1701eh
WOW!!!!
It was a great day, faces to names, food, prizes, and oh yeah,
CACHES! Found 27 caches with Cheeryo's and bumped into others once
in a while. Thanx to Trimblestrek for some hair raising and sneaky
cache placements. The first answer that came to mind for 'What is
the pole for?' was 'A cache hiding spot' (at the top!). All in all,
I had a fun filled day and was glad I came. Well done Trimblestrek!
1Short
Congratulations to everyone involved in this event. I had a fabulous
day and have a few prizes to show for it. I met some great new
people and revisited a few more. I couldn't imagine how the day
would go with close to 100 crazy geocachers running around in the
woods but it worked out just fine (especially when I didn't have to
climb any trees!) Thanks to everyone for making this a very
memorable day. :)
ABBAfan#1
TT you did an amazing job in getting this pulled together and the 25
stage cache was just about as good as a geocache can get (I'm
leaving some room for GAGAFAP III
).
Thanks also goes to the other great geocachers for your
contributions of prizes and help with the day's set up. I know there
were lots of people helping out so I won't even start to name
everyone. It was great to meet up with other keen cache hunters.
Isn't geocaching so much fun.
Algonquin Bound
What an absolutely wonderful day! The weather could not have been
more cooperative and all of the people I met were just great! Thank
you so much for all of your hard work and organization, Larry &
Linda (TrimblesTrek). It was great! Okay... 'fess up time. Who else
is so addicted they had to do another cache on the way home from
GAGAFAP? Surely not just me!
Bear & Ducky
Excellent job TT and all those who helped him so much to pull off an
amazing event.
Look forward to seeing many of you at the Pub Night in November and
future events.
We truly had a great day.
Keith & Cathy
(Bear & Ducky)
With the crazy Jack Russels Chewie and Tasha
PS: Looking forward to those photos coming on when those of you have
them done.
bedardsexpedition
Thanks TrimblesTrek. The tree bridge and birch log were my
favourites. I look forward to next year.
Broomer
Thanks TT for another fabulous day. You both must be congratulated
for excellent job, that 25 stage cache was amazing. Nice to see
everyone again and meet lots of new people. Fizbot, excellent
pictures!
GAGAFAP III (keep the name) September 2004? Will be looking forward
to it.
Thanks again.
Bryan aka Broomer
BullShipper
Wow, all we can say is WOW!
The day was wonderful. Linda nnd Larry of the TT team were just
incredible! And thanks to everyone who helped.
Everyone we met were great and the prizes were good too.
Thanx 2 all
BullShipper and Family
Car37 & Shnde
It was interesting to meet other cachers even tho we arrived late,
was able to get a few caches in before hunger took over, missed the
BBQ. Will be grabbing the TBs next, getting our logs into the system
now we are home. Thanks for holding the Event, maybe next year we
will be on time.
Car37 & Shnde
CheeryO's
This is another reason to own a GPS unit and enjoy Geocaching!!! The
fun never stops, the challenge never ends and learning continues.
Besides meeting fellow Geocachers for the first time and again, the
day (including the good weather) is going to be remembered.
Found the 25 TrimbleTrek cache sites, the projection waypoint cache
(the learning part of the day) and the cache by Linx1 and the
Hunter. I enjoyed the fresh air, the hiking, watching 1701eh climb
and two new unique cache containers.
Thanks,
Neal for team Cheery0's.
chris-mouse
Wow, What a day!. The weather had me questioning our sanity on the
way out this morning, but the rain passed before we got to the spot,
and the rest of the day was just perfect. I had a great time, and
I'm pretty sure everyone else did too. Many, many thanks to
Trimblestrek and everyone else who helped put it all together. I'm
already looking forward to next year
I took a whole pile of photos at the picnic. The best of them are
posted here. I have much more detailed photos of the quilts. Most of
the signatures on the quilts are readable on the detailed photos. If
anyone is interested in the detailed photos, send me a message and
I'll mail them out.
Clamdiggers
Great turnout despite the weather however even the weather
co-operated. Thanks for the door prizes and the great time in
general - will make sure to come next year.
