2024 SLAGA Travel Bug Race December Update
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Here's the last update of the Travel bug race before it ends next month a week before the Winter Potluck!
SLAGA Logo: Add it to Your Cache Page Description
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Have you ever seen a cache page with the SLAGA logo at the bottom of the description (think Strider)? Did you wonder how to add one of those to your cache page to support SLAGA? Well, here is a simple way to do that, with 2 options.
Open one of the following links in a browser window (you should see the image):
https://www.slaga.org/images/general_images/SLAGA_Logo.jpg
https://www.slaga.org/images/general_images/SLAGA_Logo_Member.jpg
Either
1) copy the image displayed (maybe right click and select "Copy Image") or
2) save it somewhere on your device (maybe right click and select "Save Image As...")
Edit your cache via geocaching.com and scroll down to the cache description.
Here is what the window might look like:
If you want to put a line between your text and the SLAGA Logo position your cursor below your text and use the "Insert Horizontal Line" button.
Position your cursor at the place where you want to insert the SLAGA Logo.
1) If you copied the image, paste the image using Ctrl-v, Command-v, or whatever your device requires.
2) If you saved the image on your device, after positioning the cursor where you want to insert the image select the "Upload Image" button, navigate to your saved image, select it and select "Open".
The image should show up where your cursor was positioned.
You can then resize/reshape the image by selecting the image and dragging one of the small boxes that appear. You can also position it within the page by selecting the image and using the "Align Left", "Align Right", or "Align Center" options.
Thanks for supporting your local geocaching organization, SLAGA!
2024 SLAGA Travel Bug Race October Update
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Here's how the Travel Bug race is stacking up now! Getting down to the wire!
SLAGA Fall Picnic 2024
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- Written by Terri Nealon
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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:
Adventure Awaits HARVESTED a September Winner
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During the Harvest month of September, hermie618 (Carol Hagan) gathered and submitted her qualifying geocaches to become the final Adventure Awaits winner of the inaugural 12-month SLAGA Challenge. September's challenge was to find four caches with a St. Louis area theme plus attend an event. Carol's winning geocaches were:
GC5HQVP Welcome to Cliff Cave Park
GC1BDT9 SLAGA Peace of Trash Cache
GC80PAK Day 6 - 2018 Cachemas in STL
GC8E3HF Saint Louis City Artwork (It was near Bevo Mill.)
GCAWWF9 SW STL Happy Hour - Harvest Moon Edition
Carol and Hcube1015 (Harold) usually cache together and try challenges they think they can accomplish in the allotted time frames. They've entered the Adventure Awaits Challenge every month. Carol says, "it gets us out of the house with the bonus of possibly winning a prize as an incentive too. Nice job, SLAGA!" For September's themed challenge, which Carol thought could be an obstacle for some cachers, she and Harold used GSAK and narrowed down their choices.
Carol started geocaching in 2012, but how she got started is a fun story. As she tells it: "We watched a show about geocaching on PBS with my brother and sister-in-law when they visited for Christmas 2011." Upon their return to Maryland, "my sister-in-law started finding caches since her cell phone had a GPS function. We didn't have a "fancy" phone or a Nuvi navigator of any kind, so we just got emails from her telling us how much she enjoyed it, and I wanted to try it. In March the following year," while vacationing in Gulf Shores with old college friends who had a Nuvi in their vehicle, "I told them about geocaching and checked the app to see if there were any caches nearby and there were some in Gulf State Park. Hcube want to go golfing, but the remaining three of us didn't play, so I suggested we try caching with their Nuvi. We didn't know what we were doing and had no success. Luckily, it began raining, so we scurried to the parking lot to hop into the vehicle and high-tailed it to the indoor Nature Center at the park, where we knew there was another hide. Still not knowing what we were doing, the ranger kept giving us clues, but we were clueless. Finally he talked me into putting my hand into a grab bag box, and I pulled out my first find!"
The following day Carol got Harold to try geocaching and they had success at a wooden birdhouse. Harold didn't think Carol would stick with this new hobby long as she had never been much of an outdoors person, but she continued to enjoy it. A few months later, Harold finally joined the game too. Now Carol has over 3600 finds and Harold is close behind.
When interviewed about a memorable caching experience, Carol had another interesting story. She 'relived' a Union MO. caching adventure. "One of the most disturbing encounters we had was while finding a cache at the roller rink. The description stated that the owner of the rink specifically asked that a cache be place there. It was nearing dusk, and we had just found the rather hard and sneaky container. Hcube had just handed me the log to sign when a man yells, 'Put up your hands!' He had his hand in his pocket to make it look like he was holding a gun in it. Another man approached to support him. They'd driven into the lot in trucks with mowers in the attached trailers. They weren't officers or 'officials' of any kind. They said we were trespassing and had to leave immediately. Well, we didn't put our hands up and weren't leaving until I signed the log and hcube put the container back. We tried to explain what we were doing and tried to show them the page description, but they didn't care that the owner was aware of geocaching and that it was okay for us to be there. I wouldn't describe us as really scared; we were more irritated and angry at these know-nothing vigilante individuals who thought they could make us do what they wanted. We knew we were 'allowed' to be there." It's not a wonder Carol stuck with game, since she certainly has some fun geo-stories to tell.
With this final inaugural 12-month Adventure Awaits win, the SLAGA community now anticipates a Grand Prize winner to be announced at the upcoming SLAGA Fall Picnic (GCAXXFZ) on October 19, 2024.
2024 SLAGA Travel Bug Race September Update
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We've reached the halfway point of the race! We've definitely got a clear milage lead going there! Let's see if anyone makes a leap.
Here's how we are looking at this point:
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