[Az-Geocaching] Top 10 reasons

[Brian Casteel]

I wondered if you were going to include me in the Bombs Away cache 
history.  Remember that was the day I got the Jeep and we went out to 
rescue Geo the Otter, stopping here first to grab the cache from the 
highway?  I was razzed the next day because one of the Beeline DPS guys 
stopped by and checked out my ride, seeing the badge hanging from the 
mirror.  Good times those were.

Brian
Team A.I.

Roping The Wind wrote:
>> 1 not only are caches hid by plane but found by balloon as well
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>
> You must be referin' to GC4FBB! That was a cool cache. Of course, the math 
> was all messed up and, quite frankly, it really isnt possible to throw some 
> lightweight piece of ABS plastic tube out of an airplane and expect someone 
> to know EXACTLY where it is gonna land... but... a few brave geocachers took 
> up the challenge to try and find this cache. Team Sand Dollar had actually 
> gotten the first to find. But found it a day after he was originally out 
> there, after getting some clues from the cache owner. He had only been 50 
> feet from it the day before! Not bad Loran! Empanege (the cache owner) 
> actually updated the description and hint to help out. But for Loran (and 
> myself), there was no help and we just had to search a huge area of desert. 
> I actually went out there the next day after Team Sand Dollar found it, with 
> no clues or extra hints, and was able to make the find. I actually made the 
> find without any of the additional hints! :) But on a hot April afternoon, I 
> spend a LONG time walking around aimlessly in the desert searching for 
> something I didnt even know what! The desert in this area was rather sparse 
> and very little vegetation. So there wasnt many places to hide one. The 
> container was suppose to be laying out in the open (which it was when I 
> found it)... but was still a serious challenge to find since there were no 
> exact posted coords. I think the coords posted was where he threw it out, or 
> something like that. Then the cache owner wanted you to do some math to find 
> out where it landed.. what the speed of the airplane was and stuff like 
> that. Well you also have to take into account varying wind directions and 
> speeds at different altitude... none of which was stated on the cache page, 
> and well.. quite frankly it is not really a solvable puzzle.. IMHO. I think 
> the actual information given in the description stated the heading of the 
> airplane and the speed of the plane. But I believe at the time that was all 
> that was given. So, I just walked in that direction from the posted 
> coordinates and searched and searched and searched some more until I found 
> it! So, after Loran and then I and I think Wyle E was next to find it... the 
> cache hint and description was updated to give a more exact location. As I 
> look at this cache today... I see it is still active! Wow!!!! I found that 
> in April of 2002!!! My first year geocaching! It was last found on January 
> 15th of this year by Graldrich and AZCactus. Before that find... it was last 
> found by none other than Brian-Team AI on June 7, 2004! It went a year and a 
> half without a find!!! Anyways, this cache brings back some fond memories of 
> the fun days of geocaching!
>
> A cache found by balloon? Who did that? You must be referin' to GCHPF8. :)
>
> Scott
> Team Ropingthewind
>
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