AUCKLAND REGION: OLDEST 20 ACTIVE GEOCACHES
| GC NUMBER |
CACHE NAME |
HIDDEN DATE |
CACHE OWNER |
| GC542 |
Rock On Baby |
25-03-2001 |
Murray Grainger |
| GC1FCB |
Top of the pipeline |
01-10-2001 |
Kez |
| GC2774 |
ehcacoeG |
10-11-2001 |
Liz, Steve, Katherine and Tui |
| GC2BC2 |
Mangemangeroa |
08-12-2001 |
OGP (Placed by Johny Cache NZ) |
| GC2A0 |
North Shore City - Kendalls Bay |
15-01-2002 |
Kim |
| GC42D3 |
reservoir dogs |
16-03-2002 |
AKA |
| GC4E31 |
Island Rock |
16-04-2002 |
M@ |
| GC5C74 |
Walk the Pipe! |
26-05-2002 |
M@ |
| GC979E |
Bee Hive |
05-10-2002 |
AKA |
| GCA617 |
Bye Bye Miss American Pie |
09-11-2002 |
M@ |
| GCB5A9 |
Auckland's Panoramic Paradise |
16-12-2002 |
Artful Dodger |
| GCC680 |
South Head |
19-01-2003 |
M@ |
| GCEC39 |
What is on the Menu? |
14-03-2003 |
Navigull |
| GCE7DB |
Spring Geometry |
19-03-2003 |
M@ |
| GCG468 |
A Game of Soldiers |
17-05-2003 |
Hairy Little Dwarf (now G-2) |
| GCG4BV |
Domain Terrain |
18-05-2003 |
Dapozo |
| GCGHN9 |
Somewhere in Auckland |
27-07-2003 |
M@ |
| GCGXH9 |
Grasshopper |
17-09-2003 |
kamikaze |
| GCGY01 |
Long John Stumpy |
19-09-2003 |
mitrou |
| GCH0XM |
Dormant King Leopards |
16-10-2003 |
Glutnix |
CHALLENGE to find any 10 Geocaches from the 20 oldest active Geocaches hidden in the Auckland Region (listed in the table above).
As a cache is archived the next cache according to its hidden date in the Auckland Region will be added to the list above, with the Challenge checker updated automatically.
CACHE can be found at the published co-ordinates, you can sign the log at any time.
The Difficulty and Terrain (D/T) rating reflects the Challenge requirements (10 of 20), the actual cache hide is rated D2.0 / T2.0
To log a find:
- Find the cache and sign the log
- Use the Challenge checker to confirm you qualify, attach this script to your "found it" log
CHALLENGE CHECKER CONFIRMATION/QUALIFICATION SCRIPT (select one)
This Challenge checker shows the 10 of 20 oldest active Geocaches found (copy and paste to the cache page):
This Challenge checker lists the 20 oldest active Geocaches and shows the caches found and when (copy and paste to the cache page):
FOUND 10 OR MORE OF THE OLDEST AUCKLAND REGIONS ACTIVE GEOCACHES
* Use the Challenge checker to confirm you qualify - copy and paste the confirmation/qualifying script from the Challenge checker to your "found it" log on the cache page.
* Find the cache and sign the log (can be signed at any time).
ARCHIVED CACHE AND POSTED A WRITE NOTE WITH QUALIFYING SCRIPT
* If previously a confirmation/qualifying script from the Challenge checker has been posted to the cache page as a "write note" and later a Geocache was archived and removed from the active Geocache list above, you can log a find because the cache was active when the checker was used and proof has been provided.
* Find the cache and sign the log, post a "found it" log on the cache page.
ARCHIVED CACHE AND POSTED A WRITE NOTE WITH NO QUALIFYING SCRIPT
If had previously found 10 of the oldest active Geocaches in the Auckland Region, but one was archived, and no "write note" of the qualifying script is on the cache page, sadly you no longer qualify.
The updated Challenge checker will confirm that you do not qualify (now less than 10 active caches found):
* You will need to find another cache from the active Geocache list above, use the checker to confirm you qualify.
* If you had signed the log previously, copy and paste the qualifying script with your "found it" log on the cache page.
* If you have not signed the log, copy and paste the qualifying script with your "write log" on the cache page.
Only when you have signed the log, can you post a "found it" log on the cache page.
25 YEARS OF GEOCACHING
This Challenge cache wants to celebrate the older hides that still remain in the Auckland Region, and whilst we sadly have no year 2000 hides, we do have some special caches created by early pioneers/adopters of the game.
Look at the list of Cache Owners above, the early adopters, thank you for creating these hides all those years ago, and for maintaining them, so that others new to the game can be part of this early history.
So are you ready to celebrate 25 years of Geocaching? Every cache you find, no matter the date celebrates this 2025 milestone.
Everyone has an origin story, it all began on May 3rd, 2000 when the very first Geocache was hidden near Portland, Oregon, when Dave Ulmer hid a container in the woods.
But before this could happen, on May 2nd, 2000, at the direction of President Bill Clinton, the U.S government discontinued its use of Selective Availability.
This is what Geocachers now call the “Blue Switch Day”, before the Selective Availability was turned off the public GPS signals were intentionally degraded for national security reasons (about 50 m horizontally and 100 m vertically). The military did not have there signal altered.
With the flicking of a switch (was it really a switch?), overnight the GPS accuracy improved, allowing the start of the "Great American GPS Stash Hunt" which would later evolve into the Geocaching game we play today
(Click here if you want to read more about the history of Geocahing).