Just Curious....

[+wray_clan]

Who has the most benchmark finds?

[+Renegade Knight]

If only we had benchmark stats!

[CallawayMT]

My guess would be "Bucky & Me" http://www.geocaching.com/profile/default.aspx?A=95396

 

This person is phenomonal.

[ArtMan]

Egads - Bucky & Me is about to break into quadruple digits! Just as well we don't post a leader board! :-)

[+happycycler]

YAY!! for Buckey & Me!! And Artman, you are not doing so poorly yourself. Why don't some of you folks set still for a while and let me catch up! I hope that someone lets us know when Bukey & Me breaks the 1 K barrior?

[+pnew]

not to be a skeptic but it wasn't too terribly long ago that a certain infamous team had 700+ benchmarks logged inwhich most were fake logs. I really wish it was a requirement to post pictures with your finds... but oh well.

 

Noy HappyCycler you my friends have an impressive list of benchmark finds. Great pictures!

Edited December 15, 2003 by pnew

[Max Cacher]

Please try to stay on topic, this thread is not about fake logs.

 

TG

[CallawayMT]

You can check their logs, they always post pictures and post a description.

[ArtMan]

[T]hey always post pictures and post a description.

 

Pictures are, of course, useful as proof of actually having visited the benchmark in question, and I suppose one could also see them as an aid to the next visitor in finding a benchmark.

 

Benchmarking may be related to geocaching, but with a difference: caches are designed to be hard-to-find, whereas benchmarks are placed precisely so they can be recovered in the future. The descriptions and coordinates in the official datasheets, and by extension our descriptions and photos, each help the next visitor quickly and accurately locate the benchmark.

 

Also, they serve as a check to ensure that the object found is actually the benchmark. Some evildoers deliberately falsify logs, but much more often a well-meaning benchmarkers will post a false log - for example, reference marks logged incorrectly as the station referred to.

 

But before setting out with my official datasheets, I'll usually check to see if there are prior logs of the stations I plan on visiting. If a benchmark is listed as 'not found,' I may pass it up in favor of a more promising one. (Or, depending on my disposition that day, I may take it as a challenge.)

 

Having said all this, I would also urge that when people post pictures, they include the location - at least the county and state - in the caption. It makes much more interesting browsing in the gallery.

 

-ArtMan-

[+happycycler]

Thank you pnew for your kind comments. (I have occasionally posted less than good photos -- when my camera decides to focus on infinity instead of the disk that is 5 feet away or when I am moving the camera all around.)

[+gpsblake]

I tell you what. I haven't logged a bunch of benchmarks but some of them have been much harder to find than some caches, especially when they are buried under a few inches of dirt and gravel (or in one case a few feet of dirt that I never found). I'll probably be doing a lot more benchmark hunting as the number of caches in my area that I haven't found are becoming less and less.

[+happycycler]

Oh OK!!! Congrats to Buckey & Me!! I see 1053 benchmark logs for "them"! Great Job!!

[+GEO*Trailblazer 1]

I have a number of them that are found at night while traveling through an area I still have found no way to get night photos unless the Benchmark is well lit up,in some cases they are and I post the best picture I can get.It makes for a future visit during the daylight to recover better pictures at a later date and some have added photos after my logs of it being there.

To me this is a lifelong adventure to always have some reason to go back to an area and get more detail,and photos.

 

Happy.......................................................................................... Geotrails

[+wray_clan]

Bucky&Me's stats are very impressive. More than 1,000 finds in both benchmarks & geocaching! I'll say that they're tops, unless someone else wants to claim it.

[+GEO*Trailblazer 1]

I can remember way back when I used to be but.......Theres always somebody better.

Great Job and keep it up.I will be there one of these days.............

 

A good goal.

[+JoGPS]

Bucky & Me's stats are way toooooooooooo cool and my hat is off to them. I know how much FUN they have enjoyed finding them and, can honestly say that the benchmark finds for me are worth more to me than most reg caches, it’s one thing to find a box someone else hid in the woods a year ago but to find something no one has found in a 100 years now that a challenge ……………… JOE