+Bill & Tammy Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 I noticed today that the first cache I ever found has probably gone to geoheaven. I know this probably sounds too overly sentimental, but is your first cache find still active? Quote Link to comment
X-isle Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 I sure hope so. I've only been doing this for a week. Quote Link to comment
+SGT red jeep Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 I did this cache as a side event at a gold panning exposition. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...32-ddde3a79422d Two years later I became a member of geocaching.com and finally logged the cache, predating it to when I originally found it. It still exists. Quote Link to comment
+Airmapper Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 My first cache find is still going. I may have to go back someday when I'm in the area just to see if it has changed any. It is a prime example of what good caches should be. Honker Hill Quote Link to comment
+El Diablo Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Yes. After almost 6 years it's still there and still gets smileys Not only was it my first, it was also my FTF. El Diablo Quote Link to comment
+KA7CJH Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 (edited) My first cache is still active also. GCN55J And my first find was archived so I placed a new cache in the same general area. I felt I had to give a little love back to the other cachers in the area. GC112F4 Edited March 1, 2007 by KA7CJH Quote Link to comment
+TheAlabamaRambler Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 The first cache I found was a year old and had been visied 50+ times. My log: August 17, 2003 by TheAlabamaRambler (2233 found)The Mountie Cache was my first find, though it was a snap as I went to this school in the early seventies and my son goes to the new Shades Valley. This spot was open back then already - great hide for newbies. Although I knew the roads I let my eTrex lead the way - took me right to it. The cache has a hole in the bottom, so everything's somewhat wet - water standing in the container bottom and all zip-lock bags had been left open. I dried everything as well as possible with paper towels, logged my visit, took nothing (although this cache is jammed full of goodies) and left a ceramic black bear from Tennessee. Have fun. The owner replaced the leaky container and it's still going strong, found 100 times since then, last on Feb 24th '07 Quote Link to comment
+Nero Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Just checked and YES, my first cache find is still active GC92A6 Quote Link to comment
+GSVNoFixedAbode Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Yep! GCB2 "Botanical Gardens" on Oct 10 2003 and it's still in fine health. An oldie, but a goodie! Quote Link to comment
+Lil Devil Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Yes. After almost 6 years it's still there and still gets smileys Not only was it my first, it was also my FTF. Sweet. My first find was also a FTF. You're the only other one I've heard of that can claim this. It's a devilish honor Unfortunately the one I found first was archived about a year ago Quote Link to comment
+Retcon Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 My first find is still there, and I check on it occasionally as (with many people's first finds) it's nearby. In fact, today I noticed there were footprints in the snow up to it. I should check and see if someone found it in the past day or 2... ...4. I suppose it's possible, it's been freezing and barely snowing for the past 4 days Quote Link to comment
+mudsneaker Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 I doubt anything will ever happen to my first cache find. The Faucet Its out there somewhere Quote Link to comment
+sillygirl & jrr Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Our first "found" cache was a virtual: GC6319, it's still active, as is the first physical cache we found: GC6319. But our first log was a DNF: GCGQ94; it was there then and now. (It took us almost a year before we tried again and found it). Quote Link to comment
+Harry Dolphin Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Of course, it's staill there. It's one of the great BrianSnat caches! Terrace Pond Quote Link to comment
+jcar Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 My first is long gone, Those Dirty, Rotten, No Good for Nothing..., but the hiders are still very active. I picked one of their caches for a milestone a long time back and always keep an eye out for any caches they place for future milestones. Quote Link to comment
+CSpenceFLY Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 My first cache lasted 14 days.Either a homeless person or the DOT saw someone go to it.I found a much better spot for it though. Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 My first find is still active. It was placed on 8/21/2001 and I found it a month later. Unfortunately it went missing at one point and the owner replaced it, so the original logbook is gone. Quote Link to comment
+Mr. 0 Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 My first find was placed 8/10/02. I found it about 7 days after its placement, and it was archived a little over a year later due to a destroyed container and the surroundings being torn up. Quote Link to comment
+AuntieWeasel Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Yes, mine's still there. But the hider moved away, and I've done the maintenance on it ever since. In fact, it needs maintenance at the moment, the logs say Quote Link to comment
+ArtieD Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Our first find was "Water on Both Sides" (GCJ9GE) and sadly it has been archived... Quote Link to comment
+Cpt.Blackbeard Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Gone but not forgotten. Quote Link to comment
