, Ngunawal and Ngambri Country. I would like to acknowledge that this geocache has been placed on what was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.
This cache is not at the posted coordinates but you need to go there to answer a question for the Wherigo cartridge which can be downloaded to your phone or GPS using this link. Once you answer the multiple choice question correctly, the GZ coordinates will appear and the cartridge will navigate you there. You're not very far away! The answer can be found further down in this description
This is a "bonus bonus cache" to my Adventure Lab, 'Canberra's First Geocache' and its bonus (GCA4ZWG). You don't need to have found the AL and bonus to find this one. The AL is a timewalk from the base to the summit of Mt Painter and depicts the history of geocaching leading up to Canberra's first cache on 15 April 2001, still hidden behind the top of this very mountain! Each lab cache provides interesting facts and figures about five significant milestones in worldwide and Australian geocaching history and all in sequential order. This Wherigo falls between lab caches 'Australia's First' and 'Geocaching.com' and provides more info on how the GPS Stash Hunt turned into Geocaching.
GPS Stash Hunt
‘GPS Stash Hunt’ was the name coined by Dave Ulmer when he hid ‘The Original Stash’ on 3 May 2000 and kickstarted what would later become known as ‘Geocaching’. Within one week, people online were keen to hide their own stashes and find other people’s stashes.
On 8 May, Mike Teague (the first finder of The Original Stash) launched the GPS Stash Hunt website where he began copy/pasteing posts from newsgroups with coordinates for new stashes around the world. Mike also created the GPS Stash Hunt mailing list where people could discuss the emerging activity. As the activity progressed though, there were concerns about negative connotations around the terms ‘stash’ and ‘GPS Stash Hunt’. On 30 May, Matt Stum coined the name ‘geocaching’ with the prefix ‘geo’ used to describe the global nature of the activity and the word ‘cache’ meaning ‘hiding place’ or ‘storage’. The new name was endorsed by Dave Ulmer but ‘GPS Stash Hunt’ remained the dominant name until Jeremy Irish created Geocaching.com in September 2000.
***FTF honours goes to Tankengine, dty73 and Flintstone's***