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2020 Leap Day Flash Mob

SLAGA at Ted Drewes - 2021

Summer Picnic 2022

Rich & Charlotte - a couple of the founding members

Grilling Meat for the 2022 Fall Picnic

2022 Fall Picnic

Checking for new cache notifications

Bellefontaine CITO November 2022

2022 SLAGA Christmas Party

Cachemas 2022 Bonus Day

SLAGA at GeoWoodstock 2023

Geocaching 101 Class at Maplewood Library

GeoGolf 2023

2024 New Years Day Hike

Choking the life out of our president

2024 SLAGA Spring Picnic

CONGRATULATIONS

John Layman, vorlon40,on your SLAGA Adventure Awaits Monthly Challenge win and $10 Gift Card prize! 

vorlon40
On 3/20/24, John marched his way to find four of his five geocaches, each with a different difficulty rating, after having attended some D1 events earlier in the month.  He found the four on the same day, in the same area, that all fit the challenge.  
Speaking of a challenge, John stated "I love challenges [and] solving puzzles, although I'm not always good at it.  I try to seek out challenge caches that I qualify for or can work towards."  He's currently working on completing his fourth FIZZY and his second JASMER!  And some of his other geocaching ventures include focusing on completing series of caches like 'Hidden Creatures' and 'Legends of the Sword.' 

 As for his March Adventure Awaits qualifying caches, John, of course, chose a few 'challenging' caches: 

 

GCAK97T:  D1 Event:  Tuesday Penguin Event

GC3NTV6:  D4 Unknown: Top Ten Christmas Songs - TTCS

GC2M6X7:  D3.5 Unknown: The Two Flutes Tree - TFT

GCA3TOA:  D3 Traditional:  Spanning the River

GCAB7G4:  D2.5 Traditional:  Duck

 

John started geocaching in January of 2015 after he and his wife, Cindy, had exhausted their hunt for all the St. Louis 250th birthday celebration cakes in 2014.  They were looking for something else to do together to explore the area.  Since he'd taken a geocaching class and used a Garmin eTrex GPS, finding some hole punchers hidden in the area, John thought that this outdoor 'game' might be the next fun adventure. So he signed up for a geocaching account under vorlon40 and "found his first cache close to home with a Garmin Nuvi car GPS, but quickly switched to using Cindy’s smartphone, since he didn’t have one at that time.  [He] eventually got [his] own smartphone and a GPS." As stated in his SLAGA officer profile also, John mentioned "one of my favorite cache adventures was a 5/5 which involved solving a two stage cypher and then hiking a 6.5 mile, two stage multi up the ski slopes of Copper Mountain, CO from 10,000 to 12,000 feet."

 

Since that beginning, John has found nearly 7100 caches, has hidden (some adopted) 50 caches, has acquired a love for challenging caches, and has already cached in 37 states to date.  It's obvious he thoroughly enjoys epic adventures which include his SLAGA area group accomplishments of finding 'The Architect' and 'Mysterious Treasure,' both D5/T5s. These geocaching achievements and goals all point to John being an avid and well-rounded geocacher, who enjoys caching thrills and looks forward to his next adventure. Does Adventure Await you too?