Leap Year 2012 Winter Meet N Greet Event Cache
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Leap Year 2012 Winter Meet N Greet
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
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Its not often that you can claim a cache on Feb 29th! So here is an opportunity to do just that! Get A Leap Year Cache Smiley!
Who: Any cacher who wants a smiley for Leap Year, Feb 29th 2012
What: 3rd Annual Winter Meet and Greet
Where: Papa Petes Pizza in Castle Rock, WA
When: 6pm
Why: This is from the Groundspeak Newsletter
“In the 11 years and 9 months since the first geocache was placed, there is single date on which only a small fraction of geocachers have ever logged a cache. We suspect that's because this particular date has only happened twice in geocaching history; it's February 29, also known as leap day.
Given our penchant for all things that leap (frogs, horses, excited geocachers), we wanted to mark the third leap day in geocaching history — February 29, 2012 — by seeing how many accounts can log a cache that day.
Last February 29, way back in 2008, 36,696 distinct accounts logged an "Attended" or "Found it" on a cache. Given the growth of the geocaching community since then, we think we can double that number this year. But 73,392 distinct accounts logging a cache is a lofty goal; it's the second highest number of accounts to log a cache in a single day. The current record, 78,313, was set on 10/10/10. Considering that 10/10/10 was a Sunday and February 29 will be a Wednesday, it is going to require a huge push to reach our goal.”
So lets get together and eat pizza and share some stories. It will be a great opportunity to put faces with the new names you have been seeing in the Geocaching community and also to renew some long time acquaintances.
See you there!
Cascadesclimber and Geomimi55
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