2022 Fall Picnic
2022 SLAGA Christmas Party
Bellefontaine CITO November 2022
Cachemas 2022 Bonus Day
SLAGA at GeoWoodstock 2023
2024 New Years Day Hike
2024 SLAGA Spring Picnic
2025 New Year's Day Hike, Fort Bellefontaine
2025 New Year's Day Hike, Fort Bellefontaine
Cachetur 101 Class - March 2025
2025 Winter Potluck
2025 Winter Potluck
2025 Spring Picnic
2025 Spring Picnic
2025 GigaStock in Morgantown WV
2025 GeoWoodstock, Morgantown, WV
2025 SLAGA Summer Picnic at Klondike Park
SLAGA at Ted Drewes 2025
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As the Autumn leaves fell to the ground, so did the raindrops on the cool October 18th SLAGA Fall Picnic day. However, COs StormRider22 and jray131 along with more than 50 SLAGA members braved the dampness to join together at this Community Celebration Event to enjoy each others' company, some good conversation and caching stories, and delicious food. Turtleladi1020nhubbs, the SLAGA grill masters for the picnic, had their work cut out for them trying to get the charcoal lit in the downpour at the beginning of the picnic, but thankfully the pop-up canopies and a reprieve from heavy rain made it possible for the brats, burgers, and dogs to be grilled to perfection. The other members rounded out the menu with shared salads, dishes, and more than enough desserts.
After lunch, it was time for some SLAGA business. Announcements were made including introducing the newest 'voted-in' board members, President Michael Smith/cootie_man, Vice President Robert Klemme/Geokid12, Secretary Susan Adams/Treasure Isle, Treasurer John Layman/vorlon40, and Vice President of Training Lee Rouse/Rouseabouts. While members saw mostly familiar faces, Lee was new, and John had switched duties on the board. Sadly the one face we will miss is our outgoing treasurer Nan Dabler/nan-d1955. Farewell Nan, and many thanks for your terrific service to SLAGA.
With the new board now in place, it was time to acknowledge those SLAGA premium members that have achieved significant milestones to date. At this picnic, every milestone from 100 finds to 25,000 finds had at least one member who received their commemorative coin.
100 Finds
theWifeof & Jramsay
500 Finds
GISToddT and DriverMom
1000 Finds
SugrSkulz
5000 Finds
3nina
10,000 Finds
BlueBeadMan
Aunt Dot
25,000Finds
GeoWench
Congratulations to the awesome cachers and their well-earned milestones awards! Whether it takes months or many years to reach any particular milestone, they are all grand achievements in this wonderful game of geocaching. For fun at this picnic, any attendee who had achieved 10,000 finds and earned their chair were invited to bring it for a group photo op. And wow did it turn out to be a fun memorable picture.
And mentioning this great game of geocaching, the cool rainy weather during the Fall Picnic didn't deter some picnic-going cachers from enjoying a walk along wet slippery trails in this nice park to earn a smiley or a few. Thanks to everyone for attending, especially on the cold wet picnic day, but geocachers (above all SLAGA cachers) are resilient, fun, and interesting folks who don't let a little rain spoil their chance to get together for an event and a smiley 😃 !
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More than 45 St. Louis area geocachers attended the SLAGA Summer Picnic this past weekend. As is typical for the weather in SLAGAland, the morning started overcast but already 84*F, then a 15 min downpour briefly cooled the air slightly. After the rain, that miserable Missouri humidity hit and the sun heated the air making the afternoon feel like a sauna, with bugs! Although many picnickers were sweaty and sticky in the latter part of the day, the portable fans set up in the shelter made lunch and gathering a bit more tolerable. The SLAGA Summer Picnic 2025 and Community Celebration Event was hosted by SWAseeker and was held on July 19th at the beautiful Klondike Park in the shelter adjacent to the lake.
With over 4 miles of walking trails, a few shelters, a playground and a campground onsite, Klondike park is a must-see place near St. Louis. The lake with its rocky shores and white sandy beach areas was once a silica sand quarry and is popular for catch and release fishing, sunbathing on the shore, and even some non-motor water sports at times, but no swimming or wading is allowed. The park also offers a visitors and meeting facility and a boat ramp to acces the river. The park bluff Overlook, above the visitors center, offers views of the Missouri River. The Katy Trail can be accessed from the park and runs along the river shore down below the Klondike park bluffs.
The SLAGA "bring your own lunch," meet and greet type summer picnic delivered a fun social atmosphere and beautiful scenery, but also a new 'customizable' milestone/FIND # sign introduced by the SLAGA board. As simple as it was, this was an enjoyable new addition for geocaching fun. Speaking of geocaching, five recently published geocaches, by RecklessYeti, had most attendees traversing the park gathering these new smileys too. While the Yeti was not spotted, some think it was in disguise at the picnic.
For all those that came out, including stregazahra and husband who attended their first SLAGA event, the picnic host and SLAGA board extend their many thanks for the time to meet, chat, cache, and picnic with you all. The next big SLAGA event will be the Fall Picnic usually held in October, so keep a look out for information on that event and plan to attend. As for now, stay hydrated and as cool as possible in the St. Louis summer sauna, until we meet again.
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SLAGA Spring Picnic - April 26th, 2025.
