Come and Help Us Celebrate
Big Sioux State
Recreation Area
Brandon, South Dakota
Friday, April 30th from 6 PM to 8
PM
This event is part of a worldwide celebration of Geocaching's first
10 years. To commemorate the ten year anniversary of geocaching, we
will be releasing ten new caches in the Brandon area. After hunting
the caches come back and join us for birthday cake and a
photo.
As a bonus the
event will have its own unique icon (the background image) if this
requirement is met: "A video or picture must
be taken at the event. At least 10 attendees must be in the
video/photo along with a legible sign showing the event coordinates
and location name."
Here's a tentative
schedule:
- 6 PM - Event
Begins (login, get cache info and socialize)
- 7:45 PM - Take
Photo
- 8 PM - Cake (gotta
have Birthday cake)
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Here's some of
the History
On May 1,
2000, President Bill Clinton's executive order to discontinue
"Selective Availability" allowing users to receive a non-degraded
GPS signal globally was executed.
On May 2,
2000, at approximately midnight, eastern savings time, the
switch controlling "Selective Availability" was thrown. Twenty-four
satellites around the globe processed their new orders, and
instantly the accuracy of GPS technology improved tenfold. Tens of
thousands of GPS receivers around the world had an instant
upgrade.
On May 3,
2000,
Dave Ulmer placed the very first geocache, GCF -
The Original Stash, a black bucket, in the woods near Beaver
Creek, Oregon. Along with a logbook and pencil, he left various
prize items including videos, books, software, a can
of beans and a slingshot. He shared the waypoint of his "stash"
with the online community on sci.geo.satellite-nav.
Within three days
two different people read about his stash on the Internet, used
their own GPS receivers to find the container and shared their
experiences online. The sport of geocaching was born!
For more History go
to - The History
of Geocaching