Coupar-Angus
Squeakieboots & I would like to express our sincerest of thanks to
Trimbles and everyone else involved in organizing this event.
Squeakie wasn't exactly herself today though
but I'm
sure she'll be feeling better in the next day or so. I couldn't
believe that everyone got a door prize (and some got more than one!)
To whomever donated the dolly for Hannah, Swiss Army knife, Links
Golf game & jumbo sized pack of AA batteries, than you very much
indeed! It was also cool to see "Coupar-Angus" stiched into the
Geoquilt I signed and mailed off some time ago. I'm sorry I didn't
get a chance to mingle some more but with one eye trained on Ms.
Squeakieboots it was a little awkward.
Thanks again to
all again.
Cheers! Coupar-Angus & Squeakie
DxChallenged
Wow! What a great event this was!
Now we have 2 favorite placed in Canada...Ottowa and Guelph
I was amazed by the park! It reminded me of places that we had been
to in Ireland. A beautiful body fo water with so many senic spots!
We will be back!
The event was super. Butterfly girl esp enjoyed the caches...I
smiled as she flited to each site...racing with eversure to Yell the
"I found it".
Sweety gal had a great time meeting new people and coining a new
phrase "Yo! Geocache guy" Gotta love it!
Fearless Leader was just that....Leading us to and from the event
site, testing out the cache sites before we pursued farther and
registering us for the different event caches.
I was amazed by the response to my quilts! I have come to the
realization that it is way better to give (away) than to receive (I
don't enjoy selling my quilts). Thanks so much for the plaque....the
calligraphy is awesome! It will go in my office near where I sew.
And thanks to the Trimbles crew from all of us for the effort that
you put into this event. Your hard work and kindness were evident
throughout the entire day!
BTW...With the Canadian geoquilt project now completed (congradulations
to the winner!) a new project is just around the bend! :)
DxChallenged
EmmaBean
Wow, what a great turn out. It was great to be out on the trails and
see so many people with GPSs in hand. Usually, we geocachers are the
minority. Well not today!
It was great to see everyone, both people we've met before and all
those we haven't. THe food was perfect and even the weather turned
out to be pleasant. (although we had our doubts on the drive to
Fergus this morning through the pouring rain)
We were just sorry we had to leave before the festivities were over.
The were some more caches we were really hoping to do. Anyway thanks
to everyone who helped organize the picnic and especially to TT.
Hope to see everyone again.
Fizbot
What an awesome way to spend my 300th cache. The organization and
overall team work was a sight to see, especially for a group who
only know each other through this anonymous electronic forum. Thanks
to everyone who placed caches and helped out and a special thanks to
Trimbles Trek for their outstanding work in getting this all
organized.
Fizbot.
ps. pictures should be online soon. Watch for web links!
Flick
WOW!! What an incredible success!! TT did a fantastic job as
organizer/ page builder/ multi-cache hider/ prize coordinator/
master of ceremonies/ burger flipper. If I could wear as as many
hats as you do, TT, I'd take all of 'em off to ya, kid!! Thanks also
to Linda and Benjamin as I'm sure many family sacrifices were made
in the organization of this event. On a personal note, thanks to Kel
of KDKK17 for spending her birthday with me. I especially enjoyed
being able to walk the trails with Lynx 1 and the Hunter, where Tony
proved to me that it is possible to injure yourself by falling from
the BASE of a tree (he's a trained professional, folks. PLEASE don't
try this at home).
It was great to have the chance to renew aquaintances and to begin
new friendships. Thanks to everyone for making this a memorable day
(and, once again, Happy Birthday, Hon!)
Hard Oiler
A first Event Cache for me and what a great Event it was. Real fun
putting faces to what were just names. By the first cache I'd
forgotten about the miserable drive in the rain up - and then the
sun came out
.
A big thanks to TT and all who organized, contributed time, talent,
prizes or just showed up. Can't wait until #3
J.A.R.S.
Thank you TT! We had a great time. Found 32 caches and walked
approximately 10kms. There were some really inventive and clever
caches out there.
