Washington State Geocaching Association

Chapter Representatives

48 North:                                     Siri Owen, heySiri0

Cache-Cadians:                        Gene Reed, Mr. Gadget #2

Inland Empire:                          Jerry Martin, Martin 5

Olympic Peninsula:                 Lori Kienholz, SeabeckTribe

Puget Sound:                            Gabe VanKempen, Go-pher-it

South Central:                          Dianne Andrews, AndrewsDK

Southwest:                                Rhonda Britten, HawaiianMaile

Thank you to the Nominating Committee: Steve Thurin (SMuddT), Jim Pommert (rocketglider), and Annette Bailes (PeachofWA).

WSGA BOARD MTG AGENDA JAN 2026

This is a post to notify WSGA members of the September 17th, 2025 Board of Directors meeting.

This meeting will be closed to the public, but will be available to be reviewed by way of the meeting minutes posted one (1) week after the meeting on our website. That webpage is the following: https://www.wsgaonline.org/minutes/

Tonight’s meeting will feature the subjects from the following Agenda:

https://www.wsgaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/WSGA-BOARD-MTG-AGENDA-SEPT-2025.pdf

Hello everyone.

The WSGA Campout and WSGA General Board meeting held in Menlo of the Southwest Chapter in 9 days has been up and posted as an event on Geocaching.com. The GC number is GCB1PYC  — CLICK HERE   for more details. If you would like to join us, please register using the WSGA STORE – CLICK HERE. 

The WSGA General Board Meeting Minutes are posted below:

I am excited to see you there. Thank you.

Antoine Pin / Winos_Seattle

To ALL WSGA members, committee members, volunteers, and board members.

• In 2024, my intention as president, was to issue out a trackable to all our Premium members. This trackable was for anyone who had purchased and joined the WSGA as a Premium member between Jan. 1, 2024 and December 31, 2024. Midway through 2024, the board of directors voted and approved a change in the by-laws to rephrase the “Premium Member gift” from “…trackable geocoin” to “…geocoin or trackable item.” Thinking that I was in the clear to acquire a blinky-blinky trackable item, I progressed through the year until I was held up at our November 2024 board meeting by one of our Chapter Representatives who pointed out that there had been numerous WSGA *Premium members who had purchased their membership prior to the by-laws update and they had been expecting a “Geocoin”. The WSGA immediately requested the help of our in-house design team and a theme was drawn up. From there, a design was created. Chinese new year didn’t help and the imports uncertainty was also thought-about. In the end, this coin goes out to all of you, who have supported us, joined us, participated, volunteered, laughed with us, yelled at us, cried with us and watched us grow. It’s our way of saying thanks and showing that we care.

• In previous years, the WSGA has conjured up designs honoring everything Washington State. From Mt. Rainier, to ferries, the Spokane Skyride, the Columbia River, state parks, the Space Needle, Apples, Cotlets, and an infamous ape. Never have we designed and created a coin honoring past and current members and volunteers. Until now!!

I give you the 2024 WSGA Premium Member Geocoin & WSGA Organization Geocoins.

The Green Executive Board Coin is the official 2024 Premium Member Coin, limited to 230 production. Designed by nepokama aka Mitch Eatough who is responsible for the design and creation of more WSGA geocoins and designs than anyone else. The intention for this coin is to honor all of the organization’s Past elected Executive Board members; i.e. President, Vice-President, Treasurer, and Secretary, that have served since our founding fathers put this little group together. I am proud to have followed such names as, Seth! (1st WSGA President), moun10bike (infamous), hydnsek, benandJayme, jcar, ACFunk, Allanon, and many more.

The White Chapter Representative Coin is limited to 100 production and only available in the WSGA store very soon. This coin is intended to honor all the WSGA elected “Chapter Representatives” and early years “Members-at-large” covering each of our seven (7) chapters.
Names like; Mc3cats, Martin5, Winos_Seattle, half_Canadian, FrodoB, rambudo, the Superknotts, Verano, and many more. This coin is very limited and will sell out.

And then there’s the Black Coin… This coin is hyper-limited in production. Fifty (50) pressed. Designed by nepokama. It’s the 2024 presidential “Volunteer” Coin. This coin is very special and exclusively “handed” to those individuals who do things for the WSGA above and beyond any typical volunteer. This coin has a message and is fully intended to recognize individuals. It is handed out by the presiding WSGA President for that year. The names on it are individuals who were asked to further be involved and volunteer to be approved to specific committees during the year of 2024 while I (Winos_Seattle) was in office. Some individuals accepted my requests for help on one or two of our organization’s committees and some individuals simply could not commit as life does go on. I respect that. In the end, we currently have more individuals involved than ever before. Some of those names include; rocketglider, lucymogus, LovOrca, Clever_cachers, skyhawker, HawaiianMaile, BryanBeFinding, and many more.

WSGA Committees & Sub-Committees:
• Events Committee
• Campout Committee
• Tech Committee
• Social Media
• APE Committee
• Merchandise Committee
• Outreach/Advocacy Committee
• Nominee Committee
• Update Committee
• Soon-to-be — Membership Committee

Please contact us if you’d like to get involved in one of our committees.

So much has happened since January. We had a record number of nominees, an aLmost flawless nomInee and eLections process, some new candidate highLighting, milestones, a few events, a partY, new People, AdLabs, the WSGA Discord and much more. You are all invited to join us for this next edition to the the WSGA Board Meetings. The 2nd for the year, hear it all, updates, news, banter, powerpoints, special quests, check out what’s new in our store, elevator speeches and as always, an opportunity to throw out your 2 cents… Here’s the agenda* below**. Agenda may be subject to change*. ZOOM LINK

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

The WSGA Election has concluded.  We received a total of 117 votes cast.

Executive Committee

President:                    Kevin DeFields, Cool Cow Cachers

Vice-President:            Elaine Edwards, lucymogus

Secretary:                    Jim Pommert, rocketglider

Treasurer:                    Annette Bailes, PeachofWA

48 North Chapter Rep: Siri Owen (heySiri0)
Cache-cadian Chapter Rep: Gene Reed (Mr.Gadget)
Inland Empire Chapter Rep: Jerry Martin (Martin 5)
Olympic Peninsula Chapter Rep: Lori Keinholz (SeabeckTribe)
Puget Sound Chapter Rep: Gabe J VanKempen (Go-pher-it)
South Central Chapter Rep: Dianne Andrews (AndrewsDK)
Southwest Chapter Rep: Rhonda Britten (HawaiianMaile)

Thanks to all of our Candidates for their support and service to the WSGA!