+Lean Wolf Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 Amazing! May the sats be with you! Quote Link to comment
+Snoogans Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 CONGRATS Lynn! Here's to the NEXT 10K! Quote Link to comment
+mtn-man Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 Way to go Lynn. A big bear hug from me! ((Lynn)) Quote Link to comment
+Simulatmore Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 Congratulations, I think I have a gold ammo can for you somewhere around here. Better make that Platinum! Way to go Lynn, I hope the next 10,000 are as fun as the first. Quote Link to comment
+trail hound Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 SUPER COOL BEANS Hope to meet you at the event on Saturday...I'm also glad to see that some of my caches have helped you get there (me and thousands of other cachers!!) Quote Link to comment
+robert Posted June 14, 2005 Author Share Posted June 14, 2005 SUPER COOL BEANS Hope to meet you at the event on Saturday...I'm also glad to see that some of my caches have helped you get there (me and thousands of other cachers!!) hopefully you get that chance someday. i consider myself lucky to live pretty close to lynn and her family, even if it is another state! Quote Link to comment
+Prairiepartners Posted June 15, 2005 Share Posted June 15, 2005 Congrats Lynn on hitting such a great milestone!!! It has always been a great pleasure caching with you and can't wait til next time!! You are such a great asset to this game!! You just don't do the quick and easy caches, you do them ALL!! Thanks for being such a good caching friend to us!! Jim & Pam (Prairiepartners) Williams, IN Quote Link to comment
+Fergus Posted June 15, 2005 Share Posted June 15, 2005 I can remember when I had more finds than Lynn. However when you only go caching once every month or two and find 3 to 4 caches and Lynn and her family find 30+ caches a week it did not take her long to pass me. Lynn and Kevin are some of the nicest people I have met through geocaching. I always enjoy caching with CCCA and look forward to my next chance to go caching with them. Quote Link to comment
+Lazyboy & Mitey Mite Posted June 15, 2005 Share Posted June 15, 2005 The best, no doubt about it. Quote Link to comment
+aerospacecase Posted June 15, 2005 Share Posted June 15, 2005 Congratulations Lynn. You are listed at the top of my "Kilo Klub" section on my Drain Bamage cache page. Even though it is for Southern Californians only, I made an exception due to your tremendous achievement. Quote Link to comment
+Morgan's Marauders Posted June 15, 2005 Share Posted June 15, 2005 Great job, CCCA!! Morgan's Marauders Quote Link to comment
+fly46 Posted June 15, 2005 Share Posted June 15, 2005 Seeing as though I'm not quite halfway to my first thousand, 10,000 is a really hard number to picture. I'm really honored that five or six of those 10k were mine on your last trip here into Nashville. Here's to thousands of miles, thousands of batteries, thousands of keychains, and thousands of great memories. May the next 10,000 caches be just as fun as the first 10,000 were, and may the cachers you encounter along the way love you as much as we do. Quote Link to comment
ju66l3r Posted June 15, 2005 Share Posted June 15, 2005 I looked at her finds and it seems she's had a goal in mind all along: ('CCCA!' for those of you visually impaired) Quote Link to comment
+robert Posted June 15, 2005 Author Share Posted June 15, 2005 I looked at her finds and it seems she's had a goal in mind all along: ('CCCA!' for those of you visually impaired) you counting the light or the red colored states? Quote Link to comment
+M&DofKJE Posted June 16, 2005 Share Posted June 16, 2005 Oh I hate to do this.... there was one cache that she signed only the first stage at.... well... ummm.... my daughter is trying to figure out how to tell her #10,001 was number 10,000.... seems it was my daughter who makes the rules on her caches.... I'll try to talk her out of it.... other than that... CONGRATULATIONS! (Did I scare ya'? ) Quote Link to comment
+Tprints Posted June 16, 2005 Share Posted June 16, 2005 Woohoo! Way to go Lynn! I knew it was coming up quick, but you got there faster than I thought. I'm proud to have cached with her a couple times and had a blast. She's the only active geocacher in PA ahead of me, but not much of a chance to catch up... unless I can find a quick 6,000+ caches. Wow! Hope you get back to Erie for some more caching soon. Plenty of new caches for you to find up here again. Congrats again! Quote Link to comment
