2008 ACT Cache Awards Queanbeyan East, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
By The S's on Sunday 15 March 2009. Waypoint GC1KW9K

1st

Looks like everyone has attended so time to disable

See you all next year  

20th

WOW!!! I had a blast - my husband wanted to know what I was doing out running around at 2am.... and eyeing off that tree at 1am trying to figure out where the bloody cache was. Now I'm only 5'2" and only young on the inside it took a little more effort to grab this one but I got there in the end all be it not like those who have sticky toe pads or nerves of steel I prussicked up (Ellie if you publish those photos I'll have to hide my next one somewhere real good).

What a fantastic event and game..... I might use the concept for a scout activity.....

Cheers and thanks to all those who hid caches and helped it was worth it. Special thanks to the S's.

From the Survey Team adventurous activities leader

MC KENNA

 

16th

Newsflash: For all attendees at yesterday's event, you have the opportunity to get your own pathtags made with a $15 discount off the regular price (discounted price is US$84 +S/H for 50 pathtags). I only got the coupons today, so was obviously unable to hand them out at the event. The coupon expires 2 weeks after the event date (29th March), so you don't have long. If you are interested, send me an email & I will give you the details of how to claim the discount. My only stipulation is that you'll have to trade me one of your tags when you get them!!  

15th

Where to start? Firstly, congrats & thanks to The Ss on organising such a well run event and arranging so many prizes for the award and game winners. And thanks also to the volunteers who assisted.

Well done to the winners, there are lots of great caches to choose from these days, your prizes are thoroughly deserved.

Thanks to all the cachers out there who have visited my caches. Receiving a prize was most unexpected but very gratifying. You've all got to do Tour De North - I think its my best cache

And of course it was a great day out in the sunshine, catching up with people. It was a shame we had to go so early. I especially enjoyed hearing Growingupisoptional's story about using their balloon to find Mt Springbank - that's certainly a different wat to get there!

Cheers - already looking forward to the next one.
 

15th

What a fantastic event!!! Berzerker and I had a great time, as did our Geo-spouses, who had the pleasure of driving around with us for the majority of the 24hr game. Unfortunate that we came up to short with 22/24, but the main thing is we had a great time. Congrat's to those teams who got the 24
Thanks to The S's, and everyone involved in setup and co-ordination. Can't wait til next year!
(PS: Berzerker is right, the Yarralumla Yowie does exist, and scared the hell out of us doing multi's at 2am in the
morning )
 

15th

TB!  

15th

#557 at 1230

Well, better later than never! Dvixen and I had only just moved house and we were still cleaning the other one, but we needed a break, so we swung by the event. We were about thirty minutes late, and all the awards had been handed out by then

Still, it was good to see the gang again

TNLN TFTE!
 

15th

Thanks to the S's for the event! (Sorry we were late.... moving is so much fun we just couldn't tear ourselves away.)

Was good to see everyone again, and to hear a bit more about what shenanigans everyone was up to out in the field!

 

15th

Attended on Saturday, but family events kept us away from returning on Sunday. A very good event - lots of preparation I imagine - well done to the Ss for another fantastic event in Canberra.
 

15th

Unfortunately we didn't get to participate in the 24 hour caching challenge, too busy flying our balloon for the Canberra Festival.
Was good to attend the lunch though, and meet some more ACT cachers.
Thanks to everyone who helped to organise the event.
 

15th

It was great to come to this event, I had fun playing with the other kids.

Thank you thank you!!!
 

15th

I had a great fun time, thanks The Ss for organising the event. I even got to take Mtrax's dog for a walk!
 

15th

Another great little gathering of ACT and visiting cachers.

Thanks to The S's for again setting everything up for the '24' game and the arranging the prizes for that and the award winners.

My concern is that you're setting the bar pretty high. What will you do next year to top this effort.

Again, thanks and well done.

Cheers,
 

15th

967 - Better late than never for me as well. Had a great time in the short timeframe I was there - if this was the remains of the crowd then there were definately a lot of attendees this year !

Kudo's to the S's and helpers who organised the event - I was very happy to hear I had a runners up for 'There's a Hole in the Bucket' !

I hope everyone who did the 24 hour event had a blast... despite some problems it seems to have been well received !

