- Pretty amazing. I know that we had a good time. Next year, get ready to head to Florida for GWS-3. At 03:54 PM 8/11/2004, you wrote: >- >Astonishing! To say the least.. Number Hounds, take note! > >Mike >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >--------- > >"The Numbers" ( sometimes it is all about the numbers ) > >RECORDS: > >9,752 logged caches in Nashville for the weekend and still logging, Almost >10,000 > >240 caches in a straight 24 hour period, from 10:00 AM July the 4th till >10:00AM July the 5th by carleenp and The Leprechauns with me at the wheel >and Scoot The Frog navigating, its always cool to ride with the >frog!!!!!!!!! > >744 cache found of caching in Nashville by geoPirat and Huskie from Germany > >465 Travel Bugs on a cache page and they are still logging, will up date >later > >53 geocachers found more than 100 caches in less than 12 hours on the Wagon >Train cache runs > >218 people ate Free Catfish at an event > >The fun had by all that attended "PRICELESS" > >Fun Numbers: > >236 people attended the Meet and Greet > >13 people fell into the creek while finding Get You Feet Wet cache and 3 >kids jumped in on a pleasant July day > >wimseyguy won the GPS'r from Magellan on the poker run and he won the pie >eating contest, but only he and I were playing, and we didn't want to share. > >No one left without a door prize after the poker run > >Six stitches were needed to a newbee cacher on there very first cache at the >event and we all got to watch, GeoGyn was the on call doctor for the event > >Southpaw won the pool $$$ for being closes to the number being logged > >235 trade items that were placed in the poker run caches, after the event >there were 9 items left total, but that's why they were there. > >The only event I know of that had sponsorship from all three of the major >players Garmin Magellan , and the Groundspeak store "BIG THANKS GUYS AND >GALLS" > >The Wagon Train Cache Runs led by: > >r0b 137 caches X 10 people in the train > >NashvilleJoe caches 113 X 12 people in the train > >Southpaw caches 140 X 6 people in the train > >AbbysGrammy caches 100 X 11 people in the train > >Mosestron, and GrannyLani caches 185 x 6 people in the train > >Monkeybrad caches 205 X 6 people in the train > >Other Cool Stuff: > >For our Good Park officials and ourselves pictures were taken before the >geocaching stampede of the eleven poker run caches sites and after the event >was over while taking them out and will be done one more time after 30 days >to see if any permanent damage was done to the areas leading to and from the >caches to know if they regain there life for future events like this where a >lot of people would make a geo-trail in one day. Will let you know later. >"Yeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeee NO DAMAGE was done" > > >From the bottom of my heart thanks for everyone that came and for helping >out... JOE > > **************************************** > Our WebPage! Http://WWW.GeoStL.com > Mail List Info. //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=geocaching > Mail List FAQ's: //www.freelists.org/help/questions.html > **************************************** >To unsubscribe from this list: > send an email to geocaching-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in > the Subject field **************************************** Our WebPage! Http://WWW.GeoStL.com Mail List Info. //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=geocaching Mail List FAQ's: //www.freelists.org/help/questions.html **************************************** To unsubscribe from this list: send an email to geocaching-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field