[Az-Geocaching] AZGeocachers Geocoin.

[Roping The Wind]

>From: "EvilFISH" <EvilFish at cox.net>
>Reply-To: listserv at azgeocaching.com
>To: <listserv at azgeocaching.com>
>Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] AZGeocachers Geocoin.
>Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:20:08 -0700
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>http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=b91b0d9d-acfe-4889-9967-553cb8a635a0&log=y&decrypt=
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>the first finders
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>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