Congrats, Scott! But you haven't hidden one YET???? Ahhhh.....bad cache karma!!! :-) ~~trisha aka "Lightning" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Nicol" To: Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 8:20 AM Subject: [Az-Geocaching] New monthly record? > Last Month, February 2002, Team Ropingthewind (that's us!) unofficially > broke the record for most AZ cache finds in a month... having found 69 > caches during the shortest month of the year (28 days). > > Now, I never confirmed that... just by what I saw on Teakwondoman's AZ > records web page. I also went back into the archives a little bit and > couldnt find a month where one team scored more. So, looks like that is > (was) the record. > > UNTIL NOW!!!!!!!! > > Team Sand Dollar is currently at 79 AZ cache finds for the month of March! > AND the month isn't even over yet! AND he has done this in 27 days! > > We were hoping our record would stand a little bit longer anyways! :) > > Oh well. > > Just thought I would share this with everyone and offer our > > CONGRATULATIONS!!! > > to Team Sand Dollar for breaking the record for most AZ cache finds in a > month! > > That ol' boy just has too much time on his hands! ;) LOL > > Seriously, that is quite an accomplishment! We went for our monthly record > by bagging a bunch of caches more in the metro area (can get them faster) > and then going for groupings of caches outside the metro area. Me and my > teammate wore ourselves out that month big time! Team SD has been bagging > caches all over the place. Some, not so easy. So, to break the record in one > day less than we did AND have 10 more finds in that time.. is quite an > accomplishment. > > Do I see 100 in a month!? > > Congrats again, Loran! > -------------------------- > There definetly seems to be alot of activity these days in the AZ geocache > scene... look at the stats and see how many teams are over 30 finds for the > month. That is alot of caching!!! I wonder what is the record for the most > 'total caches' found in a month (by all teams combined)? Could this be the > month? Even the 25th ranked team this month has 18 finds. > > As for Team Ropingthewind.. dont see any record breaking again in the near > future.. just doing it leisurely now. Each time out now is just a new > adventure, a nice pleasant hike, and enjoying the outdoors! We are now able > to sit at a cache site and enjoy the views instead of running off to find > another one. We now are able to take the side path over that way or over > there to explore more in a given cache area. We enjoyed the first 100 caches > and enjoyed reaching our goals and are very happy to have reached the goals > we set. Those cache finds werent as scenic as the ones to come. Most of the > caches left for us to get now are outside the metro area and off in the > mountains and wilderness areas, etc. So, we are excited about getting to > some of those caches and seeing other parts of AZ we havent yet seen. We > even hope to use our hot air balloon to get to a couple! I even recently got > my Mom, Sister, Nephew and Niece out on a few cache finds! We knew we could > break some records when we first started, as that was when there were alot > to find. Now, they are much farther and few in between for us. We have > reached our goals of breaking a few records and firmly establishing > ourselves on the 'front page teams' and now we are just doing it for total > fun and adventure. We are, however, still looking to hide our first cache. > Know what we want to do and where to put it.. just need everything to come > together to pull it off! :) ;) > > Scott > Team Ropingthewind > > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: > http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx > > _______________________________________________ > Az-Geocaching mailing list > listserv@azgeocaching.com > http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching > > Arizona's Geocaching Resource > http://www.azgeocaching.com >