+shellbn4 Posted November 18, 2007 Posted November 18, 2007 Tonight I was a FTF 5 minutes after it was publish. I live less than 3 miles from the cache . What is your quickest cache find. ( not counting the ones you knew were going to be published or even being there when it was place) Quote
+weinema Posted November 18, 2007 Posted November 18, 2007 I got one of my FTF within ca. 23min :-) Revieved the SMS notify, grabbed my stuff, hit the gas and found it easily. Martin Quote
+Driver Carries Cache Posted November 18, 2007 Posted November 18, 2007 33 minutes... and at 42 minutes I was home having Pizza and a beer! Driver Carries Cache found WALLAWATTA (Traditional Cache) It's 0.3 miles from my home coords (which only makes it the third closest!). DCC Quote
+Zop Posted November 18, 2007 Posted November 18, 2007 I think I found one within 15 minutes of it being published about 5 miles away. Quote
+webscouter. Posted November 18, 2007 Posted November 18, 2007 (edited) I found and logged a cache 29 minutes from it's published time. Back In Time Edited November 18, 2007 by webscouter. Quote
+apetro Posted November 18, 2007 Posted November 18, 2007 When I found my first (and only) FTF I checked my mail and nothing, a few minutes later I checked again before logging off and there was a publish notice for Big Blue River Dam. I live a block away so I walked over and found it. I would guess 5-10 minutes. Quote
+briansnat Posted November 18, 2007 Posted November 18, 2007 I was FTF on one probably within 15 minutes after it was published. Quote
+Harry Dolphin Posted November 18, 2007 Posted November 18, 2007 Four hours. I saw the 'published' on lunch break, but I had to go back to work. Found it after work. On the other fin, my longest FTF after publication was 13 days! Hee hee hee. We beat the third and fourth to find by fifteen minutes. Quote
bogleman Posted November 18, 2007 Posted November 18, 2007 About 12 hours. Thats amazing in my neck of the woods, it involved a 5 mile hike, I guess that's why I got it, plus it was published mid week and I was off Quote
+SUp3rFM & Cruella Posted November 19, 2007 Posted November 19, 2007 (edited) 14 minutes. Published at 10h05pm. Found at 10h19pm. GC17BM0 - King. It's .175 mi from our home coordinates. It took us 14 minutes mainly because I was already in pajamas... Log edit: spelling Edited November 19, 2007 by SUp3rFM & Cruella Quote
+Thrak Posted November 19, 2007 Posted November 19, 2007 I'd guess maybe 15 - 20 minutes after publication on a couple of them. I just got my 140th FTF the other day so I was bound to have a few of them that were signed soon after publication. Mostly I get them at night which can make the search take a little longer and I often have to put on shoes, etc. before I can leave. Quote
+egami Posted November 19, 2007 Posted November 19, 2007 2 Months, 5 Days....purely coincidence. Quote
+StarBrand Posted November 19, 2007 Posted November 19, 2007 Hard to say for sure - I found one within 15 minutes after I got the notification but another time got there within 5 minutes only to find another cacher signing the log. He had got his notification email a good 20 minutes before I got mine. Quote
+Lakeshore Geocachers Posted November 21, 2007 Posted November 21, 2007 20 minutes for one,35 minutes for another one..For the first one, I was sitting on lunch break with the laptop in the Jeep when it came up...the cacher who placed it worked in the office is was behind..I went in and introduced myself as the FTFer...He didn't even know it had been published. The second time I was on lunch again, one came up less than mile from my own house...On my way home, my wife called to tell me she was bleeding following a surgery she had had the week before...I told her I would take her to the doctor's office right AFTER I got the FTF... Quote
+LewisClan77 Posted November 21, 2007 Posted November 21, 2007 I have found numerous caches within 10 minutes from them being published, and quite a few more within 20 minutes. And I live in a very, very competitive region. Quote
Dj Storm Posted November 21, 2007 Posted November 21, 2007 Eight months and 30 days... my only FTF to this date. Quote
+FatherAndProgeny Posted November 25, 2007 Posted November 25, 2007 How do you get notification of a cache being published? Quote
+The Bee Gees Posted November 25, 2007 Posted November 25, 2007 How do you get notification of a cache being published? Good question! I used to get emailed notifications, but I don't anymore... Haven't changed any settings, so I don't know what happened to that! Quote