Good to catch up with some old and new faces - see you in the field or the next event...

T - Runners Up Prize (A nice torch) - L - Donation for the prizes - well done on those !

Cheers....


 

15th

Hooray What a brillant event. Met up with some cachers I knew and met some i didnt. Thanks to the S's, and was a fun afternoon TFTC
 

15th

Better late than never, met up with the usual suspects and even managed to purchase a coin.
TFTC
 

15th

Thanks for the event. I had quite a good time meeting a few new people and going on a wild blackberry enthralled adventure to take a photo.

Sorry to the cachers who had issues with my caches, I really didn't think they would be that hard, but I guess it's always like that when you know the answer.

I uploaded the photos I took to GC.com but if you want to see them in their hi-res glory

Round - http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/7563/finalmoddedsmall.jpg
Flat - http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/7112/finalflat.jpg

Thanks S's and cachers!
 

15th

What a great event! The team from the Bay did a great job showing up the locals, keeping the S's awake during the dark hours checking coordinates, and coming out top of the heap! Well done team. My own attempts at caching in thunderstorms with lightning bolts zinging off the nearby power lines just doesn't reach your lofty heights. I went to bed about 10PM - you kept going.

But I had a great time. I set my first caches in Canberra, received nice comments about my various pictures in the forums, and featured in the awards category. But most of all, today I got to stand around gossiping about geocaching with a great bunch of folk. If there is one category I feel is understated in the awards, it is for the Event Cache's. My thanks to Tealby, the Winglens, Big Matt and Shell and Bewilderbeast for hosting the events I attended in 2008. Those events were a great way for me to meet others in the ACT/QB caching community.

A special word of thanks to the S's - Susan and Sean. You spent most of last year planning the 24-themed cache series, then organised the volunteer cache-setters, planned the awards event, collated all the entry nominations and vote results, arranged for sponsor contributions and prizes and ran an event as well. Please accept my respect and my thanks for all your hard work. You have just won the 'RexTrex Special Award for almost-2008' if you know what I mean. Thanks team for doing a great job.

Congratulations to all the category winners on your well-deserved results - and to the 'also-ran's' because we couldn't have done this without you too. Well done to you all.

 

15th

Thanks S's for a great event. Nice to see you all. ZZ7
 

15th

Another great event by the S’s!

I had a bit of a slow start with the “24 caches challenge” – couldn’t find my first choice in Tuggeranong (co-ords were later updated), and then spent 2.5 hours bushwalking / bashing trying to get behind Red Rocks on the other side of the Murrumbidgee! (Well the hint did say “almost posted”, so I figured there may be a post out here somewhere! – there wasn’t) After much searching, I called the help line, and discovered that I was a couple of km away from the proper location! Oh, well, at least I did my bit for Quality Assurance!

At the event it was great to catch up with everyone again, and of course nice to win in one of the categories also!

Thanks again the S’s for organising.

 

15th

Whoa! What an event. But it was brilliant. Thank you so much, The S's. It is amazing the amount of work you put into organising such an event (and dealing with the late night text messages and drama =P).

Admittedly I have only just woken up after coming home from the event. Time to inspect all the injuries. An amazing collection of events and experiences for two day (but unfortunately I dont think McKenna will let me upload one of the only photos I managed to take - it was of her brilliant achievement at our last cache).

Congratulations to all the award winners. And the cachers from the Bay. I thought it was great that they outdid all the locals.

Thanks heaps,
Gwen
 

15th

2049.

Shell and I decided not to participate in the 24 hour event but we had a great time today. It was great to see so many new faces this year. Congratualtions to all the awardees. There certainly were some great caches this year. Molly and Kostya thank all the kids for the pats!

Thanks Shaun and Susan for the event, a great one as always.
 

15th

Thanks to everyone who assisted with setting up the game and especially the S's for organising the entire event. We all had a great time starting the game yesterday and continuing through to the Event today.

Thanks.
 

15th

What a great day and what a great event. Well done to the S's for all the their hard work. A fun time seemed to be had by all.

I didn't get a chance to participate in the 24 game piece challenge started off on Saturday but it also sounded like a fun bit of hard work. Well done to the participants, organisers and completers.

And another big thanx to all those I got to chat to. Aren’t us ACT cachers a top lot!!!

