geocaching - back to the roots

on 2. Mai 2000 Dave Ulmer wrote:
--

-- Now that SA is off we can start a worldwide Stash Game!! With Non-
SA
accuracy is should be easy to find someone's stash from waypoint
information.
Waypoints of secret stashes could be shared on the Internet, people
could
navigate to the stashes and get some stuff. The only rule would for
stashes
is: Get some Stuff, Leave some Stuff!!

I'm thinking of half burying a five gallon plastic bucket with lid at
the
stash point. Putting in some stuff. Adding a logbook and pencil so
visitors
can record their find.

I'll look for a place near a road where few people would normally
go...

Have Fun!!

Dave...

what do you think about: back to the roots?
Geocaching is now more than hiding and seeking a little plastic box.
More and more features has to be implemented and the interesting place
is now not the aim. It is to get points in the players profile.
because of this we are posting the coordinate for a geocache hear:
N 53=B0 12.529 E 010=B0 25.897
the cache is placed at the roots of a big tree, which i know since my
childhood. The biggst oak in the wood Tiergarten south of L=FCneburg.

if you like, go and find the box.

greatings from germany L=FCneburg

Kerstin und Jens

Dear Kerstin and Jens,

we feel a little bit like Mike Teague -- we were the first to find of
your cache "back to the roots".


Should geocaching go "back to the roots"? We don't know. We are going
caching for the hunt and the fun of it. We like to go out in the woods
(even when we disklike the many ticks in our region) and also urban
caches as well. We like to see caches, where the owner had fun hiding.
You chose a place you know since your childhood; that has a personal
meaning for us as geocachers as well: when we try to find your cache, we
are going in your footsteps. (One of our caches has a similar meaning,
but you can understand the full intention only when you know the coin we
put in the cache as we hid it -- but that's another story.) Many of the
features that are now implemented in geocaching are not of interest for
us, that's why we are still no premium members at geocaching.com. But we
think, that the internet changed its face and geocaching just went with
it. Back in 2000 the usenet was much more frequented than today and it
had a character of a community. Today you have web 2.0 and there are
many communities in the www. Geocaching.com could be such a community as
well: you can contact the owner or other cachers very easily, you have
the opportunity to make a friendlist (ok, not with much functionality)
and you have events where you can meet other geocachers. And what means
"back to the roots"? If you have a look at geocaching history it was
Mike Teague, the first finder of the first geocache, who put up a
website for logging caches. We won't make a website for logs for your
cache, but we hope it will be published on geocaching.com soon. We like
the idea of your cache very much and we hope, that we see you again on
one of the next events in Lüneburg and can speak with you about "back to
the roots" personally.

Thank you very much for the great cache!

Sandra and Thorsten

Greetings from the Root !!

I see a lot of people have taken my advice to Have Fun !!

See Ya,

Dave...




on 2. Mai 2000 Dave Ulmer wrote:
--

-- Now that SA is off we can start a worldwide Stash Game!! With Non-
SA
accuracy is should be easy to find someone's stash from waypoint
information.
Waypoints of secret stashes could be shared on the Internet, people
could
navigate to the stashes and get some stuff. The only rule would for
stashes
is: Get some Stuff, Leave some Stuff!!

I'm thinking of half burying a five gallon plastic bucket with lid at
the
stash point. Putting in some stuff. Adding a logbook and pencil so
visitors
can record their find.

I'll look for a place near a road where few people would normally
go...

Have Fun!!

Dave...

what do you think about: back to the roots?
Geocaching is now more than hiding and seeking a little plastic box.
More and more features has to be implemented and the interesting place
is now not the aim. It is to get points in the players profile.
because of this we are posting the coordinate for a geocache hear:
N 53° 12.529 E 010° 25.897
the cache is placed at the roots of a big tree, which i know since my
childhood. The biggst oak in the wood Tiergarten south of Lüneburg.

if you like, go and find the box.

greatings from germany Lüneburg

Kerstin und Jens

on 2. Mai 2000 Dave Ulmer wrote:
--

-- Now that SA is off we can start a worldwide Stash Game!! With Non-
SA
accuracy is should be easy to find someone's stash from waypoint
information.
Waypoints of secret stashes could be shared on the Internet, people
could
navigate to the stashes and get some stuff. The only rule would for
stashes
is: Get some Stuff, Leave some Stuff!!
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I remember these times. I stopped geocaching when the caches started
showing up in Wal-Mart parking lots. The game changed from finding
interesting locations to playing hide and seek for a film canister in a
parking lot.

Maybe it is me, but I don't enjoy looking under rocks. Show me someplace
interesting.

This is the usual situation when the hobby of a few is discovered and taken
over by the crowds.
An example is usenet by itsself: commercial boxes harvesting the binary
newsgroups and downloading movies automatically, thereby directing the
attention of unwanted organizations, and destroying the entire environment,
just for the quick profit of selling those boxes. I think they existed for
not more than 6 months.

Kees.