>From: "EvilFISH" >Reply-To: listserv@azgeocaching.com >To: >Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] AZGeocachers Geocoin. >Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:20:08 -0700 > >http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=b91b0d9d-acfe-4889-9967-553cb8a635a0&log=y&decrypt= > >the first finders > >this is the cache that started the Jack A Lope being called such, as Monkey >Boy and Mountian Goat didn't quite fit anymore// Wow EvilFish! I cant beleive you remember that day! Now that I go back and read our logs.... I remember that day quite well. That cache was up for a first to find.... so I thought I would go out and take a stab at beating the usual far east valley FTF'rs (the Apache Junction clan... Sprocket, AJ.JR, Flatiron, etc... and Brian Team AI) to the first find. Well, the cache was a bit of a hike. It appeared to be about 2.5 miles or so in from the trailhead. This is the trailhead in far north Apache Junction that goes back into Bulldog Canyon area near the mine. I think the name of the road is Bulldog mine rd or something. Anyways, I get out there around 11am or so and it was a rather hot day out. I had a meeting at 2pm... so I really had to haul a** to get back there to the cache and get back home and shower and change and stuff and be at a meeting at 2pm. I hike at a brisk pace back into the desert and get to the cache location. It was a bit off the main jeep trail that goes back there and on the side of a slope. There werent many places at all to hide a full size cache, except the usual desert stuff... under a bush, etc. Really no rock piles in the area. I couldnt find it. So I expanded my search. Still no find. I thought maybe some numbers in the coordinates were transposed. So I switched some numbers around and did another close search. Still nothing. I finally had to get back to the truck and get home to Mesa. So after a few choice words... I practically ran the 2.5 miles back to the truck... not following the road either.. but rather straightlining it. A day or two later.... after my no find log was posted.... the cache owner leaves a note saying... "oopss.... sorry.... I posted the wrong coordinates". Geez. I kinda figured something was wrong because the terrain and the hiking distance didnt fit the terrain/difficulty rating of the cache. Although those rating normally have to be taken with a grain of salt anyways... since some cache owners dont seem to know how to accurately choose a corrrect rating. (like how many times have I seen a 5 terrain for a cache that was really only a 3!). Anyways, with the new coordinates... myself and team EvilFish headed up north Apache Junction way for a couple of caches that he had yet to get plus this cache. With the new coordinates... it was RIGHT off of Hwy 88 and only about a 300' or so hike from the side of the road!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So, I ran to the cache ahead of EvilFish to claim the first find! :) I couldnt beleive it was still good for a first find. But it was! So that's the story. The moral of this story is: DONT POST THE WRONG COORDINATES ON A CACHE.... and..... DONT BOTHER GOING AFTER FIRST FINDS!!! LET SOMEONE ELSE FIGURE OUT THAT THE COORDINATES ARE WRONG!!!! :) LOL :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) Scott Team Ropingthewind ____________________________________________________________ Az-Geocaching mailing list listserv@azgeocaching.com To edit your setting, subscribe or unsubscribe visit: http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching Arizona's Geocaching Resource http://www.azgeocaching.com