Please come join the MBGA for an entertaining evening with food
and drinks and lots of cache talk!
Where: The Wood Tavern
Address: 112 Marion
Time: 7PM
This is a special pub night because it's a chance to fill in
your grid and add to your stats by logging on a date that only
happens once every four years... leap year!!! Groundspeak is even
issuing a special souvenir for that day for finds and
attends!
Groundspeak Weekly Newsletter - January 18, 2012:
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, talk to your fellow geocachers, your friends, and your
co-workers about going geocaching (and logging their find) on
February 29. In order to count toward the goal, people only have to
log a single cache.
Everyone who logs a “Found it” or
“Attended” this February 29 will receive the Leap Day
Souvenir on their profile. As an added bonus, Premium Members who
love to look at their “finds by date” statistics most
likely see a blank square on the calendar on February 29. This is
your chance to fill in the square —the 366th day of
geocaching!
Interesting Leap Year Fact: A leap day is more likely to
occur on Mondays or Wednesdays rather than other days because the
Gregorian calendar repeats itself every 400 years. Therefore Feb.
29 can occur 15 times on a Monday or Wednesday, 14 Times on a
Friday or Saturday and 13 times on a Sunday, Tuesday, or
Thursday.