What is the title of the very first geocache placed in Finland, on 30 September 2000?
The answer : Sun Gear
Sun Gear
On Geocoins.io
- Category
- Tributes
- Rarity
- Common
- Published
- 28 August 2026
- Extension
- Reviewer
- Forge
- Not craftable
- Collected by
- 55 player(s)
On geocaching.com
- Cache type
- Traditional Cache
- GC code
- GC72
- Owner
- kalle
- Published
- 30 September 2000
The Sun Gear geocache (GC72) was placed on 30 September 2000 by Kalle Reunanen in the woods at Kerava, a railway and industrial town some thirty kilometres north of Helsinki. It is the first geocache in Finland.
Its owner, a hiker equipped with a GPS, had read an article on Slashdot on 25 September 2000 pointing to a site then called GPS Stash Hunt. Five days later the box was in the forest: he liked rocky outcrops and had looked on the map for a spot that would suit. The cache takes its name from what he put inside: a pair of sunglasses, a keyring and mint sweets. The first find was not logged until January 2001, and it took until the following October for a Finn to sign the logbook - Reunanen himself tells the story of those early days.