Dave Ulmer & The First Geocache

[GoGeocaching]

Thanks for the history lesson!

[NvrTuLate]

I love this video. I am just catching the geocaching bug. It has been raining a lot here, but have a couple places figured out where I might find one without a gps. Can't believe how expensive the gps' are. Any ideas for an old girl to get one cheap?

[geopablomac]

@NvrTuLate Try to reach up to at least $150-$200 for your first GPS, otherwise you risk wanting features shortly after purchasing a basic model that lack those features.

[NvrTuLate]

@geopablomac  Thank you so much.

[BrosephLax]

Swag. Lol

[PARKOURTARGET60]

we need more in new zealand lets go kiwis!!!!!!!!!!

[ASongInMySoul6]

Back when swag was legit...oh my goodness!

[Alphabetbubi]

Der Ursprung! Das Mekka!

[Froggdude000]

@johnmonk66 on the bright side you find a geocache every tenth of a mile. Fast finds is how I see it.

[geocachespoilers]

good video

[barraseaclaid]

piece of geocaching history...funny though the hide now breaks two of the rules now....

cant bury caches

no food in caches

[bluesnote1]

Gunna see if we can get thousands of these all over the country. Yeah right! Try over a million oll over the world. and NO im telling the truth.

[mngeocaching]

Looking forward to visiting in may!

[johnmonk66]

This guy invented geocaching, but now you can't put food in it, and you can not bury it. Why did he change his own rules?

[mugger78]

@johnmonk66 He invented the game, but did not create all the rules... they have been evolving as the game grows.

[johnmonk66]

@mugger78 Too bad others took control of his idea, I can understand the no food rule, and even the no burying rule so we don't damage property, but these guys controling the NY area are a pain in the butt. No geocaches within 500 feet of another geocache, in the city some parks are barely 500 feet wide, so you plant one and the park is locked off, gotta travel miles to another park. They need to rethink silly rules like that.

[charlottevautier]

The rusty can Jeff is holding in his hand that Dave says is the remains of the can of beans he hid in the bucket (original geocache container) is bent over nearly in half - and looks nothing like the rusty standing STRAIGHT UP can Team360 brings to events for display - so after seeing this video pic of the OCB - and having seen Team360's 'OCB" - at GeoWoodstock V in Raleigh, NC - I don't see how Team360's display can in any way be THE original!

[DocHollidayinAZ]

@charlottevautier

It's the original one, alright. I spent over a week carefully straightening out the can, then treated it with several coats of rust converter/stopper and then a layer of UV-resistant polyurethane to protect it and keep it together.

I even double checked the date code on the can, which confirms the same manufacturer and puts the production date in the correct timeframe that Dave Ulmer himself confirmed.

Found at the site, and confirmed by Dave and the date code. It's real.

[sillybaby888]

I'm in the market for a handheld, saw some good articles on gpssatnavreviews (.) com

[freewill51]

I'm new and love it. I am up to 7! (I guess that makes me a geo-virgin) I just wonder why many are hidden in grave yards? I don't like to be seen wondering around in one. It kind of seems rude.

[Warstein0r]

THANK YOU DAVE ULMER !!!!!!!!!!!

[HistoryCaching]

Dave, thank you so much for your geocaching invention. It is a great way to spend time with my family and it is something that we can all enjoy. Thanks!

[tdkbproductions]

Amazing. Just amazing. He is a genius who has created an obsession for tens of thousands of people! (probably more)!

[brolios]

I love geocaching!! Where is this one again?

[geopablomac]

@brolios N 45° 17.460 W 122° 24.800

[bobowiser]

watching this video and reading the list of the original contents, I see a can of black eye peas. I alwas thought The Original Can of Beans was a can of pork and beans.

[lizziesmama]

So THAT'S who I blame for my obsession!!! heheheh Thanks for coming up with it - cuz I'm addicted!

[janX9]

TFTV

[SleepyFox79]

AWESOME! i cant begin to tell you what it was like the first time me and my mom went geo-caching, ulmer should get a nobel peace prize for the this! the changes this made in peoples lives all over the world is countless!

[chaosbooboogunner]

Its a can of black eyed peas not beans!!!!!

[tjdamon]

it does say Black eyed peas, I'll be damned. So it should be the original can of "Peas". He even say's can of peas"

[bluesnote1]

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!

[juluspahl]

thousands???? Try passing a million now all over the world......I love geocaching

[geopablomac]

@juluspahl When I posted this video, there were only "thousands" of geocaches!

[Thing07]

So... what are in these things anyway?

[tshirtdav]

"gunna see if we can get thousands of these all over the country..."

