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2022 Fall Picnic

2022 SLAGA Christmas Party

Bellefontaine CITO November 2022

Cachemas 2022 Bonus Day

SLAGA at GeoWoodstock 2023

2024 SLAGA Spring Picnic

2025 New Year's Day Hike, Fort Bellefontaine

Cachetur 101 Class - March 2025

2025 Winter Potluck

2025 Spring Picnic

2025 Spring Picnic

2025 GigaStock in Morgantown WV

2025 GeoWoodstock, Morgantown, WV

SLAGA at Ted Drewes 2025

2025 Christmas Event

2026 NYD Hike

Crazy Beards!

2026 Winter Potluck

...AND THE WINNER IS...STEVENDEDE
 
Win Nov 23 Stevendede
 
Congratulations to Steve Jacobs on his November SLAGA Adventure Awaits Monthly Challenge win and $10 Gift Card prize for finding and submitting five different types of geocaches and one event cache.  His November 2023 geocaching entries, listed below, were chosen because they were each favorites of the month for him.  When asked why Steve decided to take part in the November challenge, he said it was "because cootie-man pestered me" to participate, "but I think it's great that SLAGA is trying something new."
 

GCA1FPG. Rapunzel Traditional

GC6FXDF  Lewis and Clark Expedition. Letterbox

GC7KT9P  1150 AD. - Tour Through Time. Wherigo

GCACYW6  Pop-A-Squat Port-A-Pot Challenge. Mystery

*GCAEF3M  Geocaching International Film Festival SLAGA Style. Event *

Steve started geocaching in 2011 with his 12 year old daughter, who cached with him for several years. His wife DeDe is a muggle, but has always let him grab a geocache or two during their travels together, so Steve has cached fairly steadily over these past 12 years. As a matter of fact, there were only 21 days between his first and second geocaches, and amazingly that is still the longest slump in his geocaching history.  Steve retired this past April, so he definitely has more time to dedicate to geocaching and his other hobbies now, including collecting and repairing vintage pocket watches and travel.
 
It's a good thing travel is a hobby of Steve's, because his favorite caching experiences involve traveliing and letting geocaches bring him to places that he wouldn't have experienced otherwise.  In September of 2023, Steve and DeDe traveled through Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, and Germany.  Some of the best sights they visited  were ones where Steve targeted a geocache.  During their trip, Steve actually enjoyed a day in Wachtendonk, Germany with another geocacher from Frankfort, whom he had met at an event in Creve Coeur, MO.  The caching duo accomplished two multis that took 4 hours each.  Steve commented that he never could have done those without a native German-speaking cacher.  Now that's an example of international geocaching fun and friends. 
 
Steve is most proud of having geocached in every county on the Isle of Great Britain, with the exception of Cornwall.  According to Project-GC (quite a fun fact), Steve has cached in more counties in the UK than any other American geocacher.  Steve has hidden 30 geocaches to enhance this fun game and has found an astonishing 16,056 caches as of this posting.  He has now won the November SLAGA Adventure Awaits challenge.  Only Steve knows what is next on his geocaching bucket list.  The Adventure Awaits! 
 

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

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

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Adventure Awaits

The long awaited Adventure Awaits monthly challenge is now live! Here in October we're starting things off with a simple challenge. You must find 5 traditional caches and attend an event (any kind of event). Once you have accomplished this you may enter your name, caching name, and the GC codes of the corresponding caches & event into the form which can be found on the home page.

Adventure Awaits

 

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!

 

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

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