Cachers around the world have planned more than 80 events for August, including a celebration of winter (down under), ice cream socials, beach parties, rib fests, and the "original can of beans." Here, you will find some selected events. For a complete listing, visit the Groundspeak August event calendar, and plan to meet some geocachers in your region.
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Aug. 1—New South Wales, Australia
Wacky Winter Wooley Warm Wear
Join the Dingbats in a celebration of winter and geocaching. This is a casual social evening for geocachers to catch up, share a few stories and have some fun...please come dressed in your wackiest winter wooley warm wear clothing. Don't forget the hat!
Aug. 1—New Brunswick, Canada
Anchorage Provincial Park Get-Together
Come to Grand Manan, the most southern island of New Brunswick, and have fun, meet new people, and last but not least, geocache. The event will be held at Anchorage Provincial Park, in Grand Harbour. This event cache is sponsored by the Rotary club.
August 07--Ohio
Three Creeks CITO
A short CITO followed by various activities in the park.
August 5--California
USA - Europe TB Swap Meet
I am coming to the bay area on a very short business trip from Germany and unfortunately have no time for caching. However, I will bring some 5-10 TBs as I will be at another event here in Germany just before I leave. So I am calling for this event to allow for an easy TB exchange.
August 7—United Kingdom
Dreaming Spires Cache Bash 04
The Perch is a beautiful thatched pub in the sleepy village of Binsey, to the north west of Oxford city, just off of the River Thames. It can be found along a narrow lane about 1 mile to the north of the Botley Road…
August 7--Oklahoma
First Ever Sequoyah County CITO Extravaganza
It's time to pay back the city of Sallisaw for letting us hide so many great caches in Sallisaw Park!
August 7--Texas
Too Hot To Cache Bash
Join us for some food and frolic. Bring a swimsuit & towel and perhaps a lawn chair. Meet us at the above coordinates at about 2:00 pm. We will have plenty of beverages, both adult and otherwise, and lots of food. Please log a note and let us know how many will be coming.
August 7--Washington
Win A Moun10Bike Coin!
Let's get together for a good cause! Come and help introduce some families to geocaching. You'll be a assigned a family and you'll teach them how to geocache. You'll be their guide to the three caches in this park and they'll use your GPSr.
August 8--Pennsylvania
Road and Trail Geo Rally and Scavenger Hunt
This is a driving, hiking, road rally-scavenger hunt using GPS's.
The winner will be determined by correctly answering the questions along the way. Ties will be broken by the time that is closest to our average moving time. Teams will need a GPS that can time their journey and give mileage, or they will need a stop watch and a pedometer, as well as the odometer in their vehicle.
August 11--Sweden
Långholmen CC (Picnic i Stockholm)
Cache description only in Swedish - sorry.
Please contact cache owner if you're interested in translation.
August 11—New Jersey
Baby Back Ribs Night
Come join some fellow cachers in an evening of drinks, baby back ribs, and, of course, sharing geocaching tales and stories. Please be prepared to discuss your worst DNF log.
August 13--Florida
NEFGA'S End of Summer Luau
Entertainment will be provided by those members in Hula skirts and Coconut Bras
August 14—Quebec, Canada
A Montreal Event
We have noticed a number of logs from new cachers in Montreal and surrounding region to Eastern Ontario and Ottawa, we think it time to get together to swap some Geocaching Tales.
August 14--Ohio
All Ohio Geovent
The event will be highlighted by an ice cream social.
Other activities include a round table with some folks from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, including Deputy Dog. We will have a chance to see what Geocaching looks like from the perspective of the parks and land managers. I can assure you that this will be positive.
August 14--Oregon
Cook's Butte Ivy Yank
With no natural checks to balance it, English Ivy thrives in the Northwest, damaging trees and smothering out native plants. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, it to help eradicate this foreign invader. By pulling out this ivy, you will clear the way for natural plants to return and to help this park return to its natural splendor. We’ll be placing a permanent cache here to commemorate the event.
August 14--Tennessee
GSMGC - 1K Caches – DavidMac
This is an opportunity for area geocachers to meet each other and to honor DavidMac’s milestone achievement of 1000 caches found. Of course, there will be plenty of cachers discussing geocaching and swapping stories. Everyone is invited to attend and enjoy the fun and fellowship.
August 14--Texas
The Original Can of Beans (OCB)
Come see the Original Can of Beans that Team 360 recovered from the first geocache.
August 15—Victoria, Australia
Winches & Waterfalls 4WD Event Cache.
Totalling around 190km from central Melbourne and return, this run begins at Powelltown and wends its way through that section of the Yarra State Forest situated south of Warburton. We hope to get some caches on the way but the main purpose of this trip is for cachers to get out there and have some fun together.
August 21--Arizona
Cochise Cachers Anonymous
Our 12-step program may make your caching addiction worse, but you'll no longer be anonymous after this chance to meet your fellow geocachers!
Join us for a picnic in Veterans Memorial Park, Sierra Vista on Saturday August 21st between 9am and 2pm. Bring your own meals and soft drinks, and we'll provide snacks and activities including:
Film-canister eating contest: How many plastic film canisters can you eat in one minute? If it's more than your fellow cachers, you'll win the big prize; a trip to the Emergency Room!
August 22--Texas
Geo-Stompin' Groovy Grape Time!!
Join us for a Grape-Stompin' good time at the Texas Hills Vineyard!!
Geocachers are invited to the Texas Hills Vineyard for a fun-filled day to include a potluck luncheon, beverage sampling and grape-stomping!! And, make a t-shirt with your grape-stained footprints!!
August 27--Utah
Happy Birthday Utah Geocaching!
This event will be held to commemorate the placement of Utah's oldest and longest surviving geocache. On August 27, 2000 Larry Nielson, aka Leaper64, placed a 5 gallon bucket in the ground near a spot where his family had enjoyed camping for years. He recorded the location with his GPS, and posted the waypoint coordinates on Geocaching.com. And Geocaching came to Utah. Four years, and nearly three THOUSAND caches later, cachers from all over the state will visit this revered location to pay homage to this venerable cache. Please bring something nice to contribute to the cache.
August 28--Austria
Kärntner Geocaching Event
Wir möchten alle recht herzlich einladen, bei gemühtlichem Zusammensein und gutem Essen und Trinken über unser gemeinsames Hobby zu plaudern.
August 29--Norway
The Bergen Get-Together # 1
The following information will be in Norwegian only, shoot us an email if you want details in English.
Da er det vel på tide med en liten "get together" i Bergen? :)
Sett av datoen søndag 29.08.2004, så kommer mer info etter hvert. (Og riktige koordinater :) )
Skriv gjerne en note om du kommer / datoen passer :)
August 29--Washington
Party of Three!
In celebration of my first three years of geocaching, I am hosting a gathering of the world's finest geocachers. This means you! I'm also hoping to bag my 600th find by then.