+jmilla210 Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 How many FTF's do you have? Quote Link to comment
+Chokecherry Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 None but I have some great second and third to finds. Didn't seem to impact my enjoyment of the cache any. And I got to sleep in which was bonus for me. Quote Link to comment
+jmilla210 Posted January 15, 2011 Author Share Posted January 15, 2011 Same here. I only have one FTF. Quote Link to comment
+thecaswellfamily Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 We have only two. Since we cache with two small children in tow, we really don't even try for them. The two we did get were fun more for the fact that the friend who placed them was thinking of us, and that meant a lot. Quote Link to comment
+NicknPapa Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 Two. One was more or less an accident, I still have a hard time believing no one else had found it. On the other hand I'm proud of our first one. As a matter of fact I'm proud that I figured that one out period. FTF six days after it was published. Plus two trips to GZ to find it. CTF I Quote Link to comment
+BlueDeuce Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 About 7. My best was when the cache owner had posted the wrong coords but after seeing the parking lot Additional Waypoint I figured out the mistake. Hours, minutes, seconds, eh? Worrying about not being first kind of took the fun out of caching, so I don't pursue FTF anymore. If it happens, it happens. Quote Link to comment
+2Jeeps2Jacks Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 63 here. Our best was 3 in one day. Quote Link to comment
+J the Goat Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 20 something. That's really only because there are very few cachers around here, and when somebody publishes one we've got a 25% chance or so of being FTF unless one of the less active folks pokes their head out for the day. Quote Link to comment
+cerberus1 Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 312. We don't count "shared FTF " in a group, only finds we've found by ourselves. Quote Link to comment
Clan Riffster Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 I have no idea. I wouldn't know where to look to find out. Maybe a dozen or so? Quote Link to comment
+NYPaddleCacher Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 Somewhere between 10 and 20. I don't keep track of them anywhere. Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 I don't keep track but I'd estimate 15-25. Quote Link to comment
+The Blorenges Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 A handful. (I have quite small hands) MrsB Quote Link to comment
+Chief301 Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 None. My most recent log I was third to find it, but that's as close as I've gotten. Quote Link to comment
+Scubasonic Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 Just over 1230 FTFs Scubasonic Quote Link to comment
+SketchCoyote Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 I have like 20... Quote Link to comment
+SwineFlew Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 Somewhere between 20 to 30. I dont keep track of them. Quote Link to comment
+Scubasonic Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 None. My most recent log I was third to find it, but that's as close as I've gotten. Don't give up keep trying you'll nail one Scubasonic Quote Link to comment
g_o_caching Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 FTF's are highly overrated. I haven't noticed any more enjoyment in finding it first, 2nd, 50th or 100th. The enjoyment is the fact that you did find it at all. FTF is all a matter of time and distance. Quote Link to comment
+Scubasonic Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 FTF's are highly overrated. I haven't noticed any more enjoyment in finding it first, 2nd, 50th or 100th. The enjoyment is the fact that you did find it at all. FTF is all a matter of time and distance. So how many FTFs do you have? Scubasonic Quote Link to comment
+Scubasonic Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 FTF's are highly overrated. For those that don't care about them, you are right. For those that enjoy the challenge and the rush you couldn't be more wrong. Scubasonic Quote Link to comment
+Mr. Wilson & a Mt. Goat Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 35 I just like seeing a clean cache and blank logbook. Quote Link to comment
+Geo_Raptor Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 Got our 19th today. Quote Link to comment
+Renroc Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 FTF for me total 23 plus one on a Gnome in the Moving Cache Race in Geocaching Australia. My last one happened purely by chance. I was sitting at the computer doing school planning (*I'm a teacher) and a notification of a new cache came up. It was 1.5km from my home and by the description I knew exactly where it was. Keys in hand and walking to the car and a text pops up on the phone. "Run" another cacher who lives even closer to the cache than me had sent it. I laughed all the way to the cache expecting to be beaten.... However I discovered a clean logbook and signed the log. Found out later that said cacher was stuck in a meeting and couldn't leave. :-) But I am not a fanatic about collecting them. Quote Link to comment
g_o_caching Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 FTF's are highly overrated. For those that don't care about them, you are right. For those that enjoy the challenge and the rush you couldn't be more wrong. Scubasonic You are right about there being a kind of rush being FTF, but the challenge is all a matter of "time" (time you get the notice, time in your schedule to go for it, and time it takes to travel X amount of distance to get there). You are also right that I don't care about them. I have more than 1 FTF but less than your amount. It doesn't mean that one person is a better "finder" than another person. It only means they could meet more of the "time" requirements than the next person. My whole point was that people should get the rush from just finding them, and being first or 50th shouldn't diminish the accomplishment of that. Quote Link to comment
+Scubasonic Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 (edited) My whole point was that people should get the rush from just finding them My point is WHO ARE YOU to tell anyone what THEY should, or should not get a rush out of. You have already said what YOU feel about the FTFs and that's cool everyone has an opinion. What I take issue with is the fact your telling someone else how they should enjoy the game based on how you enjoy it. Scubasonic Edited January 16, 2011 by Scubasonic Quote Link to comment
