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Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 9:34
PM
Subject: RE: [Az-Geocaching] Other
Congratulations
No, we certainly didn't do it
in under 8 hours. That's less that 12 minutes a piece including drive,
park, find, log time. I can see why that wouldn't be fun. No, we
do this first and foremost for the fun. We completed the tour in about
15 hours. Started with flashlights and ended with flashlights. We
had a BLAST!!
Picture us, two techie geeks,
all decked out. In the truck, we had the power inverter running saving
the laptop batteries. On the laptop we had Microsoft MapPoint. We
had spent about a week selecting caches, solving puzzles, and optimizing our
route. We kept my GPSr in the truck, linked to the laptop. We used
his GPSr in the field. We knew where we were going, how we would get
there, and when we should get there. We had estimated how long each
cache would take to find. Our plan ended up being fairly accurate.
With all of this prep work and supporting technology, we were able to just
cruise around following the pre-defined route and enjoy each and every cache
we found. We ran into a cache owner and spent time chatting.
We played tricks on each other at some sites. Most importantly, we took
our time, enjoyed ourselves immensely, AND REMEMBER EVERY SINGLE
CACHE.
Although we had our eye on
that record when we planned the trip, we did not let it distract us from the
reason we geocache in the first place... to have fun
exploring.
CacheLess
aaa but the question remains did you do it in 8 hours or
less???
Well having done the 41arizona cache but a total of 45 for
the day. I know that your 44 could not have been much fun...they all
just blend together...but congrads
We will be known by the tracks we leave
behind