[GeoStL] Hi y'all.

I want to say ?Howdy? to all of you in SLAGA land.  I?m Lazylightning
(Mike Bollinger) and I?ve been caching for about 7 months.  I?m now an
official, card carrying member, of SLAGA and the email group. 

I work for Jeff City Parks and Rec and found out about caching when
Matt1344 came by for permission to place caches in JC Parks.  I had no
idea what is was and was against allowing it.  He talked us into giving
it at try.  I was put in charge of monitoring it because they thought
I?d look real hard at what was going on.  I bought a GPS and went out to
find a couple of caches.  Well?I fell in love with it!

The more I looked into caching, the more comfortable I was with it from
the P&R side.  When I placed my first cache at McKay Park, Glenn (who
didn?t know who I was) sent me a list of about 20 questions, including
?Did you get permission??  That sealed it as being an a-ok activity for
our parks.

My family loves caching and this has become a great family activity.  My
son GeoDudeGPS (Mark) demanded his own name so he could start logging
caches too.  He cache crazy like me (except for virtuals-he likes the
trade) and wants to go all the time.

Earlier this month, I met with RGS and Crestwood P&R about building a
Whitecliff Cache Course here in Jeff City.  I?m working on that now.
Rich also gave me a copy of his Geocaching 101 class, which I plan to
offer in Jeff City early this spring once the course is done.   My goal
is to get more cachers in the Jeff City area.  A lot of JC caches only
get found every couple of months and the finders are ?triple-digit?
cachers.  I want to see new cachers get started around here.  I?d also
like to help as an intermediary between cachers and land-managers. 

I got to meet a lot of you at the SLAGA Fall picnic and had a great
time.  I grew up in the Kirkwood area and as the unfound caches in
JC/Columbia dwindle, I?ll be in town more often and will maybe meet some
of you out there.  Until then?.happy Caching!

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