Geotees

• Our Geocaching Shop
  • Grounspeak Items
    • Trade & Swaps
    • Decals & Stickers
    • Trackables
    • Accessories
  • Geocaches
    • Nano Caches
    • Micro Caches
    • Regular cache
    • Ready Made
    • Cunning Caches
    • Accessories
    • Cache Labels
  • Geocoins
    • Current Geocoins
    • Vintage Geocoins
    • Finds Geocoins
    • Hides Geocoins
    • Zodiac Tags
  • Trackables
  • Car Decals
  • Caching Clothing
  • Camping
  • Geopatches & Pins
  • Trade Items
  • Geocaching Mugs
  • Canine Caching
  • Handy Items
  • Shirt & Mug Deal
  • Sports Kites
  • GAGB Items
• Geotees Blog
• Contact Us
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  • Geocaching.com
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  • Follow the Arrow
  • Uk Geocaching Chatroom

Geotees aims to offer reasonably priced Gocaching supplies and other related items to the Geocaching community. It is a hobby/pastime with many similarties to letterboxing. The main differences are that the clues are given as GPS coordinates, and geocachers use the 'take an item, leave an item' system when finding a cache, instead of stamping it.

Geotees was established in April 2008 by two friends who where and still are experienced cachers, who looked around and where slightly disillusioned about the provision and cost of Geocaching related items at that time. They realised that they could offer objects for sale for cheaper prices than what was currently around. Always keeping cost in mind and with a lot of hard work our product range has grown to be quite comprehensive and should meet the needs of any level of geocacher from novice to the very experienced.

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The Birth of Geocaching

GPS, or Global Positioning System, was developed by the US Department of Defense. This satellite navigation system was intended for military use and therefore the signals were scrambled, limiting accuracy for civilian use to about 100 meters. On May 1, 2000, President Clinton announced that this scrambling, known as Selective Availability (SA), would be turned off. Civilians were then able to enjoy accuracy on the order of 10 meters.

On May 3, 2000, Dave Ulmer proposed a way to celebrate the demise of SA. He hid a bucket of trinkets in the woods outside Portland, Oregon and announced its location in a posting made to the USENET newsgroup sci.geo.satellite-nav. This announcement is remarkable for laying out the essence of the hobby that is still in place today. It's all there. The container. The trinkets. The log book. The rule of take something, leave something, sign the logbook. Dave Ulmer invented geocaching in one fell swoop in that newsgroup posting.

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