2022 Fall Picnic
2022 SLAGA Christmas Party
Bellefontaine CITO November 2022
Cachemas 2022 Bonus Day
SLAGA at GeoWoodstock 2023
2024 SLAGA Spring Picnic
2025 New Year's Day Hike, Fort Bellefontaine
Cachetur 101 Class - March 2025
2025 Winter Potluck
2025 Spring Picnic
2025 Spring Picnic
2025 GigaStock in Morgantown WV
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SLAGA at Ted Drewes 2025
2025 Christmas Event
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2026 Winter Potluck
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The 2026 SLAGA Travel Bug Race Begins in May! Send your trackable into the wild and watch the adventure unfold.
TB Drop-off: SLAGA Spring Picnic – April 25, 2026 (GCBKMAJ)
Official Race Start: GeoWoodstock XXII – May 23, 2026 (GCB7GWH)
Race Finish Line: One week prior to the January 2027 SLAGA Potluck (TBD)
The starting line is back in sight as SLAGA kicks off a brand-new Travel Bug Race season. This annual favorite invites members to send their travel bugs and other trackables out into the world, watching as fellow geocachers help them journey from cache to cache.
How to Enter the Race
Race Core Categories
This year's race will use the same categories as last year.
In the event of a tie in any category, total miles shown on the TB’s page (minus any starting corrections) will be used as the tiebreaker.
Each participant may enter only one Travel Bug and may win only one category. If a participant places in multiple categories, the second-place TB becomes the category winner.
Racing Tips to Improve Your Chances
New to Travel Bugs?
A Travel Bug or trackable is a uniquely coded geocaching item owned by a player. Its tracking code allows its movement to be logged online each time it is picked up and placed in another cache, creating a shared adventure for everyone involved.
We encourage participants to prepare their trackables in advance and bring them to the designated SLAGA kickoff event for official entry. From there, the community takes over, moving the trackables along and adding stories to their travels.
Whether your travel bug crosses state lines or circles close to home, every log adds to the story. Throughout the season, updates and standings will be shared so everyone can follow the progress and cheer on their favorites.
So dust off those dog tags, prep your trackable, and get ready to race. Adventure, camaraderie, and plenty of logging await in this year’s SLAGA Travel Bug Race!
[Race Information provided by SLAGA member and Travel Bug manager, Mark Derr.]
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Looking for an update on the SLAGA Travel Bug race standings? Well look no further, here they are!
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Congratulations to SLAGA's September Adventure Awaits Challenge Winner Eunice Glover, aka Loonwoman! Eunice has participated in the monthly challenge for the past five months and qualified for her September win with these four mystery caches and one event cache:
Cache 1: GCB91DZ Music for Your Ears
Cache 2: GCB3FF2 Welcome to Neon Park
Cache 3: GCB7GNW Tombstone Tourist ALab Bonus
Cache 4: GCB80TB One in the Hole… at Black Forest County Park
Event: GCBC4ZZ SW StL Happy Hour Nearly Octoberfest Edition
Eunice actually started finding geocaches nearly 20 years ago when her friend and then coworker Blue Daisy told her there was a fun outdoor game she should try. And indeed she enjoyed looking for caches, but did not like sitting at the computer and logging them. After the two friends' work shifts changed, Eunice no longer had time off with her friend and only cached during their MOGA trips. Then fast forward to 2024, and Eunice retired and decided she wanted to get more exercise as well as spend time with friends, so she finally joined SLAGA and jump started her renewed geocaching hobby.
These days, Eunice gets out regularly with her caching friends Blue Daisy, Geo Conformity and Major134, and since she's joined SLAGA and is now logging her caches, her find count is rising rapidly. Eunice has found over 2400 geocache in 21 US states in every container size, and is expanding her geocache type finds now.
When interviewed, Eunice shared a scary caching memory of, "being on an edge of a drop-off and holding a sapling while grabbing a cache when (she) first started and was more fearless." She also shared a couple police encounters including one when she and her friend were, "at an event down at Cliff Cave Park and the Pacific Railroad police stopped us, Blue Daisy and I, and issued us a warning for being on railroad property."
Eunice enjoys going to MOGAs and GeoWoodstock, as well as geo-road trips with friends. She says she, "likes to discover new places, meet new folks, and see how people hide their caches that are different than those seen around here. It also allows (her) to pick up Earthcaches as well as more virtuals."
Eunice is a certainly a true geocacher now, going out caching weekly and finally logging her finds 20 years after being introduced to the game. She is an active member and wonderful addition to the SLAGA community and now the September Challenge winner too!
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It's that time again! Let's check in to see how our race participants are going!
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It's time once again for another TB race update! How are things stacking up?
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Much like the weather, the travel bug race is heating up! Let's check in and see how things stand as of the end of July
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