Thanx


 

15th

Well that was exciting! Given the volume of nominations this year, I certainly wasn't expecting to win anything, so to come home with Best Cache is a tremendous honour. I must say a big thank you to the Tealby B-Team for his assistance in putting Tealby's Revenge together.

Thanks also to The S's (and helpers) for all their hard work putting the event together - the game looked like a very ambitious undertaking & I'm sorry that I couldn't participate.

Great to catch up with everyone again & even meet a few new folks this time around too. Congrats to all the other winners too - and thanks for all the caches that were placed in 2008.

P.S. All being well, I'd like to continue sponsoring the best first cache placement prize, so if you haven't ever placed a cache, I'd encourage you to make your first a goodie!
 

15th

We always enjoy getting together and catching up at events, and today was another good one. Great location and a very good attendance. Thanks S's for organising again this year.
 

15th

Well the game has been run and won

We hope that everyone enjoyed themselves both during the game and at the event.

A huge thankyou to the following cachers who volunteered and made the weekend possible
* RexTrex
* mtrax
* JezzzaXtreme
* Aussiepuschaks
* Berzerker

Congrats to the winners of both the game and the awards

Game Winners
First place with an impressive 24 cachers in 13 hours - the 2 Batemans bay teams of Chris & Renee and Bbayjohn
Second Place with 24 caches in 23 hours - Survey Team consisting of McKenna and Gwennie1984)
Third Place with 555 points - Beagles gone Bezerk Team consisting of The Beagle has Landed and Bezerker)

Award Winners

Category 1 - Cache of the Year
Winner - Tealby for Tealby's Revenge http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=a23a5865-5954-4f2e-97e8-661979b6e80c
Runner Up (Tied) - Shadow! and Fore! for Shadow! of my Fore!mer self http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=68ed0471-3fec-4d0a-b979-53f67dd981dd
Bewilderbeest for Corroboree Park II http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=58f89bfb-ff9f-4b6b-a7e4-e14b2ea7df4f

Category 2 - Best Location
Winner - Tankengine for Lego Land II http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=eaed83af-8917-4eb8-83ff-e8b26237ceb4
Runner Up - SecretSquirrel-BJC for Garden For Quiet Contemplation http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=81d325a6-c894-4433-8ea2-820b73a7c2cb

Category 3 - Most Original
Winner - Mr Winglen for A Special Spiral http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=4e7422db-aa0a-4cc6-be18-cbc0e4e4bae8
Runner Up - Fitzy-1965 for There's a hole in the Bucket http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=570b29ec-d669-4782-b6f0-d91a81d08188

Category 4 - Best Photo
Winner - The S's for Off for a weekend sailing http://img.geocaching.com/cache/log/451eeefd-c8b8-420e-b8a5-0ed51c06d199.jpg
Runner Up - RexTrex for Rabbit Proof Fence http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LUID=a618aa2a-1a5f-4e83-8ffb-b6da5c1218a3&IID=2a5a91b1-4b5f-4f0e-89cb-ebdd318be669

Category 5 - Most Original
Winner - BeveJo for 670 Dots http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=b4eda97f-a17f-4aed-b7a2-f354e3dc867e
Runner Up - Merekats for Isabella's Stash http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=0be671d4-2ae0-4037-b668-332207f8fc3f


[This entry was edited by The S's on Saturday, March 14, 2009 at 10:56:46 PM.]

[This entry was edited by The S's on Saturday, March 14, 2009 at 11:01:03 PM.]  

15th

Had fun thanks for busting me and batgirl hitting stay upright who ever you were.
 

15th

I'm glad that all the containers I laid out where no problems, plenty of bugs and plenty of people...
thanks for organising event
 

15th

Nice time catching up and meeting a few more Cachers. Always nice to be able to put faces to names. Thanks to the S's for organising.
 

15th

A great day of catching up and and celebrating new caches. Thanks.

2086.3 Left 3 GC & took 1 GC
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 07 Australia Gold 2 A#79

Albida

[This entry was edited by albida33 on Saturday, March 14, 2009 at 10:33:27 PM.]
 

15th

Great event, thanks to the S's for organizing.
 

15th

Great event and well organised. TFTC
 

15th

Firstly, congratulations and very well done to the S’s for organizing yet another brilliant event. Great to meet so many newcomers and old hands too.

