3/5/2025 Maintenance update: Replaced tag at wapoint START with thinner sticky tag with electrician tape as backup to keep tag in place. Do not remove. Turn NFC app on and then move back of your smartphone across tag until it "reads" info on tag. If you have trouble, you may need to remove your phone from its case to read the tag. Some photos have been attached in a log to show you the replaced tag plus info on location of reader on android and iphones.
This is a multi cache that will use easily applied advanced technology to determine the final coordinates. It is near the THPRD Rock Creek Sports Complex.
On May 2, 2000, the great blue switch controlling selective availability was pressed. 24 Satellites around the world increased the accuracy of GPS technology ten fold. On May 3rd, Dave Ulmer posted the hide of a navigational target on an Internet Users Group. The idea was simple: Hide a container in the woods and note the coordinates with a GPS unit. Dave Ulmer placed his own container, a black bucket, in the woods near Beaver Creek, Oregon, which we know as THE ORIGINAL STASH. Save's action resulted in the beginning of geocaching.
Since 2000, many changes have added to the Geocaching experience. The geocaching website was created on the internet. Several types of caches were defined. Mysteries, puzzles, software tools and other changes have been included in the upgraded Geocaching experience.
This multi will include one of the newer tools in the field to obtain the final location of a cache. You will need a smartphone along with an appropriate app to get the final location of the cache.
Getting started may be simple or not:
1. Go to posted coords to get info for final. (NFC Tools app is one that will work)
2. Go get the final, sign log, replace cache, and log online.
FYI, if you would like to do some more caches using this technology, here are some geocaches, available in the Pacific Northwest:
GCAZTV1, The Living Daylights – 007, Near Troutdale, Oregon
GCAV4PN, Is that an EN EFF i SEE, Near Shoreline, WA
GCAQHV5, PNW En Eff See #2, Northgate Area of Seattle, WA
GCAMK8N, PNW En Eff See #1, Also near Northgate area of Seattle, WA
