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Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 9:34
PM
Subject: RE: [Az-Geocaching] Other
Congratulations
No, we certainly didn't do
it in under 8 hours. That's less that 12 minutes a piece including
drive, park, find, log time. I can see why that wouldn't be fun.
No, we do this first and foremost for the fun. We completed the tour
in about 15 hours. Started with flashlights and ended with
flashlights. We had a BLAST!!
Picture us, two techie
geeks, all decked out. In the truck, we had the power inverter running
saving the laptop batteries. On the laptop we had Microsoft
MapPoint. We had spent about a week selecting caches, solving puzzles,
and optimizing our route. We kept my GPSr in the truck, linked to the
laptop. We used his GPSr in the field. We knew where we were
going, how we would get there, and when we should get there. We had
estimated how long each cache would take to find. Our plan ended up
being fairly accurate. With all of this prep work and supporting
technology, we were able to just cruise around following the pre-defined
route and enjoy each and every cache we found. We ran into a cache
owner and spent time chatting. We played tricks on each other at
some sites. Most importantly, we took our time, enjoyed ourselves
immensely, AND REMEMBER EVERY SINGLE CACHE.
Although we had our eye on
that record when we planned the trip, we did not let it distract us from the
reason we geocache in the first place... to have fun
exploring.
CacheLess
aaa but the question remains did you do it in 8 hours or
less???
Well having done the 41arizona cache but a total of 45
for the day. I know that your 44 could not have been much fun...they
all just blend together...but congrads
We will be known by the tracks we leave
behind