A tribute to the late Steve Love, AKA Sven, of the Geocache Spoilers YouTube Channel

This was not a scheduled blog post. On April 2nd, 2013, someone started a thread in the Geocaching.com forums asking for advice on great Geocaching videos on YouTube, and of course Steve, known as Sven to Geocachers around the world, was one of the first names that came up. Two of the first eight or so posters to the thread had seen some of the videos, but were not aware of Steve's passing on February 4th, 2012. So I figured a tribute post at a blog that was started a little over a year after his death was in order. The photo below is one of his family's favorites from his Geocaching adventures, and was chosen and provided by his Mother (Username: Svensmum), and used with permission. Click to enlarge.

Steve hailed from the East Midlands region of England, joined Geocaching.com on June 2nd, 2011 (Username: Sven&Cup), and started his YouTube channel only 6 days later. The YouTube channel, incidentally, is actually called Everything about Geocaching and his username was Geocachespoilers, but almost everyone referred to it, and still does, as the Geocachespoilers channel. Now if it sounds to you like he started that channel very quickly, with little experience, you would be wrong; Steve was already a YouTube celebrity, having started the Sven's Motorcycle Fun channel in April 2007. Sven's passion was off road biking, or Dirt Biking, as it's called. This blogger especially likes the helmet cam videos, one of his more humorous and popular ones of which is embedded at the bottom of this post. Sven's Motorcycle Fun channel currently has 17,000,000 views, while his Geocachespoilers channel has "only" 3,000,000 views.