+NinjaCacher! Posted January 17, 2008 Posted January 17, 2008 What is your quickest cache find. 24 minutes: here How do you get notification of a cache being published? Basically, by setting them up here. You need to be premium member to be able to do that. However, I had trouble with this in the last couple months, a large part of the "published" notifications didn't get to my mailbox. There's a series of about 40 caches in my notification range placed within the last 2 months, and I only got notifications for 3 of them. Not sure what is going on there or where the issue is - still hoping that it magically starts working again sometime... Quote
+StarBrand Posted January 17, 2008 Posted January 17, 2008 ...this brings up a small something about the notifications..... More than once I have run off to the cache and been on scene within 20 minutes after getting the notification in my email - then I see somebody else was there 45 minutes ago. I have seen thier notification and it was time stamped nearly an hour before mine. Other times I was first and another had a 20 minute difference. Quote
+Photographer Jim Posted January 17, 2008 Posted January 17, 2008 MINUS 5 hours! To clarify: I attended Team Alamo's 25K Event Cache a few months ago. A number of us attending met in the local open space\regional park. At a prearranged time in the morning, someone came to the sight of one of the existing caches in the park area and handed out a list of six new caches established for the event. I was FTF (my only one so far) for one of the new caches after about 20 minutes. (went to the event from there, ate some pizza, drank some beer, had a good time, etc.) When I returned home later that evening I went online to log my days finds only to find that the new caches from the day had not yet been published online! They were "officially" published and appeared on the web site a few hours later - I'd estimate about 5 hours after I had actually found the cache. Quote
+Keruso Posted January 17, 2008 Posted January 17, 2008 not sure when the cache was published, but i was still FTF on it. GC11P4E. i was actually looking for the TB hotel on Googlemaps, didnt have a GPS yet, and noticed a cache where thier wasnt one a day before. We got some FTF hogs around here in western PA, and i didnt think id find it first. it was also my 20th find. now i need to get my 50th find soon Quote
+Generalsterlingprice Posted January 17, 2008 Posted January 17, 2008 I came across 2 that were published at the same time that just happened to be near each other, so I had 2 FTF's in about 40 minutes. I was happy with that! Quote
+Miragee Posted January 17, 2008 Posted January 17, 2008 We found one just minutes after it had been published, but didn't know it was a brand new cache when we signed the crisp, clean log. We just thought it was a replacement cache for one that had gone missing from the same location. The second-to-find, who got there 12 minutes after the email hit their InBox was sure surprised to see two signatures in the log when he opened the cache . . . Quote
+joranda Posted January 17, 2008 Posted January 17, 2008 I had one that was pulished just blocks from my house, so it probably took 10 to 15 minutes for the FTF. Quote
+PJPeters Posted January 18, 2008 Posted January 18, 2008 14 minutes. Published at 10h05pm. Found at 10h19pm. GC17BM0 - King. It's .175 mi from our home coordinates. It took us 14 minutes mainly because I was already in pajamas... Log edit: spelling You stopped to change? Your PJ's must not be decent! We're a bit cut-throat over here. If you're not really on top of things, you ain't getting it. My average time is like 10 minutes. I have, however gotten them in much less, since there's a popular park for caching across the road. The most time consuming part of the whole thing is downloading the coords into the GPS. And that's really not all that bad. Quote
+Blaidd-Drwg Posted January 18, 2008 Posted January 18, 2008 I found one about an hour after it was posted. Of course I had to get dressed and drive 15 miles to reach the cache. Quote
+Blaidd-Drwg Posted January 18, 2008 Posted January 18, 2008 I found one about an hour after it was posted. Of course I had to get dressed and drive 15 miles to reach the cache. Quote
+BilLow Posted January 18, 2008 Posted January 18, 2008 (edited) About 10 minutes - a quarter mile away through a park (no driving). I was recovering from neck surgery and it was up a tree about 8 inches beyond my reach - oh well. I made the leap, grabbed the branches and claimed the prize. Later that night I needed painkillers to celebrate my FTF. Edited January 18, 2008 by BilLow Quote