+Deneye Posted June 16, 2005 Share Posted June 16, 2005 (edited) This weekend, our friend CCCooperAgency broke the 10,000 find mark, accomplishing an amazing feat! Congrats, Lynn, this is truly an amazing accomplishment! Now THAT is a milestone to be talked about.... WTG Lynn! Edited June 16, 2005 by Deneye Quote Link to comment
+graldrich Posted June 16, 2005 Share Posted June 16, 2005 Congrats Lynn,I hope all is well with you! Quote Link to comment
+wayless wayfarer Posted June 16, 2005 Share Posted June 16, 2005 suo Marte....Congrats! Quote Link to comment
+treasure_hunter Posted June 16, 2005 Share Posted June 16, 2005 Wow, Congrats, I wish I had 10,000 finds. Quote Link to comment
+kingsting Posted June 16, 2005 Share Posted June 16, 2005 Congrats Lynn!!! I'll see you out on the trails but don't expect me to keep up!!! Quote Link to comment
+fly46 Posted June 16, 2005 Share Posted June 16, 2005 I looked at her finds and it seems she's had a goal in mind all along: ('CCCA!' for those of you visually impaired) you counting the light or the red colored states? Either way the map is wrong since she's done Pennsylvania and Tennesee, which are different colors on that map. Quote Link to comment
+Markwell Posted June 16, 2005 Share Posted June 16, 2005 Holy cow! When I started in this game, there weren't 10,000 caches in the world. In fact, there were only about 1,100. Amazing feat (and feet!). Quote Link to comment
+bthomas Posted June 16, 2005 Share Posted June 16, 2005 Hmm, a 5-digit cacher. Not too many of those around. Congrats Lynn. Quote Link to comment
+robert Posted June 17, 2005 Author Share Posted June 17, 2005 you counting the light or the red colored states? Either way the map is wrong since she's done Pennsylvania and Tennesee, which are different colors on that map. I'm pretty sure he was joking plus she LIVES in PA so she better have a find or two there!! anyway, lynn is resting comfortably today after her 10k finds and doing yard work... now maybe we have a chance to catch up Quote Link to comment
ju66l3r Posted June 17, 2005 Share Posted June 17, 2005 you counting the light or the red colored states? Either way the map is wrong since she's done Pennsylvania and Tennesee, which are different colors on that map. I'm pretty sure he was joking One for Robert and one for CCCA. Quote Link to comment
+Subterranean Posted June 17, 2005 Share Posted June 17, 2005 I'm pretty sure he was joking plus she LIVES in PA so she better have a find or two there!! Darn, that would have been pretty cool. Quote Link to comment
Radman Forever Posted June 17, 2005 Share Posted June 17, 2005 Congrats CCCA!! I give you a very big two thumbs up! Quote Link to comment
+fly46 Posted June 17, 2005 Share Posted June 17, 2005 you counting the light or the red colored states? Either way the map is wrong since she's done Pennsylvania and Tennesee, which are different colors on that map. I'm pretty sure he was joking plus she LIVES in PA so she better have a find or two there!! anyway, lynn is resting comfortably today after her 10k finds and doing yard work... now maybe we have a chance to catch up I think I need to stay away from the bug-zapper... I just got it. @ myself! Quote Link to comment
+Mountain_Wanderer Posted June 17, 2005 Share Posted June 17, 2005 What a nice round LARGE number. I tried to compute mathematically what it would take to pass you and my computer blew up!! Great accomplishment and I am very HAPPY to know you. Quote Link to comment
+robert Posted June 18, 2005 Author Share Posted June 18, 2005 Hmm, a 5-digit cacher. Not too many of those around. Congrats Lynn. how many can you count?? Quote Link to comment
+M&DofKJE Posted June 18, 2005 Share Posted June 18, 2005 How much time do I get? Quote Link to comment
+Alan2 Posted June 18, 2005 Share Posted June 18, 2005 To place the 10,000 in a better perspective, Lynn has 387 active caches she's placed which is loads more than the finds I have or that most people have. Congrats to a really nice lady who knows how to give to this sport and is a really nice person. Alan Quote Link to comment
+unimoggers Posted June 22, 2005 Share Posted June 22, 2005 We've had the sincerest pleasure of meeting Lynn since she lives here in Pennsylvania. I was so enthralled with her numbers, I just had to run them. She's been caching since May 26, 2001. Imagine how "archaic" the caching system was back then. No quick downloads, etc., etc. Anyway, as of today, that's 1,487 days. With her 10,029 caches found (and she's probably behind in her logs), that's averaging 6.74 finds per day. At one point she averaged over 8 finds per day. That was back about 9 months ago before she started to slow down. All that work that I put into finding ONE cache and she has zoomed past 10,000. Truly amazing! Not to mention her 392 hides which translates to one hide every 5 days. She attended our most recent event, http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...&log=y&decrypt= where we presented her with a platinum ammo can. Very simple with no inscription. We'll save that for her 100,000th find. Imagine. When she started, how many caches were actually out there to find?? Here she is with the Caching Nuts (there 1000th find gold ammo can) with her platinum can. http://groups.msn.com/LVGeoCachers/shoebox...oto&PhotoID=158 Lynn, I don't know how much time to spend reading the forums, but the caching community is in awe of you!! Quote Link to comment
