The heat was on during the 'Red, White, Blue, Stars, Stripes and Flags' month of Adventure Awaits, and SLAGA's repeat winner was no stranger to conquering that heat and the challenge. Robert Klemme, aka GeoKid12, aka original FTF events and Family Game Night host, SLAGA board V.P., and current Father Cachemas is the July 2025 winner. His qualifying geocaches for his win include:
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Cache 1: GCB7KX4 Starry Penguin Event
Cache 2: GCB9NH4 Red Stripe, Blue Flag, White Stars
Cache 3: GCB7KXD Red, white, and blue Penguin event
Cache 4: GCB9V1N Tougher Kids Come in Many Stripes Too - Challenge
Event Cache: GCB99BC NoCo Game Night Pre-Summer Picnic Edition
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When he last won in December 2023, Robert had just over 10,800 geocache finds. Currently he has nearly 14,400! That's due partially to his daily caching streak of 2121 consecutive days since 10/26/2019. It is also due to his numerous caching trips to various events around the country, including this year's MOGA in Abilene, KS in March, where he placed in the individual and 2-person team competitions, and his first GIGA attendance at GeoWoodstock XXI in Morgantown, West Virgina in May. Besides these two high cache-count events plus a county run in Mississippi ealier this year, where he completed the state, some of his recent and future plans are upping his finds numbers significantly as well.
From the last week in July continuing through September, Robert's calendar includes Geocaching trips every other week.
- MWGB July 23rd - 27th
- West Bend Cache Ba$h August 7th - 10th
- New England County Run August 19th - 24th
- Grand Canyon & 4 Corners August 30th - September 7th
As of this win, he has already succeeded in acquiring his first block party icon, and will continue to accomplish goals of obtaining caches in many new counties, new states, and one new province, as well as finding 18 Cache Odyssey Caches by the end of his travels this year.
When Robert provided pictures for this article, during his interview for the July win, one particular one stood out with that OMG factor! This journalist, knowing he enjoys camping during his geotravels, had to get this story.
"It's Saturday night after everything has wound down from the West Bend $1000 Cache Ba$h 2025 event, and it's looking like rain is moving in, so I decide to turn in early. I'm hanging out in my tent and eventually the rain does start. No problem, I've been up here when it's rained before. With that I go to sleep. At some point overnight my camping fan, hanging overhead, ran out of power. I moved it to my bucket seat and plugged it in to the electric box at the rear of the site with a green extension cord, so I could continue using it. Early in the morning I'm awoken by the fan tipping over. Curious as to why, I looked over and saw my bucket seat was at a slight angle, having been raised up on one side by a water bubble underneath the tent. Checking on the conditions of everything else, I discovered a few inches of water in the corner of my tent. Taking a peek out the window I was immediately alerted as to why! Turns out I was actually surrounded by water, since it had rained around 10" overnight. Fortunately I had packed up the majority of my stuff last night so there was nothing directly on the floor of my tent...except for the electrical power strip, yikes! Glad I got that de-energized before it was submerged. Everything else I consolidated onto my cot as I threw on my shower shoes and began the process of packing up while slogging through over a foot of water. Oh and it's still raining. Some things ended up quite waterlogged by the end, but ultimately it was all in the car and I could begin my journey home where they could be set out to dry off later."
So glad Robert didn't heat up himself during that 'electrifying' experience. But congratulations from all of SLAGAland to GeoKid12 for his July 2025 win. Adventure Awaits on every geotrip he plans.