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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