It was great meeting so many geocachers. Hope to see you all again
at the next GAGAFAP event.
jeff-trex
I just saw the pics from the event, they were great, I had a real
good time. Nice to put faces with the names .
I was teamed with bulshipper, Hard oiler, and myself (jeff-trex).
even though the day didn't start out so well, the weather soon
cooperated in our favor
making for a perfect day for caching. I am looking forward to
Gagafap III. I might place a cache next year.
Got some way cool ideas for hiding caches, ie: the PVC birch log and
the non-bird houses.
Superthanks Go to TT for all your work organizing the event.
hope to see everyone at future events (the next one is the pub night
at London Arms)
kdkk17
Wow what a great time! Kyle was so tired I cant remember the last
time he slept this late. We must've walked about 10 k's. What a
beautiful day it turned out to be. Flick called me a dreamer when I
grabbed my sunglasses "just in case". Many thanx to TT. I cant
imagine the work involved to set up that 25 stage multi. By the way,
what exactly was the big tall pole used for? I imagine the metal was
to keep the squirrels from climbing it. Does that mean a feeder of
some sort? You definitely need to form a committee next year. Cant
wait.
Kismet
Had a great time. Nice to put some faces to the names. Thank you TT
for organizing the event.
Lazair lll
Wow! the weather Gods favored us once again. Thanks to all who
contributed to a great day of geocaching, fun, food, insult trading
and getting together with some old and new friends. Special thanks
to TT Larry & Linda for such a well organised and relaxed happening.
Looking forward to GAGAFAP III
Thanks
Lazair III (Paul Seabrook)
Lynx1 and the Hunter
&Thanks
TT and Family for another great picnic; GAGAFAP II - The Sequel and
all the effort you’ve done in getting it all set up and keeping the
page up to date. It turned out to be a great day with the weather
starting out so wet. It was a great job you did on the multi-cache
with a fine set of cache containers and hiding spot, ouch. Sure did
see a lot of the park. Had a great turnout of people and TB’s (47)
and it looked like everyone enjoyed themselves. You did a fine job
of getting prizes to everyone and everyone helped pitch to make it
an excellent adventure. It was fun being out on the trail with
Flick, now we know why you enjoy his company so much, he speaks so
highly of you. It was nice to see the Geoquilt all together and the
new one. Thanks to TOMTEC for the porker run, well done. Thanks to
all those took the time out to find our cache. Janice and I both had
a great time.
Janice and Tony
Mckinley
McKinley, Micheline and John had a great time today. Met lots of
friends old and new. We were glad the weather turned out for the
best for everyone. Thanks for putting on such a great event!!
McKinley
Murfster
WOW!! What a great day! Glad I made the trip, I had a few doubts
driving over in the rain if anyone would even be there. Lotsa fun.
TT..what a great job organizing. Larry, I can't imagine the hours
that went into it all. Cook Linda many thanks to you to. Many many
thanks to one and all !!
Hope many of you will make it up to Northern Ontario at some point,
lots to see and do. Lotsa Cache and prizes.
See you all again. Happy caching! Murfster
Nozzletime
I am sure all the cachers that went against common sense this
morning are glad they did.
Who in their right mind would leave a nice warm dry house to go
spend a day in the rain, in the woods on hands and knees lookng for
plastic containers.
Excellent job by all who helped
Many thanks
Nozzletime & Smudge
Should I book this weekend off work next year for GAGAFAP 3?
Olar
A SUPER LARGE thank-you to TT and his family for organizing this
immensely successful event. If there were ever a Geocaching Event
Hall of Fame then GAGAFAP II would be it's first member.
I just cannot imagine how TT found the time to do all that he did.
It's actually quite mind-boggling. Even Mother Nature was impressed
and put a hold on the rain for us.
Thanks, Olar
Paragon
Wow... What an event.
I was nice to put some faces to all these log
reports I've been reading.
Had a Super Time.
Thanks TT for a Fun Day.
