While the Aussies are celebrating spring, most of the rest of the geocaching world is celebrating fall. Included in the nearly 100 cache events scheduled this month are a bear hunt, bowling for cache and an event scheduled to assist in the filming of a geocaching documentary, not to mention a dozen or so Halloween themed parties. The following list features selected events; for a more complete list visit the Groundspeak event calendar. Oct. 02—W. Australia
Spring Camping Carnival
Roll up, roll up, come one, come all. The big tarp will be up again this coming long weekend, 2nd 3rd 4th of October, come along and join in the fun.

Oct. 02—Ontario, Canada
Cache In!
Geocaching activities, GPS tips, Night Vision demos, hike and a campfire.

Oct. 02—Germany
BlackOps - Gathering of the Nightcachers
Dies ist das erste Treffen in Bayern (oder Deutschland oder gar auf der Welt?) welches speziell für Nightcacher ist.

Oct. 02—Idaho
IGO Rendevouz 3 *Charmed*
Third Time is the Charm! The annual Gathering of the Clan for a little fun and games in the Great White North! Bring a Signature Item for the Community Cache! There will be a Pot Luck Dinner on Saturday about 6:00PM And Assorted Mischief the rest of the time!

Oct. 02—Indiana
Potawatomi Wild-cache
Free admission. Free parking. Kids' and adults' cache coordinates to be revealed at 1 p.m. Saturday Oct. 2 during Potawatomi Wildlife Park's annual Fall Fest.

Oct. 02—Indiana
Heartland's October Fest @ Windy Rock
We will have a Bon-Fire, Pitch-In Chili Dump, Caches, Night Caches and lots of Fun. Please bring your favorite covered dish or dessert, what ever your family wants to drink and Don't Forget to bring your Chili to add to the pot.

Oct. 02—Ohio
OKIC Fall Picnic
Come join fellow geocachers for a picnic at Miami Whitewater Forest, one of the Hamilton County Parks in western Cincinnati. You can check out the park at www.Greatparks.org. There are restrooms, playgrounds, and hiking trails available nearby.

Oct. 02—Pennsylvania
SEPAG's First CITO Event
Come spend a day and a night at Fort Washington State Park. We will spend a few hours cleaning around the park and then setting up tents and spending the night. Did someone say night caching?

Oct. 02—Texas
LAMPPJ
Come celebrate the sport of Geocaching at our house on Saturday, October 2nd, from 6PM to 10PM! In addition to the obvious discussion of geocache hiding and finding techniques, there will also be several other extracurricular activities.

Oct. 03—Saskatchewan, Canada
ATV/GPS Treasure Hunt
ATV/GPS Treasure Hunt. Highway #264 at Elk Ridge Resort. 6 1/2 Hours to complete. It is not a race, we will have an evening meal. Contact for details.

Oct. 03—Nevada
Renegades, Rebels, & Rogues
All you geocaching renegades, rebels and rogues are invited to spend a night of eatin, drinkin and visitin under the stars at the Old Pioneer Salloon. The Pioneer Saloon, built in 1913, is one of the oldest bars in Nevada.

Being that This it October, the month of Halloween, I thought you might be interested to know that the Pioneer Saloon is a known haunted saloon and has been featured on the History and Discovery channels in specials dealing with haunted buildings.

Oct. 05—New Jersey
In Honor of Floopy's 3000th Find Cache
This event is to honor one of our local cachers for an incredible accomplishment – 3000 cache finds! I know you can’t do this cache during lunch, or before work, but stop by to chat about geocaching and maybe you can get some tips from the Master. Kids are welcome at this restaurant.

Oct. 08—North Carolina
Caching Call
Nora Donaghy, student auteur at the USC School of Cinema & Television in Los Angeles is developing a documentary on geocaching. Come welcome her to our world…she will be filming and interviewing to develop her project.

Oct. 09—Florida
A Geo-Breakfast You Can't Refuse
Fugetaboutit! A Geo-Breakfast you can't refuse. And why would you want to??? But if you did, you'd have to answer to The Lehigh Mafia and trust me when I say "fugetaboutit", you don't wanna do that!!

