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We are excited to announce the newest Giga-Event!
Project Glück Auf 2016 (GC55555) – June 11, 2016 in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Giga-Events are the largest event type and are attended by over 5,000 geocachers. For those who attend, you’ll earn the rare Giga icon in your statistics, plus you’ll get the opportunity to meet tons of geocachers from around the world. See the list of upcoming Mega/Giga-Events.
Will you be attending a Mega or a Giga this year?
It only happens every four years. It gives us 366 calendar days which means we all have one extra day to go geocaching. So of course, we’re celebrating with a souvenir — actually, make that two!
The first souvenir can only be earned on Leap Day itself — February 29 — by attending a geocaching event. The other souvenir can be earned all weekend long (February 27-29) by getting outside and finding a geocache.
Leap Day exists to correct for the difference between the calendar year and the astronomical year. The 365 days of the calendar year represent Earth’s movement around the sun every 365 days. But Earth just ate a pizza and is actually moving a bit slower than that: it takes 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds for Earth to revolve around the sun.
And so, the calendar is adjusted to compensate for that extra time, by adding an extra day to the year about every four years (but not every four years). If we didn’t correct for the difference between the two calendars, the northern hemisphere would eventually end up celebrating New Year’s Eve during summer. In the southern Hemisphere, more cities might see a snowy Christmas. By the year 2736, the US would celebrate the 4th of July in deep winter.
And if you like swirling down an interesting internet search spiral on the mixed-up history of the Julian and Roman calendars, click here.
Cela n’arrive qu’une fois tous les 4 ans. Il y a 366 jours calendaires ce qui signifie que nous avons tous un jour de plus pour géocacher. Donc bien sûr, nous fêtons ça avec un souvenir — non en fait, deux !
Le premier souvenir ne pourra être remporté que le jour même — le 29 février — en participant à un event géocaching. Le second souvenir pourra être remporté tout au long de ce week-end (du 27 au 29 février) en trouvant une géocache. (Indice : Vous voudrez certainement gagner les deux…).
Es passiert nur alle vier Jahre. Dieses Jahr hat 366 Tage, was bedeutet, dass wir alle einen extra Tag zum Geocachen haben. Und das feiern wir natürlich mit einem Souvenir — genau genommen sogar zwei Souvenirs!
Das erste Souvenir kann nur am Schalttag selbst, dem 29. Februar, erworben werden, indem man an einem Geocaching-Event teilnimmt. Das zweite Souvenir kannst Du erhalten, indem Du nach draußen gehst und einen Geocache findest, und zwar am ganzen Wochenende vom 27. bis zum 29. Februar 2016. Wir vermuten mal, dass Du alle beide haben willst …
The Spokane area is home to Riverfront Park—a beautiful downtown park known for being the of Expo 1974—and Spokane Falls, with many historic sites to see nearby. The area has incredible trails, rivers, lakes, and mountains. Hiking, biking, and boating are readily accessible as well as skiing and ice skating in the winter. Spokane has art museums, a children’s science museum, and amusement parks including Silverwood Theme Park just across the state border in Idaho. Spokane truly is, as they say, Near Nature, Near Perfect.