+glowstick Posted June 22, 2005 Share Posted June 22, 2005 Amasing!!!! Think if you took a WG$ from each cache. you'd be 10k richer. Quote Link to comment
+Kit Fox Posted June 22, 2005 Share Posted June 22, 2005 To place the 10,000 in a better perspective, Lynn has 387 active caches she's placed which is loads more than the finds I have or that most people have. Congrats to a really nice lady who knows how to give to this sport and is a really nice person. Alan Didn't she archive most of her caches during the "Ammo box versus 35mm cache" debate? Quote Link to comment
+The Leprechauns Posted June 22, 2005 Share Posted June 22, 2005 To place the 10,000 in a better perspective, Lynn has 387 active caches she's placed which is loads more than the finds I have or that most people have. Congrats to a really nice lady who knows how to give to this sport and is a really nice person. Alan Didn't she archive most of her caches during the "Ammo box versus 35mm cache" debate? I wouldn't characterize things that way at all. Those of us who are fortunate to call the CCCooperAgency our friends are very familiar with their cache hiding philosophy and history over the past year. CCCooper placed many "early" (2001-2002) caches to seed the area in a big circle around home base. This encouraged the growth of geocaching in southeast/southcentral Pennsylvania -- now, it's the most cache-dense area in the entire state. But many of those early caches had all been found by the locals and grew "old." Early virtual caches blocked large sections of the downtown areas in cities like Carlisle and Harrisburg, where creative microcaches could easily be placed. Thus, beginning in Spring 2004, old caches were retired to free up the area for new hides by a new generation of hiders. In addition, concerns regarding the ability to maintain caches a great distance from home were also noted. As a result, today we see a list of active CCCooper caches numbering approximately 70, mostly within a narrower maintainable distance. They are the best of the best, and I'm glad they're still around. Also included are some new hides, including a brand spanking new series of five fiendish micros. I applaud CCCooper's unselfish motivation to "share the territory" by opening up parks and trails to fresh new cache hides. And since this is supposed to be a congratulations thread, I also applaud my friends' achievement of this unique milestone. It's been a privilege finding probably more than 100 caches in the company of CCCooperAgency, and finding dozens of their hidden caches. But the caching experience pales in comparison to the privilege of befriending a truly wonderful family. Quote Link to comment
+Joypa Posted June 22, 2005 Share Posted June 22, 2005 I'll add my congrats to the others. Jeez, do you have time to do anything else? That is a fantastic number. Quote Link to comment
+tozainamboku Posted June 22, 2005 Share Posted June 22, 2005 (edited) I haven't met Lynn yet, but everyone I've talked to that has met her tells me what a wonderful person she is. One thing I have noticed about those in the top 10 or top 20 number of finds - some of these people may be very competitive and make a big deal over their numbers, but all of them keep it in perspective. To them geocaching is a game whose one goal is to have fun. That's right - have fun, not necessarily find caches. Some of them have told me that they sometimes have fun when they get a DNF . Here's to Lynn - another 10000 "fun"s. Edited June 22, 2005 by tozainamboku Quote Link to comment
+halffast Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 CONGRATULATIONS ARE IN ORDER Quote Link to comment
+Katydid & Miles Stone Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 Congratulations on your monumental achievement. 10,000 adventures...Wow! It seems like you should be interviewed by Diane Sawyer or something, seriously. What an accomplishment. Quote Link to comment
+Sagefox Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 It seems like you should be interviewed by Diane Sawyer or something, seriously. Exactly. Quote Link to comment
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