[Az-Geocaching] Arizona Geocaching has Lost a Pioneer

[vicki wright]

so sorry to hear the sad news.  My dad, dazon, passed away on January 31 and I 
can tell you that geocaching was his life the last few years...so I can 
truly thank those who came before who made the game so fun for dazon.  
Blessings.
 
azvicki




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From: carol herrick <zoiestar1 at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Wed, March 16, 2011 8:30:04 AM
Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Arizona Geocaching has Lost a Pioneer


Saddened of his passing. Thanks for sharing the news. 

--- On Sun, 3/13/11, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com> wrote:


>From: Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com>
>Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Arizona Geocaching has Lost a Pioneer
>To: listserv at azgeocaching.com
>Date: Sunday, March 13, 2011, 10:33 PM
>
>
>This is truly sad news.  Like Steve wrote there are few people that I can think 
>of that have contributed more to Geocaching in Arizona and arguably the world if 
>you consider that he came up with the idea for the travel bug.  This is the man 
>that we, Team Snaptek, chased trying to find the most caches back when there 
>were only enough caches to count on one hand.
>
>We had an ongoing friendly rivalry with him because he hid the second cache in 
>Arizona even though technically speaking the second cache in Arizona was 
>physically hidden first by Team Snaptek, but due to driving time from New River 
>compared to Page Bob was able to log his first claiming the spot, beating us by 
>only an hour or so.
>
>He was a great man that I would always seek out and enjoyed talking with 
>whenever I had a chance.
>
>Bob will be truly missed,
>Brian Cluff
>AzGeocaching.com
>Team Snaptek
>
>On 03/13/2011 08:18 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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