I believe he was the first one to create a travel bug... before they
were even called travel bugs
http://azgeocaching.com/mrtata.html
He will truly be missed.
Jason
AzGeocaching
On 3/13/2011 8:18 PM, Tonio Kroger wrote:
> Judi and I learned this evening that Bob Renner, GCB0B
> <http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=c30c0111-c06e-4827-a0da-30c9bfdcdd40>,
> passed away yesterday after a yearlong battle with pancreatic cancer.
>
> Bob was a true pioneer of Arizona caching. At the Deer Valley Ten Year
> Event Cache <http://coord.info/GC26AXC> last May, when they did the
> countdown of who had been caching the longest, Bob (who can be seen in
> the group photo on that cache page, front row center in the white hat)
> was the "last man standing". Bob placed Arizona'ssecond geocache
> <http://coord.info/GC7B> in October, 2000. It's still active and I can
> speak from experience that it is a worthy and worthwhile challenge.
>
> Bob made many other contributions to Arizona caching. He created
> Arizona's first event cache <http://coord.info/GC51D> in March 2001.
> He created what is certainly one of the firstmulti-caches
> <http://coord.info/GC51C> in the state, and it is still active today.
> He placed a still-active cache at the bottom of the Grand Canyon
> <http://coord.info/GC5F1>. And his still-active "Box O Books" cache
> (GCB0B <http://coord.info/GCB0B>) is probably the only cache anywhere
> that not only has a GC ID that is an acronym of the cache title, but
> also a GC ID that is identical to the hider's name!
>
> Bob was a giver. He taught "Introduction to Geocaching" classes at
> REI, and at the Desert Outdoor Center at Lake Pleasant. He introduced
> geocaching to numerous scouts in Boy Scout Troop 824. In 2002-2003,
> Bob served as a liaison between the geocaching community and the
> Arizona State Historical Preservation Office and other land management
> agencies, at a time when those agencies perceived geocaching as a
> threat to sites with archaeological or environmental sensitivity. Were
> it not for Bob's efforts, we might have far fewer acres in the state
> on which to play our little game. And he did all this with calm in the
> face of stress, humor in the face of threats, and thoughtfulness in
> the face of emotion. Geocaching in Arizona would not be the special
> experience it so often is had we not had the good fortune of Bob
> Renner's participation.
>
> Bob is survived by his wife, Marion, and two sons. As I write this,
> funeral and memorial plans have not been announced. I will pass along
> any information that I receive.
>
> Steve
> Team Tierra Buena
>
>
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