GGA News

These two awesome cachers have joined the GGA Steering Committee and will be serving two-year terms for 2025-2026. Be sure to meet them at our upcoming January event, and at our future events!

Justin Dribnak (Dribnak) - Geocaching since April 2015, a lifelong Georgian, is drawn to "lost and lonely" caches, and has become a big fan of hiding caches. Justin likes sharing geocaching adventures with his family, particularly his daughters.

Kevin Stoyak (Maddog1973) - Officially caching since August 2003, has found a cache in Costa Rica, is an Eagle Scout, and much more! Kevin enjoys geocaching because "it brings me to places I would have never gone to or even knew existed."

Unfortunately due to winter weather, Fort Yargo State Park was asked by the county EMA to be closed, and the pavilion the GGA had booked is dedicated as a warming shelter. Fort Yargo had no other availability for the rest of the month...

But fear not! The GGA has worked tirelessly to secure a new location and new date. The January GGA event is now January 18, 2025 from 1:00-3:00pm ET at the Alpharetta Public Safety Training Facility, located at 12624 Broadwell Rd. Alpharetta, GA.

PLEASE update your Will Attend logs as necessary.

https://coord.info/GCB166Q

GGA Best Cache Awards

                 2025

We would like to bring back the GGA Best Cache Awards. This upcoming year we will be looking for your best and brightest ideas and caches in these five categories. Get those creative ideas flowing and let us see what you’ve got.  Winners will get a special banner to place on their Cache Page to show they were selected as GGA 2025 Best Caches.  

Award Categories

1. Most Kid Friendly
2. Best Quest
3. Most Scenic Location
4. Toughest
5. Most Favorite Points

Submission to a category

1. January 1, 2025, to April 30, 2025 window for publishing new caches.
2. The C.O. will submit their cache GC number to the Steering Committee advising which category they wish their cache to be placed in.
3. A cache can be submitted to more than 1 category if the C.O. desires.
4. Every cache that receives a Favorite Point is automatically considered for that award category.

Voting

1. Voting for the best caches will take place in December.
2. A list of caches in each category will be provided and updated as caches are submitted.  Available on our Website and FaceBook page.
3. You must have found all caches in a category to vote in that category.
4. Voting will be by Google Doc form.

The GGA SC has been working closely with Geocaching HQ on Adventure Labs and we're thrilled to announce we've published 7 Adventure Labs this year for a total of 70 lab caches! Check them out:

The Heart of Atlanta

Doll's Head Trail @ Constitution Lakes

Midtown Arts and Culture

A Stroll Down the Famous Peachtree Street!

Historic Oakland Cemetery

I Have a Dream

Atlanta Rocks!!

Enjoy!!!

We wrapped up the year with our final 2024 GGA event at Hard Labor Creek State Park. The turnout was great! Our game/challenge was a fruitcake toss (the best thing to ever happen to fruitcake...). The addition of an aerial toss really spiced up the competition. The winner took home a super loaded Christmas wreath.

The White Elephant gift exchange was a blast. Ammo cans were the prevailing gift (even pink!), but there was also: camo paint, coffee mugs, camo tree branches, reaching tools, caching bags, and a ton of swag.

Oh, and we had hot chocolate with all of the fixin's...

Oh, and our event sign-in log was a large trackable Christmas tree...

Oh, and duct tape is not only for cache repair, but fruitcake repair...

There were a number of first time GGA event attenders. Glad you came to check us out. See you back at our next event.

It was great to see so many people for an outside December event. It is always fun to catch up with our old friends and make new ones along the way.  See you next month!

Celebrating our cachers who have achieved a milestone in 2024.

Congratulations! (Now go find some more...)

Have you cached in all these Great Cities? How would you like to have a coin to remind you of all those Great Caches.

The new GGA 2024 coin is available. You don’t want to miss it, so come on out and join us at the next event. There is a limited number remaining, and they're big and heavy!

After working with the Department of Natural Resources - Wildlife Resources Division (WRD), we are pleased to announce an agreement to allow geocaches on Wildlife Management Area's (WMAs). Several of these WMA's have never opened up to geocaching before. [more...]