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IT’S HIDE AND GO CACHE TIME
All through January we’ll hide amazing caches, and all through February we’ll hunt amazing caches. Winter?? Bye-bye. The wrap-up Bash begins at 5:30, on Saturday March 2nd, and whether or not you’ve hidden a HAG cache this year, you’ll be very welcome, as long as you’re old enough to be in a pub.
This is the ninth annual HAG and this years theme is SUPER NATURAL, (or Supernatural or Turn Us A Pearl or whatever). Hope you have fun with that.
Please note there are some new rules that you’ll need to follow this year when submitting your caches for the event, listed under “GUIDELINES” below. If you don’t follow these simple steps, your cache will be sent back to you by the reviewers!
This is how the HAG plays out…
1) HAG hides may be submitted for review any time AFTER Jan 2nd (60 days before the wrap-up Event) and BEFORE Thursday, January 31st. Please feel free to place hides anywhere on Vancouver Island, or on any other of our lovely Gulf Islands. And PLEASE, for the Reviewers’ sakes, send your caches for review as early as possible. The Reviewers need time to be sure all the caches are following the rules.
2) All the qualified caches that are presented for publication in time will be published by our wonderful Reviewers on Saturday, February 2nd…and if you’ve never experienced 100+ caches suddenly scrolling into your e-mail, then welcome to the HAG!
3) The caches are published and the caching begins!!
4) The cut-off for your finds to count towards a Trophy will be February 28th at midnight. Don’t worry; the caches will be available for finding for years; the cut-off is just for trophy hunters. And finally,
5) We have the wind-up Bash at the 6-Mile Pub. Time to swap stories, present lovely and tasteful trophies, and generally have a high old time. If you’re able to make it to the Bash, it’s important that you log a “Will Attend” on the Event page, and mention how many of you are coming, so the pub can provide for everyone.
GUIDELINES
PLEASE PUT HAG9 at the END of the cache name. Having it in the name helps the reviewers, but having it at the beginning makes for confusion on your GPS
DO REMEMBER to include a “note to reviewer” (bottom of your hide-a-cache page) saying that “This is a HAG9 cache. Please publish on Saturday, Feb 2nd.”
DO LIST your hides on the VIGPS forum.
ATTENTION TROPHY HUNTERS
This year there are TEN TASTEFUL TROPHIES. Night Cache; Evil Cache; Best Log; Best Puzzle; Most Hides; Best Multi; Most Finds; Most FTFs; the Pyramid; and new this year, a Best Trail Series Trophy and a Best Camo Trophy.
DO REMEMBER that there will be no FTFs recognised that were found before the caches’ publication. Don’t jump the gun.
If you decide to hunt in a group (for example, if Cache Crop and Amandazon were to join up as CropAzon to do HAG caching) be aware that only ONE caching account is entitled to the FTF..please be clear in your log exactly which cacher found the cache first.
AND if you’re caching as a team and going for, say, the Most Finds Trophy, you must stay together and ALL go to each cache
HAVE A TON OF SUPERNATURAL FUN
Vancouver Island’s own coast2coast2coast talks about planes and geocaching on show number 306.0 on podcacher.com
Listen to the show at http://www.podcacher.com/2011/02/show-306-0-airshow-adventure/
Well done coast2coast2coast!
Curious George is visiting Victoria so we’re having an event!
Unfortunately, geocaching.com would not list this as an event due to the short notice, but we wanted to honour this legendary cacher so we’re having one anyway. 
Hecklers, starting at 7pm on the Thursday the 25th.
Hecklers (we’re meeting upstairs)
123 Gorge Road East
(Ramada Hotel)
Drop in to say hello to the legendary cacher Curious George, swap stories with your fellow cachers, and enjoy a beverage or two. Please pass this information on to your caching friends…it’s hard to get the word out without it being a geocaching.com event.