[denelson83]

Well, it's now turned into hundreds of thousands all over the *world*.

[Aniland]

@denelson83 As of a few days ago, over a million active. :) I love geocaching

[IC2720]

That's crazy talk mate. The first GPS satellite system was in place in 1993. In 1996 President Clinton directed a policy change to include use by civilians. I was using GPS surveying GPSR's by the late 1990's.

[wdywoodpecker15]

Geocaching is so awesome! Just thinking about it is fun!

[jscrewed]

@wdywoodpecker15 I want to start this so called "geo-caching"

[wdywoodpecker15]

@jscrewed Um... well how I started out was by reading the book The Complete Idiot's Guide to Geocaching. It helped me get to know more about it... or google Geocaching and you could find a bunch of links online to help you start. I'm still waht you'd call a newbie to geocaching but it's fun!

[geopablomac]

A bucket turning into a can of beans is nothing. You should see some of the magic that happens in geocaching.

Either that, or the bucket was the original geocache container, with the can of beans inside when Dave Ulmer placed it, and Team360 dug up the Original Can of Beans when he was preparing the site for the plaque.

[denelson83]

Yes, it was the second outcome. I have yet to lay my eyes on the OCB firsthand, but someday...

[DocHollidayinAZ]

@geopablomac

The bucket was the original container, and the can was placed inside. When Dave pulled the bucket, it was full of water. As he dumped the water back into the hole in the ground, the can of beans (black eyed peas, actually) also went into the hole, where I recovered it some years later.

[geopablomac]

As I clearly indicated in the captions, the first segment is Dave Ulmer preparing the first geocache in 2000, and the next segment, where they are placing the plaque and showed the Original Can of Beans, was shot in 2003.

[ranhefner]

@geopablomac The plaque may say "can of beans", but, if you look at the "GPS Stash" log, it was a can of blackeye peas.

[geopablomac]

Feel free to tell Mr. Ulmer, who supplied me the footage in this video, that it's fake.

[geocachefinder]

Look at my channel for Geocaching Container ideas and 2 GPS Reviews! Thanks, -Geocache Finder

[smalltownmnm392]

i geocach all the time! (4mnms) found 560 and is still going up

[compasscoins]

its cool to see how geocaching got started

[keithlemonsgeo]

This is so neat, don't know what took so long for me to find this video. Thanks

[zeppelingitis]

It won't become a National Historic Site. The National Park Service doesn't allow it, and I hope people know that.

[geopablomac]

I'm pretty sure the vast majority of people recognized Dave's comment as the joke it was meant to be.

[zeppelingitis]

Yeah. Just using the statement to bring up a point.

[TheRiddle1993]

reallly great...

[Natureshadow05]

If this is authentic, it's cool!

[AnnaMDurrance]

I LOVE GEOCACHING! I just bought a new GPS to get back at it. Thanks!

[ToBeOrNotToBeThatGuy]

Amazing vid! Some awesome history in this!

TFTV!

[ACWrestlingCO]

arnt you worried about muggles seeing this?

[geopablomac]

Nope.

[txchiktraveler]

I just started caching a week ago. All this time I was missing out. Now I have to "cache" up! I LOVE IT! Thanks!

[JaxFireman]

Maybe where he comes from that is actually considered beans. . a reqional thing who knows.

All I know for sure is my wife wants to knock him over the head after all the "adventures" I have taken her on with my GPS Unit in hand.

[nj4x4fever2]

We Have Been caching For A While Now, we love it and everything that goes with it, thanks for the addiction.

[Shinobi022]

I just got introduced to geocaching by my big brother. I love it! Thanks to Dave Ulmer.

[BlakerandNicoBello]

i saw the ORIGINAL can of beans at geo wood stalk! but umm the can of beans is actually a can of black eyed peas. but it is fine because black eyed peas ARE a type bean. so its all good.

[GEOCACHINGJEFF]

There are now over 635,000 geocaches placed throughout the world, WOW!!

[dav4ix]

now there are 764,957 !! :D ...

[GEOCACHINGJEFF]

Very cool!! I saw the original can of beans at an event in New Mexico last year. I just found my 1500th cache yesterday and would love to find the original stash someday, but I live in New Mexico and don't travel much.

Thanks for putting this on YouTube!!

[redstapler747]

oops didnt mean to publish that last comment i spelled it wrong ( by a long shot )but as i was saying, HOLY GUACAMOLE! it is a can of blackeyed peas! DAMMIT! i went to geowoodstock in weatland and saw the can of beans, to bad it was backeyed peas all along the other cachers will be so sad =( =( =( =( =(

[dennisplantagenet]

Cool vid. Can't wait to get out there and check this one off the to do list. Thanks Dave Ulmer for inventing the coolest outdoor hobby there is.