Oct. 09—Nevada
1st Annual Beatty Geocaching Rendezvous
The town of Beatty, Nevada is celebrating 100 years of history. You are cordially invited to join us in our Centennial celebration. Join us for a pancake breakfast on Saturday morning, October 9th. Then have fun with a poker run that will take you on a tour of town. You can spend the rest of the morning and afternoon doing what you do best: GEOCACHING! There will be lots of new geocaches of all levels for you to hunt. We will wind up the day with a B-B-Q and awards ceremony for the top three hands in the poker run. Live entertainment will be provided.

Oct. 10—Austria
3rd UAGM ("Gelbes Krokodil")
Welcome to the 3rd Upper Austria geocaching meeting. The event is scheduled for Sunday October 10, at 5 p.m. (1500 UTC). We have reserved a table at "Gelbes Krokodil", a place close to the above coordinates.

Oct. 10—Sweden
Ume Event 1
Welcome to the first event cache in Umeå! We meet on Sunday, October 10, at 1 pm, at the coordinates given above. If you wish to participate, write a note and let us know how many of you will come. We bring coffee and cake. All you have to do is find it! Bring your GPS, sturdy clothes, something to eat and drink from, and a trading item for the geocache that we are going to hide. If you don't want to run the risk of sitting on the ground, you might also want to bring a chair of some kind. For more information, contact us!

Oct. 10—Texas
Columbus Sails to Cachestrop
Come spend Sunday, Oct 10th and Monday (Columbus Day) Oct 11th wandering through a beautiful pine forest on a wonderous Fall day. There are 8 caches there now, perhaps a few more when we leave (placement of a cache in this park requires approval from a park ranger). Come for either day or both days and spend the evening there Sunday night. The cabins there are incredible, usually booked one year in advance BUT there are 3 left as of this minute for that night.

Oct. 16—United Kingdom
North West Meet - The Green
A Cache Bash at the above venue. Thanks to Alistair and Anita for setting aside a area of the pub for us to use.The venue has been reviewed and has Cask Ales and good food.

Oct. 16—Georgia
Bowling for Cache
Featuring an Ugly Golf Ball Contest. Bring the nastiest, most cut up, and/or pathetic golf ball that you have found in a cache (no cheating!) and enter it to win a cheap and perhaps lame prize. If you enter a particularly miserable example of the genre, be sure to be prepared to tell us what cache you found it in and what you traded for it. (Hint: The winner may be judged on how well the story is presented as well as the pitiful state of the ball.)

Oct. 16—Georgia
Weiner Roast
We will have bon fire, grille, weiner sticks and of course the hamburgers and hot dogs. Will probably set up a vollyball net for the kids. Bring your own drinks and a dish to pass if you wish. Bring your geocaching stories and lets have a good time.

Oct. 16—Pennsylvania
Milton State Park Fall CITO Campout
This park is on an Island, in the middle of the Susquehanna River, so bring your Yaks and Canoes.

Oct. 16--Pennsylvania
October 16th Great Kinzua Bear Hunt
There have been a rash of bear sightings in Kinzua Country, and we want your help in bagging them! You might actually see a real one during your caching experience in Warren County, but the ones we will be looking for during this event are a bit different. These bears are a more urbane species with a certain artistic flair. These bears are lifesize statues of bears that were sponsored by various businesses and organizations to educate and promote the youth of Warren County.

The partners for Healthy Communities-Healthy Youth (HCHY) of Warren County are excited to present “A Bear Affair” and participate in this geomeet . We hope you come and enjoy the wonderful creativity of our local adult and youth artists as they have combined their talents to produce some of the zaniest ursine characters ever to emerge from hibernation.

Oct. 23—Ontario, Canada
A Haunting at Rankins
Since this is so close to Halloween we are going to put in a little twist. We dare anyone who comes to dress up as their Geocaching name. For some of you this may be easy, but for others you may need to be a little creative. Please note that this is kid friendly.

