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The Star-Spangled Banner Geotrail will launch Saturday, February 27!

Calvertcachers — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:08:56 +0000

Come on a journey to remember and commemorate the dramatic chain of events, people and places that led to the birth of our National Anthem. The story of the Anthem was shaped by events in the Chesapeake region during the War of 1812. From early 1813 until early 1815, the Chesapeake Bay and surrounding shores were the center of fierce struggles between the British and the Americans. From the burning of the White House to the Battle for Baltimore and ‘the rockets red glare,’ it’s all here for the geocaching community to enjoy in the Chesapeake region, an area encompassed by the Chesapeake Bay, coastal Virginia and the District of Columbia.

The Star-Spangled Banner (SSB) geotrail will have over 30 caches within Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia. A trackable geocoin will be awarded to the first 400 geocachers, while supplies last, for locating at least 20 SSB caches. Click into the forums to read all the details.

Maryland Life Geocache Dash!

Calvertcachers — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 14:12:38 +0000

Take part in a statewide treasure hunt!
You could win some fun prizes!
Beginning January 1, 2010!

The Maryland Municipal League and the Maryland Geocaching Society has partnered with Maryland Life magazine to foster new interest in discovering municipal geocaches along the Maryland Municipal League Geocache Trail. During 2010, each of the six issues of Maryland Life will feature two or three cities or towns for you to discover and enjoy.

Click into the forums to read the complete details.

2010 CAM Committee Appointed

Administrator — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:01:32 +0000

The Maryland Geocaching Society announces the formation of its 2010 Cache Across Maryland committee. This year’s seven committee members are: CoupleoCachers, DudleyGrunt, EagleBlazer, Shady, WVKiwi, Team Yinyang, and WeTheMillers. The committee is responsible for planning and executing every aspect of what has become the Maryland Geocaching Society’s most popular event.

“America in Minature”

The brainchild of Laura & Joe Tinker (Outsid4evr), the ‘Cache Across Maryland’ is a six-week long event that showcases the history and natural beauty of Maryland by placing geocaches all across the state. Each cache contains part of a code, that when put together, will lead finders to the final event, a picnic and celebration.

“I think we had a great session” said DudleyGrunt when asked how the first meeting went. MGS Vice President and committee member Shady said, “We have a terrific group of dedicated members from different areas of the state and varying levels of experience, the 2010 CAM may be the best one yet”. The Cache Across Maryland has been held every year since its inception in 2004. Keep your eyes on the forums, CAM 2010 is coming! Are you ready?

2009 MGS Summer Picnic

woodysix8 — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:21:16 +0000

Things are coming together for our annual summer gathering. Hides are in place and have been reviewed. Pavillion has been rented. Raffle inventory is growing as well as the item count for the silent auction.
As you await August 2nd…. you have time to vote on you favorite cache hides as well as hiders. Links to the nominees can be found in the announcements of each thread. Please go ahead and let us know who you think should be awarded in each category

M-NCPPC Park Ranger Challenge to Begin March 14th!

Calvertcachers — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:09:17 +0000

The M-NCPPC Park Rangers invite you to participate in the first ever M-NCPPC Park Ranger Geo-Challenge. There will be a total of 30 “Ranger Challenge” caches, with 20 in Prince George‘s County and 10 in Montgomery County. The first 250 participants to locate all 30 Ranger caches will be awarded with a beautiful trackable Ranger Geo-Challenge coin.
Click into the forums to read the complete details.

Maryland Municipal League GeoTrail to Begin January 1, 2009!

Calvertcachers — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 01:59:52 +0000

The Maryland Municipal League (MML) Geocache Trail, Celebrating Maryland’s Cities and Towns, is scheduled to launch January 1, 2009. A trackable, highly coveted geo coin will be given to the first 500 geocachers who locate a minimum of 22 city/town caches throughout the state. The trail is comprised of 78 participating cities & towns with a total of 79 cache hides. The caches are located in the 11 MML Districts (regions) throughout the state. To be eligible for the coin, geocachers must pick up a passport at any participating visitor center, use the stamp in each cache on their passports and write in the cache code word. After at least 2 municipal caches in each of the 11 districts are discovered, geocachers may return to any one of the participating county visitor centers and have their passports validated to receive a collectable coin. Passports may continue to be used even after all coins have been claimed as a way for geocachers to keep track of their Maryland Municipal League Geocache Trail discoveries. A special thanks to the Maryland Geocaching Society (MGS) for coordinating the MML Geotrail!

Click into the forums to read the complete details.

2008 MGS Cacher Award Winners

Calvertcachers — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 01:25:25 +0000

Congrats to all of our 2008 award winners!
Be sure to click into the forums to read the full details.

Geocacher of The Year – Richeym1

Geocacher Rookie of The Year – We have two winners:
CodyHollowFarm and Lalynya

The regional award winners are:

Geocache Hider of the Year

Eastern = Run & Hike

Central = The Bocco’s

Western = LPYankeeFan

Best Cache Hide of the Year

Eastern = TonyLama for Jungle Jim Slightly Psycho

Central = Richeym1 for CAM2008 Myrtle Point

Western = Deep Creek Local for CAM 2008 Cascade Falls

Most Scenic Hide of the Year

Eastern = Run & Hike for CAM2008 Mattaponi Overlook

Central = Richeym1 for CAM2008 Myrtle Point

Western = Deep Creek Local for CAM 2008 Cascade Falls

2008 MGS Annual Awards

Calvertcachers — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:03:45 +0000

Vote for the Annual MGS Awards!! It’s that time of year again to recognize our fellow cachers with the annual MGS awards. Voting is open till July 19th. Click into the forums to read the full details!

The Categories and nominees are: Statewide

Geocacher of The Year—Which Cacher(s) from June of last year until now has been the most dynamic in your eyes for geocaching in the state of Maryland.
Tombearr, Richeym1, Coupleocachers, LPYankeeFan, Clue Seeker, Outlander03, jfigel, johnnycache.

Geocacher Rookie of The Year—Which Cacher(s) have really jumped on the scene this year and served up notice to all of us that they embody all facets of caching and do it well.

CodyHollowFarm, WVKiwi, TurtleCreek, KG8GN, sfcchaz, Lalynya

Click into the forums to see the nominees for Geocache Hider of the Year,
Best Cache Hide of the Year, and Most Scenic Hide of the Year.

MGS License Plates ordering

Administrator — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks to the hard work of Daisychain, many MGS members have brand new MGS license plates on their cars. Now that the initial order is out of the way, you can still get your own set of plates by following the instructions on the site. Simply go to the MGS License Plates link in the menu at the left and it won’t be long before you’re showing your support for the club everywhere you drive — just in time for CAM!

robert

Time to Vote!

Administrator — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

It’s time to vote! Below are the positions and the members running for each. Please send your email vote to vote2008@mdgps.org — be sure to use the subject “MGS Vote 2008“and include your MGS username.

President

SoMDCacherz

Calvertcachers

Vice President

Snurt

Secretary

Daisychain

richeym1

Treasurer

MDSteelersFan

vyper4

Public Relations

LPYankeeFan

IMPORTANT NOTE: Even though some of the positions only have one person running, your vote must include the name of the person running for that position. Voting will run until Monday, December 31st, with the new officers announced on January 1.

robert