How many finds until...

[+CM-14]

At what point (how many caches), do you start to not recall the details for some of your older cache hunts? I have only found 46 over 5 months so far and can remember all the hunts in detail at this point. I'm wondering when the day will come that I look at a cache on my found list and say to myself: "I have absolutely no recollection of that event..."

[saopaulo1@hotmail.com]

To the appall of my girlfriend I'll point out locations along a street of where we cached. She'll just roll her eyes LOL

[+Blue Power Ranger]

The great caches, I remember no matter how many others I have found or how much time has passed.

 

The less-than-great caches, I often forget within a couple of weeks. To me it isn't a matter of "how many" or "how long".

 

If you have to look back to the cache page to be reminded of what a particular cache was all about, it probably wasn't all that great of a hunt.

[+StarBrand]

I remember most of the ones I have been too. I scrolled through my list of found ones the other day and remmbered visiting virtually all of them. Of course I rarely do more than 5-6 in a day.

[Shiraz-mataz]

It's weird - I have trouble remembering "important" stuff like coworker's names, deadlines, history... but I can generally remember most details about the caches I've visited. Granted, I only have a couple hundred finds but I do read through my old log entries once in awhile for fun. And like another poster, I will be driving around with my wife and say, "Guess what!!! There's a cache stuck to the back side of that pay phone over there!" Of course she too rolls her eyes and says, "GEEK!"

[+sbell111]

I don't even remember the topic of this thread.

[+tozainamboku]

After you find 4 or 5 micros hidden under lamppost skirts you stop remembering every cache you've visited

[+Renegade Knight]

At about 500 I started having some difficulties. Of course I'm now 5 years older than when I started caching so it may not just be the number of caches.

 

At 1000 there is no question I can't recall them all. Something has to make them stand out.

[+Isonzo Karst]

Pretty much what RK said. I've even twice re-hunted caches, uncertain until I find my name in the log that I've found it before. In my defense one was an urban micro that had moved between my first find and second, and the other was an ammo can that I found in the normal "on trail" way when it was a new hide (and apparently forgot to log) and then bushwhacked over to it a couple of years later with a buddy. Neither of us was sure if we'd found it before, and BOTH of us had. I try to do a better logging job so I don't find myself hunting the same thing twice.

 

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Edited January 22, 2007 by Isonzo Karst

[+Kealia]

At nearly 1,000 I can remember MOST of the caches well enough to go back and find without a GPS or talk somebody through the find via phoen if needed.

 

The ones I don't remember are the ones I somewhat regret doing - a park'n'grab here, a lame cache (not only micros) there, etc.

 

Luckily I've been failry selective in my caches which is why:

1) It's taken me 3 years to get to 1,000

2) I can remember most of the caches

3) I haven't burned out like others with high numbers that I know

 

I'd much rather caches slower (meaning not finding as many) and have the memories, then hit every cache and have more smilies than memories.

[+OzarksJim]

Every since my very first cache find, I've taken pictures of my caching experiences for every single cache hunt (including the DNFs). I not only take pictures of the cache container, but also the scenery I saw on the way to the cache. Granted, sometimes the "scenery" isn't all that impressive (like a shot of the front of a Wal-Mart), but it helps to jog my memory most of the time.

 

Jim

[ParentsofSAM]

I remember a good many of our hunts. The ones I have troubles remembering are when we find a lot in one day. Like we got 38 in a day and they kinda all seem like a blur to me. But when we just stop and grab 5 or less I remember a lot more details.

 

Good ones always stand out.

[vagabond]

At almost 6 years of caching and over 2700 caches, some stand out in my mind. But I can drive by an area and it will jog my memory and I think oh yeah there's a cache over there.

[+GPS Derek]

To the appall of my girlfriend I'll point out locations along a street of where we cached. She'll just roll her eyes LOL

 

Do women go to a special school to learn this... my wife does the same and in her absence my daughters will do it for her.