+StarBrand Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 I really don't keep track but I think I am somewhere north of 75 or so. Some of those were FTF without trying - as much as 5 weeks after publication and even while I was on vacation. Quote Link to comment
+Printess Caroline Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 I don't know and don't care enough to figure it out. Though there are more, I only really remember three FTFs with any detail. Those were ones that I would remember fondly even if I were 2,000th to find. I will admit, though, that those three caches were even more memorable because I was first. Quote Link to comment
+GeoGerms Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 FTF's are highly overrated. For those that don't care about them, you are right. For those that enjoy the challenge and the rush you couldn't be more wrong. Scubasonic Couldn't have said it any better, Scubasonic. 234 solo/with my wife 808ladybug and 48 teamed with others Quote Link to comment
+Scubasonic Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 Got our 19th today. Great job Scubasonic Quote Link to comment
g_o_caching Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 (edited) My whole point was that people should get the rush from just finding them My point is WHO ARE YOU to tell anyone what THEY should, or should not get a rush out of. You have already said what YOU feel about the FTFs and that's cool everyone has an opinion. What I take issue with is the fact your telling someone else how they should enjoy the game based on how you enjoy it. Scubasonic If you look back at that same post of mine you were refering to you will see I agreed that it was a rush being FTF. Where am I telling them how to enjoy the game? If you look back at all the posts there were more people than me that said FTF weren't that important to them. Edited January 16, 2011 by g_o_caching Quote Link to comment
+maristua Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 I have 3 FTF. Got 1 FTF in 2010 and 1 this Friday and the last one yesterday I agree that time has much to do with it if you get FTF or not. Quote Link to comment
+the4dirtydogs Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 We have 556 FTFs so far. It's always fun to find the cache the way the owner had intended the placement to be before it migrates. One of the biggest reasons why we like hunting FTFs. Some of our local cachers put good prizes for the FTF. Quote Link to comment
+39chevy Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 (edited) 588. Every cache i have found has been the first time i found it. Edited January 16, 2011 by 39chevy Quote Link to comment
+Scubasonic Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 588. Every cache i have found has been the first time i found it. Agh comic SS Quote Link to comment
+Harry Dolphin Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 How many FTF's do you have? Actually, I don't keep track of them. Maybe 5. Maybe 20. Not really sure. I do enjoy hunting them, but I've never kept track of them. Quote Link to comment
+Scubasonic Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 We have 556 FTFs so far. It's always fun to find the cache the way the owner had intended the placement to be before it migrates. One of the biggest reasons why we like hunting FTFs. Some of our local cachers put good prizes for the FTF. Good job that is a lot of FTFs Scubasonic Quote Link to comment
+Deep Crow Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 I'd rather be 500th on a great cache than first on just another pointless trad. Quote Link to comment
Mr.Yuck Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 I'd rather be 500th on a great cache than first on just another pointless trad. Now there's a good point. I won't go off topic, and tick off Scubasonic or anything. I do not keep track, but I would estimate my number to be approximately 20 since joining in 2003. With probably the 2nd half of them right time, right place, without even trying to be FTF. Quote Link to comment
+addisonbr Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 I'd rather be 500th on a great cache than first on just another pointless trad. I would too, even though I consider myself a bit of an FTF hound in my area. Thankfully, for me they are not often mutually exclusive - I don't often have to choose. Quote Link to comment
GOF and Bacall Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 I have no clue how many times I have been FTF. It's just another stupid stat. Quote Link to comment
+KI4HLW Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 It's always fun to find the cache the way the owner had intended the placement to be before it migrates. This is the main reason I chase FTFs, I've seen some great caches ruined by lazy cachers just trowing it back together quickly. How many do I have? I'd guess 2 or 3 dozen, I don't keep track. Quote Link to comment
+tomfuller & Quill Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 About 45 even though I don't usually consider myself an FTF hound. There are 4 unfound caches within 20 miles of my home but I'm not going to snowshoe for miles to find micros. Quote Link to comment
+Ecylram Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 We've got 11 FTF's. At first we made an effort to try to get them as it was a 'rush' to get the FTF and we enjoyed meeting other cachers. However, the competition in our area got so fierce that it took the enjoyment away. We'll still try for one if we're out & about or is very close, but otherwise wait for another day. Quote Link to comment
+Team Red Oak Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 I don't know but my best guess is less than 5. Some of them were at events where new caches were published specifically for the event some of them we found with a group and others we found on our own. I think we've only had 1 FTF where we were out for a day of caching and actually beat everyone else to the cache. FTF is not important to us but they are satisfying in their own way. Quote Link to comment
+RokMartian Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 I was determined to get a FTF and it came true last fall twice. Around here there are a bunch of people that race to claim FTF - after my 3rd or 4th try, the thrill disappeared, because I end up with 2 or 3 families on the hunt. I found that the thrill for me comes from actually finding it, like others have mentioned. When a gang of people show up, almost always it is someone other than me that finds it. I feel more a spectator and honestly, I do not feel I should claim it as a find. That is just me, and don't judge others for doing it. Quote Link to comment
+Scubasonic Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 I'd rather be 500th on a great cache than first on just another pointless trad. Not all FTF are pointless traditionals Scubasonic Quote Link to comment
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