+HarleyPiper Posted January 18, 2008 Posted January 18, 2008 A geoacquaintance of ours was looking for a good place for a cache, and stumbled upon one several days BEFORE it was published. He just waited until it showed, and found it officially. Quote
+Puppy Dawg Posted January 18, 2008 Posted January 18, 2008 You won't believe this, but it's totally true. I found it 9 min after publication. But, alas, the FTF competition is fierce here and nobody has many. I was STF! Quote
+aggiejwp Posted January 18, 2008 Posted January 18, 2008 You think that people around your area are FTF hounds, you should move to Houston Quote
+OzGuff Posted January 18, 2008 Posted January 18, 2008 I was sitting at my computer when the cellphone rang -- new cache. Looked it up and saw it was 0.7 miles from home. Raced out the door, found the cache, raced back home, and was logging Eight plus Five less than five minutes after publication. Quote
+NotThePainter Posted January 18, 2008 Posted January 18, 2008 A cacher in our area used to love pre-finds, maybe he still does, I don't know. His best record that I know of was -3 days. And note, this is not done by accompanying the hider. My bets guess is that he was using the bug in the old WAP interface. Quote
+kraushad Posted January 18, 2008 Posted January 18, 2008 Wow, I sure would like to have at least one FTF in my resume, but with the times you guys and gals are talking about, I am guessing it will have to happen by luck !! Quote
+egami Posted January 18, 2008 Posted January 18, 2008 Wow, I sure would like to have at least one FTF in my resume, but with the times you guys and gals are talking about, I am guessing it will have to happen by luck !! Try the navicache site...one navicache near me is like 4 years old with no find logs. Quote
+4 Sneetches and a Fwiskas Posted January 18, 2008 Posted January 18, 2008 We made a FTF last evening 6-7 minutes after it was posted. Before we left the cache site, two other caching parties had already arrived. You got be fast to FTF around here. Quote
+whistler & co. Posted January 18, 2008 Posted January 18, 2008 (edited) Wow, I sure would like to have at least one FTF in my resume, but with the times you guys and gals are talking about, I am guessing it will have to happen by luck !! Not necessarily luck...try to determine when your local reviewer generally gets online to publish caches. Check the fine print on the bottom the the cache page to see the "last updated" time when new caches in your area published by the same reviewer pop up. Before they are first found, it will show the actual time the cache was published. Then do your email checking and other stuff on the computer at the time every day until you get a FTF! Or be willing to DRIVE. We have a couple of FTF's that sat unfound for a long time because they are in the boonies. One of them has ONLY been found by us so far, not because it's hard, but because it's in the middle of nowhere. Short & Sweet Edited to add: That cache (Short & Sweet), by the way, is about 50 miles from our house! Edited January 18, 2008 by whistler & co. Quote
+egami Posted January 18, 2008 Posted January 18, 2008 I wonder if, on a FTF, anyone has ever taken the cache a short distance away for a while to monitor the next person to arrive and then watch them stuggle looking for it. Quote
+whistler & co. Posted January 18, 2008 Posted January 18, 2008 I wonder if, on a FTF, anyone has ever taken the cache a short distance away for a while to monitor the next person to arrive and then watch them stuggle looking for it. I haven't done that, but I have cheerfully yelled "You're too late" at approaching cachers while signing in! Quote
+badlands Posted January 19, 2008 Posted January 19, 2008 I wonder if, on a FTF, anyone has ever taken the cache a short distance away for a while to monitor the next person to arrive and then watch them stuggle looking for it. I haven't done that, but I have cheerfully yelled "You're too late" at approaching cachers while signing in! Sure did. I had the first stage multi in my pocket when I saw another cacher enter the area. I let him look for awhile than then we both went to the final for a co-ftf. On another cache, I was walking down the trail about six o'clock in the morning and I passed a gentleman coming down the trail the other way. I said "Good Morning", he said "You're second". Had a good laugh and stopped to talk for about 20 minutes. On another occasion I got FTF and then waited to see who would show up. 2nd to find was 12 minutes after the cache was published. We also had a nice chat before moving on. Lots of fun and interesting people can be met in a FTF race. Quote
