Exploring Life

Geocaching, geocoins and the many roads of life.

This is made up of stories from my caching and my reviewing.  It is a collection of those along with comments and thoughts.  Photos, and maps of some adventures and lists of some of the oldest caches.

Here are the oldest active caches

pan back to see those outside the USA

 Also note, though I have updated my list below, I have not fully updated this list. I will get things added as I have a chance. It was a huge pain to make the map, so I am not excited to add more.


View Year 2000 of Geocaching in a larger map

View Year 2000 of Geocaching in a larger map For an explanation:
Warning Triangle - First Cache
Flags - May 2000
Blue Markers - June 2000
Red Markers - July 2000
Green Markers - August 2000
Turquoise markers - September 2000
Yellow markers - October 2000
Purple markers - November 2000
Redish/Purpleish - December 2000

Notes on the “new list” - Nov 2022

Sweden wore me down. They are very nice about it, but they wore me down. So it was time to update the list. The list now features all the caches from 2000. They are sorted by month. The number is where they rank. There are exceptions. I also pulled a list and found I had missed a few caches, but no one told me. So I added that.

If it has ! I excluded it. Most of them are replacements for old caches. Though not all. you can tell by the GC code. It is way higher than the older ones. GC11E was about the last GC code given out for 2000. Codes later than that may be dated in 2000, but were given codes in 2001

The Swedish cache I did add, however, I gave it a ! As it is a replacement as well. It was archived for 8 or more years. Because of that, I did not consider it on my old list. However, so many people are using this list for finding older nearby caches, I figured I should update this list to what works for your Jasmer challenges.

Now, I have four 17-18 year old interns from Sweden coming to my work Monday. Hmmmm perhaps one is a geocacher…

There were 269 caches listed from the start of caching to the end of 2000. Here is what is left.

