2015 Travel Bug Race -- finals stats

Here’s how it works: For 12 days beginning December 14th (Day 1), a new cache will be published and every day afterwards until December 25th. If you are able to First to Find, FTF, one of these daily caches, an FTF Cachemas Ornament will be in the container for you to keep. As an added bonus, thanks to L Frank, the ornament can be converted to a cache container for a future hide. PLEASE, if you get an FTF on one of the 12 days, do not go for another one, let someone else have the fun.

Again, there will be a 13th Bonus Cache which can only be found by using the codes written on the inside of the container lid of each daily cache. Keep these codes and use them to solve the location of the 13th cache which will also publish on the 12th and final day, December 25th. In the process of locating the codes, you will solve the coordinates, believe me, it’s not difficult.

Have fun and remember to thank 87preludea20a3 in your log. He brought this great series to St. Louis.

FTF Cachemas Logs

Day 12 - moonchild1800 & diceman71. 5:25 am
Co-FTF with diceman71 this was the best cache of the series. I had Christmas presents, real working Christmas lights a and unique hide. I got all I wanted for Christmas in this cache. Thank you TeamState for a great Christmas. It's about time!!!.

Day 11 - Trekto 12:30ish
Squeaked in a First to Find and a beautiful ornament. (ornament by LFrank). Thanks brantole for the creative Puzzle and hide. Thanks Prelude for starting this fun madness. A Favorite.It's about time!!!.

Day 10 - LFrank 4:25 pm
get home, just before three, and notice the Day 10 Cachemas cache has yet to publish. I wanted to get the code, so I waited for it to publish. 3:06 pm the notification came up. I download it to my GPS, scan it real fast and notice it is a projection, so I grab Denmothers PDA and out the door I went. As I'm driving I look at the map and notice the first waypoint, to the multi, is at the entrance to the West County Mall. I must be effing insane to be going here after 3 in the afternoon. Why didn't they do this at 10am? So I arrive at the entrance, 3 million other cars, who also do not know where they are going, around me. I'm in the wrong lane...........U-Turn! I now find a parking spot, get out and head towards GZ. I'm looking for a peace symbol so it must be at the sign. I catch the walk sign and cross the traffic and talking to the mall police, who are directing traffic,to wishme luck. I get to the sign, no peace symbol and I have now passed up GZ. What the Eff is going on? I re-read the cache page. From the starting coordinates you must find the nearby

GEO-Poker in STL Parks

Details: Written by David DeWitt; Published: December 13 2015; Last Updated: December 13 2015; Hits: 4042

What do you get when you combine poker, Geo-caching, and hiking? Geo-Poker!

Come on out to the parks for a fun afternoon of hiking, poker, GPS and treasure-hunting!

St. Louis County Parks

Brought to you by the St. Louis County Parks.

Sunday, January 24 - West Tyson Park

Saturday, Feburary 20 - Lone Elk Park

Sunday March 20 - Queeny Park

Saturday, April 16 - Faust Park

Call 314-615-4386 to make reservations. $8 per person.

Click for printable Flyer

SLAGA Road Trip - Decatur Illinois

Details: Written by Laura Million; Published: August 24 2015; Last Updated: May 16 2019; Hits: 3719

Breakfast Events in Decatur Illinois

For the August SLAGA Road Trip, a small but energetic group, traveled to Decatur IL on Friday night for a good night’s sleep before attending an event Saturday Morning. Major Boothroyd (aka “Q”) organized a Breakfast Meet ‘N Greet at the Downtown Decatur Café. We had a great meal and met some new cachers, not only from Decatur, but from the surrounding areas.

After Breakfast, we started the Country Road, Take Me Home series. If you haven’t done that series, the containers are worth the trip. Make sure you read the cache page and bring the necessary tools with you or you won’t be able to get some of these. “Q” came with us for cache maintenance and stayed while we grabbed more caches in Mason, IL. After we finished those, we completed the “Z” series. As we finished up the day, Nina (aka Excagirl) found her 500^th cache. We headed to dinner but our wonderful weather decided to change and dropped buckets of rain on us. We were all tired so after dinner, we headed back to the hotel for a good night’s sleep.

SLAGA at cache

After breakfast Sunday morning we hit the road again to do the “Feed the Frenzy” power trail. The weather was cool and cloudy, but no rain. We did have a few DNFs and replaced more than one wet log or damaged container, but made another 100-cache day. We headed back to STL about 4pm and stopped for just 2 more caches along the way. I think our total was 207 caches for the 2 days. Not a bad way to spend a weekend.

Vote for SLAGA Officers

Details: Written by Laura Million; Published: August 19 2015; Last Updated: August 19 2015; Hits: 3582

VOTE NOW!

Let your voice be heard! Choose the officers you wish to lead SLAGA for the next year! Ballots were emailed during the first few days of August. All members should have received a ballot from the Election Coordinator, Steve Bromley, at the email address they provided to SLAGA.

Your completed ballot must be emailed back to Steve by August 31, 2015 if your vote is to be counted. The newly-elected board will be announced at the SLAGA Fall Picnic on October 10, 2015.

If you haven't voted yet, then vote now!

SLAGA Road Trip - Decatur IL

Details: Written by Laura Million; Published: August 05 2015; Last Updated: August 05 2015; Hits: 3675

SLAGA Road Trips

Decatur IL
When: August 21 - 23, 2015
Trip Leader: Laura Million
Depart from Location: Collinsville, IL: Walmart Parking Lot
Depart date/time: August 21st 7:00 PM sharp
Approximate return date/time: August 23rd 7:30 pm
Actual departure and arrival times will be finalized when we know who is interested in going.

Join us in August for an "End of Summer" road trip to Decatur IL. We will meet with CIGA members for breakfast at the Downtown Decatur Cafe on Saturday Morning 7am. See event page for more information at: http://coord.info/GC604E3 After breakfast we will do the "Country Roads Take Me Home" series just southwest of Decatur. There are lots of quick country caches and lots of urban caches to please everyone.

If interested, contact Trip Leader, Laura Million (2_cats) at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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