Dinoprophet Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 (edited) Nope, it vanished long ago. Ah, the thrill of that first hunt. I was almost first to find, too, but it was easier then, with maybe a dozen cachers in the area. I kind of miss the days when there were only a handful of caches for miles around. Going to find a cache was more of an event then. My log starts with a ; I didn't know the smiley was added automatically. Edited March 1, 2007 by Dinoprophet Quote Link to comment
+PJPeters Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 My first find is gone, but it looks like the hider tends to pull caches and replace them at random intervals. Quote Link to comment
+niffir Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 I got my start geocaching in the New Orleans area several years ago, so nearly all of my early finds have vanished by now. Some died normal deaths, but many were destroyed by Katrina and Rita. My very first cache find was in City Park. Much of the park spent a month or so under several feet of water, and without the revenue generated by the golf courses, there has been little maintainance at the park in the year and a half since the hurricane. Anyway...here's a link to the (now archived) cache page. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...35-b477ceaa94f6 Quote Link to comment
+Bud Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Almost 6 years later, and 299 logged visits and it's still live and kicking! Airplane Spot (GC274) was the only cache in San Antonio at the time, so it was the only choice I had before leaving town to go cache. Glad it's stuck around this long. Quote Link to comment
+StarBrand Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 My first cache find is still going and I had the honor of taking it over as one of mine after the owner went 2+ years of not logging into the site and it fell into disrepair. Has been featured in 3 different news stories about caching. Planted in Dec of 2001. I found it my 1st day. Olive Pit Cache Quote Link to comment
Mr.Yuck Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Nope, it vanished long ago. Ah, the thrill of that first hunt. I was almost first to find, too, but it was easier then, with maybe a dozen cachers in the area. I kind of miss the days when there were only a handful of caches for miles around. Going to find a cache was more of an event then. My log starts with a ; I didn't know the smiley was added automatically. Actually, being an ignorer of parking lot micros, my caching experience of driving several miles around town for a handful of finds is much that same as it was 4 years ago, when there were many fewer cachers and caches. But my first find is long gone. It only lasted 2 months at most. But I did revisit the cache site within the last year, to log a really cool Terracaching.com locationless cache, which requires you to revisit your first find (whether still active or not). Quote Link to comment
vagabond Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 (edited) I found 2 caches the first day I went caching,unfortunately the first was run over by a D8 cat but the 2nd which is still there I found about 30 mins. later and it is now over 6 years old Edited March 1, 2007 by vagabond Quote Link to comment
Shiraz-mataz Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Sadly no... My first cache find was the victim of a growing problem with people dumping their trash nearby. The hiders gave up and reinvented the theme somewhere else. Quote Link to comment
+Blue Power Ranger Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 (edited) ...is your first cache find still active? Nope. Kobetich Paperback Exchange is gone. Our log... December 26, 2005 by Blue Power Ranger (924 found) This was our first find. We might be hooked. Lots of fun. At first we were way too far off the path.....lots of mud and muck. We took Blow Fly and Holiday Puzzles and left 1001 Ways to Be a Best Friend and Riddles, Riddles, Riddles. "We might be hooked."... an understatement. Edited March 1, 2007 by Blue Power Ranger Quote Link to comment
bogleman Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 The first one I found is long gone but the first one I attempted to find is still around. Quote Link to comment
+KKTH3 Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Well, this was really our first find, but we were just tagging along with other geocachers at the time - so while we did the whole hunt and found the cache, we didn't have a GC account and we didnt sign the logbook. As a result we still have not registered this cache as an official find yet. Our first attempt at finding a cache once we had our own GC account was here. We made it to ground zero of the final cache location, but came up empty handed and suffered our first of many DNFs. Our first offical find is still up and going. The owners upgraded the container some time ago, but it never was muggled as far as we know. They just upgraded it in a regular maintenence cycle. All three caches are still going strong. Quote Link to comment
+frivlas Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 The first cache we found we did without a GPS. It was about a mile from home. Several months after we started, the owner moved out of state and adopted all of his caches out. My first find is now owned by my hubby. :-) Quote Link to comment
+Klatch Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 My first has been archived since January of 2003. In fact, 4 of my first 5 are archived (and none were urban caches). Quote Link to comment
+nikcap Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Our first find (touch down!) was archived in Augst 2002, about a year after we found it. I hadn't realized it but our first find was a FTF. 28 days after the cache was placed! 5 of our first 10 non-virual caches finds have been archived. Our first DNF is still around. Quote Link to comment
