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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

During the month of endless sizzling summer days, Su&Sco/Susan Bevis, with the help of her husband Scott, geocached her way to the August Adventure Awaits monthly challenge win! With the interesting challenge of finding an event cache plus five caches, one each starting with a letter in our group's acronym, she had her work cut out for her. But Susan made it look easy and qualified for her win with the following geocaches:

                               GC673HN             S  hort Circuit
                               GC7T9D2              L  ouis's Statue
                               GC99Z5R              A  wakening II Virtual
                               GC8C4H1             G  nome Home #1
                               GC995HV             A  merican Thunder 
                               GCAVXYV           Marian's Happy Hour 
 
Adventure Awaits August SU at Awakening
 
 
When asked why she and her husband chose those particular geocaches for the challenge and why they chose to participate in the Adventure Awaits, Susan said, "We had already found all but Awakening II Virtual, Gnome Home, and Marian’s Happy Hour Event when we became aware of the August challenge. Since we were in the St. Louis area for doctor appointments and were caching anyway, we decided to make a try for it. It seemed like a fun goal, and we like challenges and goals in geocaching. This was actually our first attempt at completing a monthly challenge and we're happy to complete it. We were kind of surprised to have been chosen."  
 
Susan and her husband began geocaching in May of 2010, but a couple years later, Susan's bilateral lung transplant put a near halt to her caching career. But after rest and recovery for several years, she finally returned to hunting caches and really stepped up the game in 2020. To date, she has found 5526 geocaches, including a cache in the Bahamas. With her renewed enthusiasm in caching in the past four years, it's not a wonder she opted to attempt and then won this August challenge.
 

Some of Susan and her husband's favorite geocaches are: state oldest, FTFs, geoart, state stars, and puzzle caches. As with many cachers, Susan mentioned that geocaching has taken them to so many places they would never have visited if not for the game. In response to whether there was a memorable geocaching experience, Susan shared this story.  "On a canoe caching trip at Lynnville Lake in Indiana, we pulled over to sit by a waterfall at the far end of the lake and take a break. Before getting back into the canoe, we walked over the falls to take a selfie. I slipped and fell breaking my right hip. The resulting evacuation by emergency boat and ambulance ride resulted in a partial hip replacement. This has slowed my pace, but not my enthusiasm."  Sadly however, Susan did comment, "I can't count the number of broken bones that I have incurred" anymore.   

Other interests of Susan's are photographing nature and grandchildren and spending time with her sidekick Scott, whom she takes geo-vacations with across America.  She also enjoys reading, watching crime shows, and "even at my age, I still like to color with Crayolas, chalk or pen."  She and Scott serve as greeters in church weekly.  They also participate in several other Geocaching organizations and "enjoy meeting, talking, and geocaching with geocaching friends."

It was a wise decision to complete the August challenge, and enter qualifying caches, that led this duo to their sizzling win. Now the SLAGA community gets to extend a huge CONGRATULATIONS TO SUSAN AND SCOTT!