Oldest Cache That You Found...Active or Archive
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- armygreenx
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Re: Oldest Cache That You Found...Active or Archive
http://coord.info/GC184
State Game Lands #109 is now my oldest found cache. I still haven't even grabbed the oldest cache in Ohio. I should do that sometime...
State Game Lands #109 is now my oldest found cache. I still haven't even grabbed the oldest cache in Ohio. I should do that sometime...
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Re: Oldest Cache That You Found...Active or Archive
Mingo GC30
Supposedly the 7th placed cache ever and the oldest active cache in the world
Somewhere near Nowhere, Kansas.
Supposedly the 7th placed cache ever and the oldest active cache in the world
Somewhere near Nowhere, Kansas.
- TeamMina
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Re: Oldest Cache That You Found...Active or Archive
So what is the next oldest active cache after "Mingo"?
- Handyman-N-Fam
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Re: Oldest Cache That You Found...Active or Archive
GC12 was placed the day after Mingo.TeamMina wrote:So what is the next oldest active cache after "Mingo"?
After GC12 is Beverly, one day later.
Here is a list of the oldest 10 caches.
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Re: Oldest Cache That You Found...Active or Archive
So why is gc 30 placed before gc12? What's with the numbering system. ?
- Stumpy75
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When the earliest numbering system was converted to the current one, the early caches were renumbered by state, not when they were placed. Not even sure they did the states alphabetically! Maybe GG can shed some more light on this.
- Handyman-N-Fam
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Re: Oldest Cache That You Found...Active or Archive
From what I can tell, they started on the west coast, and worked their way east.Keystone wrote: The reason why the codes are out of order is because Jeremy assigned the first batch of GC Codes by State rather than by Date Hidden when he set up the initial Geocaching.com database in September 2000.
- scuba
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I can finally post here. I just got back from a vacation with the grandkids and planned it so I could get this cache "Mingo" hidden on 5-11-2000 , the oldest still active cache. I found it on 6-19-2011
- SuchaNana
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congrats Scuba - great memories for the grandkidzzz too...scuba wrote:I can finally post here. I just got back from a vacation with the grandkids and planned it so I could get this cache "Mingo" hidden on 5-11-2000 , the oldest still active cache. I found it on 6-19-2011
SuchaNana...Life is STILL an Adventure...
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CenTex Prime 12-17-2000 (GCEF) - just got back from San Antonio and this was on the list of things to do!
- Team_Maltese
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Re: Oldest Cache That You Found...Active or Archive
We logged GC30 - Mingo in early September before it went missing, then grabbed the oldest in Iowa on the drive home.
We hadn't thought of looking for the oldest caches until Handyman mentioned Mingo, so a big thanks to Russ!
We hadn't thought of looking for the oldest caches until Handyman mentioned Mingo, so a big thanks to Russ!
woof-woof from geo-pups Zoe and Daisy