Travel Bug Dog Tag Boomerang Bug2: Going the Distance

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Owner:
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Released:
Sunday, June 1, 2003
Origin:
Illinois, United States
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Current Goal

This travel bug's goal is to return to Peoria, IL.
It has reached it's distance at In Ardmore Adventure (There and Back Again) and was logged by Teamgel. Thanks to all who helped it along the way.

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Boomerang Bug2: Going the Distance

In the sport of boomerangs, one event not often contested is distance throwing. One reason why it is not often seen is the lack of adequately sized fields. Consider that a winning throw is typically over 100 meters from throwing line to the flight’s furthest point and returns within 10 meters of the thrower. And you would want to allow for flights further than that – 120 meters is in the winning range – without interference from changes to the wind caused by trees, hills, or buildings. Even unsuccessful ones – 100 meters to the left or right. A serious field has room for a world record – 238 meters. (a hand throw object traveling nearly 800 feet!) Each year the Seattle area hosts a couple tournaments that include distance throwing. Teamgel, a fellow geocacher, is one of the throwers. He has thrown his way into the 100 meter club. His wife did it in her first competition. Not as easy as it seems. So I am tossing this distance boomerang geocaching style. It has reached Teamgel, It now needs to return (as all proper boomerangs do) to Peoria, IL. It would be really neat to get a picture of it. I haven't seen this bug for over 4 years.

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Tracking History (12178mi) View Map

Retrieve It from a Cache 8/17/2006 SuperBee retrieved it from Proposal Point Utah   Visit Log

Picked this up today and will "throw" it to another cache after showing it to my school class next Monday.

Dropped Off 8/16/2006 Shaker-slc placed it in Proposal Point Utah - 4.27 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 8/8/2006 Shaker-slc retrieved it from Heughs Canyon Upper Falls Utah   Visit Log

Grabbed on great hike with Daughther.
Dropped Off 4/5/2005 Wonderingfeet placed it in Heughs Canyon Upper Falls Utah - 7.97 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 3/17/2005 Wonderingfeet retrieved it from Morning Shade Utah   Visit Log

I think that we took the wrong trail to get this one. We started out going up the canyon following the river to the south of the cache. Than we went straight up to the cache through all of the trees. We wanted to see if this old boomerang still had it after sitting up here for so long.
Dropped Off 6/30/2004 MOCKBA placed it in Morning Shade Utah - 23.25 miles  Visit Log
Dropped Off 6/8/2004 Dorkteam6 placed it in SPY 2 Utah - 581.42 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 5/24/2004 Dorkteam6 retrieved it from The Two Towers - May the Adventures Begin Washington   Visit Log

We'll move it 500-600 miles today!

Dropped Off 4/28/2004 kavuday placed it in The Two Towers - May the Adventures Begin Washington - 236.24 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 4/17/2004 kavuday retrieved it from Old Fishin" Hole Washington   Visit Log

Grabbed this guy out of the old fishin' hole. Will move it closer to it's goal soon...
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