Just wondering who it does geocaching on this site.... Post your geocaching name... and tell us about how you got started geocaching!

 

oh i forgot... I'm matthew2000tx on geocaching.com, I started last summer when I saw a segment on television about it.

 

Hello fellow geocacher!! A bunch of us SoCal folks make it a point to geocache whenever we get the chance on trail runs. I started in 2005 when I was searching for a GPS and found the Groundspeak forums.

Check out the end of our latest video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWdqPjpLqNY

 

I watched the vid... but didn't see what you wanted me too?

 

LOL, maybe you didn't watch the end? Go to the 8 minute mark.

 

Okay...so where did Geocaching originate? Where is the first Geocache?
















Right here in Oregon! Hard to believe we've been doing this 3 years in January. Kids have really grown.

1st Geocache outside of Estacada




Geo Sam creating a travel bug.


Geo Max with his "Max's Monkey Lips" TB...just under
14,000 miles now!


After a warm summer's day of Geocaching. One of my fave pics of the boys.

 

Geocaching started over a century ago in it's more primitive form, "letterboxing", where people would hide boxes of treasures and give clues to others as to how to locate them. It involved stamping a logbook of sorts with the finder's personal stamp, as well as stamping the finder's personal logbook with the stamp contained in the treasure box. Letterboxing still exists. However, when president Clinton turned off selective availability, it brought a new twist to the game. Once more accurate GPS technology was available for civilian use, it wasn't very long at all (a few months) before Dave Ulmer went out and hid a stash, marking the coordinates on his GPS receiver and posting them on an online bulletin board for others to find! The first finder of that stash was Mike Teague, who eventually hooked up with Jeremy Irish and formed a site that eventually became geocaching.com.

The "original stash" no longer exists... however, the "Un-Original Stash" was hidden in the same location as a tribute and can still be found here and a commemorative plaque has been erected here (see RugbyDuck's pics above!).

Very cool that you've been to the first stash, RugbyDuck-- I was there before I was a geocacher... gotta go back!

 

I've been doing it for 6 weeks. Got my GPS on Halloween. I'm ZoomZoomJr (surprise, surprise). Probably about 10 in a 15 mile radius. I will try to see if there are any in the camp site I will be visiting in a week. Anyone know of any in Kiln, Mississippi?

 

Well I started caching in '04 but got kinda bored with it after while. I go by Habercacher. I think I actually had more fun reading the posts from fellow cachers trying to find my hides! Anyway, I still trade my handmade coins occasionally. And you never know, maybe soon I`ll get back into it...(hint, hint, Matthew & Tina).

 

Going to hit a few caches on the Oregon Coast today. Kids have really come to hate microcaches though.