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WSGA / S.W.A.G. YUMA Block Party Collab: 25% Off Coupon Code

YOU MUST BE LOGGED INTO THE WSGA WEBSITE TO USE THIS PROMO

How far would you go…for a geocache?

Some geocachers hunt locally, some simply walk around their part of town, some like day excursions and then you’ve got geocachers who simply go all the way!!! Some geocachers plan their weekends or even their weeks of vacation. Just to attend special events all around the world. Yuma is now a destination for geocachers and we want to celebrate with them.

In honor of 25 years of Geocaching, the YUMA 2025 Block Party and the WSGA’s close relationship with S.W.A.G., we are offering 25% off select items (most of everything) in the WSGA Store for all. No membership required. Beginning Tuesday, January 28th, 2025 until the end of the day on February 4th, the WSGA is happy to give 25% off your full cart* purchase when you spend $25 or more on the WSGA Online Store.

*EXCLUSIONS: Shipping, WSGA Memberships (Basic & Premium), WSGA Member Badge, WSGA Bundles, WSGA APE Bundles, 2025 WSGA APE Event Promotional Packages, 2025 WSGA Campout Packages, WSGA Adventure Tours. Limited Time Only. Must be signed into the WSGA Website. One Limited Usage Per User (user email). Coupon Expires: 02/05/2025 @ 12:00AM

To find the coupon click HERE to access the WSGA Online Store. Please make sure you are signed in. You will find a special coupon code to click at the bottom left-side of your cart (Shown below).

 

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WSGA January 2025 Board Meeting

WSGA January 2025 Board Meeting: January 15th 6:30PM Via ZOOM

All Invited to attend. The ZOOM LINK will made public right here in this UPDATE POSTING and on our Facebook Page.

BOARD MEETING AGENDA

WSGA BOARD MTG AGENDA JANUARY 2025

ZOOM LINK TO WSGA BOARD MEETING:

January 15th, 6:30PM. Please be ready and online appropriately 10 minutes before the start of the meeting.

WSGA Organization is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/95758628199?pwd=V2w1NE9uclI0VmNPUk5wL0J5bXZmUT09

Meeting ID: 957 5862 8199
Passcode: 756286

 

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SPECIAL COUPON FOR WSGA HOLIDAY PARTY ’24

There will be a special coupon for those purchasing or thinking about purchasing something at the WSGA Puget Sound Holiday Party GCAZT51

We’re playing with the “Marketing” Section of the website and testing coupons for our members (“Subscribers”) to use in the very near future. Another added benefit for joining the WSGA‘s little family with a BASIC or a PREMIUM Membership.  

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Who’s who, When’s When & What’s What? WSGA BoD Full List

This is a full list of all the WSGA Board Members since the very beginning. Disclaimer: There may be a few corrections to be made. Please email me at president@wsgaonline.org with your correction or 2 Cents. Otherwise, reach me via geocaching.com message board.

Thank you to RIght Wing Wacko, Hydnsek, moun10bike, jcar, Terrible T’s, Nepokama, Winos_Seattle, mtngoat50, Seth!, FenChurchE, PeachofWa, sproutter and tecsomane for helping me (Winos_Seattle) put this together.

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HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL!

The volunteers, chapter reps, and the executive board would like to wish you all, ncluding all geocachers, parents of geocachers, sisters, brothers, lackeys, grandparents (i.e. light121, medicrncen, lansearch & more) and even muggles 🙂  a HAPPY THANKSGIVING! 

These past 20 months as president, have been a great learning experience. We’ve tackled challenges, shared excitement & optimism, and spent many hours collaborating to secure the future of and spread enthusiasm for the WSGA. My goals when I took office include taking this organization back to its roots and then some. I wanted to make it all inclusive, empower our member volunteers to moments with geocachers far and wide. All while keeping our missions to educate parks & land managers  to the benefit of geocachers, encourage environmental stewardship through CITOs and trail maintenance, increase awareness and support  geocaching to all through events and social  interaction.

Today, I am extremely thankful to all of those individuals within this organization and some outside the membership, who have allowed me to be as successful and determined for the WSGA. I’d like to thank the following volunteers who have supported us through the past almost two dozen months.

  • cacheingcants (Carter, Mom, Dad & Brother) – MWCats (aka Mc3Cats) – BryanBeFinding – Obarshay – AnnScout – DiscgolfBirdie – Nepokama – ThePiCacher – SkyHawker – Mrs. Winos – Half_Pint – LindaHuskey – WillDoit – Gopher-it – JazznCatz – Team Pazooter – ibking1 – Terrible T’s – AndrewRJ – Avroair – Princess Trouble – Paisleykmt – ChrisoftheNW – Wasurf – Martin5 – VBHunter – PNW_Navigator & Carrots – PeachofWa – CoolCowCachers – SMuddT – lucymogus – AndrewsDK – Tecsomane – Morhoff – SeabeckTribe – HawaiianMaile – rocketglider – Mr. Gadget #2 – Clongo_Rongo – LovOrca – Clever_Cachers – Brian – Seth! – JCar – MtnGoat50 – Merlin1392 – Boomer425 – Prying Pandora – Ambrosia – ConfusedZombie – Spewey – gearguru – BrooceLee (& Nikki) – the tc life – and many more if I missed you. These are all the volunteers who have stepped up in some particular role as committee members (Events, Campout, Update, Merchandise, Tech, APE, Parks, Outreach…), Chapter Reps, the executive board, and consultants.

