Monthly Archives: September 2018

WGA Travel Bug Race

2018/2019 WGA Travel Bug Race is Back On!

If you’ve been following this, you probably heard that the Travel Bug race was cancelled for this year, due to issues with the tracking company. At the last minute a WGA member stepped up and offered to head up this year’s race, so the race has been uncancelled. The race will start soon enough, and because of the issues, this year there will be no fee. Please get your travelers to a WGA Board member asap so we can get the race started.

The 2018 to 2019 rules are as follows:

1) All travel racers must have the traveler deposited to a board member by October 12.

2) The WI BOD or geocacher designated by the BOD will move all WGA racers to begin the journey.

3) Miles will only be counted when  trackable is physically moved from one cache to another cache. (dropped)

4) Any miles as a result of “visiting” a cache without being dropped into the cache will NOT count.

5) Only one move per travel bug per geocacher will count.

6) Miles will be recorded with each move and the standings will be posted to the WGA website monthly. In addition, an update will be provided in the quarterly newsletter.

7) The Grand winner will be the travel bug with the most total mileage at the end of the race at the 2019 WGA fall picnic. Their caching name will be displayed on the WGA trailer.

Photo of the Month

August POTM Winner

Congratulations to hack1of2 for the winning photo for August. Now, you don’t need the sherriff’s department in your picture to win…but it helps. Make sure to submit your photos in the comment section on Facebook and vote for your favorite by liking them. We cant wait to see the fall caching in Wisconsin through your lens.

Event Reports

How would you like to be a Volunteer?

We are looking for volunteers to help at the 2018 WGA Fall Picnic.  This would entail leading a group hike, about 1.5 miles on the west bluff to find 2 Earthcaches and scout a location (coordinates will be provided) to create an Earthcache which would qualify finders to earn the first patch of the Ice Age Trail Alliance’s ColdCache Earthcache program.  If you’re interested, contact Bob Hamblin (Ham Fam) at [email protected] or Renee Vanselow (AuntieNae) at [email protected].