manitoba marauders

manitoba marauders

The manitoba marauders have been caching for a little over a year and half. In that short amount of time, they were able to hide at least 26 caches around Portage la Prairie, including the popular and challenging puzzle cache Manitoba ABC Soup (GC1E9KJ). By hiding these caches, the manitoba marauders now have 50% of the caches in the area and are attracting many geocachers to the Portage la Prairie area.

1. When did you start Geocaching?

September 9 2007

2. How did you find out about Geocaching?

Daemun, our son, who was going to University in Winnipeg, came home one weekend with an interesting travel bug. We found several caches around Portage that weekend (with no GPS), and I was hooked. We soon purchased a GPSr as "we would also be able to use it to find out exactly how many acres are in a field"!!! Still haven't actually done this but it sounded good at the time!

The MBGA will be holding its Annual General Meeting Saturday March 21, 2009 at the Fort Garry United Church (N 49° 50.791 W 097° 08.611) from 5-8pm. See the Event Listing for more details.

Prior to the AGM is a pot luck dinner featuring a Chili / Cookie Cookoff.

Highlights of this year's AGM will include presentation of year end reports as well as our yearly elections for the MBGA Board of Directors. We will also present the prizes for the 12 Degrees Below Contest.

Director Nominations recieved:

• dani_carriere (Dani) - Nomination Statement
• ertyu (Steve) - Nomination Statement
• glacier_ice (Mike) - Nomination Statement
• HoggerJeff & the Piglets (Jeff) - Nomination Statement
• JayPeg (Jayson) - Nomination Statement
• junglehair (Sandra) - Nomination Statement
• Géocacheurs Tourisme Riel (Carmène) - Nomination Statement
• OHMIC (Jacques) - Nomination Statement
• Shinook & White Juan (Joe) - Nomination Statement
• Trove Chasers (Jon) - Nomination Statement
• TurdleEggs (Tim) - Nomination Statement
• Ztirnats (Stan) - Nomination Statement

We had 168 valid entries into the 12 Degrees Below Contest, covering all 12 categories. The big winners are trag_cachers ($50 MEC gift certificate), Old Billygoat ($25 Cabela's gift certificate) and tromelin ($25 Landsharkz gift certificate). Congratulations!

Continue reading for a summary of entries...

Congratulations to the following Manitoba MBGA members who have reached milestones during the past month.

100 Kismet1

200 The Mad Trekkers

400 Code Blue mosesflf

600 bergmannfamily

700 glacier_ice

1100 RW/RW 3T's&aG foxfiresyxx

1200 Xplorer and Ramblin' Rose

1300 lizardo Xplorer and Ramblin' Rose

1600 Trove Chasers

1800 bevro

1900 Tromelin

2400 MHz

3300 junglehair

3400 Peter and Gloria

3500 Peter and Gloria

3600 Peter and Gloria

3700 Peter and Gloria

If there are any errors or omissions please let us know as we may have inadvertently missed someone.

Location: Jeffrey's Restaurant (N49 56.729 W97 05.203)

Meeting called to order at 19:12 CST.

Board members present: Sandra (junglehair), Steven (ertyu), Tim (TurdleEggs), Carmène (Mosaik Voyage), Dani (dani_carriere) and Jacques (OHMIC).

Board members not present: Georgia (GG+J), Jeff (HoggerJeff & the Piglets), Ray (slippery_1), Peter (Peter & Gloria) and Paula (MHz).

Members present: none