[twferry]

As a geocacing addict it was great to stumble across this video. Thanks for throwing it up on youtube.

[NickSaxMan1]

I've been to the acual cache. It's really cool. There's an ammo box for Travel items too. :)

[alexschweigert]

Cool! Thank you for showing! Regards Alex

[beakmo]

I've been to that one its cool and there is like a plate thing that says 1st Geocache ever

[SoulDancer66]

Yes the coordinates are listed on the geocaching website.

[metalshredder]

Anyone know the coordinates of the original cache?

[geopablomac]

See the "About This Video" section above.

[elanicstuff]

(sung to the tune of a "The First Noel")

The first geocache

Dave Ulmer did say

A five-gallon bucket, I'll stash out this way

A logbook and some things, and a nice can of beans

A new treasure hidden, you know what that means

Chorus:

Geocache, geocache, geocache, geocaaaaaaaaaching!

Born is the dream of the first geo-stash!

(someone else finish these lyrics... I ain't doin' it...!) ;)

[ranhefner]

Only problem is there was not a can of beans in the cache. Look at the inventory on the log book in this video.  It CLEARLY says a "can of blackeye peas."

[NurseofHope]

Holy Cow! I believe you are right. Wow, I don't know if people are gonna accept this new fact though. Afterall, the can of beans is already legendary. There are geocoins out there commemorating beans.

That's a good eye to catch that and point it out. I guess we'll always know better.

[Bmk87ca]

in the video you can see a can in the cache

[ranhefner]

Of course there is a can...A "can of blackeye peas"!

[DocHollidayinAZ]

@ranhefner

No problem at all...Dave himself said he wrote it down wrong on the inventory log. Take another look, he also wrote down the wrong date on that log...doesn't change the facts about when the cache was actually placed or what was inside.

[Nighteagle1701]

awesome!!!!!!!!!!!actual footage of the birth of my favorite hobby

[firegaze21]

What a great piece of history! I had no idea there was real time video footage of the original "stash". And now there are about 1000 within 10 miles of my house. :-)

[taylorbrent]

Where do you live?? lol

I need to come there and do some serious power caching! ;-)

[firegaze21]

The center of it all these days, Seattle. :-)

And weirdly I have all of 88 finds in over a year.

[PocketMoose]

Awesome video. Really really great.

[gijoedaisy]

Wow, great piece of history! Team 1316 thanks you! :)

[akilli8989]

wow, 7 years later and now look, this is great!

[teleman42]

It is truly amazing how far this has come. I live in Michigan and the are 80 caches within the 3 mile radius of my house. LONG LIVE GEOCACHING!!!!!!!!

[johnportier]

what is the coordinates on this one

[ldsconvert]

From now on, when I warm up a can of beans I will be telling my wife I am warming up "original swag." Cool Vid.

[Marsupilamiwien]

Thanks fot that great historical document

I do geocaching since 5months

I never found such a great and harmonic comuntiy !!!

it was the best i ever did to get a garmin and started searching..

Keep on moving

The way is you goal

[y2kjonrichards]

This is really interesting to see, just to think how many there are now around the world.

[cre8ovation]

me and my brother found one of your pods without knowing what it was about a month ago. we had never heard of such a thing. it was almost scary. we were exploring some remote area of the keys. we were kinda all over the place so dont know where exactly. no gps or nothing and unintentionally came across one. we followed the rules and here i am following up on this. wow.

[DiscGolfDiver]

It's kind of an honor to see this. Thanks for posting it!

[daveulmer]

Yes, it was May 2000. My brain simply had not turned the calendar page yet and I wrote the wrong date on the first log book. I only discovered my mistake much later.

Dave Ulmer

[DonandVin]

My wife and I stopped by this cache this year on our vacation.

Thank you, Dave!

[CraigInCT]

Damn Cool!!!

To see the first cache before it was placed and the discovery of the O.C.B., TBGJAA, as well as the plaque, GCGVOP, makes for a nice historical documentation of a piece of our obsession.

[STH1996]

Thanks for posting this. Very cool! I only wish there was more footage! BTW, I'm pretty sure the Dave Ulmer video was filmed in May 2000, not April... he had the wrong date on the log book. SA was turned off May 1, 2000.

[geopablomac]

Selective Availability was turned off in May 2000, and Dave Ulmer placed the first geocache in the same month, but he shot this video of his cache preparation in April of 2000.