+whereissit Posted May 16, 2008 Posted May 16, 2008 Did anyone see Lost last night (5/15/08)? It featured the first ever geocache. Well, sort of. In the scene, Ben is searching for the orchid with Hurley and Locke. Ben all of the sudden looks at a pile of rocks. He kneels down and uncovers a box. Inside is a mirror that Ben uses to communicate with someone. Hurley grabs a package of crackers and begins to snack away. Ben remarks that the crackers are 15-years-old. So, the cache was hidden years before Dave Ulmer hid his items in Portland, Oregon back in 2000. Quote
+acmancuso Posted May 16, 2008 Posted May 16, 2008 Haha! My husband exclaimed "Its a geocache!" when Ben pulled the box out of the ground. Glad someone else thought the same thing we did! Quote
+J-Way Posted May 16, 2008 Posted May 16, 2008 The cache is probably this one... maybe the reason no one has found the cache is because no one can find the island... The crackers were probably 8-years old when the original hider scratched them out of the bottom of his boat when he hid the cache 7 years ago. Quote
Dinoprophet Posted May 16, 2008 Posted May 16, 2008 I look forward to reading this thread after I watch tonight. Stupid 10pm time slot. Quote
+joranda Posted May 17, 2008 Posted May 17, 2008 But you're not supposed to put food items in the cache containers. Quote
Dinoprophet Posted May 17, 2008 Posted May 17, 2008 It was very nice swag, but yeah, no food in caches. I'm thinking it's a "liar's cache". Quote
+keehotee Posted May 17, 2008 Posted May 17, 2008 (edited) It was very nice swag, but yeah, no food in caches. I'm thinking it's a "liar's cache". I doubt it's listed on this site, so Groundspeak rules don't apply......... the first cache contained "software, videos, books, food, money, and a slingshot" after all!! Edited May 17, 2008 by keehotee Quote
+SeventhSon Posted May 17, 2008 Posted May 17, 2008 It was an ALR cache. Cache is located at S04° 08' 15" E16° 23' 42". Use mirror in cache to signal at 108°. If you get a return signal, you can claim a find. Quote
+joranda Posted May 17, 2008 Posted May 17, 2008 It was very nice swag, but yeah, no food in caches. I'm thinking it's a "liar's cache". I think your right. I've done one of those before. Quote
Dinoprophet Posted May 30, 2008 Posted May 30, 2008 Did anyone else notice the first thing thrown from the helicopter was an ammo can (markings intact)? Quote
+TheAlabamaRambler Posted May 30, 2008 Posted May 30, 2008 People have been hiding things in caches since the dawn of time, so it's not the first cache by any means. The GPS is what made geocaching, so the first cache that you could find with a GPS was in fact the first geocache. Quote
Jake - Team A.I. Posted May 30, 2008 Posted May 30, 2008 Unless they signed a logbook I don't see how they could claim the find?!?! Quote
+SixDogTeam Posted May 30, 2008 Posted May 30, 2008 If you know Morse Code, you could make out what Ben's signal was: Richard, I am going to go turn the frozen wheel. Don't look at the Purple sky. Locke is your new leader. TTYL, Ben. Quote
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