GC29Q63 Aggie Bonfire (Traditional Cache) in California, United States created by bfGigEm07

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Hidden : 6/4/2010

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The first in my Aggie Bonfire series. The round trip is about 4 miles. Enjoy!

Aggie Bonfire was a long-standing tradition at Texas A&M University as part of the college rivalry with the University of Texas at Austin. For 90 years, Texas A&M students—known as Aggies—built and burned a bonfire on campus each autumn. Known to the Aggie community simply as "Bonfire", the annual autumn event symbolized Aggie students' "burning desire to beat the hell outta t.u." The bonfire was traditionally lit around Thanksgiving in conjunction with festivities surrounding the annual college football game.

Although early Bonfires were little more than piles of trash, as time passed the annual event became more organized. Over the years the bonfire grew to an immense size, setting the world record in 1969 at 109 ft. Bonfire remained a thriving University tradition for decades until, in 1999, a collapse during construction killed twelve people—eleven students and one former student—and injured twenty-seven others.

The accident led Texas A&M to declare a hiatus on an official Bonfire. However, since 2002, a student-sponsored coalition has constructed an annual unsanctioned, off-campus "Student Bonfire" in the spirit of its predecessor.

Bonfire was insane. I went to three of them while my oldest brother was in the Corp of Cadets at A&M. Words really cannot describe how that fire united the Aggie family. And words cannot describe how the Aggie experience has changed since the collapse.

Coords were taken w/ a Garmin 60csx and averaged over three minutes.

Thanks, gig ‘em, and happy hunting!

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(letter above equals below, and vice versa)

Aggie Bonfire Traditional Cache

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