+Rattlebars Posted January 19, 2008 Posted January 19, 2008 I just yesterday stumbled on a cache that has not even been published yet. I noticed that the top of a fence post was a little crooked. Looked suspicious. Pulled it off. Yup, 35mm film can in there with Liquid Nails. Popped the lid. Empty log roll. Looks like it's been there awhile.... can't find a listing. There is one close by.... but RATTLEBARS Quote
+TrailGators Posted January 19, 2008 Posted January 19, 2008 I found one that popped up outside where I work in just a few minutes. I didn't have my GPS with me at work, so I zoomed in on the satellite view on the cache page and then knew exactly where it was. Then I did a quick dash out to GZ and bagged it. Woo hoo! Quote
+Wazat Posted January 19, 2008 Posted January 19, 2008 I was dropping off and picking up some TB's at a cache when the owner showed up. He mentioned that there was a new cache he was about to place in the area. Did not tell me where so I was checking the new caches page every now and then the next morning. It was about 2pm that afternoon when the cache was published. It was just over 150 km from home and I was at work. Then I got a call to go to a town just beyond the one where the new cache was. The same town that I met the owner the day before at his other cache. It was on my way. I called my son and asked him if he was keen on getting a FTF. He was so off we went. First had to do a bit of work and then on the way back we stopped to look for the cache. Found it at about 6pm. So 4 hours and we had a joint FTF over 150 km from home. But we could have found it in 2 if it wasn't for me having to do some work first. We also stopped to let my son do another two caches before that one while on the way. Quote
+KJcachers Posted January 20, 2008 Posted January 20, 2008 We had a new cache hit the inbox at 10:30 this morning and we were at GZ by 11:30. spent 90 minutes searching and came up empty so I guess you could call that our fastest FTDNF Have emailed the owner for a little help so time will tell. The owner only has 3 finds and this is their first placement and the parking coordinates were way on the othe side of town so hopefully the cache coordinates were off too and I wasn't wasting a saturday looking in the wrong place. Quote
+Geoboss Posted January 20, 2008 Posted January 20, 2008 I just found my 99th FTF tonight in 20 minutes. My phone went off at 8:02pm, I checked my email and went to the cache page to download the coordinates. I had to get my winter gear, as the temp was about 0°F. I found the cache and signed the log at 8:22pm in the dark, 1.4 miles from home. The next cacher showed up about two minutes later. I have found several caches within 20 minutes, but there are a couple cachers here who are usually there before that. It depends mostly on where the cache is and where you and the other FTF hunters are when the cache is published. My longest time from publication to FTF was 25 days on a 5/5 cache. The second to find on that cache was just short of nine months from publication, and the cache has been found only four times in a year and 21 days. Another cacher and I hid a cache in a town nearby which has not yet been found and was published on November 6, 2007. We think it will be quite some time before it is found. Quote
+dakotacache Posted January 21, 2008 Posted January 21, 2008 The previous poaster on this forum (GeoBoss) is one of the FTF Hounds in our area. I would say on a good day, our FTF's are found in about 10-15 minutes. That's about average. Some consider me another one, but I don't have the numbers like the others. The quickest for me is about 15 minutes. It's all about Location, Location, Location. There was one that I was at Ground Zero within 10 minutes, and my name was 3rd on the list. What the....?! First To Find is a fun segment of this "hobby/Game". In our area, there are only a few that play the FTF "game". I wish there were more, it would make things quite a bit more interesting. We have actually started calling each other to get a feel for our chances. Another fun challenge is to discover caches before they are published. So far I think I've found 3 that were about to be published. I signed the log and contacted the owner. I even found a night cache before it was published. The owner was as suprised as I was! Quote
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