As for the 24 game – mixed feelings! I would have to attempt firstly the game pieces down Southside that got corrected later in the day!!!
Having three DNF’s first up threw me (and one that I spent an hour for a DNF too at 6pm), then after the next correction where I was headed, I gave up. BUT, the concept was brilliant, and a BIG CONGRATULATIONS to the 2 teams (4/5 people?) who managed to find them all – VERY WELL DONE. AMAZING when I heard of some of your exploits. 1am at Corin dam!!!! But thanks to the S’s for their compassion in giving me a wooden spoon consolation prize – thanks.

2008 certainly gave some great caches which were worthy recipients of the awards. Well done to the winners.

Finally, thanks The S’s for another successful annual event.

 

15th

Many thanks to the S's for a fun gathering and the trouble taken to arrange this event. It was great to see the usual faces as well as a few out of towners.
 

15th

Dropping in some Coins  

14th

Much fun had at the ACT awards, even at 1 am walking through feilds being started at by cows, or I am sure both myself and the Beagle ran into the Yaralumla Yowie around 2 am.

Thanks for the event organisation by the S's, I hope I am able to make another one
 

14th

1838. Well you've done it again S's. Turned on a [blue]B[/blue][gold]R[/gold][green]I[/green][maroon]L[/maroon][orange]L[/orange][purple]I[/purple][red]A[/red][violet]N[/violet][limegreen]T[/limegreen] Day for the event you have run so successfully over the last few years.

You can see previous events for [url=http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GC18F91&log=y][font=Book Antiqua][red]2007[/red][font=Verdana][/url] and [url=http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GC1043J&log=y][font=Book Antiqua][red]2006[/red][font=Verdana][/url] at these links.

The comments on those can be dittoed here, including great weather.

TFTE and your continuing hard work for the rest of us.
Rated: for Overall Experience  

14th

Great event, can't wait until the next one. Thanks to the organsiers and volenteers who made its a fantasic 24hrs.
 

14th

Thank you The S's for a fantastic game. We had a lot of fun seeking the 24 Caches. Thanks to all involved in setting up the game. We discovered some great sites in canberra that we didn't know were there.
 

14th

Normally I am very quick to log my attendance, but this event slipped through the cracks. I definitely plan to be there.
Dropping in some GCs & a TB. Keen to pick up some trackables that want to visit NZ - so let me know if you have any.
Thanks for organising again The S's.
 

14th

Dropping in 2 x TB's and One new coin to start it's journey.  

14th

Just dropping in to GC's as it looks like I'll actually be able to attend. c u there  

14th

I got these coins from Roma Qld and thought they needed to travel some distance.  

13th

Dropping off trackables!  

13th

The game has begun, if you were unable to make the start but would like to play, download a game card & coordinades from www.atomit.com.au/geocache/index.html, and email us to let us know you are playing

 

13th

Planning on being there, cya all there  

12th

Planning to be there, will need the social break after moving and cleaning all week/weekend!  

11th

Voting closes on Friday

Dont forget to get your votes to us at shaunandsusan@mitchellfamilyonline.com before then  

10th

Man, this is going to be great. Thanks in advance to all those involved in the setup and organising.  

9th

Or at least hope to attend just for the Award Ceremony with Domin8r on Sunday as Saturday is already booked out.  

7th

Dropping off more Geocoins & TB's. That makes 50 in total. I'll be there, always a good time.  

5th

I'm looking forward to this to. Planning on bringing quite a few friends along for the game (I'm assuming it's OK to do the game as a group providing only one GPS is used and it visits all the caches?)  

4th

The votes are coming very slow don't forget to get them in to ensure your favourites win. Voting closes in just over a week so get them in quick.

If anyone wants to send through tracking numbers for bugs so that I can compile a list for the day feel free to send them through  

3rd

Despite my recent absence from the sport I plan to attend the event . The game looks like lots of fun.  

2nd

Dropping off 40+ Geocoins and TBs that WANT to travel (ie, NOT be collected).
Many have the familar MAPLE Leaf of Canada, beavers, and other Canadian things, where I picked them up from.
I will be back in time.

PS - I also have a roll of camouflage tape - not for swap/sale - he he he.  

