[Az-Geocaching] Geocaching: Team vs. Individual Statistics...

[Mel Hockwitt]

"I think we have never met a cacher we could not find a way to get
along with and most of them are welcome into my house and home at any
time day or night..."

What's for supper and what time do you want me there?  
 :-) 


Dirk Harris wrote:

>Since Scotti brought up my name, I figured I would jump in on this one.
>
>My family became involved in geocaching back in Nov of '03 timeframe.
>We found this to be a great excuse to get the kids off of the XBox and
>Playstation and out into the world we live in.
>
>We went out and found caches and continued this habbit until we found
>most all of the caches in the Tucson area. Before long I started to
>recieve emails from other cachers about how we were only doing it for
>the numbers and how we did not care about the caches or other cachers
>as long as our numbers went up.
>
>folks, I will say I am the only one I know of with a Living TB that
>can never be left behind. My family has planned entire vacations
>around the sport and we drove 8 states in 9 days doing geocaching. We
>also spent 4 nights in the Denver area and 2 nights in Custer SD on
>this same trip. So we were on the road many hours straight if you do
>the math.
>
>I am not talking little bitty NE US states. We hit NM, CO, UT, SD, NB,
>NV, CA and something else but anyways I digress....
>
> We love geocaching and we very much love meeting other cachers. We
>have gone out for full day cache runs with friends and never signed a
>cache because we had already been there in the past. We have started
>hiking and hitting all the peaks and trails we can. My son, now 8, has
>climbed Table Top Mountain, Pikacho peak, Blacketts Ridge, Wasson
>peak, tortalita Peak(twice). just to name a few.
>
> If it was about the numbers we would not drive 6 hours to hit a
>single cache then 6 hours home. We use geocaching as a cheap tour
>guide and find those caches in places we never had a reason to visit.
>
>Do we hit the urban micros? Yes. 
>Do we make numbers runs? That is a little harder to flat out yes on
>because there are so darned many urban no pencil smaller then a pack
>of smokes caches that it makes it very cluttered and almost impossible
>to get a good download of caches without clearing many of these.
>
>Look at our stats if you have to and you will see we have pumped out
>some of the toughest puzzle caches in AZ as well as some of the harder
>hikes and peaks.
>
>I even bought a jeep after getting my truck then van stuck. 
>
>I have met wonderful people such as Team Dodge Podge, The Cow Spots,
>JScotti, Mo & Go, We C*EM, We Findum, ElmoSmelmo, AZPaul, Silney,
>AJ.JR, Evilfish, Randman, AZKiteflyers, The gangs in Prescott, Del
>Mar, MurphsLaw...... and the list goes on and on and on..
>I think we have never met a cacher we could not find a way to get
>along with and most of them are welcome into my house and home at any
>time day or night...
>
>Do we get carried away? I have seen people call in sick for 2 weeks at
>a time so they could snowboard or ski. I have watched people drop
>everything every week to watch football. I have seen people who cannot
>walk past a TV if a basketball game is going on. Every sport has its
>hangups and every sport has very 'into it teams'..
>
>If you want to play the numbers and need seperate numbers because you
>do things different then I am sorry but I do not play that way.
>
>Lets start new stats pages for :
>
>1) People who used a hot air balloon to log a cache.
>2) People who cache only at night
>3) People who cache with a dog
>4) People who never offroad but always hike to cache locations.
>5) People who cache without using gasoline cars. (Bicycle or walkers only)
>6) People who only cache between 1700 and 2100 on Tuesdays.
>
>I love the sport, but I can do without all the comments on cache
>numbers. I have even been accused of cheating by some of the other
>cachers.. You know what?
>
>I love getting FTF's. I will go climb a mountain at 3am if I have the
>chance. (Nope, no 'team' thing going on here as I do not take my
>children on hikes in the dark).
>
>Elmosmelmo, Cow Spots, AZPaul, Team Dodge Podge, Mule Ears,
>TucsonThompson, We C*EM, AZGeckoGirl, AZCachemeister, Team A.I. and my
>family have had some amazing outtings together and I pray that these
>will continue and become more frequent. My children have so many
>adopted parents I feel like crying sometimes. I would never have
>expected to make this many friends by hunting silly tupperware and
>ammo cans but by god this has been the best year for our family in a
>long time.
>
>If you do not care about stats or you can get beyond the fact we have
>a lot of finds, look one of us up for an outting. I am sure you will
>also have a wonderful time with our families and would be welcome to
>come down to Tucson any time.
>
>Oh god, did I just write all that? Sorry about the soap box if you
>took it that way, it is meant more from the heart to explain why we
>cache as we do, not to condem anyones way of playing the game.
>
>Now, lets worry about how to get Brian back down to AZ.!!!!
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