I want to thank every one of you. I genuinely appreciate all that you have done and continue to do. Happy thanksgiving to you and your families. And HAPPY THANKSGIVING to all geocachers in our great State of Washington and world-wide.

Have a great day, find some caches, and be kind to one-and-other. Cheers

Winos_Seattle aka Antoine

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TONIGHT’s Rescheduled WSGA BoD Meeting — JOIN US on ZOOM

This is an open invite to this rescheduled WSGA Board Meeting for November 2024. Due to the PNW Bomb Cyclone that wiped out much of the electrical and cable infrastructure in western Washington, this meeting was postponed last week to tonight. Here is the ZOOM LINK for anyone who’d like to join us.

 

CLICK BELOW

ZOOM LINK TO WSGA NOVEMBER 2024 BOARD MEETING 

or Copy this:

https://zoom.us/j/91678797182?pwd=bWXa6xIO3wjowhlbNsn2uvmooXul9X.1

UPDATED AGENDA 11/25/2024

WSGA PRES. AGENDA NOV 2024 – USE DAY OF

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EXTREME WEATHER: PNW – Bomb Cyclones

What is a Bomb Cyclone??? A “bomb cyclone” slammed the Pacific Northwest earlier this week, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands in Washington state, killing two people and injuring two others. A bomb cyclone is akin to a winter hurricane, with wind gusts of up to 70 mph, and it brings a slew of dangers. Washington State took the brunt of this last bomb cyclone on Tuesday night. Power went out in the Issaquah, Bellevue, Sammamish, Fall City, Maple Valley area. Issaquah suffered the extensive damage with over 100 fallen trees on homes, cars and across streets. Powerlines, cell towers, and repeaters were wiped out. Cars and homes crushed by heavy tree limbs and entire trees. As of Thursday 11am, the Eastern King County area had 400,000 without power.

As I type this, I’m sitting in the Issaquah Senior Center which is currently operating as a “Warm & Charging Shelter” for impacted residents. We’ve got no power, no data / wi-fi and very unstable cell service. We resorted to setting up our camping stove to make coffee in the morning, fried eggs, soups and simple dinner. Thank god we’re geocachers!! I’m sure we’re not alone as this area has many geocachers living nearby. I’m going to try to update this website as often as I can, but not having data service makes that very difficult. Please follow us on Facebook and our Discord Server. Those links will be listed below. I’m also adding links to the National Weather Service, PSE’s Restoration webpage and Washington Weather Chasers out of Lake Stevens. If you need anything, please send an email at president@wsgaonline.org or text me.

If you have updates or photos and want to post them Please email them to Linda Huskey, WSGA Social Media at socialmedia@wsgaonline.org. — Otherwise, post a comment on any of our social media platforms.

 

WSGA DISCORD SERVER (Best LIVE Communications)

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE

WASHINGTON WEATHER CHASERS (Facebook)

CACHERS OF PUGET SOUND (Facebook)

CITY OF ISSAQUAH (Facebook)

KING5 Weather / KOMO Weather

Official WSGA FACEBOOK PAGE

 

 

 

 

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Halloween Extravaganza 2024 Hosted by Goblindust and Bounce, Bounce

If you haven’t heard of this event and Facebook is not your thing, please consider dropping in.

This is an absolute HALLOWEEN MUST for any geocacher, parents of geocachers or children looking for something fun and inclusive within our community. You can bet that Goblingdust and Bounce, Bounce have been working hard to make this already thrilling event (GCAWC4P) for everyone.
Please, come one, come all!
Saturday, October 26th, from 12 PM to 8 PM
CLICK BELOW ON THE GC CODE TO SEE THE EVENT
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SAVE THE DATE: ALL INVITED – WSGA SEPTEMBER BOARD MEETING 9/18/2024 @ 6:30PM

Ahhhh, September….The time of year when the kids go back to school, if you live on the east coast, the leaves start to fall, close-out sales are running wild…online, and it’s the return of the WSGA online board meetings. All are welcome to join us during these board meetings. The meetings are held through the ZOOM app and the meeting links will be available right here on the WSGA Website. Contact us if you’d like to have it emailed to you. Here’s the agenda for this month’s WSGA Board Meeting.

Click to access WSGA-PRES.-AGENDA-SEPT-2024-Detailed-USE-02.pdf

WSGA PRES. AGENDA SEPT 2024 (DETAILED)

WSGA Sept. 2024 Board Mtg Zoom Link Invite: CLICK HERE