2016 Winner of the "SUPER-COVETED" SNAP!!! Cache of the Year!

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The 2016 Winner of the "SUPER-COVETED" SNAP!!! Cache of the Year Award!!!

I guess a brief history lesson would be appropriate here.  In our second year of caching, while traveling back to Suffolk after a long day of caching, we would talk about the best cache of day.  It didn't take long for this to develop into The "COVETED" SNAP!!! Cache of the Day Award.

The idea of a Cache of the year came to us in 2011.  We took each of the winners of the Cache of the Day and laid them all out and eventually came down to 3 or 4 best of the year.

This year we are having a terrible time figuring out who the winner was.  We have worked on the list and have the FINAL 14 figured out and have decided to sleep on the list for a few nights to make sure the winner is the right one!

So, who is in the FINAL 14!

Back in April we ran across this really interesting Multi-cache near Surry.  GC6C9HP - Dead or Alive - hidden by kekj.  A really well laid out cache that involved a little more than the average cache.

Also in April, we ran into a cute little cache in Virginia Beach - GC68RXX - Swirly - hidden by steve-n-kim.  Interesting and cute, very cute.

We really like crafted caches so when we ran into - GC5ZJ9N - Old Virginia Beach KOA Marvel - hidden by KangaCacher and maintained by Episcodad it was a sure winner for the Cache of the Day Award.

We were in Charlottesville in June and ran across a very scenic cache - GC15ENQ - All Seeing Cache - hidden by Team Quanderers and adopted by Helpercache.

While on our trip to Canada in July, we found GC2GW5D - Benedict's Brother-In-Law - hidden by gamestermike89 - a historic cache!

An interesting Virtual Cache we found, also on our way to Canada, was - GC7C06 - Witch's Leg - hidden by The Duo Plus ?

The main target of our trip to Canada was - GCBBA - Geocache--Canada's 1st geocache - hidden by ken kane.

While on our trip to Canada, we took a side trip to Prince Edward Island to locate Virtual Cache - GC7C82 - Elevation Zero - hidden by LaurieM and Dad.  This is our Northern-most cache!

Gadget cache:  GC6MYT6 - Peace, Love and Gadget Caching! - hidden by Geo Cord Buddy.

In late July, nan & I organized a group attack on: GC190EK - EVIL! - hidden by Frogmen83.

If you are ever passing through Scott County Virginia on Rt 58 - make sure you stop at GC3EY94 - HWY 23S TB DEPOT ~ TRAVELING THE TRACKS WITH KENNY - hidden by Scott County Tourism.

In August, Nana & I found this cache on our first try!!! GC2CKWN - GeoNana - hidden by Laura's Boys.

Another hard to find cache makes the list with - GC6P4YV - Bamboozled III - hidden by AllstarSS.

Last but not least - just off off I-95 near Rt 58 is a small peanut company store in a very old trading post.  Free samples of all their peanuts are inside but outside, under the front porch, you will find - GC4MK50 - Nuts for Virginia! - hidden by humphr1d

Nana & I will announce the winner soon!!!

Till next time...

Stay Safe & Keep Caching!!!

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

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Last Week's Favorite Caches

Favorite Caches from Last week

So on Monday, when we normally post our weekly report, we published a quick report on our major accomplishment - completing all counties and independent cities in Virginia - so here is a quick recap of the caches we found last week and awarded favorite points to.

Alara (one of our caching guru's) and I cached in Northeast North Carolina on June 15th.

GC4HN6H - Hollywood Rodes - this particular cache took us 4 visits to find.  Clever!

Hidden by STL42868

GC4AENH - River Rodes - another clever little cache hidden by STL42868

GC6CQ24 - Harbor Log - Another clever cache (premium only) - hidden in plain
sight by adamwhite - this cache was the winner of the
 "COVETED" SNAP!!! Cache of the Day for June 15, 2016.

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And, of course, Nana & I cached to Charlottesville, VA and back!

GC6FG8C - W.O.H. #1 - awarded this cache a favorite point for the entire series!

Hidden by ssgmag.

GC6DFQ3 - J.O.E. #6 - awarded this cache a favorite point for the series and because it just happened to be find #8200 for us.  Hidden by ssgmag.

GC15ENQ - All Seeing Cache - hidden in plain site at a very historical location - hidden by Heplercache - this cache was the winner of the
 "COVETED" SNAP!!! Cache of the Day for June 18, 2016.

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GC33M0Y - Yum-Yum's Revenge - a nice size cache in a nice location.

Hidden by Heplercache.