Paragon -- Frank
& Ruby
Purple Fever
Wow, we are so glad we ignored the rain when we headed out... it
turned out to be a fine day! Thanks to those who placed caches for
the event and to Yorelken and Algonquin Bound for spending the
morning with us in the woods (AB, you weren't the only one to do a
cache AFTER - we had to get to Waterloo for my homecoming, but of
course I HAD to stop at GHMCMC 6 on the way to Waterloo!). It was
great to meet so many other geocachers as well. A BIG thanks to the
entire TrimblesTrek crew - we were amazed at how much work you put
into this event, and we REALLY appreciate it... THANK-YOU!!!!!
res2100
Tylor and I had an amazing time at the picnic today. It was a
pleasure meeting everyone there and being able to put faces to the
names, and meeting the many new people too that we haven't
encountered in the logs. We enjoyed doing the 25 part multi (stages
23 and 24 were very memorable), the poker run (cool hiking
stick...thanks!) and also the individual caches by Team Speed (that
was a tough one to find...Maplejo sumbled across it just as we were
giving up) and Lynx and Hunter. Would have liked to do the few
others that were placed for the picnic, but just ran out of time.
I asked Tylor what he liked the best today and he said the following
in the car on the way home: geocaching, prizes, playing with Ben. He
wants to know when the next geocaching picnic will be.
Thanks TT and everyone for a fun filled day!
Team Speed
That was an awesome day! We couldn't believe there could be so many
clever, clever caches in one area. We had a blast—even climbing the
tree! The number of hours spent organizing this event boggles the
mind. Many, many thanks to all the organizers and contributors.
We're more anxious than ever for GAGAFAP III.
Cheers, Brian and Madeleine
TOMTEC
What a great event, glad I could be a part of it! Don't forget to
log the official Poker Run cache GCGYAN "Tree of a Kind" at
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=93736 .
Thanks to all who participated; even with the initial weather we had
an excellent turnout! Thanks to TT and Family for organizing the
event and many thanks to all the Prize Donors! Can't wait for the
next meet! See you all at GNASHERS in November!
TOMTEC (Dan)
P.S. What happened to the "Secret Prize" for the Forum participants?
TrimblesTrek
What a great day. Cooperative weather, good food, lotsa fun, and a
super group of friends, old and new. Makes the preparations all
worthwhile!
It was great to see a lot of new geocachers come out to join the
fun. It was great to see some faces we haven't seen since last year.
It was great to see some of the Pub Night regulars. Heck, it was
even great to see Flick!
I've narrowed the search for a GAGAFAP III location down to two
spots. Both would be spectacular places for a picnic. Both will
remain Secret! hehehe
Next year, I may form a GAGAFAP committee of sorts. There's getting
to be a little too much work for just me. I'm sure I'll be able to
count on some of you to help out!
Well, that's it I guess. See you on the trails, or at a Pub Night
(well worth attending one if you haven't yet).
This page will be archived in a few weeks, but will remain available
for your viewing pleasure.
Thanks for making the event a memorable one.
Larry, Linda, and Benjamin
TrimblesTrek
The Blue Quasar
Well I certainly was surprised at the turn out considering what the
weather looked like.
I enjoyed myself a great deal, and look forward to other Event
Caches with you fine people.
The RidgeRunners
A great outing and being able to use it as our 250th find added to
our enjoyment! Not enough can be said for those contributors to make
it a success. What a great crew of Geocachers and as with most of
these events, never enough time to chat with them all.
We thoroughly enjoyed the day and the gods were looking down on us
when the weather cleared at the start of the picnic.
Again, our thanks to all for a great event, both from the
RidgeRunners and our ladies.
Putting GAGAFAP III on our calendar as a must do.
The_Shepherds
Thanks very much to TT and everyone else who helped out with the
picnic. A lot of time and effort went into the event, and it was
greatly appreciated. It was especially nice to meet a lot of the
people who we have read about in the posted logs. Thanks to chris-mouse
for the spare batteries which kept us alive after we committed the
cardinal sin of geocaching (Always carry a spare set.)
Thanks for a great day.
The_Shepherds
Scott, Marie, Sydney and Jake.
yorelken
Well, TT, another great day. What a turnout considering the weather.
Thanks for the fun.
ztuart
We had a wonderful time. Many thanks to TT for all of the
organizing. You did a fantastic job.