to all the 1000+ Cachers

[+doc1881]

I was obsessing about my caching stats and current average and it got me thinking, "I wonder when I can expect to hit 1000?" So I thought I'd pose the questions to all of you:

 

Do you remember, how long you had been caching before you hit the magic 1000th find?

[+KoosKoos]

Well I haven't hit mine yet, but my handy dandy GSAK macro tells me when to expect it:

 

KoosKoos should reach 700 finds in 186 days (26 Caching days) on 2/12/2009

1000 finds in 841 days (117 Caching days) on 11/29/2010

 

(but I know that it's based on my average history and I tend to cache in bursts)

[+mudsneaker]

I have a poor memory for numbers, so I simply keep track of all that fun stuff by using stat generators. Peek at my profile and somewhere toward the bottom it shows the dates of milestones.

 

Looks like it was almost 19 months for me, but I took a long vacation from caching, again easily seen in the profile graphs.

[+xshooter]

GSAK claims I'll be there the second week of December which would be 15 months from when I found my first cache.

[+Flo.]

Mine was 15 months also. March of 07 to July of 08.

[+briansnat]

Not a getting started issue. Moving to the general forum.

[Skippermark]

It took me 5 years.

 

Signed up in August 2002, hit 1000 in March 2007.

Edited August 19, 2008 by Skippermark

[+skraeling]

I have been caching on/off for the past several years. It wasnt until this past fall (Dec) that I really got serious about caching. According to GSAK, I should hit 1000 by 10/05/08. In reality, I am planning on hitting 1000 in early September.

[+TheWonderStuff]

Took me 13 months, or 14....

[Mr.Yuck]

I'll say 3 years, 3 1/2 months. Hey, that just made me notice tomorrow's my 5 year cacheversary, props to me.

[+Mr. 0]

I had to check, but it looks like it took me a little over 3 years. I started 8/17/02, and found #1000 on 10/1/05.

[+DocDiTTo]

About 2 years 10 months, give or take.

[+The Leprechauns]

I started caching in June 2002 and hit 1,000 finds in August 2004, becoming the first person in my local area to do so. It was a lot harder back then to accumulate a large number of finds without traveling significant distances. A trip to Nashville in July 2004 gave me the necessary jump start, as I logged 280 finds on that long weekend.

[+DanOCan]

I reached the 1000 mark in July of 2007 after 3.6 years of caching.

[+whistler & co.]

A little over two years. I wish we lived in Nashville (see post #13).

[+Kit Fox]

It took me 975 days or 2.67 years to reach 1000.

 

1 Out on a Limb 5/18/04 First find

100 Governor Mine 7/28/04 (71)

200 Follow the Drinking Gourd 10/29/04 (93)

300 Another Vista Point 12/22/04 (54)

400 Geo Tax 3/05/05 (73)

500 Antelope Valley Poppies & Pizza Event 4/09/05 (34)

600 Burnt Offering (Log) 7/02/05 (84)

700 Scouting's Highest Honor ~ "Mt. Baden-Powell" 11/20/05 (141)

800 the dragonfly scroll (Log) 3/18/06 (118)

900 return to scab island (Log) 7/22/06 (125)

1000 Are You Experienced? (Log) 1/20/07 (182)

1100 Throop Peak (Log) 10/15/07 (267)

1200 Bride of Propeller Head (Log) 5/22/08 (220)

[+NotThePainter]

I think this log says it all for me:

A Little Help From My Friends

 

If you don't want to read it, that's ok. It was estimating 2027 and I've slowed down since then!

 

Oh, I started in Feb 2004 if that matters.

[+paulandstacey]

We started May 20 2006 and hit 1000 on March 4 2007, so a little less than 10 months. We've averaged aout 100 a month to date.

[+NotThePainter]

I think this log says it all for me:

A Little Help From My Friends

 

If you don't want to read it, that's ok. It was estimating 2027 and I've slowed down since then!

 

 

I just had to run the new numbers:

 

Based on your overall rate of 0.16 finds per day, you'll find number 300 around 2/16/09 and the big 1000 around 2/08/21. However, over the past few months, your find rate has only been 0.01 finds per day. Based on that, you'll find number 300 around 7/28/16 and your 1000th around 12/31/69.

[+Maingray]

1 6/9/2002 GC31E4 Bikin' By Bolin

1000 1/26/2007 GC10H1B Octopus Tree

[+KerBear]

roughly about 2 1/2 years.

[+Team Laxson]

811 days, 2.2 years. June 02 2005 - August 19 2007.

 

Hey, it's my 1 year anniversary for 1,000 finds! Cool! I should go out and celebrate!

 

GSAK tells me:

Team Laxson should reach 2000 finds in 448 days (155 Caching days) on 9/16/2009

[WashoeZephyr]

Just under two years. Whoda thunk?

[+wimseyguy]

I started in August 2002 and hit 1K in August 2004. 2K/3K/4K/5K and soon to be 6K came a little quicker than two years. There are a lot more caches out there to find now.

[+wimseyguy]

I probably would have gotten to 1K even faster if the website double counted finds the way the forum double posts when there is a time out in connection.

Edited August 19, 2008 by wimseyguy

[+Moose Mob]

1 3/13/2004 GCB368 That's Amore!!!

100 4/19/2004 37 days GCF973 BCHA Lookout!

200 5/31/2004 42 days GC9605 TOUCH AND GO CACH

300 7/9/2004 39 days GCJW0B TROJAN TRAVELER IX - Treasures Stateline

400 8/7/2004 29 days GC4EE1 "Schoolhouse" Southern Utah Pioneers

500 9/6/2004 30 days GCG9CH Griffith Peak

600 10/31/2004 55 days GCDF30 Vegas Panorama

700 12/22/2004 52 days GCH8E6 "Do You Fear What I Hear?"