GC15ENQ - Clover Cache - hidden in plain site near a very historical location.
Hidden by Fluvanna 4H - this cache was the winner of the

 "COVETED" SNAP!!! Cache of the Day for June 19, 2016.

Upcoming Plans

Don't forget today's AACC event at City View Park in Virginia Beach.  See GC6K7C2.

Saturday (6/25) we will be geocaching around the Newport News area with jtmlam59.

Next week we will getting ready for our Canada trip.
  Main Target: Canada's 1st geocache!!!  GCBBA

Till next time!!!

Stay Safe & Keep Caching!!!

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

WHO WILL WIN???

As most of you know, on most days that we geocache, we usually name a WINNER of the "COVETED" SNAP!!! Cache of the Day!

We started this as en exercise in getting those really "neat" caches some more traffic.  At the end of the 1st year though we were asked... But which one was best?

That is what started the "EXTREMELY COVETED" SNAP!!! Cache of the Year Award.

So... here are the top 10 candidates for this years award (so far).

Note: We have several more days of caching ahead of us.

1/10/15 - GCYYWH - Humpback Bridge Cache - the CO is Pathfinder27 and the cache is located in Alleghany County Virginia 

3/22/2015 - GC5MWKKL - Lube Knot a Tree - the CO is bdramatic and the cache is located in Isle of Wight County Virginia.

5/24/2015 - GCT397 - Train Trestle Falls - the CO is Captain Crash and the cache is located in Clarion, Pennsylvania.

5/25/15 - GCJ8M8 - Auto Art - the CO is MsKardiac and the cache is located in Erie, Pennsylvania.

/13/2015 - GC5KWYP - TWISTED !!!!!!! - the CO is geospliz and the cache is located in Virginia Beach Virginia.

7/12/2015 - GC5TRPC - North of Tower - the CO is snowurchin and the cache is located in Virginia Beach Virginia.

8/14/2015 - GC5DN8E - Historic Salem - Roanoke Courthouse - the CO is Tanjent and the cache is located in the city of Salem, Virginia.

8/30/2015 - GC5KV2R - Scarp Metal - the CO is steve-n-kim and the cache is located in Norfolk, Virginia.

11/15/2015 - GC5YN7Z - The Life and Times of the Spit at Northend Point - the CO is everplaid and the cache is located in the city of Hampton, Virginia.

11/28/2015 - GC60HJC - USS PENNSYLVANIA (1837) - the CO is steve-n-kim and the cache is located in Chesapeake, Virginia.

Just a few geocaching days left... but in the meantime -- Pam & I are trying to figure out who the winner will be!

Please have a Merry Christmas,

A Happy Hanukkah,

A Happy New Year,

but most of all...

Stay Safe

& Keep Caching!!!

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

2 Quick Items for You

Not a normal blog but I wanted to get to things out to y'all.

1) With just a little over 2 1/2 months to go till the picnic, about half of the top 10 lists I have put together are now published both on the picnic site (click here)  and on a special page of this site (see menu on right side of page for the "13th ANNUAL GCHR PICNIC" page.  In fact of you go to the 13th ANNUAL PICNIC page on this site you will see almost 20 links to information not only for the picnic but also for local information AND all the lists I have been working on plus one special list coming at the end. 

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2) I normally try to post blogs in the same order as I accomplish them BUT in this case I am going to jump ahead just because of how good these two geocaches were.

If you normally read our blogs about or geocaching days you know that we NORMALLY have a really good cache at the end of the day to which we award our "COVETED" SNAP!!! Cache of the day award.  

Sunday, Nana & I took off from the house early mainly to do some cache maintenance.  Since we were going as far as Scotland (West side of the Jamestown Ferry) we added just a few caches to break up the long trip.

After doing some maintenance we happened upon two really interesting caches.  The Cache Owner's name is somewhat familiar to me but that could just be a different cacher as the stat page shows snowurchin to be a fairly new cacher.

The first cache is GC5RAQT - Mate in One -  I arrived at GZ and was immediately smiling at what I had found and it only took a short while after to make the find of the cache.

Once I came out of the woods and told Nana what I had found and she then entered to take pics (no I will not spoil your fun by posting them here)

While She was taking pics I started reading the cache page for the second cache,  You HAVE TO READ this cache page - quite a lot of work went into it.  Once you have digested all that information follow the instructions on the page to get to GC5TRPC - North of Tower.  This cache was tremendous!!!   We awarded it the "COVETED" SNAP!!! Cache of the Day and it is well worth your visit.

Both of these are must do caches !!!

Next time you are out in Isle of Wight county - make sure you drop by and do these 2 caches!

Stay Safe & Keep Caching!!!

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