2024 SLAGA Travel Bug Race July Update
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- Written by Robert Klemme
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2 months in and first place distance wise is still sitting pretty. However, much like summertime, things are still heating up!
Best of SLAGA 2024 - Half Way There
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- Written by John Layman
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Best of SLAGA, Favorite Caches Placed in 2023
Of the 165 new caches published in the 100 mile radius SLAGA territory in the first half of 2024, these are the top caches, as determined by % of favorite points awarded.
By cache type
| Letterbox | Deeplight | Forest-Ghost | GCAK695 |
| Traditional | Da Turdy Point Buck! | HiddenCrazy | GCAM3Y8 |
| Traditional | Jail Time Tom Goes to The Potty | gugandgal8484 | GCANHJ5 |
| Puzzle | Double Reverse Wherigo – Think Outside the Box | Mean Gene | GCAJXKB |
| Virtual | Daily Dose of Happiness US #24 Monks Mound | Iamgrateful | GCAJJ7E |
| Multi | Graniteville 3 1/2 Stage Multi-Cache | Locola081115 | GCARRPH |
| Wherigo | Woodland Sprite5 | tricks33 | GCAQ7NB |
By overall % of favorite points awarded
| 82 | Letterbox | Deeplight | Forest-Ghost | GCAK695 |
| 74 | Traditional | Da Turdy Point Buck! | HiddenCrazy | GCAM3Y8 |
| 74 | Traditional | Jail Time Tom Goes to The Potty | gugandgal8484 | GCANHJ5 |
| 73 | Traditional | Low Striker | JoeBum | GCAF694 |
| 70 | Traditional | A Day at the Dog Park | HiddenCrazy | GCAMPWV |
| 61 | Traditional | One a-MAZE-ing Cache | nan-d1955 | GCAKDN7 |
| 59 | Traditional | Lady and the Tramp - MtO Gadget #5 | knowles5150 | GCANXQW |
| 57 | Traditional | Stewy's Nontraditional Gas Station Cache | stewy1966 | GCAM8BA |
| 52 | Traditional | On The Beaches of the Meramec | HiddenCrazy | GCAMNFM |
| 47 | Traditional | A Platonic Solid | HiddenCrazy | GCAM3YE |
Congrats and thanks to the Cache Owners and everyone else who continues to create and support quality caches in the St. Louis area!
POPEYE’S SLAGA FRIENDS - Summer Picnic 2024
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- Written by Terri Nealon
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AHOY MATEYS! On Saturday, July 13, 2024, more than 35 of Popeye's new SLAGA friends converged on the town of Chester, IL for the summer picnic, hosted by deancmeredith. Chester, situated on the bluff above the Mississippi River, is the hometown of Elzie C. Seger, the creator of Popeye. To date, there are more than 20 statues of Popeye's friends spread throughout the city, and geocache COs have utilized all of them for one multi cache or another and for the Adventure Labs in town.
Picnic day was a hot one! Temperatures were in the low 90s but the high humidity made it feel hotter. The picnic attendees were very thankful that Dean graciously provided 2 fans (one a mister) and some freshly cut watermelon. They enjoyed the shade of a large shelter in the beautiful Cole Memorial Park, along with the lovely scenery, convenient parking, bathrooms and of course nearby geocaches. Folks socialized, talked all things geocaching, discovered or grabbed trackables, ate their lunches, and hunted down caches in the park as well as around town.
The Gateway to Summer Brings a new Winner!
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June, when days are brighter and smiles are bigger, was the month to chase dreams and bask in the glow of new found adventures! And that's just what Uga_Mom, Cindy Smith, did during her participation in the SLAGA Adventure Awaits Challenge. She utilized longer days to chase caches, earn smileys, submit her geocaches for the monthly challenge, and then WIN June's challenge Gift Card prize and sticker. Congratulations Cindy!
Cindy's qualifying caches for the two different states finds plus an event requirement, chosen simply from her recently learned search technique for recent caches that fit the challenge parameter, were the following.
GC9CYCQ Go With The Flow, IL
GC5E3PR THE CACHE CAN/CACHE ME IF YOU CAN, IL
GC77A9R Crooked arrow, MO
GC8KX6N Where is the lady dolphin of the park?, MO
GCAQFJ0 Happy solstice- Penguin Event, MO
When asked why she participates in Adventure Awaits, Cindy commented that "after learning about the Adventure Awaits monthly challenge, from another cacher (cootie_man), I thought I would give it a try. I was able to qualify several months ago, but then missed a month. This last month I tried again and SURPRISE I won the fabulous prize! I’m very excited."
Trash à la CARTe - SLAGA CITO
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- Written by Terri Nealon
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Since SLAGA no longer has a MODot clean-up site, due to the program being dropped, the SLAGA CITO at Minnie Ha Ha event in Sunset Hills, hosted by Candyce54 on June 30, 2024, became the group's quarterly clean-up project. Of course for those there, it was fondly known as Trash à la CARTe, thanks to TheLegoPharoah and bobclassic's find and GeoWench78's witty input!
2024 Community Volunteers have Fun DisObeying
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- Written by Terri Nealon
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{This article was written by Laurie and John Elfrank and submitted here on their behalf with some minor additions and editing.}
Geocaching is a community driven game, and it relies on the support of more than 400 community volunteers. The volunteers are a diverse and dedicated group from over 35 countries who give their time to translate content, moderate forums and review cache pages on behalf of the global geocaching community. Community volunteers are required to adhere to Geocaching HQ’s guidelines and are said to “Obey the Frog” (Signal the FROG is the geocaching.com’s mascot).
In the early 2000s, Groundspeak hosted a reviewer event, and it was called Obey, as in "Obey the Frog." But as the number of volunteers grew, HQ stopped hosting the event, and instead let the volunteers take over hosting in different cities. In North America, they changed the name to (Dis)Obey.
In June 2024, around 30 community volunteers descended upon St. Louis for their annual multi-day gathering in North America, hosted by Missouri reviewer MrHarmonica. Attendees included community volunteers from all over the U.S. and Canada, one from Germany, their families, and a Lackey WatermanHQ (a Geocaching HQ employee from Seattle). They started arriving on June 19, and spent the next four days enjoying activities that appealed to the volunteers and families. MrHarmonica’s schedule included a guided tour of Bellefontaine Cemetery, mini golf at Swing-A-Round Fun Town, a hike at West Tyson County Park, an evening at Breakout Games escape rooms, a tour of St. Louis craft breweries, and time sampling the local cuisine.
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