Good one. Remind us again on 8/1........the desert heat kills my memory. Trisha wrote:Well, in case you couldn't find it in all that Jeep/Geocaching/TB stuff....here it is...if you like it, be sure to nominate me after 8/1! The criteria is supposed to be: 30% applicable to geocaching experience 40% creativity 30% suitable for advertising and promotional purposes (for JEEP!) jeep.geocaching.com Submitted 6/29/04 for Jeep TB #0053 by Lightning1996YCJP Here is the essay: OK, honey, got it? West... 112... 28, yup, that's it. Tell them we have water but we're stuck. Love you! - um, yes, we DID find the cache...". As my cell faded, I added, "and the JEEP TB," holding it up as I returned down towards my hopelessly stuck Toyota and my geocaching partner, Ron, who was anxious for good news. "You reach anyone?" "Yes, don't worry. My wife will send help." Getting dark, I peered up the boulder-strewn, deeply rutted "road" that we had somehow tumbled down. I had heard that this mountainous backcountry south of Prescott, Arizona, was rugged. It IS! What I thought was a short cut to that cache....oh well! The Yellow Jeep TB was worth the effort! At sunrise, I heard the drone of an airplane. We waved as he made several passes, confirming our GPS coordinates. Now we felt assured the ground searchers would locate us....yeah, over that road? I mused....why not send a chopper? Soon I heard vehicles chewing up the rocks and ruts. Four-wheel drive headed our way! I secretly hoped that they'd get stuck, too, then I wouldn't feel like such an idiot! However, we were quickly greeted by four Sheriff's search and rescue volunteers in two vehicles, and I could see two additional Jeeps up the hill. "Wow, are we glad to see you!" Ron cried out. "We hear that alot. Glad you are OK. Grab your personal gear and load up. You can worry about your Four-Runner later." We each climbed into the back of a JEEP - an older, rugged CJ-7 and a newer, fully-equipped Wrangler - for the ride out. "I was worried you guys couldn't get to us," I shouted forward. My rescuer smiled back, "That's why we're called the JEEP Posse!" ____________________________________________________________ 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 Tsegi Mike and Desert Viking Till a voice, as bad as Conscience, rang interminable changes On one everlasting Whisper day and night repeated -- so: "Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges -- "Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!" Rudyard Kipling , The Explorer 1898 --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers!