Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Monthly Review - November & December 2019


November was a very quiet month for us - but we tried
to make up for it in December!!!


A quick look at the numbers for both
November & December 2019:

Total Caches found: 37
Traditionals: 24
Events: 8
Mystery: 2
Earthcache: 1
Virtual: 1
CITO: 1

plus we also logged 2 Benchmarks


That brought our total number of finds at the end of December to: 10292
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Caching Days in November & December: 16
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Places We Geocached In During
November & December:
Virginia -  27 finds
Tennessee - 6 finds
Kentucky - 4 finds

plus 1 Benchmark in TN and 1 in VA

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Map of our Nov & Dec finds
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Caches which received
Favorite Points from us
in November & December: 
  1. GC7BY4B - Wally World - CO is SS.Cache - Located in Roanoke, Virginia
  2. GC7B7CV - Cumberland Gap Tri-State Marker - CO is dsms99 - located at the exact site where Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky all meet!!!
  3. GC8GKFT - The Little People - CO is Bikalot - Located in Virginia Beach Virginia
  4. GC8D2JY - Marshview Park WeaselCache - CO is steve-n-kim - Located in Virginia Beach Virginia
  5. GC812XN - No Room For It - CO is steve-n-kim - Located in Virginia Beach Virginia
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    November & December Caches Awarded the
    "COVETED" SNAP!!! Cache
    of the Day Award:
    1. GC7B7CV - Cumberland Gap Tri-State Marker - CO is dsms99 - located at the exact site where Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky all meet!!!
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    New Souvenirs earned during
    November & December:

    GIFF 2019



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    Hopefully...

    2020 will be full of geocaching adventures!


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    That is all for now
    Till next time...

    Don't forget to visit our favorite Geocaching Store

    Stay Safe & Keep Caching!!!


    Suffolk Nana & Papa
     - - - or just plain ol' - - -


    SNAP!!! 

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    Saturday, January 18, 2020

    The 2019 Winner is.....

    So, in our last blog we showed you the top 10 finalists for the

    2019 "SUPER-COVETED"

    SNAP!!! Cache of the Year Award

    If you didn't read that blog - here is a link.
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    In previous years we have just listed the top 3

    This year we are changing things up just a bit!

    But there will still be one overall winner!

    The Best Earthcache found by us in 2019

    GC1DG1T - Tracy Arm Fjord and Sawyer Glacier

    - hidden by PeanutsParents
    - located in Tracey Arm Fjord Alaska

    It did help that about half of the glacier face calved
    while we were mere yards away

    The Best Hike to a cache found by us in 2019

    with all due respect for the hike to
    the Washington State Ape cache...

    GC7B7CVC - Cumberland Gap Tri-State Marker

    - hidden by dsms99
    - located near Cumberland Gap Tennessee

    The Hike, the information along the hike,
    not to mention the view at the top!!!

    Honorable mentions go our to the following three caches:

    GC106A4 - More Pieces of Eight

    - hidden by Sea_Dog
    - located in Virginia Beach Virginia

    GC82VP7 - Caged Bison

    - hidden by steve-n-kim_
    - located in Virginia Beach Virginia

    GC89AWG - # 24 Chrysler Treasures - Here Kitty Kitty

    - hidden by Episcodad
    - located in Virginia Beach Virginia

    After much consideration, and numerous
    discussions between Nana & I



    The Winner for 2019 of the

    "SUPER-COVETED" SNAP!!! Cache of the Year is...

    GC2AD97 - Chairy Tree

    - hidden by Geocaching HQ
    - located in King County Washington

    CONGRATS!!!

    ANNOUCEMENT

    Nana & I are extremely honored.
    We just received an email from
    Geocaching Headquarters!!! Here is the
    first paragraph of the notification:

    "You were randomly selected to receive a Community Celebration Event from Geocaching HQ. These events will enable cachers around the world to commemorate the 20th anniversary of geocaching with a special icon and souvenir. We selected your name from those who applied via the Celebration Event opt-in page....."

    Our event will be sometime between
    May 2nd and December 31st.

    Stand by for more info!!!


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    That is all for now
    Till next time...

    Don't forget to visit our favorite Geocaching Store

    Stay Safe & Keep Caching!!!


    Suffolk Nana & Papa
     - - - or just plain ol' - - -


    SNAP!!! 

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    #gogeocaching


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    Sunday, January 5, 2020

    Top 10 Geocaches of 2019 and an Announcement!!!

    Each day Nana & I go out geocaching,
    we of course, award favorite points to those
    geocaches which we think deserve them.


    And, as some of you know, if we find a special geocache that really
    makes us smile, we award it the "COVETED" SNAP!!!
    Cache of the Day Award.

    Then, at the beginning of the next year (right about now),
    Nana & I sit down and review those winners and select
    one very special geocache and award it the....
    "SUPER-COVETED" Cache of the Year Award!!!


    Note: if you check out the right hand side of this page,
    you will notice other pages available and you will find 
    the winners for each year and also a page with all 
    the yearly winners!!!

    Here are the top 10 Geocaches from 2019 (in no particular order)
    GCXW7F: Faithful (Richmond Landmark Series)
    CO: Missing Something
    Multicache - located in Richmond Virginia



    GC7BZ15: Cache Withdrawal
    CO: Rudekoolaid
    Traditional Cache - located in Sullivan County Tennessee



    GC82VP7: Caged Bison
    CO: steve-n-kim
    Traditional Cache - located in Virginia Beach Virginia



    GC106A4: More Pieces of Eight
    CO: Sea_Dog
    Unknown Cache - located in Virginia Beach Virginia



    GC1169: Mission 9: Tunnel of Light
    CO: Moun10Bike
    Project APE Cache - located in King County Washington



    GC2AD97: HQGT: Chairy Tree
    CO: Geocaching HQ
    Traditional Cache - located in King County Washington



    GC1DG1T: Tracy Arm Fjord and Sawyer Glacier
    CO: PeanutsParents
    Earthcache - located near Skagway Alaska



    GC89AWG: # 24 Chrysler Treasures - Here Kitty Kitty
    CO: Episcodad
    Traditional Cache - located in Virginia Beach Virginia



    GC6VF48: Pony Express Letterbox
    CO: ukipiper
    Letterbox Hybrid - located in Richmond County New York



    GC7B7CV: Cumberland Gap Tri-State Marker
    CO: dsms99
    Virtual Cache - located in Bell County Kentucky



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    ANNOUCEMENT

    Nana & I are extremely honored.
    We just received an email from
    Geocaching Headquarters!!! Here is the
    first paragraph of the notification:

    "You were randomly selected to receive a Community Celebration Event from Geocaching HQ. These events will enable cachers around the world to commemorate the 20th anniversary of geocaching with a special icon and souvenir. We selected your name from those who applied via the Celebration Event opt-in page....."

    Our event will be sometime between
    May 2nd and December 31st.

    Stand by for more info!!!


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    That is all for now
    If you want to find GC106A4 - you might check out N36° 44.586 W76° 03.107
    Till next time...

    Don't forget to visit our favorite Geocaching Store

    Stay Safe & Keep Caching!!!


    Suffolk Nana & Papa
     - - - or just plain ol' - - -


    SNAP!!! 

    #geocaching

    #gogeocaching


    #SNAPgeocaching


    #geocache

    On Twitter at: @SNAPgeocaching

    On Instagram at: snap_geocaching