[Az-Geocaching] Arizona Geocaching has Lost a Pioneer

[Steven Stringham]

While I have not been an active cacher of late, I have really enjoyed 
those caches of Bob's that I hunted. I also enjoyed those times I met 
him at events. He will indeed be missed.

Steven Stringham
StringCachers


On 3/13/2011 10:33 PM, Brian Cluff wrote:
> 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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