ADVENTURE AWAITS - A New Monthly Challenge

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Written by Terri Nealon

Published: September 20 2023

Last Updated: September 20 2023

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SLAGA is introducing a new monthly incentive for all members in hopes of promoting this interesting game of geocaching and encouraging more membership engagement. Adventure Awaits is a monthly challenge that will post on the home page of the SLAGA website on the first day of every month starting this October 2023. Those that complete the challenge, submit an entry form, and prove to qualify for the month's challenge by the last day of each month, will have their name entered into a drawing for that month's prize. After twelve months, one grand prize winner will be drawn from all qualifying monthly entries as well. SLAGA is excited to bring this new addition to the St. Louis Area Geocaching group.

The guidelines for SLAGA's Adventure Awaits monthly challenge are as follows:

• This new monthly challenge is open to all SLAGA members, basic and premium.
• Each month's challenge will be posted on the official SLAGA website home page on the first day of each month.
• Geocaches found and events attended must be within the month of the current challenge. No finds logged/events attended during a prior month are permitted.
• Participating members must complete and submit the Adventure Awaits entry form by the last day of the current month in order to have their name entered into that month's prize drawing.
• After each month, at the next SLAGA officers meeting, one winner will be drawn from all qualifying entries for that month's prize. The winner will be notified. 
• One grand prize winner will be drawn from all qualifying monthly entries from October through the following September. The winner will be announced at the SLAGA Fall Picnic.
• Rules are subject to change by the SLAGA Officers.

SLAGA is providing a new means to enhance the geocaching experience for members with this new monthly challenge incentive. Check the SLAGA home page on the first day of each month, starting October 1, 2023 and start enjoying this fun outdoor hobby in a new challenging way.

Adventure Awaits your participation!

SLAGA 2023 Travel Bug Race September Update

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Written by Robert Klemme

Published: September 01 2023

Last Updated: September 01 2023

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Here are the current standings in the SLAGA Travel Bug Race:

Bike ‘Across America’ - PaulGracie’s Adventure

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Written by Terri Nealon

Published: August 11 2023

Last Updated: August 11 2023

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Many geocachers plan and take caching road trips, but those usually involve a car, at least for the majority of the journey...but not for PaulGracie!  Paul depends on his bike to get to and from college classes, work, social events, and geocaches, of course.  He loves a good FTF, as well as seeking out other geocaching adventures and events to broaden his caching experiences.  In the Fall of 2022, Paul started hatching a plan to bike and cache across part of America, having been introduced to the "Cache Across America" geocaches (a series of geocaches, one in every state with clues leading to a final cache in our nation's Capital), almost 5 years ago. He decided that summer of 2023 was the right time to start an epic adventure to find several of these, but do so by riding his bike.  His true challenge was not the geocaching, however, but instead was the experience of a solo biking trip for an extended distance and period of time.  His plan A was a roundtrip from St. Louis to the east coast and back, but he soon realized that Plan B, having his parents meet up with him on the east coast for the return trip, was the best option. 

With bike, tent, sleeping bag, extra clothes, water, food/snacks, phone and money, Paul left St. Louis on his bike on June 5, 2023.  He'd planned his safest biking routes/trails, several caches of interest, and places to stay along his route, which included 13 nights in  'Warm Showers' ($30 lifetime membership) and 'Couchsurfing' hosts' homes, three in hotels, one at his uncle's house, and eight at campsites, some planned and others impromptu. He travelled miles through changing weather.  He rode in beautiful sunny 75 to 90 degrees, through several rainshowers, in cooler dusk temperatures, and even some cold 40-degree mornings after waking in his tent. En route, he attended a Makers Magic-Coffee and (Gadget) Cache Event near Columbus, Ohio, and took a day off from riding once just to enjoy the day and take a water trike journey to a cache across the lake at North Bend State Park in West Virginia.

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SLAGA Featured on Geocache Adventures

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Written by Robert Klemme

Published: July 10 2023

Last Updated: July 10 2023

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Shadowdragn1 recently featured our very own SLAGA President and Vice President on her podcast Geocache Adventures.

Be sure to give it a listen by clicking the image below!

SLAGA 2023 Travel Bug Race Update

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Written by Robert Klemme

Published: July 10 2023

Last Updated: July 10 2023

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Here are the current standings in the SLAGA travel bug race.