[Az-Geocaching] New monthly record?

[Trisha Radley]

Congrats, Scott!
But you haven't hidden one YET????
Ahhhh.....bad cache karma!!!  :-)
~~trisha  aka "Lightning"


----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Nicol" <arizcowboy@hotmail.com>
To: <listserv@azgeocaching.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 8:20 AM
Subject: [Az-Geocaching] New monthly record?


> Last Month, February 2002, Team Ropingthewind (that's us!) unofficially
> broke the record for most AZ cache finds in a month... having found 69
> caches during the shortest month of the year (28 days).
>
> Now, I never confirmed that... just by what I saw on Teakwondoman's AZ
> records web page. I also went back into the archives a little bit and
> couldnt find a month where one team scored more. So, looks like that is
> (was) the record.
>
> UNTIL NOW!!!!!!!!
>
> Team Sand Dollar is currently at 79 AZ cache finds for the month of March!
> AND the month isn't even over yet! AND he has done this in 27 days!
>
> We were hoping our record would stand a little bit longer anyways! :)
>
> Oh well.
>
> Just thought I would share this with everyone and offer our
>
> CONGRATULATIONS!!!
>
> to Team Sand Dollar for breaking the record for most AZ cache finds in a
> month!
>
> That ol' boy just has too much time on his hands! ;) LOL
>
> Seriously, that is quite an accomplishment! We went for our monthly record
> by bagging a bunch of caches more in the metro area (can get them faster)
> and then going for groupings of caches outside the metro area. Me and my
> teammate wore ourselves out that month big time! Team SD has been bagging
> caches all over the place. Some, not so easy. So, to break the record in
one
> day less than we did AND have 10 more finds in that time.. is quite an
> accomplishment.
>
> Do I see 100 in a month!?
>
> Congrats again, Loran!
> --------------------------
> There definetly seems to be alot of activity these days in the AZ geocache
> scene... look at the stats and see how many teams are over 30 finds for
the
> month. That is alot of caching!!! I wonder what is the record for the most
> 'total caches' found in a month (by all teams combined)? Could this be the
> month? Even the 25th ranked team this month has 18 finds.
>
> As for Team Ropingthewind.. dont see any record breaking again in the near
> future.. just doing it leisurely now. Each time out now is just a new
> adventure, a nice pleasant hike, and enjoying the outdoors! We are now
able
> to sit at a cache site and enjoy the views instead of running off to find
> another one. We now are able to take the side path over that way or over
> there to explore more in a given cache area. We enjoyed the first 100
caches
> and enjoyed reaching our goals and are very happy to have reached the
goals
> we set. Those cache finds werent as scenic as the ones to come. Most of
the
> caches left for us to get now are outside the metro area and off in the
> mountains and wilderness areas, etc. So, we are excited about getting to
> some of those caches and seeing other parts of AZ we havent yet seen. We
> even hope to use our hot air balloon to get to a couple! I even recently
got
> my Mom, Sister, Nephew and Niece out on a few cache finds! We knew we
could
> break some records when we first started, as that was when there were alot
> to find. Now, they are much farther and few in between for us. We have
> reached our goals of breaking a few records and firmly establishing
> ourselves on the 'front page teams' and now we are just doing it for total
> fun and adventure. We are, however, still looking to hide our first cache.
> Know what we want to do and where to put it.. just need everything to come
> together to pull it off! :) ;)
>
> Scott
> Team Ropingthewind
>
>
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