Cachin’ the Bay

Out of the Garage

(an event startup)When: Saturday, June 18, 2016, 9:00am – 3:00pm

Where: Silicon Valley, California USA, West Valley College, 14000 Fruitvale Avenue, Saratoga, CA 95070

Who: All geocachers – young, old, veterans, first-timers, families, locals, out-of-towners, and international cachers!

Welcome to the San Francisco Bay Area and our “Cachin’ the Bay” event! We hope you will join geocachers from around the world and enjoy many of California’s great treasures!

From the center of innovation – Silicon Valley, to stunning San Francisco. From Pacific Ocean beaches to redwood forests. From unlimited hiking trails to kayak caching. Not only that, we are within driving distance of Monterey Bay, Wine Country, Yosemite National Park, and many other fabulous locations.

You and your family can experience the rich history of San Francisco including cable cars, the Gold Rush, Alcatraz Island, Haight-Ashbury, Fisherman’s Wharf, Little Italy, Chinatown, Angel Island (the west coast’s Ellis Island), Golden Gate Park, multiple national championship professional sports teams, and the world famous Golden Gate Bridge.

Silicon Valley has a colorful history of garage startups, and following that tradition the idea for this international gathering of geocachers in the Bay Area started at a cache-building event that was held in a garage. Like so many successful and booming enterprises that trace their roots back to a garage, we hope this event will blossom and explode with the enthusiasm of cachers just like you!

“Cachin’ the Bay” will have geocaching seminars, lab caches, vendors, games for young and old, an exciting raffle, plus a special mystery game! There will also be an REI camp with fun activities and engaging workshops.

Make a weekend of it, or more! We have many activities planned for the days before and after the event. Participate in a geo-rally and view famous tech icons of Silicon Valley, or join an REI-sponsored outdoor adventure!

Please log your Will Attend. IMPORTANT: All cachers with individual caching accounts should log their own Will Attends. Please add the number of any additional attendees in your group without accounts to your log, so we can count you all. Thank you!

Basic attendance is free but pre-registration is encouraged. Box lunches and super-fun swag will be available for pre-order before the event.

Reserve the date and watch this event for more details as they become available!

See you there!

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