Actually... according to AZgeocaching.com's link to the Mr. Tata Head's
Adventures link, his adventures started 01-01-2001, and Moun10Bike's own
page lists his first release of a Moun10Bike coin as September 30, 2001.
That's pretty much 10 months difference between the two starting dates. The
only true difference is that the Moun10Bike coin was given special tracking
status on GC.com due to Moun10Bike's friendship with Jeremy. The Moun10Bike
coins came out about the same time as Jeremy got the idea for trackable
dogtags to be added to the sport. As a gesture of thanks for the support
Moun10Bike had given to the start of the Geocaching.com site, he was given a
special icon and his coins were made trackable on the site.
http://www.azgeocaching.com/mrtata/mrtata.html
http://www.switchbacks.com/gc_geocoins.html
If it were a closer time frame it could be in dispute, but 10 months is
quite a gap in time for the coins to go through the minting process.
Jake - Team A.I.
On 9/11/06, ShadowAce <
shadowace.az@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Mnt10Bikes coins were the first travel bugs.. no?
>
> On 9/10/06, Jake Olson <jake.teamai@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > If that's true, it's another first I can add to the list of AZ firsts in
> geocaching.
>
> Jake - Team A.I.
>
>
> On 9/10/06, Trisha Brasher < trisha@brasher.com> wrote:
> >
> > I would be royally pissed too, Bob. I hope that you can get this
> > straightened out, however, I have never been able to get an answer from
> > SenorFrisk going back a few years (regarding his RR Rim depot cache back
> > then and the bad coords.) Did you launch the truly very very first "TB" ever
> > in the whole world?
> > Oh, BTW there are TWO "T's" in .... 'butt'...... lol
> > Trisha ! Lightning
> >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Bob Renner" < renner001@yahoo.com >
> > > To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
> > > Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] The Return of a legend
> > > Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 21:06:35 -0700 (PDT)
> > >
> > >
> > > I have to say that I am a little bit pissed that
> > > Senorfrisk took MY travel bug (Mr. Potato Head) and
> > > put his tag on him. I launched Mr. Potato Head on
> > > 12/31/2000 in my Cone Mountain cache before the
> > > official travel but tags were started. I had my own
> > > card included with instruction to move him from cache
> > > to cache and record his adventures. Team Snaptek
> > > found him and moved him to their cache near Payson
> > > where Senorfrisk found him. Several attempts were
> > > made to contact Senorfrisk who never replied. Now he
> > > puts his tag on him and claims ownership. I wonder
> > > what happened to my card that was originally
> > > included???
> > >
> > > --- Brian Cluff <brian@snaptek.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Looks like, what is highly likely to be the very
> > > > first travel bug, has resurfaced after several years.
> > > >
> > > > He is now named "I Yam What I Yam"
> > > >
> > > http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=673591
> > > >
> > > > You can read about his first adventures at:
> > > > http://www.azgeocaching.com/mrtata/mrtata.html
> > > > This page was setup so that Mr. Potato head could be
> > > > tracked. Since we was, probably, the very first, or at least only
> > > > known travel bug.
> > > >
> > > > Brian Cluff
> > > > Team Snaptek
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