The List

1 GC30 11-May-00 Mingo KS
2 GC12 12-May-00 GC12 5/12/2000 OR
3 GC28 13-May-00 Beverly IL
4 GC3E 18-May-00 Lane Cove Australia
5 GC39 26-May-00 The Spot NY
6 GC46 26-May-00 Geocache by Kevin Anderson (Wellington) New Zealand
7 GC31 31-May-00 Arikaree KS
8 t GC1D 3-Jun-00 Beaver Cache GA
8 t GC43 3-Jun-00 Europe's First Ireland
10 GC16 4-Jun-00 GC16 6/4/2000 OR
11 GC1E 11-Jun-00 Tour of Stone Mountain GA
12 GC53 15-Jun-00 Rift Valley Kenya
13 GC25 17-Jun-00 Camels Prairie Stash ID
14 GC37 20-Jun-00 Missouri's First - Watts Mill MO
15 t GCD 21-Jun-00 Geocache (GCD) WA
15 t GC26 21-Jun-00 Two roads ID
15 t GC27 21-Jun-00 Eggcellent ID
18 GC1B 27-Jun-00 Gorilla Stash AR
! GCBBA 28-Jun-00 Geocache * (Was GC41) Canada
19 GC18 2-Jul-00 Tarryall CO
20 GC40 7-Jul-00 Geocache Belgium
21 GC35 16-Jul-00 Power Island MI
22 GC20 17-Jul-00 Marooned GA
23 GC19 20-Jul-00 Geocache CO
24 t GC17 21-Jul-00 Geocache 7/21/2000 OR
24 t GC23 21-Jul-00 Geocache HI
! GC4D 11-Aug-00 Match Stash Sweden
26 GC21 16-Aug-00 Lake Lanier GA
27 GC36 21-Aug-00 Geocache 612 MI
28 GC4D 27-Aug-00 Potters Pond UT
29 GC57 9-Sep-00 Geocache AZ
30 GC5B 10-Sep-00 Phils Memorial Cache CA
31 GC5C 17-Sep-00 Southern Idaho's First! ID
! GC184 21-Sep-00 State Game Lands #109 PA
32 GC5F 24-Sep-00 Yuba City CA
33 GC62 26-Sep-00 Tombstone TX
34 GC67 28-Sep-00 Paul Barclay Stash CO
35 GC68 29-Sep-00 Centurion Guards AK
36 t GC6A 30-Sep-00 Kippers in the Jungle Denmark
36 t GC6E 30-Sep-00 KidsGeoCache AK
36 t GC70 30-Sep-00 Octopus' Garden NC
36 t GC72 30-Sep-00 Sun Gear Finland
40 t GC74 1-Oct-00 First Mass MA
40 t GC76 1-Oct-00 Rock Town GA
42 GC78 2-Oct-00 Firestone CA
43 GC79 7-Oct-00 Iron Horse WA
44 t GC7A 8-Oct-00 Victoria's 1st Australia
44 t GC7B 8-Oct-00 T824 Table Mesa AZ
44 t GC7E 8-Oct-00 Labrynth Canyon AZ
47 t GC7C 9-Oct-00 Beaver Springs UT
47 t GC7D 9-Oct-00 Lowell aka Second Mass MA
47 t GC80 9-Oct-00 Little Creek Stash UT
50 t GC85 14-Oct-00 Cameral Cache MA
50 t GC86 14-Oct-00 Vermont 1 VE
52 t GC8A 15-Oct-00 Pony Express Stash UT
52 t GC89 15-Oct-00 Iron Horse GA
54 GC8E 17-Oct-00 Queens land Austrailia
55 GC90 19-Oct-00 Bonita Lakes MS
56 GC92 22-Oct-00 Un-Original Stash OR
57 GC93 23-Oct-00 Indianas First IN
58 GC9C 27-Oct-00 Rabbit Eye View CA
59 t GC98 28-Oct-00 Texas Double TX
59 t GC9B 28-Oct-00 Clover SpringStash UT
61 GC9E 29-Oct-00 NH #1 - Mines Follies NH
62 GCA1 31-Oct-00 A Walk in the Park TX
63 t GCA5 4-Nov-00 Hembre Ridge OR
63 t GCA6 4-Nov-00 Strathcona Wilderness 1 Canada
63 t GCA8 4-Nov-00 Wah Wah Stash UT
66 GC9FF 5-Nov-00 Alvin's Phone Line MN
67 t GCAD 11-Nov-00 Devil Bend Austrailia
67 t GCAF 11-Nov-00 Mount Cargill (Dunedin, Otago) New Zealand
67 t GCB0 11-Nov-00 Flagstaff hill (Dunedin, Otago) New Zealand
! GC1F11 11-Nov-00 Sydney Geocache Relocated Australia
70 t GCB1 12-Nov-00 Unity Park (Dunedin, Otago) New Zealand
70 t GCB2 12-Nov-00 Botanical Gardens (Dunedin, Otago) New Zealand
72 t GCBC 19-Nov-00 Monte Cristo WA
72 t GCBF 19-Nov-00 Boston Cache NY
74 GCBE 20-Nov-00 Turkey Cache NY
75 GCC2 24-Nov-00 Azucar Mine Offset CA
76 t GCC6 25-Nov-00 Turkey Run Stash IN
76 t GCC7 25-Nov-00 Fowler Park Wilderness Stash IN
76 t GCC8 25-Nov-00 gerbiL cacHe NJ
76 t GCF7 25-Nov-00 Austrialia's Used-to-be-Highest Australia
80 GCC9 28-Nov-00 No Walk in the Park TX
81 t GCD2 2-Dec-00 Doggie Do (revived!) CA
81 t GCD6 2-Dec-00 Born Free CA
83 GCD4 3-Dec-00 Bovine Hill Stash CA
! GC153 6-Dec-00 Sutton Lake New Zealand
84 t GCDE 10-Dec-00 Igor CA
84 t GCE0 10-Dec-00 Aldo's Andover Geocache MA
86 GCE4 11-Dec-00 Another Brick in the Wall CT
87 GCE6 12-Dec-00 Willow Brook Wander MA
88 GCF0 15-Dec-00 Scotland's First Scotland
89 t GCED 17-Dec-00 Senda de Tonto AZ
89 t GCEF 17-Dec-00 CenTex Prime TX
89 t GCF1 17-Dec-00 Frying Pan Australia
! GC175 17-Dec-00 Burke Lake Park VA
92 GCF2 19-Dec-00 The Silver Lake Stash SC
93 GCF4 24-Dec-00 Modoc Stash SC
94 GC111 25-Dec-00 Napa County's First Geocache CA
95 GCF9 26-Dec-00 XKD-380 NV
96 t GCFE 27-Dec-00 Diablo Point Cache AZ
96 t GC101 27-Dec-00 Hudson's Folly NY
98 t GC104 28-Dec-00 Dragon Head Cache CA
98 t GC106 28-Dec-00 Santa Barbara One CA
100 GC108 29-Dec-00 Survival Cache CA
101 GC10A 30-Dec-00 dElAWare 7{1} DE
102 t GC10F 31-Dec-00 Bradley Palmer Geocache MA
102 t GC11E 31-Dec-00 Vitreous CA

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