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March 2021 pathtag update. There are now 133 known WGA members past and present that have created at least one pathtag (plus some group tags). Shown here is one pathtag from each of them (some have created many pathtag designs). Pathtags are trackable personal coins/swag similar to travel bugs that people trade or put in caches, except that when you find one you get to log it and keep it! 🙂
I’d like to see the picnic and campout dates switched as well, with future campouts in the late summer/fall and the picnic late spring/early summer. The reason is this:
The 3-day spring campout event is always cooler weather, sometimes with snow or frost still on the ground. It makes it tough to camp overnight for many folks that aren’t used to cold-weather tent camping. Traditionally the campouts have been during that time. I’ve only been to 7 or 8 WGA campouts, but I seem to recall almost every year there being frost and/or rain at night.
The weather is usually nice for the late summer/early fall 1-day picnic event, which has traditionally been during that time.
Why not have the better weather (fall) for a 3-day event so we can enjoy the fall colors for up to three days, and the more challenging weather (spring) for the 1-day event, where overnight camping isn’t practiced by most? (Of course, geocachers are allegedly hardy outdoors folks in any weather, right…?)
Historically speaking, the first picnic took place late summer (8/26/2001) but there weren’t any campouts back then. The following year and ever since, the WGA continued the tradition of a late summer/early fall picnic. But in 2002 the WGA added a spring campout to go along with their “fall” picnic. It’s been that way ever since, since that’s how it started. But weather-wise, it really seems to make sense to switch dates so that the campout would be scheduled for the fall (Aug or Sept) and the picnic scheduled for the spring (May or June).
