Is Your First Find Still Active?

[+yorelken]

Yes, found in 2002, (after two tries) it's still active.

[+GeoGeeBee]

Strangely enough, the first cache I ever found has not only been archived... the listing has completely vanished.

 

If you look at the profile for my previous username:

gbelton

it clearly shows 6 caches found. But if you click the link to list them, it only shows five. The first one is gone. I distinctly remember it, a small Gladware container in a little park in Chapel Hill.

 

Must have been retracted. I don't know much about retractions, but I imagine you keep the find count, but no one can see it.

 

So what are you telling me here? You had a big-time old school account and were finding caches in 2001 and 2002, but you didn't "re-join" and become highly active until 2009?

 

Yeah, that's exactly right. I bought myself a GPSr for Christmas 2001, and opened it a bit early

 

I went out and found the aforementioned cache in Chapel Hill to try it out; then I took it on a road trip to visit the inlaws, and used it to find a couple of caches in Mississippi and one in Texas (somehow missing Louisiana entirely). When we got home I found two caches in North Carolina, then loaned the GPS to my son to use on a trip to Maine. When he returned it, it didn't work any more

 

And I didn't buy another one until 2009. I couldn't remember my old username and password, so I just created a new one. After I while, I realized how cool it would be to have all that history. I managed to guess my old user name and re-logged the caches that I could.

 

So yeah; I've been caching since 2001, and I have fewer than 200 finds.

[+Shop99er]

My first find is long gone.

 

In fact, by brother was the last one to find it.

[+bikenxs]

Found my first cache on 2/22/2002 and yes it is still active. I just checked and the last post on it was in September 2010.

[sabrefan7]

I found my first 2 on 3/11/2007. First one is a magnetic key holder and still there today. 2nd was a TB Hotel made out of stainless steel but long since archived.

[Andronicus]

I certainly hope so! I made my first find yesterday (27 Oct 10) and I put everything back just the way found it. tftc.

Hey, Welcome! hope you had fun, and continue to have fun!

[+jomouse]

My first find was on 08/26/06 and sad to say it is no more

Edited October 30, 2010 by jomouse

[gpsblake]

My first geocache found (GCB0CC) Peachtree Rock Revisited in that Peachtree Rock Nature Preserve is no longer active. Ironically, South Carolina passed a law that prohibits physical geocaches in nature preserves.

 

Only 13 of my first 56 finds are still active.

[dementedtribe]

Yep! L&C Pvt. Shannon Shows UP (GCYE4W) is still there! In reading the forums, seems like we were lucky that our first find was a micro!

[+Mini-Geek]

Yep, found my first cache Jan 1st 2008, before I had my own GC.com account, so it is under a different name. The cache, called Chosen Hill, was placed on 08/03/2002, and has 252 finds to date, and it is still going strong. It recently had its logbook replaced for the first time. It was also one of the first ever caches in the area.

[+myotis]

My first one is still active. I hope it stays that way for about 6 more months. It seems like if your first cache is still active 10 years after you first found it, you should be able to find and log it again. I plan to do this on my 10 anv of finding my first cache.

[+JL_HSTRE]

Yes. I found Bear Den on Jan 2nd of this year and it is still active.

[+popokiiti]

Our first find is still active, in spite of a lot of building that has gone on around it. The building was still going on, the last time I was there. The cache is called 'Bottom's Up' (my position in retrieving it) and was placed on Feb 25/06. We found it on Jan 3/07. The view was a bonus...

[+dakboy]

My first is still active, my second got archived 7 years ago, and my third just got archived yesterday.

[+LightHouseSeekers]

Our first find is still active and should remain so as we adopted it several months later when we learned the CO had left the the state.

[+Keith Watson]

Mine first find is still there. Life in the Pits. September 20, 2003, i was 6th to find it.

[+roziecakes]

Our first cache was "What Lies Beneath" http://coord.info/GCR0HZ on March 10th, 2006. And no, it is not active. It was archived in 2007 because it fell down into its hiding place and was irretrievable.

[+John in Valley Forge]

My first was a virtual. I took a photo of it as I drove by.Edison's Edification

 

My first real cache is near my home and still active The Weir

 

Kinda fun looking at the old logs on the Weir. Lots of names that I have since met and gotten to know. Many more that I still see on long sheets, usually at the top.

[+zsdeng15014]

Our first is The Lean Times(GC18MKD). It's less than a mile as the crow flies away from our house. It is still active.

[+gum-nuts]

Our first find was with some freinds who introduced us to caching - http://coord.info/GCXVBZ found on the 27/09/09.

 

It is still active, but we have taken over the maintenance as the owner is no longer contactable and we are running an event in the area.

[Tahosa and Sons]

Yep its still alive and kicking and I've moved it to a new mountain after I adopted it.

[robertlipe]

Yes. There are a lot of personal memories here, including the death of a family member, but on Christmas Eve of 2001, my son and I logged our first cache that taught me more about the city of my residence than I'd known since I lived here.. He was five. He's now nearing driver permit age. I have nearly 10,000 finds since. The game has changed a LOT, but I'm still having fun. Geocaching has hooked me up with some of the best friends I've ever had.

 

If my first find had been a keyholder in a guardrail, I wonder if it would have stuck... Would you have GPSBabel in Earth or GSAK if it hadn't?

 

When I joined there were 86 geocaches within 100 miles of me. I found ~4x that on Saturday before last.

Edited November 3, 2010 by robertlipe

[+Sarge104]

Do you believe in ghosts? The Whaley House archive January 7, 2010 due to careless cachers causing the Save our heritage organization to contact the cache owner and get it removed.

 

, Sorry to see this one go, dispite not being able to go caching until nearly a year later this one will still give me fond memories of being with friends and discovering a great activity.

[+kleetus]

I would have to say sort of. Before I was caching I found a cache on a bridge in the woods. It was called A Bridge Too Far. When I got a GPSr I went back to "officially" find it. It was there but it was a mess. A lot of people were finding it because it was not a good hiding spot. The owner didn't want to maintain it so I adopted it. There wasn't a good spot for it in it's original spot but a hundred feet or so away there was a great spot. I archived it but re-hid the same container with a new name, The Bridge at Arnhem. That was in '05 and I just replaced the original peanut butter jar with a lock n lock because the top started leaking. However I have a new top and I plan on bringing the original container back.