Oct. 23--Arizona
Halloween RadioActive - The Nightmare Before X-Mas
The 2nd Annual Halloween RadioActive Cache Event. Face Painting, Pumpkin Toss, Trick or Treating, Bob for Bats, Elf Bowling, Raffle and Door Prizes, Other Kids and Adult Activities, And Much More...

Oct. 23--California
The Trail of TERROR (10/23/04 Fall Event Cache)
A pre-Halloween Event and Bike trail Cache Hunt. This Event should be a fun family adventure for all ages. There are some BBQ's for our use or bring your own BBQ. We will be under a covered shade area. And lots of green grass for flying kites or frisbees. We will be having Event Games, 3-legged sack races, FTF cache contest as well as CACHE-BINGO and great cache swag give-aways.

Oct. 23—Illinois
Fright Nite
Welcome to an event with a twist...from a few cachers who are twisted.

Oct. 23—Missouri
Geocaching 101 - #4
St. Louis County Parks has again asked our organization to put on a 4th geocaching seminar for the public. This series of geocaching seminars has been well received in the past by both the public and the County Parks system and in turn, everyone can benefit from this activity. For those that haven't been here, it's a beautiful and rugged park, with lots of trails, picnic tables, creeks, steep hills and rocky bluffs. There are almost no open, flat areas, and currently there are 13 caches in the park and surrounding area.

Oct. 23—New Jersey
SJG's (Jersey) Devil of a Get-Together
"It is a haunted place where the blood red waters of the Mullica River rise in the bog of a New Jersey town....The cedars that line the river banks stain the waters their deep color. Stunted pitch pines stand motionless, their shallow roots anchored precariously in gleaming white stands. Silence reigns."

Oct. 23—Wisconsin
All-A-Glow Night Geocaching
The Greenfield Parks & Recreation Dept invites you and your family to join us for our Fall geocaching adventure! A fun evening with a Potluck dinner, Night Geocaching and an Urban Campfire. And/ or join us for Glow Bowling! Our evening will begin with POTLUCK & COSTUME PARTY!

Oct. 23--Tennessee
GEOSET-Halloween Spooky Campout
We will share spooky geocaching stories, talk about caching and placing caches. Basically anything that has to do with Geocaching.

Oct. 23--Texas
Spooktacular Geocaching Event
We're asking for all to dress in costume according to your geocaching name. Since we're Dawgies we'll dress accordingly as Dawgs of some sort. Hehehe ~ I wonder what a Goatsniffer would look like? Hopefully we'll get to see.

Oct. 30--Netherlands
HHE2004: "Elementalen"
De vierde editie van het inmiddels beruchte Halloween Horror Event! Nog groter en gezelliger dan voorgaande jaren!

Oct. 30—United Kingdom
The Halloween Monster Cache Bash
The Halloween Monster Cache Bash! will be Held on 30th-31st October ’04! - Just minutes from Creepy West Wycombe, Buckinghamshires most notorious location when it comes to Ghosts & Legends, & even closer to ‘The City’ a place where many plague victims from London fled to once upon a time…

Oct. 30—Michigan
NE Michigan Halloween Weekend Spooktacular
Join us for a creepy, horror filled two evening, three day event at a nice, haunted State Forest Campground at Ocqueoc Falls. We'll be looking for organ and other types of donations for the prize table, and plan on a cannibal pot luck supper for Saturday evening, bring a creepy dish to pass out over!!

Oct. 31—Germany
Halloween III - Event
In alten Zeiten sollen hier die gefangenen Schatzsucher in der Tiefe des Faulturmes verwahrt worden sein. Finsternis, Hunger und Kälte waren dort ihre Gefährten, und gar mancher musste hier einsam und verlassen sein Leben aushauchen. Nun irrt sein Geist darin umher, ohne einen Ausweg aus dem furchtbarren Gelass zu finden. In gewitterschweren, stürmischen Halloween-Nächten, wenn der Sturmwind heult, in wütendem Ansturm das Schloss überfällt und an seinen Mauern und Türen vergebens rüttelt, da erwachen die Geister, beginnen über ihr Los zu klagen und in herzzerreißenden Tönen um Erlösung zu flehen.