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Salmon Arm Mega

British Columbia’s first MEGA EVENT! Please join us in Salmon Arm, BC on Saturday, July 16th 2011 Link to the website. Mark your calendars!

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10-10-10

From Groundspeak: Plan to Go Geocaching on 10-10-10 We want to see how many geocachers can go geocaching on a single day! We’ve chosen 10-10-10, since the date represents 10 years of geocaching and 10 years of Groundspeak in 2010. … Continue reading

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Blitz Winners

The Winners of the 2010 BCGA Thompson-Okanagan Blitz were announced on Aug. 12: Congratulations to all! Category Cache Name Cache Owner Overall The 4 Elements Fayshadow Educational Spot / Environmental Awareness Through the Arch couloir Night Cache The Dark Knight … Continue reading

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Cache Listings for an Event – Export or Hand-Entered?

When you host a geocaching event, you have to solve a basic dilemma.   If you have all new cache listings published in advance, cachers can go on-line and download their own listings either individually or as a pocket query.   This … Continue reading

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Great Copper Rush

Over 200 people attended the Great Copper Rush in Princeton.   It was a well-organized event and had many challenges for cachers beyond the 100 new caches placed.   Everyone comes to an event with different expectations and takes away different experiences.   … Continue reading

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Kamloops Cachers at GeoWoodstock

Kamloops Cachers Trip to GeoWoodstock Mega Event July 3 – 5, 2010. (contributed by ProCrasTin8) Friday: The Kpneiders, CGQ, Jazzpurrr and Pro & Cras Tin8 started their  trip with a meeting at Starbucks at 8:00 am.( we were all on … Continue reading

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BCGA News

Hello – 2010 Cache Blitz The Blitz voting will be ending on August 1st. Remember to vote for all the blitz caches you have visited over the past 3 months. Look for the Blitz wrap-up event near you, where the … Continue reading

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2010 BCGA Blitz

The BCGA Blitz has been on for a couple of months now and the final deadline for all voting is coming up.   In these last 10 days try to focus on B10 caches, log them, then click on the icon … Continue reading

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Sun Peaks

All 41 (new) caches have now been placed and all of the listings sent to geocaching.com for publication.    The wildflowers are all out on top of the mountain and the views are wonderful.  The cache listings (and GPX files) on … Continue reading

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Geocache Mega Events

GeoWoodstock had about 4500 people registered and by accounts from those who attended, was well organized.   Other people had some reservations and some questions about the purpose of a Mega: Is a Mega an event featuring geocaching actvity or an … Continue reading

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