http://www.bcgeocaching.com/ BC Geocaching Association News en-us Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:14:49 GMT 1440 CPG-Nuke Dragonfly British Columbia Geocaching Association News http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.bcgeocaching.com/images/bcga_logo_300x110.gif http://www.bcgeocaching.com/ http://www.bcgeocaching.com/index.php?name=Pro_News&aid=559 The BCGA Executive is pleased to announce that the 2011/2012 AGM will be held in Kamloops on March 31st at 4pm in conjunction with the Spring Stomp Event GC3ANX6 being hosted by the Interior geocachers. The meeting will be held in the same venue as the Stomp at the Bert Edwards Science School. We will be posting a call for nominations to the board of directors shortly and will be hosting the votes online electronically this year as the online voting system has been tested successfully to the boards satisfaction. So keep your eyes peeled to the home page for further details. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:14:49 GMT http://www.bcgeocaching.com/index.php?name=Pro_News&aid=558 As a special treat, the BCGA is taking you on a trip around the world! The next fun-filled edition of Bingo is Virtual Tourist. A clue will be revealed on your Bingo card. You must decipher it and identify the GC# of the Virtual Cache the clue refers to. No need to leave your computer screen, this is an armchair Bingo. The pattern is Around the World, aka Large Square, aka Large Frame – you must fill all the outside squares of your card. Some tasks may be easy, some not so much. Some are in famous places; some are well off the beaten path. They were mostly chosen as they are interesting places and/or interesting caches. So, relax and enjoy the ride! No lost luggage, no language problems, no surly security staff wearing latex gloves. As always, have fun and travel safe. You may request a check of your answers before you call BINGO. Winners within the past 12 months may play but will not be eligible to win prizes. What are the prizes? A brand new soon to be released BCGA 2011 coin as well as the ever popular 2010 BCGA coin. Watch for it . . . coming very soon! Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:19:51 GMT http://www.bcgeocaching.com/index.php?name=Pro_News&aid=557 Island Spirit 2012 (WestCan2) Website Island Spirit 2012 (WestCan2) Mega-Event GC349MK Listing We would like to thank the BCGA Vancouver Island reps for their support to bring WestCan2 to Vancouver Island! High fives all around for their encouragement and for signing up to help from now to eternity On behalf of the Island Spirit Organizing Committee we invite you to plan your visit to the Cowichan Valley, log your Will Attend and check out the Island Spirit website. Feel like shouting from the rooftops? On the Island Spirit website you will find a great selection of cool Island Spirit branded promotional banners to put on your geocache listings and in your signature block on emails to help spread the word. We are excited to have some early sponsorship and promotion offers from our friends at BC Parks, Cowichan Tourism, Vancouver Island Brewery, Serious Coffee, the local Cowichan Valley media and more! See you on July 7th, 2012! Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:53:16 GMT http://www.bcgeocaching.com/index.php?name=Pro_News&aid=556 Watch out folks . . . Grab your slickers and pull on your wellies and prepare for a wild ride. The next Bingo game is here! It is a Speed Round. What does that mean? All cards will contain the same tasks. All tasks will be revealed when you draw your card. You need to complete a full card to win. Simple, fun, challenging - success is up to you, it's not up to a random draw. The theme is Beautiful BC - get out there before the snow flies - Fall in BC is a wonderful time - prickles are dying, muggles are snug in their homes, bears are thinking of a long nap - you've got the entire forest to yourself. There are some new tasks as well as some "favourites" from past games. All tasks must be completed within BC. Winners of the last game may play, but will not be eligible to receive a prize. What are the prizes you ask? You'll be playing for the same BC Parks 100 coin and BCGA 2010 regular coin. Once again there will be FIVE winners. Good luck & Happy Dabbing! Sat, 01 Oct 2011 15:57:22 GMT http://www.bcgeocaching.com/index.php?name=Pro_News&aid=555 A huge thanks to all of those who made this another successful year. From the participants to the volunteers your contributions were greatly appreciated. 2011 Blitz Winners Wed, 24 Aug 2011 04:24:25 GMT http://www.bcgeocaching.com/index.php?name=Pro_News&aid=554 BCGA Cache Blitz 2011 ~ Thanks ~ Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:19:24 GMT http://www.bcgeocaching.com/index.php?name=Pro_News&aid=553 Oh my!! What a hoot!! I first heard of the Best of the Bad Mega when I attended a weekend of events in Medicine Hat last summer. I knew right then and there that I would be attending. I planned my holidays around two weeks of caching that would include the weekend of July 16, 2011. I booked my holidays in November last year. I would not be disappointed! We actually started out on our trip on Sunday, July 10 via Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana. We were supposed to arrive late afternoon in Three Hills but due to a side trip through Glacier National Park we finally arrived at 2230 (1030 pm). A fellow cacher met us and showed us where to pitch our tent and we set up ASAP. Grabbed some refreshments and headed for the fire pit where a few hardy cachers had gathered including our own magicman65. Road weary I finally gave in and retired for the night to the sounds of happy cachers gearing up for a big day. Awake early I took stock of the day and the preparations. The organizers and volunteers arrived early and the set up began. I