[Az-Geocaching] Arizona Geocaching has Lost a Pioneer

[Jason Poulter]

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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