How Do You Define a Numbers Ho?

[+denali7]

This thread reminds me, what is a "retirement card" anyway?

[+briansnat]

This thread reminds me, what is a "retirement card" anyway?

 

Its when an owner archives and removes a cache, then carries the logbook around allowing others he meets to log a "find" on the cache. Yes, believe it or not, there are people who do this.

[+denali7]

Ahhhhh, the old travelingarchivedpocketlogging cache trick. Thanks for the enlightenment!

Edited September 7, 2006 by denali7

[+VeryLost]

I haven't searched the system to know for sure yet, but your area must be rich with caches (or should be). Once upon a time, I lived in Romeoville. The last time I passed through that area, there was still some undeveloped areas and just spots that (now I recognize) would be great hiding places.

 

It is indeed rich with caches. When I discovered the GC site and punched in my zipcode, my first thought was "holy cow, these things are everywhere!" I've got no shortage of caches to hunt for. Especially at my speed - new ones are added at a faster rate than I find existing ones.

[+VeryLost]

Its when an owner archives and removes a cache, then carries the logbook around allowing others he meets to log a "find" on the cache. Yes, believe it or not, there are people who do this.

 

That's weird behavior both for the cache owner and for the mopes signing the log. I can't imagine signing a log for a cache that I (or whoever I have hunting with me) didn't actually find.

 

Maybe those people read a different "What Is Geocaching" article than I did.

[+wimseyguy]

When the number becomes more important than the fun you are having, YOU BE A HO!

But if it is fun to find caches, isn't it more fun to find more caches?

 

And yes, there may be times when looking for a particular cache is no longer fun. Then you can move along to another one.

[+edscott]

Maybe not a definitive characteristic, but if someone knows EXACTLY how many caches he has found there is reason to suspect.....

[+Team Perks]

If I know I have found exactly one cache, I could be a numbers ho?

[+wimseyguy]

BUMP-here's a definition that worked for me recently:

I stopped to grab a lamppost skirtlifter (we really need a neat acronym for these- hmm LPSL/LSL/LLP/SkL/PLLPSL? ) on the way back from a business trip on Thursday. I could tell from the cache page and map that it was right off the highway I was traveling on, in a busy commercial stretch. I had already found a few fun and interesting caches in this trip, I knew it would probably not be the funnest find of the day , and yet I stopped. I was almost able to get it with only one foot on the ground too.

 

I stopped to find a cache, that I suspected would only provide me with a minor amount of fun, instead of passing it by. I even poked fun at the name of the cache in my log, as I disagreed with the opinion it stated. The log was wet, but gel pens can sign on anything. I did get another smiley .

 

So as I stated in my first post to the thread:

Hi I'm wimseyguy, and I am a numbers ho....sometimes.

You gotta problem with that?

[+boda]

No

[+edscott]

If I know I have found exactly one cache, I could be a numbers ho?

 

No you are showing signs of senility.. you have forgotten 3017 of your finds

[+Night Stalker]

A numbers HO is anyone who has more finds then I do.

[+DocDiTTo]

Maybe not a definitive characteristic, but if someone knows EXACTLY how many caches he has found there is reason to suspect.....

 

I don't know about that... with the web site screaming my find count at me everywhere I go, I can't help but know how many finds I have (currrently 737, and no, I didn't have to look). If the web site de-emphasized numbers a bit, maybe cachers would too. You don't need to elimimate them, just make people look a little deeper to get them. But that's another topic....

 

Back on topic, Number Ho tactics. If you do any of these, yer a Ho:

 

Logging caches by their "retirement cards"

Logging any cache when it and you aren't at it's actual coordinates

Logging any cache as found more than once

Logging any event as attended more than once

Logging finds on any cache you never truly found

Allowing multiple finds on your own caches/events

Logging your own caches as finds

[+briansnat]

Logging caches by their "retirement cards"

Logging any cache when it and you aren't at it's actual coordinates

Logging any cache as found more than once

Logging any event as attended more than once

Logging finds on any cache you never truly found

Allowing multiple finds on your own caches/events

Logging your own caches as finds

 

I would add:

 

Logging virtuals you never visited, using the Internet to obtain verification info.

Hiding caches under your kid's account and logging finds on it.

Edited September 11, 2006 by briansnat

[GeeO$$$]

Just because it's not physically possible for YOU, doesn't mean it isn't physically possible.

 

Please, <i>please</i>, show me how you can do one cache every 14 minutes for 24 consecutive hours. Driving time, the hunt, the find, the log, etc. Please. I'm very curious...

 

Organization and Discipline (we called this PowerCaching)

 

1. Research caches in an area and lay out a route to mininize driving time

2. Ignore caches which require a long hike

3. Ignore caches which have lots of DNFs posted - they may be missing

4. Set a time limit. If you do not find one in say, 15 minutes, give up on it and move on to the next one

5. If you are shooting for a big number, ignore difficult caches (though not all 4-star hides take much time)

 

My brother, sister and I went on a caching trip in Colorado this summer. She began caching two years before us, so our original goal was for her to make her 100th find on the trip. As we progressed, that milestone was met early and the goal became for all of us to hit the 100 mark.

 

We found 23 in one day in NW Denver using some of the techniques listed above, which is our team record so far. Not very spectacular, but we are very proud of that because the 23 included some challenging urban micro caches by mondou2 and we did not DNF a single cache that day. We ran out of sunlight before we ran out of list. It was not painful at all and we have fond memories of the fun we had that day.

 

We have already discussed trying to set a much higher mark by doing several Power Trails in DF/W. We are not competing with anybody but ourselves to see what we can accomplish. If it stops being fun, we will fnd something else to do.

 

Bill

Edited September 11, 2006 by GeeO$$$

[+TheAlabamaRambler]

Just because it's not physically possible for YOU, doesn't mean it isn't physically possible.

 

Please, <i>please</i>, show me how you can do one cache every 14 minutes for 24 consecutive hours. Driving time, the hunt, the find, the log, etc. Please. I'm very curious...

 

I participated in a race yesterday where we did better than that... 18 caches in 45 minutes actual caching time, spread out in a 2+ hour drive around Jackson, TN (15 naw caches, NONE easy drive-ups, and 3 virtuals as 'bonus' caches).

 

I have been with cachers when one carload, staying together, found 100+ in a day several times, at least five times.

 

I have been on a team that found 140+ in 24 hours in Tennessee, and on a team that found 332 with 46 DNFs in 24 hours in Dallas, so don't think it can't be done.

 

In fact, if you want to do it, I will send you our route and cache info we used! Implement a 2-minute rule (find it or DNF it in 2 minutes or less), don't tarry between caches, don't stop for anything but caches, and anyone can do it.

 

Not a style of caching for everyday, but a lot of fun every now and then!

 

Ed