c_to-the_swizzle

What I heard from an old time cacher who actually had the OCB in his hand and put it back, was his disgust when the Project APE caches were placed. One of them was in Central Park in NYC. Now the world is down to two. One in Washington State and the other in Brazil. His other concern was the environmental damage caused by searchers looking for a cache that is either not there or is very deviously hidden. Last August I found a cache with the log signed by "Dave Ulmer, father of Geocaching" he had been there about 9 months before and there had only been one other finder since him. In answer to the OP's question: N45 17.460 W122 24.800 Placed May 3, 2000. The stash plaque is listed as GCGV0P Tom Fuller & Quill Crescent, Oregon Here is an unbiassed version of Geocaching History http://geocaching.gpsgames.org/history/ "In the meantime, of course, geocachers were busy hiding and finding geocaches in an ever growing number of countries. That brings us to the end of 2000, just a short 8 months after the invention of the hobby. The great controversies still lay in the future: pin maps and copyright and the Planet of the Apes commercial caches and censorship of the Creator of Geocaching and pay-to-play members-only caches. And how Dave Ulmer and Navicache and Robin Lovelock became words that you dare not utter on geocaching.com. " That doesn't seem unbiased to me, it seems very anti Groundspeak. Also some of the dates are wrong. The history says premium memberships and member only caches were introduced in May of 2001. They were actually introduced some time after I started in Sept of 2001. I'm also fairly certain that the link to Buxley's maps was available on GC.com when I started caching. Only some one in complete lockstep would find the article anitgroundspeak This forum has never allowed dissenting opinion of Groundspeak right or wrong thats the way it is. The article may be critical but its true.

What I heard from an old time cacher who actually had the OCB in his hand and put it back, was his disgust when the Project APE caches were placed. One of them was in Central Park in NYC. Now the world is down to two. One in Washington State and the other in Brazil. His other concern was the environmental damage caused by searchers looking for a cache that is either not there or is very deviously hidden. Last August I found a cache with the log signed by "Dave Ulmer, father of Geocaching" he had been there about 9 months before and there had only been one other finder since him. In answer to the OP's question: N45 17.460 W122 24.800 Placed May 3, 2000. The stash plaque is listed as GCGV0P Tom Fuller & Quill Crescent, Oregon Here is an unbiassed version of Geocaching History http://geocaching.gpsgames.org/history/ "In the meantime, of course, geocachers were busy hiding and finding geocaches in an ever growing number of countries. That brings us to the end of 2000, just a short 8 months after the invention of the hobby. The great controversies still lay in the future: pin maps and copyright and the Planet of the Apes commercial caches and censorship of the Creator of Geocaching and pay-to-play members-only caches. And how Dave Ulmer and Navicache and Robin Lovelock became words that you dare not utter on geocaching.com. "