GC3BTAM MBGA Pub Night- Leap Over Here
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By: MBGA @ | Hide Date: 29/02/2012 | Status: Archived
Country: Canada | State: Manitoba
Coordinates: N49° 52.870 W97° 07.450 | Last updated: 10/06/2026 | Fav points: 0
     

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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.

29/02/2012 By Kabutroid
WOOH! Today has been a surprisingly good day for caching. Not only did I get a regular traditional find, but I ALSO got an event cache find... aaaaand, after the event, I ALSO got a puzzle cache find. So now unless there’s some puzzle cache that involves finding an unknown or webcam cache or something every single day of the year, I think I’ll be set for that particular goal. Not that I expect to actually complete finding a cache every single day of the year for the next several years (I estimate 8 years to a decade), but it’s the principle of the thing.

But I digress. So having donned the chainmail shirt at work that people have been begging me to wear to an event, I made my way to the event... a tavern I’ve never actually been in despite living about a 5 minute drive away (mental note on the place though... not bad wings, and relatively decent prices otherwise). I was a bit worried about how parking would turn out for me, but since I happened to have arrived pretty much exactly at 19:00, I managed to luck out and get a parking spot RIGHT in front of the tavern. Like literally... I was parked directly outside the windows of the room area the event was in.

So when I arrived, I found several of the more well known cachers sitting there and eating. GG pretty much immediately wanted to see if I had the shirt, and was quite overjoyed that I actually DID wear it to the event, and even moreso when I pulled out the coif and put it on as well. Had a nice chat with several generic tavern-dwellers there who were quite interested in it as well. As I arrived, our room area was being opened up and the MBGA banner hung. With the area pretty much entirely empty right now, I parked myself in a seat and waited for people to arrive.

That didn’t take long at all, and in about 15 minutes the room area was packed, and the waitress was frantically attempting to take all orders and give people their drinks and whatnot. And lo, many a wing was eaten, a coffee drank, and a story told amongst the many geocachers. I saw a fair number of new faces (most of which looked at me rather strangely... I imagine seeing someone in mostly full chainmail wasn’t on their list of things they expected to see that day), and a fair number of familiar faces (many of whom also looked at me strangely ). A few pictures were snapped of me, and of everyone at the event in general. By the way, I’m expecting to see that pic of GG and me on the event page, so don’t disappoint me .

Unfortunately, I only had time to be there for about an hour total (which ended up stretching to about an hour and a half since my wife’s class at Red River College ran later than we had expected). Thankfully though, the waitress finally remembered my coffee and got my wings, and I had enough time to eat them all and chat it up with many a geocacher new and old.

As a surprise bonus, I happened to be in the right place at the right time, and got to draw for the MBGA beer mug. Sadly, I didn’t have any spare change on me at the time (I’ve really got to remember to keep some on me for events), so I didn’t have the opportunity to attempt to pull my own name out. But since my wife had just texted me letting me know her class was done, I soon headed out.

I debated whether to come back again, but my wife was all stressed because she thought she lost her wedding ring while at the gym at RRC. After a thorough scouring of her gym bag, we eventually found it tucked into a strange corner by the zipper. At that point, it was about 9:30, so I figured I’d instead spend some time chilling with her since she was still kinda stressed, but did make a quick run out to find that puzzle cache that’s like... a few hundred meters from our apartment.

All in all... a really fun event. As I’ve said, I really need to get out to events more often .

Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry, Herborn by Q.Treiber Geocoin and chainmail ball (several actually)

02/02/2012 By Kabutroid
I'll be all over this like stink on a monkey! Barring any severe circumstances, I'm planning to tackle this one. I haven't found a cache on this pesky, hard to get day (last time it rolled around, I found one on the 28th, but for some reason didn't bother with the 29th. Probably didn't even realize the date).

I'll try to remember to come in chainmail. In fact, I've written it on the whiteboard on our door, in hopes of remembering it.