It would have been a fun race Scott, but we both lost! According to the stats page as they are right now, Cody deserves congratulations to moving up to the number 2 spot! I fell to number 6 and BTW, RTW, you my friend are down to number 11! I guess we better get busy; if I only knew what caches counted anymore! Archived only ones might make it difficult! (I also notice the totals don't appear at geocaching.com next to our team names either? Congrats CBX2! You made it a quick race! Rob Team CHUMP -----Original Message----- From: Scott Nicol [mailto:arizcowboy@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 9:12 To: listserv@azgeocaching.com Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] A different kind of congrats... >From: Tim Giron >Reply-To: listserv@azgeocaching.com >To: listserv@azgeocaching.com >Subject: [Az-Geocaching] A different kind of congrats... >Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 21:15:41 -0700 > >Congratulations to Team Ropingthewind for taking some time out from the >race for the number 2 spot to place their first cache. By the looks of it, >the hangup was apparently not "What should we call it?". Though, the >acronym RTW sometimes stands for "release to web" which is also appropriate >in this case! > >What I want to know is if (as it states in the cache description) "nice new >stuff" is another way of saying that you put a whole passel of your >signature brochures in there!? > >Cache on gentlemen! > >Tim >Team AZFastFeet ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks tim! It was actually a rather fun experience. After 340 finds, it was not only a change of pace, but, allowed us to explore a new avenue of geocaching. We had a fun time hiding it and enjoyed the time at the cache site. We hope yall will enjoy the hunt as well. As far as the name goes... well, we wanted something very original... :) LOL Actually, really couldnt think of a good name so since it is our first cache, we called it RTW-1! :) Guess we will call our next one RTW-2! :) LOL We think it sounds kinda catchy! :) I want to thank Team Coyote1022 for donating the ammo box for us to use for our first cache. As far as the items in the cache: The stuff is new and in their original bags yet. However, nothing really special. Just some of the nicer stuff you might find in any other ammo box cache. But, it's all new! :) As far as putting a bunch of brochures in the cache: Unfortunately, I am almost out of those old brochures! For the record: I don't put brochures in there for advertising. It just kinda became a 'signature' item that we would put in alot of the caches we visit. Kinda like Loran would leave a Sand Dollar. We still traded items and in addition to that, would leave a brochure. The very first cache we did, we didnt have anything to trade, so we left a brochure (as that was all I had in the truck) and it kinda became our signature. I had nearly 5,000 (or more!) of those old brochures left when I had my nice new shiny glossy ones made. So, had to do something with them! :) As far as the race for #2 goes... I definetly would like to get 'in the race'. But, being that CHUMP has a 26 cache head start, it is gonna be tough. We are game though and plan to make a run for it! ;) But, there arent but a few caches left to get in the valley for us and we will have to travel north or west of the valley or out of town to find big numbers. That will get increasingly harder to do as I move into the Fall as my business really starts to pick up again. But, we hope to give Team CHUMP at least a lil' challenge! ;) Also, the teams behind us are rather close as well. They too could end up passing us up. We enjoy going for big numbers. So, although we just cache as we feel like it, we are able to find ourselves firmly on the 'front page' and hopefully in the run for #2! Scott Team Ropingthewind _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com _______________________________________________ Az-Geocaching mailing list listserv@azgeocaching.com http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching Arizona's Geocaching Resource http://www.azgeocaching.com