GilDean

Agree totally with Frostengel. I am happy doing it the way I do it. You are only cheating yourself if you log and haven’t done them, not really in the spirit of Geocaching I feel. I was just interested to see how somebody can get so many more than others and how with distances between caches and time taken to do them, how an average over the period was possible. My answer to Mausebiber is, I am not after numbers, so will carry on walking and finding caches how I like to do it, but thank you for comments to the question.

I read with interest that the top Geocacher in the world has 215,000+ finds across all types of hides. This equates to an average of 31 a day, every day for the 19 years they have been a member. I walk reasonably quickly and don’t do Geocaching for the numbers, it is more about the walk and the interesting caches people make or the clever way they hide them. My most finds in a day was 59 and it was 8 hours of walking and driving, I did 5 hours yesterday and walked 8 miles getting 20+ caches, how can you physically do 31 a day for 19 years and have a job etc. I am retired so could do it every day if I wanted, but not sure I could do it every day for 19 years. How can you do so many? Is there a secret to doing so many?