+OHMIKY Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 my first is currently archived - no telling if it will rise from the dead or not - I notice that it was a micro, within a mile of where I lived at the time and obviously before I learned how much more fun a REAL cache could be. chuckle Quote Link to comment
+wimseyguy Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Nope my very first find went missing about six months after I found it. I scanned the logs of those who had found it before me, and although I recognized many of them, only seven are still active cachers, and two are close geopals of mine. After it was archived I put a stage of a multi nearby, and then shifted that stage in order to make room for a tribute hide of mine. Quote Link to comment
+tomfuller & Quill Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 My first geocache find was Four Faces (GCQ98Q). It was archived 4 months after I was FTF. I met the hider, JoeyGeo as I was coming out of the nearby store with my FTF certificate, which I have displayed on the wall above my computer. Two log entries and two people logged DNF's. Tom Fuller Crescent, Oregon Quote Link to comment
+Team Dubbin Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 My first one (GCD460) is still alive and well Quote Link to comment
+Haffy Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 My first cache find is still around and after it needing some maintenance at one point I got in touch with the original owner and asked if I could adopt it and I did. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx Quote Link to comment
+Shop99er Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 My first find was Message In A Bottle (GCHNP5). It was archived 6 months later, cuz it was muggled. The really odd part is that my brother was the last finder. Quote Link to comment
+"fish" Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 yes my first find is still active it was only a film container kind of a bummer for a first find but oh well im still caching and enjoying every cache that i find back then didnt know anybody that cached but now i have a few cachaholics as friends so cache on Quote Link to comment
+GRANPA ALEX Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 (edited) My first cache was placed by a cacher that was inactive BEFORE I started caching, four years ago. What is nice is the the cache is still active and very well maintained, an ammo can only recently refreshed again as before over the years. It is a tough hide/find, so it does not get a lot of traffic but the owner is on top of it! Edited March 1, 2007 by GRANPA ALEX Quote Link to comment
+Metaphor Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 'tis indeed. I adopted it. Meteor Maven Quote Link to comment
+HaLiJuSaPa Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 Tough question, did 2 finds the first time, and can't remember which one we did first. One of the 2 is archived, the other is still there. Of course, August 2005 is not that long ago yet..... Quote Link to comment
cachingadventurer Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 My first cache is still active also. GCN55J And my first find was archived so I placed a new cache in the same general area. I felt I had to give a little love back to the other cachers in the area. GC112F4 the first cache i found is still their and has been visited by TONS of people Quote Link to comment
+Bad Duck Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 Nope it's gone. And sadly I was the one who posted the SBA on it. Quote Link to comment
Neos2 Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 The first cache I found--Port Fulton--is gone, along with the tree where it was hidden. There is a replacement cache in another spot in the same park, though. In fact, 9 of the first 20 I first looked for are different than when I first hunted for them (moved, replaced, different owner etc). Funny thing is, there is no pattern to what is gone and what remains; some really great ones are history, some fairly tame ones remain--all without apprent rhyme or reason. All of those first 20 were urban caches, except one. Of the next 20 I did, most are not urban caches and about the same ratio of those are now history. That's just one example of why I tell people who fret about "all the good spots being taken already" not to worry--there is a natural turn over on caches over time. Quote Link to comment
+TrailGators Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 The first cache I found was called Breeder and placed on 7/1/2001. I'll never forget how excited I was to find it and also discover one of my favorite hiking spots in San Diego. Unfortunately, the park rangers changed the park policy late in 2003 and confiscated all the caches from the park including that one. The cache owner, Yrium (one of SD's beloved cachers), died two years ago at the young age of 44. Later on the rangers changed the park policy and allowed geocaches if they followed the approval process. So a friend of mine went down to the ranger station and picked up his caches and Yrium's Breeder cache that had been confiscated and gave it to me. I applied to put Yrium's cache back in the park and placed the Breeder Memorial cache in Yrium's honor. Quote Link to comment
+RocketMan Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 My first was Mud Cave Cookie Tin in the Anza Borrego Desert. It was placed in Feb 2001, 6 years ago and one of the first caches in California. I found it a month after it was placed in March 2001. That was 2 months before I signed up for my account. And, yes it is still active after all this time and still a popular cache. RM Quote Link to comment
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