27th

The management and staff of Macpac Canberra have gratefully offered up some prizes for the ACT Cache award event and have also invited all Canberra Cachers to a special product launch that they are holding of a brand new waterproof shell jacket made from the eVent fabric! Please see the invite attached and if can go along and support the Macpac guys that are supporting our hobby.

The store will have staff from eVent in the USA and Macpac New Zealand showcasing the product on the night, as well as offering all attendees the chance to win an eVent jacket on the night.

The team from Rays Outdoors are also getting behind the Canberra Caching community with the over of store discount cards to all cachers. To get your card fill out the form attached and take it into the Rays Outdoors Store in DFO.

We are in the process of obtaining other prizes for the event as well so watch this space. Anyone who has prizes they would like to donate or knows anyone who may wish to donate prizes please let us know.
 

25th

Looking forward to the fun..I will be there on the briefing days  

25th

When I get back, I have ~30 TB's and Geocoins that I picked up in Canada and will drop off in the event soon
(including one special POKEMON Geocoin that Tealby may be interested in to see cyccke)  

23rd

Ok nominations have closed and voting is open until 6pm Friday March 13

Log onto the forum http://forum.geocaching.com.au/viewtopic.php?p=127402#127402 to view the nominees and get the voting details

Good Luck All  

22nd

1 x Beagle (possibly 2, depending on the RAAF and DHA) will be attending. Am really keen to score big on the 24 game.....(actually, so long as I score higher than Berzerker, I'll be happy!)  

21st

Sorry I have been caught up in other things, but if you want some more photos I have attached some here. I realise that I am a day late and understand if they miss the boat.
Cheers Ma Merekat  

19th

Just a quick reminder, nominations close in less than 24 hours. Therefore if you wish to nominate any caches better hurry up.

We don't seem to have many photos and at this stage it could be a one horse race, so get your photos in.

Thankyou to those who have already volunteered, we still need a couple more volunteers to help hide game pieces so if you spare a small amount of time it would be most appreciated. (Helping will not preclude you from playing).  

15th

Looking forward to this event as it will be our first. Will be heading over from Batemans bay as well as Chris & Renee. Is there anyway of preparing for this trip ie. Pocket Queries etc or are they new caches [?]

C u all soon
[:X]  

15th

Should be there for the Sunday event but not too keen on driving all the way out there twice in one weekend.  

9th

Unfortunately due to guidelines we are unable to list the game as a seperate event and therefore will need to incorporate the game and awards back into one find.

Keep the nominations coming  

8th

Hi Team,

Thank you for hosting this event again - most appreciated.

Please add one RexTrex for attendance and my offer of a spare pair of hands if you need assistance in your preparations.  

7th

Budgie and I are looking forward to attending and we are busy figuring out what we need having never attended one before. But true to scouting spirit we'll do our best.

TFTC
MC KENNA
 

7th

Unfortunately we will be away from 22/2 until 23/3 and will miss both parts of this event. We will hopefully be able to log in from OS to vote.

If anyone wants TBs or GCs dropped in Spain or Austria we would be happy to oblige.  

3rd

Just a note to let you all know that we have asked the reviewers to split the game and the award event into 2 different caches to allow cachers to claim 2 finds if they decide to endure the 24 hour challange.

We will keep you informed once we hear from the reviewers.  

28th

One, or probably both Winglens will be there on the Sunday, thanks S's.  

21st

You will see the new kings of the hill here, Bezerker and The Clarke Gang [^]

And that would be the mount Ainlie hill as I am yet to cache a way from there

[This entry was edited by Bezerker on Monday, January 26, 2009 at 8:58:02 PM.]  

20th

Not sure of how confusion of dates has occured but to assist here is the schedule of events

Saturday 14 March
11.00am - Game Registration
11.45am - Game briefing
12.00pm - Official Game Start

Sunday 15 March
11.30am - Official Event Start
12.00pm - Official Game End, then onto BBQ and award presentation

Hope this helps to clear things up

PS: Volunteers are still needed to help wth various event aspects including game setup

 

19th

After some initial confusion about the date, I think I've got it now. We should be there.  

19th

Count me in!  

19th

Sounds like another great 24 hours of activity. We'll definitely be there.  

19th

look forward to the "events" thanks again for organising this again.  

18th

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