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Now there are times when while caching the simple joys in life are brought back to the front of your thinking, all is well with the world, so when the ATV driver agreed to finish the quest for Yuban the Can II, what would have been better than parking 40 feet from the cache, having a short conversation about snakes and where they hide, then have him spot the cache. The only thing I could do was really sign the logbook. I am sure that now that he knows the location of the cache when he hikes up the hill it will be checked in on.
This will be the last cache that TEF finds, as we were driving out to the pavement noticed that the speedometer and odometer were no longer functioning, yeah I know I can use my GPS for that, the left rear tire due to the angle and prior wear is now showing not only wire but fabric threads on a 1 inch circumference. The funny thing had I paid for a tow truck, it would have been more than the blue book value for the Cache-mobile. Did I mention that we had no liquid refreshment, Alex and I were very thirsty, say isn't the What's New cache near a Basha's????
Thanks for the fun and realignment.
And for those who want a thing to think about, you are always in the middle there will always be someone faster than you, have less finds, even more money. I can write now that I am now back to normal, as well as it can be J.
From: EvilFISH
To:
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Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 11:20 PM
Subject: [Az-Geocaching] Yuban the Can II (Aka Everything that can happen with caching trip.) page 2
I had last week on Thursday changed a flat tire on the Cache-mobile, still had not one but 2 jacks in the trunk, so with what little of my mind made the grandiose decision to jack up the car place rocks under the front wheels filling in the rut, filling in the rut would allow me to drive back down, leaving this cache for yet another day. I had left 04/04/04 and I could leave Yuban, see deep down inside I have been feeling, something I don't really know what specific thing it is connected to but it does have it's beginnings on April 10th, that is the day that TEF found the 04/04/04 cache, well seeing RandMan's signature as a FTF along with the week long line of emails capped by the personal visit to Alex's ball game just hit a part of my psyche that I have not had touched in a while, as I am usually the instigator and not recipient of a ruse, even God himself who I should have been visiting with last Sunday instead of loosing yet another personally built rocket( last seen heading towards Tucson), decided to set things right again. Every time that I would raise the car with my hydraulic floor the jack it would rotate and slide the car down the hill, 6 to 12 inches at a time, then when the first jack would get stuck usually on it's side and under the bumper, I would get the second screw jack to get the first jack unstuck and yes the car would slip again. When the Cache-mobile had slipped about 3 feet further down I decided to start the car and see if I could get the front end pointed in a more down hill position and let gravity help rather than add to my frustration. Have you ever watched a drag race, when the vehicle warms the tires? See they set a front brake and press the accelerator, the rear wheels spin generating heat into the tires and release smoke they then release the brakes so the car instead of attempting to rotate around the front wheels, jets down the track removing rubber from the wheel applying it to the track, increasing friction etc., see in theory all this is well and good but say you have your vehicle sideways on a slope. When the cache mobile was again facing the same position that it was in when all this happened, I handed Alex my cell phone to call for help.
Now I use Verizon as my cell phone provider and I get decent reception even in areas that some don't so I had Alex place a call to Rand, he wasn't answering, the second call was to a tow truck company the line went dead, so while conversing with DPS as they are also in my phone book, maybe it was a connection to Brian from Team A.I. and the Event cache today that allowed TEF 2 first finds, or the simple fact that I wasn't for sure which jurisdiction we were in, while I was giving directions to where we were stuck, up the hill comes this green ATV, the phone conversation gets real static I was able to get a number to call back and decided to take what was just handed me, the driver was wearing a GatorBack t-shirt (Alex was given a GatorBack rod soon after he set his first World Record, combined with the new Zebco Red Rhino, he could only when he really wanted to, pull in the fish). I could only think of one thing that being of what my sister last said to me, 'go to church' but I then in those moments recognized the miracle for what it was, see when you forget God he will in his own way let you know that he is thinking of you.
As the situation was assessed it was more of a moot point that the ATV driver was going to bring back his nice white Ford 350, the only thing that changed was which direction the car would be pulled, we decided to pull the car from the front up the hill and allow me to back down as originally planned.
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From: Regan Smith
To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 9:48 PM
Subject: [Az-Geocaching] Yuban the Can II (Aka Everything that can happen with caching trip.)
Yuban the Can II (Aka Everything that can happen with caching trip.)
I had first wanted to get Yuban the Can II way back when it first was placed as when the first Yuban was found RandMan and I parked further than we needed, so knowing that you could park pretty much right next to this Yuban, I waited. I read the logs about those who hiked up the mountain, then I read the hint a good 4X4 will get you close, I have been hanging around RTW to much I have even been in the back of his 2X4 going places 'it ain't supposed to be'. I really like my Cache-Mobile a 1983 Toyota Cressida it has taken me about every place that I wanted to go, in the grand scheme of things last week I was able to borrow my sister's Toyota Camry, a lot newer and Way more nicer, it was in that vehicle where I first started the finding of 04/04/04 cache, which leads to another issue of pride, it will be discussed shortly. Needless to say I have enjoyed the TEF Cache-mobile so it wasn't without hesitation that after finding the first part to the nearby cache, that this cache .40 miles that a way would be driven in the TEF Cache-Mobile.
The road we were currently on, even though it looked like a tornado blew apart a house, as there were fixing everywhere, was not the road to Yuban so I did something that I would not recommend doing that being driving around through the private neighborhood, but we parked and walked far enough to find the correct road that leads to Yuban, so back out the way we came back through tornado alley and back onto the road to Yuban. Maybe it was the fact that I gave the Cache-mobile its first real car wash in over a year, used the engine degreaser and everything on the outside, but I was beginning to regret all the dirt roads that we had been driving on this day.
As we rounded the left hand turn and drove past the open gate, this is where all the thinking that I have been doing as of late ruined me, I didn't accelerate as fast as I now know the Cache-Mobile should have been, traveling past the rain caused ruts approached to within about .12 miles from Yuban, this is a section of road that has the whoop de do's so all that non momentum put just enough hesitation in my driving decision along with the voiced concern from Alex, the younger member, that I stopped. Now I know that most of you reading this would have been thinking, just get out and hike. (Yes this is all well and fine but I decided that backing down and turning around now before finding the cache would be a good idea). Just like Neo in the Matrix, the meet the Oracle Scene and the broken vase, what happened next really blew what little mind I had left. Just as the rear left wheel dropped into the rut I turned the steering wheel combined with gravity assisted momentum both rear wheels passed through the rut, again at this point the Cache-Mobile was at a crux it tried to warn me, I heard a break squeak but I at that moment in time I pressed the accelerator dragging the front wheels into the rut, so here no less than .12 miles from Yuban the Can II Team Evil Fish, Cache-mobile and all sat stuck facing the Superstition Mountains. 
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