+Keith Watson Posted April 26, 2006 Posted April 26, 2006 Jiminie Crickets looks like he is a bit past his bed time. Quote
+Juicepig Posted April 26, 2006 Posted April 26, 2006 I recall TOMTEC's event earlier this year Excellent Midnight Adventure, The FTF group go out of there around 2 or 3am, while the unluckier fellows were caching till sunrise hehe Any later, and it just would have been early Quote
+Gorak Posted April 26, 2006 Posted April 26, 2006 Jomarac5 and I used to go night caching on a regular basis. Most of the time we wouldn't even start out until 9 or 10pm (often later) and cache until 2 or 3am. We would usually bring a couple of BFL's each (they only have about 20 min. battery life), headlamps and maglights. Caching at night in the dark adds a whole new element to caching and it was always fun sneaking into parks after closing. It's amazing the sorts of things you see caching at night that you would never see during the daytime. Quote
+TOMTEC Posted April 26, 2006 Posted April 26, 2006 I recall TOMTEC's event earlier this year Excellent Midnight Adventure, The FTF group go out of there around 2 or 3am, while the unluckier fellows were caching till sunrise hehe He he, just be glad you weren't part of the organizing team... we did the whole event backwards again to remove all the stages! TOMTEC Quote
BC Tripper Posted April 26, 2006 Posted April 26, 2006 I've often night cached around Vancouver. Its actually a really efficient way to grab all those caches that are in muggled filled parks by day. Normally we'll night cache from 9ish until 1 although we've had a few nights that have lasted until 4am. BC Tripper Quote
VI Waypoint Hunters Posted April 27, 2006 Posted April 27, 2006 Latest I've found a cache is Midnight, home by 1:00 AM, and yes the wife thinks I'm nuts although she went for a FTF at 6:15 AM Quote
+1701eh Posted April 27, 2006 Posted April 27, 2006 At the Geofella's April Fools Cache, we started at midnight and went until after 5:00am Quote
+chris-mouse Posted April 27, 2006 Posted April 27, 2006 Geocacher You guys are nutters. Yeah, that's why we're the Keepers of the Order of the BFL. You didn't think BFL stood for big Flash Light, did you?? Quote
+chris-mouse Posted April 27, 2006 Posted April 27, 2006 hmm, the latest I've ever been out for caching. Skipping over the two 24 hour marathons, it's probably the night the KoBFL team did Bruce Almighty We started the series at about 10pm, and finished up at something like 8am the next morning. Over the last couple of years, I think I've found more caches at night than I have in the daylight hours. Quote
+jeff-trex Posted April 27, 2006 Posted April 27, 2006 I think the lastest I have ben out is 3am or 4am. did a mini marathon from north of Pikering to downtown Toronto also did a another mini marathon north of georgetown. The one of best night caching experiance besides the 24 hour marathon would have to have been the hike to the Brent Who??? cache in the wee hours of the morning. Night caching is always the best time to attempt caches that are in busy muggle areas like GO stations and shopping malls. Quote
+Scratch-n-Win Posted April 27, 2006 Posted April 27, 2006 (edited) Once we met up and headed out to a cache at 12:00am, got to the site at 12:30am, looked for an hour and gave up (ends up the owner of the cache had typed in a wrong digit and it was over 100km away from where we were looking). Got back to my house for 2am. That was during a week night too. lol It was bad getting up the next morning at 6am. lol Edited April 27, 2006 by Scratch-n-Win Quote
+Couparangus Posted April 27, 2006 Posted April 27, 2006 Does anyone know if night-vision goggles have come down to "hobbyist" price levels yet? This is probably the only gadget that would get ME out night caching. Quote
CharlieZulu Posted April 27, 2006 Posted April 27, 2006 ".. It's amazing the sorts of things you see caching at night that you would never see during the daytime. .." yeah, and I looked very closely at JC's pic up there.... you can't even see the bucket or anything. Quote
+TeamHardK Posted April 27, 2006 Posted April 27, 2006 Does anyone know if night-vision goggles have come down to "hobbyist" price levels yet? This is probably the only gadget that would get ME out night caching. I was pricing them a few months ago and for a true set of goggles it was around $800 Quote
+Juicepig Posted April 28, 2006 Posted April 28, 2006 I recall TOMTEC's event earlier this year Excellent Midnight Adventure, The FTF group go out of there around 2 or 3am, while the unluckier fellows were caching till sunrise hehe He he, just be glad you weren't part of the organizing team... we did the whole event backwards again to remove all the stages! TOMTEC Some of the stages are still there, last time I checked Quote
+Team JSAM Posted April 28, 2006 Posted April 28, 2006 We almost always cache with the kids so most of the time we are done by 1900 or 2000 hours. Quote
+Juicepig Posted April 28, 2006 Posted April 28, 2006 It's 4am.. I'm going out for my lunch break Quote
+northernpenguin Posted April 28, 2006 Posted April 28, 2006 The latest I've been out caching was the 24 hour marathon, which finished at 8AM, got home at 10AM. Then there was that run on the Bruce Almighty series, again out until 7:30AM finishing that one and home at 10AM. We almost lost Keith off the escarpment on that one I've had a few 4AMs with "The Order" and 2-3AM is common. I think My body must figure I live in Hawaii, what with the time zone and all.... Most days I head out caching I'm lucky to get STARTED in daylight hours. I typically make my way around with a 4 LED headlamp and a 7 Focused LED flashlight. I also have two 1 Million Candlelight BFLs, a couple maglites and occasionally I get to use the four really bright lights mounted on the front of my SUV (Better for use on a GO cache than a Bruce Trail cache). I have also found a couple caches by the light of my PDA and by the light of my GPS (eXplorist). I'm not kidding on that either. You can see an eXplorist 600 from space if it's on the maximum brightness level. The others that are using red LED's to not wreck their night vision tend to dislike that about my toys. Quote
+northernpenguin Posted April 28, 2006 Posted April 28, 2006 Does anyone know if night-vision goggles have come down to "hobbyist" price levels yet? This is probably the only gadget that would get ME out night caching. Man I'm just thinking of the pain your eyes would be in if you encountered someone on the trail with a BFL pointed at those goggles..... Quote
+TOMTEC Posted April 28, 2006 Posted April 28, 2006 Man I'm just thinking of the pain your eyes would be in if you encountered someone on the trail with a BFL pointed at those goggles..... Ah, the advantage of modern night vision systems is the auto-dimming feature... Similar to a high end welder's mask, it it will instantly compensate for changes in brightness, preventing the user from being blinded by extreme changes in light. Though once you remove them from your head, with dark adapted eyes, a BFL would be killer! Though I doubt you'd find this feature on those $800 specs... TOMTEC Quote
+Rogue_monkey Posted May 3, 2006 Posted May 3, 2006 I've been out caching pretty late. 4 or 5 ish I think. Tomtec's pub night comes to mind and as jeff trex said brent who. that was a late hike, but well worth it. Caching at night is great but thats just because i get to use all the flashlights i've collected. As for night vision, I don't know much about goggles but I do have a monocular and I havn't found it very usefull for caching at night. some one remind me to bring it to the next pub night and we can test them out on some caches after the event. Quote
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