Jeepster next time you're out here, maybe we can have you and Sprocket race to see who can get a predetermined list of caches. That's the only fair way to see who's the fastest team. The last cache could be an event cache. Are you up for a challenge Sprocket, Jeepster?
>From:
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>To:
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>Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Arizona Geocachers' Shame
>Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 00:12:07 +0000
>
>Okay, that's enough! Let's get a few facts on the table.
>
> > an 'out-of-towner' breezed into the Phoenix metro area and
> > swiftly blew away the record
>
>and
>
> > We ... were appalled that a cacher from out of state should hold an
> > Arizona record.
>
>Jeez guys ...
>
>1) I lived in Arizona from mid 1993 until 2000.
>
>2) I left both my kids behind to live in Arizona ... yep, they have spouses,
>jobs and homes, so probably won't be leaving anytime soon.
>
>3) With the kids there, do you honestly think my wife will let me retire
>anyplace else but Arizona? And, don't even start with the whining about
>snowbird status.
>
>So, although I don't presently live in Arizona, I'm would argue against the
>derogatory "cacher from out of state" label. Do you now consider Loren from
>Team Sand Dollar an outcast? If so, I'll accept the title, but if not, don't
>throw me out because I had to move to the Midwest right before the sport was
>invented.
>
> > At the time, we heard a lot of grumbling from others like, "Sure if we
> > didn't already have so many finds, we could do that."
>
>Well, just ignore "Team Roping the Wind" ... honest, he'll quiet down after
>awhile.
>
> > Now, who's up for spending next month in Illinois, picking up a couple
> > hundred caches? ;-)
>
>I just put out nine new ones ... will that help? Actually, Chicago has some of
>the best cache hunting around ... if you don't mind the dripping humidity,
>mucky swamps and mosquitoes the size of roadrunners. Phoenix micros are great,
>but finding a pill bottle in the middle of a hot, humid, tick and mosquito
>infested forest preserve adds new meaning to frustration. By the way, a
>hunting trip to Chicago is about a three hundred mile round trip
humm, you
>can fly there in the same time it takes me to drive.
>
> > Arizona cachers, we have consequently rectified that revoltin' development.
>
>What, you took all month to move the bar up a couple of caches? You must
>remember that I only took two weeks (14 days
not a single day more) to find
>160 caches. Yes, thats 160 caches. I know the stats only show 159, but
>Highpointer was obviously so mad he changed every cache I found into a members
>only cache just to reduce the count ... and I'm a dues paying member to boot.
>Shame on you Ken!!! So, Team Sprocket, the challenge is 161 caches in two
>weeks, not a whole month. And, no more fluffing up your count with just those
>1/1 caches either ... one cache hunt has to be "Return to Sender" ... and at
>least a sprinkling of five star difficulty caches. Oh, and dont forget
you
>probably should find all of the caches in the South Mountain Range
just to
>make it fair.
>
>Okay, so now I've vented ... I'll go back to lurking.
>
>With tongue in cheek,
>Jeepster (Tom Clark)
>
>Oh, by the way Scott, congrats on the 162 cache finds last month and the 55
>finds in a single day.
>
>
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