wandered into the Mega Mall only to find magicman65 already hard at work setting up. All around me was the murmur of plans for the day as well as what was to come. We quickly finished setting up the BCGA Booth and a bunch of us headed down the street where more volunteers had started a pancake breakfast for us in the IGA parking lot. It did not take long for a fair amount of cachers to wander in as word spread where breakfast was. Of course the EXCELLENT info that was included in the registration package might have had a lot to do with it. Speaking of the info, not only did it include a map, businesses around town, event schedule, it also included the coordinates of all the venues and places of interest. What planning!! Back at the Mega Mall, we finally got a chance to pick up our registration package. The goodies were fantastic and included a cool geocoin. Finally, the_Pollywog & I sat down and waited for the first of the cachers to filter through. I have to tell you that the hour we spent in the BCGA Booth was very exciting. Providing info and meeting new cachers was fabulous. After we were relieved we took the opportunity to wander around the Mega Mall and see what was offered. Everything from Geogoodies, GPSr’s, Art, Museum info, Boomtown Trail info, and of course food!!!!. Oh yes booths for food as well as the volunteers manning the grills with hot dogs and hamburgers on the go all day long. Outside the Root Beer Garden was being utilized. The Town of Three Hills put on an awesome parade that seemed to go on forever. Horses, tractors, old cars, RCMP in their Red Serge(hot?), and of course Signal and Jeremy Irish. I managed to wangle my picture with both of them of course. The Prairie Bible College was wonderful. They opened their site and their doors to us. Everything from the Wi-Fi to the washrooms and showers, to the places to camp. The town of Three Hills managed to embrace this crazy bunch of geocachers. They must have been shaking their heads. The organizers of the event managed to have a whole new set of geocaches set up for us and I know after caching today that a lot of log books already have to be replaced. There was a CITO event, a Geocoin event, a show with magic, comedy and music, and the Happy Trails Breakfast today. And those are just what I attended. There is no way I could possibly explain the experience that was the Best of the Bad. I will be in Duncan for Westcan 2 on July 7, 2012 and I WILL see ALL of you there, for you cannot possibly miss what a Mega event like this has to offer. Mon, 18 Jul 2011 04:33:28 GMT http://www.bcgeocaching.com/index.php?name=Pro_News&aid=552 G E O B I N G O Game 10 BC Parks/Blitz BINGO Here is a Bingo game where you start with good luck! The pattern is a 4 Leaf Clover. Fill in the yellow squares in the pattern AND the free square in the middle. There will be familiar tasks to keep you on your toes, and there are some tasks to encourage you to go out and find BC Parks and B11: Blitz caches All tasks must have been performed on or after JULY 11. 2011 (as the squares are revealed on your card). The ONLY exception being B11: Blitz caches – we will accept logs back to the date of publication for those only. You may only perform a task after that square is revealed on your card. Tasks performed before the square is drawn will be invalid. So get outside and find those BC Parks and Blitz caches! There are 2 REALLY great things about this game. 1. There will be 5 yes 5 winners! There will be the Grand Winner and 4 runner’s up. So when a Bingo is called draws will continue - keep playing until all winners have been announced and verified. 2. The prizes! Each winner will receive not only a BC Geocaching Association 2010 regular coin, they will also win a much coveted BC Parks 100 coin! Scruffster set a very high standard as Bingo meister but has regrettably retired from Bingo in order to keep his day job. Thanks for all your hard work in the past. The new judges do not sit at their computer all day and all night so it may be a few hours before a response is made to a forum post. Draws will be 2 per day to start and may increase So - draw your card and start playing! Remember Play Fair ~ Have fun ~ Good luck! Tue, 12 Jul 2011 04:12:58 GMT http://www.bcgeocaching.com/index.php?name=Pro_News&aid=551 Two pieces of information regarding the reopening of the Snoqualimie Pass Tunnel - Iron Horse Trail - Washington This is the preferred access to GC0069 Mission 9: Tunnel of Light Biking Biz Engineering news...page 3 Mon, 13 Jun 2011 21:39:57 GMT http://www.bcgeocaching.com/index.php?name=Pro_News&aid=550 Half-Canadian's Seventh Annual Geocaching Halloween event is going to be so big this year, it couldn't be kept under wraps any longer! Mark your calendars for Saturday, October 22, for a full day of geocaching fun in Lynden, WA -- starting with a morning Meet 'n Greet and wrapping up with the gala GeoMonster Ball! With your help, we can push this event to the 500+ attendance needed for you to score the coveted MEGA event icon for your profile page! Dust off your passports and make plans to head for the border -- Lynden is just five minutes south of the Aldergrove crossing. You may wish to take advantage of the strong Canadian dollar and make a weekend out of it -- a 48 hour stay in the US will allow you to return home with $400.00 per person free of HST and duties, a cheap tank of gas and a trunk full of bargain-priced groceries, too! Here's the event page link -- be sure to log your "will attend" plans so we can start planning for this MEGA-sized event: GC2VNQA GeoMonster Ball This event is too big to fit on one cache page, so be sure to check out the website and pre-register too: geomonsterball.com -- The first 100 paid registrations will score a free event pathtag when they check in and sign the logbook the morning of the event! Tue, 24 May 2011 17:57:52 GMT