800 3/19/2005 87 days GCC3C7 Slow Friends In Low Places

900 5/23/2005 65 days GC4764 Frenchman Mountain

1000 6/25/2005 33 days GC877F Huckleberry Patch Geo Cache

[+ShowStop]

#1 7/22/2003 Tunnel Vision

#1000 10/3/2004 Eat, Drink and God Bless America IV

 

1 yr and 3 months to 1000. Now I turn 1000 caches in 6 months or less.

[+ShowStop]

Server lagging again...

Edited August 19, 2008 by ShowStop

[+StarBrand]

6 years plus 6 months and 19 days after my first find - I am still not there. I'll get there when I find enough to get there.

[+ncfinn]

When I started caching six years ago you might have to walk five miles into the woods just to get one cache. You certainly could not drive from parking lot to parking lot and easily grab 100+ caches with hardly getting out of your car. The first 1000 took me four years. The next 500 took only about a year.

[Tahosa and Sons]

Well its been around 7 years of fun and I haven't even hit 500. Maybe 500 next month, until then just play the game and enjoy life.

[+Renegade Knight]

...Do you remember, how long you had been caching before you hit the magic 1000th find?

 

Actually, I don't.

[+Kealia]

Took me just over 3 1/2 years as I prefer longer hikes versus numbers runs (no judgement here).

 

We have newer cachers in the area who did this in 6 months, though.

[WashoeZephyr]

A lot of it depends on where you live and your transportation. People who live in large cities where there are caches every 600' and copious amounts of unleaded to burn tend to hit it a lot quicker ::cough, Moosemob, cough::

[+UncleJimbo]

Most cachers probably never reach 1000.

[+sillygirl & jrr]

We just recently found our 1000th cache, it took us 3 years 3 months give or take a few days.

jrr

[+Zop]

I was obsessing about my caching stats and current average and it got me thinking, "I wonder when I can expect to hit 1000?" So I thought I'd pose the questions to all of you:

 

Do you remember, how long you had been caching before you hit the magic 1000th find?

 

Just about 5 months.

[+Great Scott!]

It took me 3 days short of 3 years to achieve 1000 finds.

Edited August 20, 2008 by Great Scott!

[AZcachemeister]

Actually, I don't know off the top of my head.

I can say it took me less than 365 days to find my first 365 caches (that was a big deal for me back then).

[+sseegars]

Stats Gen puts me around March 2009. I plan on my 1000th cache being my New Years Day cache. Something special.

[+NYPaddleCacher]

A lot of it depends on where you live and your transportation. People who live in large cities where there are caches every 600' and copious amounts of unleaded to burn tend to hit it a lot quicker ::cough, Moosemob, cough::

 

I've been geocaching since Jan. 2007 and just passed 500 about 10 days ago. According to the GSAK FindStats macro I've averaged just over 35 finds a month and will reach 1000 in December 2009.

 

There are a number of factors which can influence how fast, if ever, someone can get to 1000 finds, the least of which is probably ones skill in finding geocaches. Other factors could include:

 

Cache density: It's a lot easier to get to 1000 caches when there are a thousand caches within 10 miles from your home location than it is when you've got to cover a 40 mile radius to find 1000 caches.

 

Available time to cache: A parent of a small child or children that also works full time is likely going to take a lot longer to find 1000 caches than a someone that is a retired empty nester.

 

Other hobbies: As odd at may sound, some people actually participate in other activities. For me, it's sea kayaking and flyfishing, which can sometimes be combined with geocaching but more often than not it they compete for time.

[+DaFunkyFrogs]

We started caching early December '07 and 6 months later we hit 500 finds. So, I'd say in another 6 months we should hit 1,000.

[+TheAlabamaRambler]

From my profile - Stats generated by FindStatGen3 V3.0.20 by rutson, tweaked by lignumaqua, running on GSAK v7.2.2.23

 

1 on 08/17/03

100 on 12/18/03

500 on 06/02/04

1000 on 02/03/05

2000 on 07/22/06

2500 on 02/23/08

Currently at 2571 as of 08/08/08

 

The slow-down reflects both a slow-down in caching due to the lackagasmoney disease and the year-and-a-half where I logged very few of my finds online.

 

At my current rate FindStatGen says that "TheAlabamaRambler should reach 2600 finds in 59 days (4 Caching days) on 10/18/2008

3000 finds in 868 days (62 Caching days) on 1/5/2011 "

 

I guess I had better get it back in gear!

Edited August 21, 2008 by TheAlabamaRambler

[+ChaseOnTheGo]

4 years

 

Member Since: Monday, June 30, 2003

 

1000th find: Aug 25th 2007

[+Smokey Bear Collector]

one year. i've had a lot of time on my hands also, i usually go geocaching when i can get at least 10 in a trip. though if i take the day, i'll try for 30.

[+PlantAKiss]

Do you remember, how long you had been caching before you hit the magic 1000th find?

 

lol I will be lucky to hit 100.

 

I'm still trying to figure out how people get all this free time to go caching. Obviously I'm doing something wrong. lol

 

Let's see...I figure, I'll hit 1000 sometime around...2013.

[+dnnsgps]

Started in May 2004 and reach 1000 on August 15th 2008!

[+CurmudgeonlyGal]

I started on Sept 15, 2003, and hit 1k on Sept 15, 2005.

 

I've been slacking since then.

 

 

michelle

[+karstic]

6 years, 1 month 27 days.

 

Not like I'm counting or anything

[timp84]

at the rate i'm going, i should hit 1000 around the year 2016.