[Az-Geocaching] A bit of history - question

CAMERON BRONIARCZYK bbudcam at hotmail.com
Fri Aug 11 09:45:11 MST 2006


360 should go back over there with his metal detector to try and find the 
rest.




>From: "Roping The Wind" <arizcowboy at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: listserv at azgeocaching.com
>To: listserv at azgeocaching.com
>Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] A bit of history - question
>Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 08:46:36 -0700
>
>
> >From: Bob Renner <renner001 at yahoo.com>
>
> >That cache was Metro Pecan.  It was an ammo box bolted
> >to the stump of a sawed off limb on a pecan tree just
> >north of 31st Ave and Camelback.  I have a list of the
> >first 100 caches in AZ at home.  I'll try to post it
> >this evening if I have time before we go camping.
>
>Team360 made a discovery several months ago. He noticed the coordinates
>posted on an example cache page somewhere on gc.com and was curious to know
>what was at the posted coordinates. Well one day me and 360 drove over to
>that location. We found a field that was plowed over, for the most part.
>There was an old tree stump right at the coordinates. We figured maybe 
>there
>used to be a cache hanging in that tree. Well... as we were looking
>around... I saw a peice of metal sticking out of the ground that looked
>familiar... like the lid of an ammo box! I pulled it out of the ground and
>it was the hinge and lid of an old ammo box! We were now quite sure there
>used to be a cache at those coordinates. 360 got on gc.com and found the
>archived cache page for the Metro Pecan cache! So we are now holding a 
>piece
>of history! (expect to see it on ebay with a starting bid around $7500!
>LOL). ;) Anyways, I also found another item laying on the ground... and I
>cant remember what it was... but it was an item you would typically find in
>a geocache. I thought it was really cool to find that piece of the ammo 
>box.
>That cache had been archived for a few years. I dont think there is any
>doubt that was a peice of the ammo box from the Metro Pecan Cache. Is it
>possible that they plowed the field over (and cut the trees) and plowed the
>cache into the ground? We didnt do any digging, but we didnt find any other
>remnants of an ammo box otherwise.
>
>Team Ropingthewind
>Scott
>
>
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