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Welcome!!!!
You have reached the homepage of the Michigan Geocaching Organization (MiGO). The purpose of our organization is to promote the sport of Geocaching in Michigan via improved communications and to provide information to the public about our activities and the sport of geocaching. Please spend some time on our site. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us or visit www.geocaching.com for more details.
Join MiGO Today!
Our free membership gives you many benefits. MiGO is one of the oldest
and most respected Geocaching organizations in the country. Since our
inception in April, 2002 we have grown both in size and stature. In
2007 we were granted an organizational land use permit by the Michigan
DNR. This permit is paid annually by MiGO and enables all our members
to place caches on permitted DNR lands at no fee. This is just one of
the many benefits of your free membership. You'll also become part of a
local and tight-knit Geocaching community with an active interest in
caching in our state. Our forums are very active and are a great place
to meet cachers and learn.
"Help support the park systems that support MiGO! Click here for Land Use Guidelines!"
Twitter is the new, hot social network that answers the question, "What are you doing?". You can "Follow" your friends to tap into their up to the minute blog on their life. Twitter can use SMS Text messages so you no longer have to miss out on MiGO's latest news and updates if you are without internet access for a period of time. MiGO is trying to stay on the leading edge of technology looking for new ways to communicate with our membership. So if you currently use Twitter, follow us @ Mi_Geocaching , If not, shoot over to www.twitter.com and sign up!!!
The MiGO County Challenge is finally here! After a lot of hard work and discussion by the EC, we’ve approved a process and pin to be awarded for finding at least one cache in each of Michigan's 83 counties.
Here’s a look at what your working for:
How do you get it? Simple. Once you’ve found a cache in every county, run a “my finds” pocket query and forward it along with any contact info you wish to share to Brian Bower (TeamBSquared) at
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or Jason Vanacker (Vanman_30) at
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and they will verify your finds. Once that’s done, we’ll notify Donna of Team CoyChev and she will work out a delivery option with you. To save on shipping costs, it’s preferred that you coordinate a pick up at an event that the CoyChev’s are attending. Which as most of you know, is like every event in the state!
So who can participate? Anyone! We’re opening it up to any Geocacher who puts in the time and effort to complete this difficult challenge.
What if I’ve already completed the challenge? Do I get a pin still? Yes you do! Any cacher that has found a cache in every county prior to our release of this challenge can still get one.
I’ve got more then one member of my team that was involved in this challenge. Do I only get one pin? After a lot of debate on this one, we’ve decided to keep it simple. If you have a multi member Geocaching account and you’d like more then one pin, your team can request one extra pin, but that’s it. A max of 2 pins per Geocaching account that has completed the challenge.
The Huron River Watershed Council, in cooperation with the Huron-Clinton Metroparks and 12 MiGO volunteers, have organized the longest 5 star terrain cache series ever. Over 100 miles in length, the series will take geocachers along the Huron River, past old dams, mills, and other historical and/or interesting places. Within the caches will be significant historic, informative and environmental facts about the Huron River, its watersheds, creeksheds and tributaries. For information on the series, please visit the Huron History Mystery Tour website.
