Is it still around?

[+Bill & Tammy]

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?

[X-isle]

I sure hope so. I've only been doing this for a week.

[+SGT red jeep]

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.

[+Airmapper]

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

[+El Diablo]

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

[+KA7CJH]

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

[+TheAlabamaRambler]

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

[+Nero]

Just checked and YES, my first cache find is still active

 

GC92A6

[+GSVNoFixedAbode]

Yep! GCB2 "Botanical Gardens" on Oct 10 2003 and it's still in fine health. An oldie, but a goodie!

[+Lil Devil]

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

[+Retcon]

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

[+mudsneaker]

I doubt anything will ever happen to my first cache find. The Faucet

 

 

Its out there somewhere

[+sillygirl & jrr]

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).

[+Harry Dolphin]

Of course, it's staill there. It's one of the great BrianSnat caches! Terrace Pond

[+jcar]

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.

[+CSpenceFLY]

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.

[+briansnat]

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.

[+Mr. 0]

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.

[+AuntieWeasel]

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

[+ArtieD]

Our first find was "Water on Both Sides" (GCJ9GE) and sadly it has been archived...

[+Cpt.Blackbeard]

Gone but not forgotten.

[Dinoprophet]

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

[+PJPeters]

My first find is gone, but it looks like the hider tends to pull caches and replace them at random intervals.

[+niffir]

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

[+Bud]

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.

[+StarBrand]

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

[Mr.Yuck]

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).

[vagabond]

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

[Shiraz-mataz]

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.

[+Blue Power Ranger]

...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

[bogleman]

The first one I found is long gone but the first one I attempted to find is still around.

[+KKTH3]

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.

[+frivlas]

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. :-)

[+Klatch]

My first has been archived since January of 2003. In fact, 4 of my first 5 are archived (and none were urban caches).

[+nikcap]

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.

[+OHMIKY]

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

[+wimseyguy]

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.

[+tomfuller & Quill]

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

[+Team Dubbin]

My first one (GCD460) is still alive and well

[+Haffy]

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

[+Shop99er]

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.

[+"fish"]

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

[+GRANPA ALEX]

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

[+Metaphor]

'tis indeed. I adopted it.

 

Meteor Maven

[+HaLiJuSaPa]

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.....

[cachingadventurer]

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

[+Bad Duck]

Nope it's gone. And sadly I was the one who posted the SBA on it.

[Neos2]

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.

[+TrailGators]

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.

[+RocketMan]

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