360 should go back over there with his metal detector to try and find the rest. >From: "Roping The Wind" >Reply-To: listserv@azgeocaching.com >To: listserv@azgeocaching.com >Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] A bit of history - question >Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 08:46:36 -0700 > > > >From: Bob Renner > > >That cache was Metro Pecan. It was an ammo box bolted > >to the stump of a sawed off limb on a pecan tree just > >north of 31st Ave and Camelback. I have a list of the > >first 100 caches in AZ at home. I'll try to post it > >this evening if I have time before we go camping. > >Team360 made a discovery several months ago. He noticed the coordinates >posted on an example cache page somewhere on gc.com and was curious to know >what was at the posted coordinates. Well one day me and 360 drove over to >that location. We found a field that was plowed over, for the most part. >There was an old tree stump right at the coordinates. We figured maybe >there >used to be a cache hanging in that tree. Well... as we were looking >around... I saw a peice of metal sticking out of the ground that looked >familiar... like the lid of an ammo box! I pulled it out of the ground and >it was the hinge and lid of an old ammo box! We were now quite sure there >used to be a cache at those coordinates. 360 got on gc.com and found the >archived cache page for the Metro Pecan cache! So we are now holding a >piece >of history! (expect to see it on ebay with a starting bid around $7500! >LOL). ;) Anyways, I also found another item laying on the ground... and I >cant remember what it was... but it was an item you would typically find in >a geocache. I thought it was really cool to find that piece of the ammo >box. >That cache had been archived for a few years. I dont think there is any >doubt that was a peice of the ammo box from the Metro Pecan Cache. Is it >possible that they plowed the field over (and cut the trees) and plowed the >cache into the ground? We didnt do any digging, but we didnt find any other >remnants of an ammo box otherwise. > >Team Ropingthewind >Scott > > >____________________________________________________________ >Az-Geocaching mailing list listserv@azgeocaching.com >To edit your setting, subscribe or unsubscribe visit: >http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching > >Arizona's Geocaching Resource >http://www.azgeocaching.com _________________________________________________________________ Don’t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/