[+Markwell]

I still remember each and every hunt, and can USUALLY return to a cache site without a GPS - sometimes on a much easier path. I say usually because there was one time without a GPS that I couldn't even find my OWN cache.

[+CM-14]

I still remember each and every hunt, and can USUALLY return to a cache site without a GPS - sometimes on a much easier path. I say usually because there was one time without a GPS that I couldn't even find my OWN cache.

 

I was once with my wife when she placed a cache. I went back by myself about a week later, WITH my GPS, to "find" it and couldn't find it.

[+macpacfam]

The great caches, I remember no matter how many others I have found or how much time has passed.

 

The less-than-great caches, I often forget within a couple of weeks. To me it isn't a matter of "how many" or "how long".

 

If you have to look back to the cache page to be reminded of what a particular cache was all about, it probably wasn't all that great of a hunt.

 

I could not agree more...

[+Harry Dolphin]

It befuddles my caching partner that I can not only remember almost all of the thousand caches that I've found, but also the five hundred benchmarks. "Hmm... There's a cache right over there. Wanna go find it and log it?"

[+briansnat]

I can remember every one. Sometimes I need a little nudge, like re-reading the cache page, but once I've done that I can picture the hunt, location and usually the container.

[Neos2]

I'll let you know when I get there.

 

So far, I remember all of them. Even the uninspired ones. Of course, I'm a "half-full glass" kind of person.

[+gof1]

So what is this site all about? Geo-sumth'n aint it?

[+Destitute]

I still remember each and every hunt, and can USUALLY return to a cache site without a GPS - sometimes on a much easier path. I say usually because there was one time without a GPS that I couldn't even find my OWN cache.

 

There was a local cacher that couldn't find one of his hides and he temporarily disabled it. I think he went back with a metal detector and found it.

[+The Leprechauns]

I was doing just fine with remembering each and every find prior to summer 2004. I especially recall one day when I was stuck in a continuing education seminar, bored out of my mind. I wrote down the names of every cache I had found -- at the time, around 230. I didn't miss any.

 

What happened in summer 2004? I found 240 caches in a day. Ain't no way I'm gonna remember all of those, so I let go of worrying about it. Yet, I still remember MANY of the caches I found that day, because they were hidden creatively or featured interesting locations.

 

I would guess that, with the exception of that day and a few other "cache runs," I could still recall the details of a good percentage of my cache finds (as in 85 percent plus) if given just the cache name. Even a ho-hum cache can be made memorable if you're with the right company, or if you find it at night or during a snowstorm, or if you're FTF, or if you don't use a GPS. Whatever it takes to keep it interesting and memorable.

[Trinity's Crew]

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Even a ho-hum cache can be made memorable if you're with the right company, or if you find it at night or during a snowstorm, or if you're FTF, or if you don't use a GPS. Whatever it takes to keep it interesting and memorable.

 

Exactly! Would you mind posting this in one of the "lame cache" threads?

[+Super_Nate]

I have 1,045 cache finds....and I have been able to remember cache locations just fine! The only ones that I am sketchy on are caches that I found while on a long cache run.....such as 60 in one day!

[+Wacka]

I'm at about 2850 and am forgetting many names of the caches except the memorable ones. Sometimes when I drive past, I'll remember the cache there.

[TEAM NICKELBACKERS]

I have just over 300 finds, and I can drive my newbie friend nuts when he asks me help on a certain cache. I can always remember where it was AND the name of it. He will say "why do you remember all of this stuff?" I tell him that my mind is a plethera of useless infomation. Ask away....

[+cmiked]

Similar to saopaulo, we'll be driving around and I'll point out where a cache is to my wife. Drives her crazy.

[+Sagefox]

At about 500 I started having some difficulties.

 

Me too. At 500 I could remember all of them and actually tested myself on this a couple of times. But after that the memory overloaded and huge blocks of caches fell off the face of the earth. But I still have very clear memories of many great caches.