This year's Spring picnic was hosted by the Arnold City Mayor and Slaga's own BnD Moritz! Bill (and Deb) chose a large pavilion at Arnold City Park that had a beautiful view of the lake down the hill, and was conveniently positioned next to a fabulous playground. More than 40 members and four furry muggles joined in the fun, festivities and fabulous food.
The picnic was full of activities. Cachers could play Geo-Bingo and the Closest-to-the-Pin games. There was also a premium member drawing, silent raffle with nice prizes, a 50/50 raffle, and a trackable table for dropping or retrieving travel bugs. SLAGA board members and volunteers were kept busy at this picnic. Secretary Treasure Isle worked the combination registration/lunch fee/game table up front, while VP GeoKid12 sold SLAGA shirts and travel bugs, as well as announced the current milestone winners. Volunteer Hobbit Taz collected and logged trackables for the upcoming SLAGA Travel Bug Race, and President cootie-man made announcements and called out the winners of various activites. Many thanks to the other volunteers, including those that helped with set-up, clean-up, raffles and games, as well as to all who provided delicious potluck dishes to share. A special kudos to turleladi1020nhubbs for their grilling efforts, and to Strider for running the Closest-to-the-Pin game.
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SLAGA milestone awardees this Spring include:
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It was time to break free from the cabin fever here in St.Louis, and the SLAGA Winter Potluck 2025 Event was the ticket out! Over 80 geocachers met at the Pavilion at Lemay facility in Jefferson Barracks park on January 25, 2025.
This highlight event was hosted by LFrank and Denmother, with the help of many volunteers. Set-up/Clean-up crew included Mixed Breed, SWAseeker, arabbit&ubuck, Repmul, and spiritwolf922. The potluck food organizers were MrsSpongy, jray131 and Stormrider. At the registration/GeoBingo table were How-D and magpie, alongside nan-d1955 and GeoKid12 performing their board officer duties. The Trackable table was overseen by stargazer61, and raffle tickets were sold by Loonwoman and Bluedaisey. The efforts of ibew ret proved advantageous for 50/50 ticket sales as the winning purse amounted to $125.
During the event, geocachers always enjoy each others' company and share caching stories, but could also play games (GeoBingo and 50/50), participate in the raffle, visit and exchange trackables, and munch down on gobs of delicious food as well! Each family brought a shared dish to help feed the group, including chicken, sliders, dollar sandwiches, mostaccioli, pasta and other casseroles, salads, vegetables, fruit, breads, soups, desserts and more! No one in attendance went hunger at this enormous potluck spread!
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What better way to celebrate the changing of seasons than by joining geofriends for a picnic outdoors! The SLAGA Fall Picnic was held Saturday, October 19th at the Kirkwood City Park and was hosted by SLAGA's own Treasurer nan-d1955. The day's festivities included a 50-50 drawing, Survey drawing, Geo Bingo, a Travel Bug Table, Premium Member drawing, and Closest to the Pin contest. While that fun was going on, wonderful volunteers cooked brats, burgers and hotdogs to accompany the many delicious side dishes, salads and desserts brought and shared by the many attendees. This Fall picnic was a grand success due to the wonderful efforts of the CO, the SLAGA board members and the volunteers listed here:
- Setup: arabbit&ubuck; MrsSpongy; Strider; Crowesfeat30; Spiritwolf922
- Cooks: Tricks33 (Dad); Uga_Mom; DFox88
- Registration: nan-d1955; MrsSpongy
- 50-50 Ticket Sales: Loonwoman; bluedaisy
- Travel Bug Monitor: Breezy406
- GeoBingo: 6dancer; 3nina
- Closest to the Pin: Strider
- Clean up: arabbit&ubuck; MrsSpongy
After enjoying the fun activities, delicious food and genuine camaraderie, it was time for our SLAGA board President cootie_man (Michael) to step up to the mic. He announced recent SLAGA activites and displayed the new SLAGA Mascot "Louie the Lion" to those in attendence, with congrats to designer denmother (Laurie). He then fielded a few questions and comments, and notified attendees of upcoming events. He also congratulated the year-long grand prize Adventure Awaits winners, before handing the mic over to our Vice President GeoKid12 (Robert). Robert introduced and handed out awards to the geocaching milestone recipients for their amazing feats in geocaching. The board then distributed prizes to the winners of all the picnic activities. And the recipients/winners are:
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From a relaxing stroll around the farm visiting the animals, to the hustle and bustle of activities going on at the park shelter, the SLAGA Spring Picnic 2024 was a grand success! The event was held at Willoughby Heritage Farm and Conservation Reserve in Collinsville on a beautiful sunny Saturday (April 20) with cool spring breezes, and was hosted by mathmanbill (William Gottschalk).
SLAGA provided hamburgers, brats, and hotdogs, along with plates, napkins and utensils as always, while attendees brought delicious and varied side dishes, snacks and desserts to share with all. There was the usual silent auction table and the 50/50 raffle, but our host, mathmanbill, also mixed things up a bit. He had a geo-style scavenger hunt around the grounds and a TOTT skills contest too. He also placed two additional caches onsite for those wanting to solve a cypher, take wooded hikes, and use a TOTT to gain their smilies. Plenty of fun for participants indeed!
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