130 Finds In One Day!!!

June 22, 2004

Rumor has it that EMC, Cachepal, and another cacher bagged 130 finds in Palm Springs on Saturday. It's a fairly reliable rumor. :unsure:

Congrats to all! :unsure:

I gather that they will be sleeping all this week. :tongue:

(*** I later discovered that the "another cacher" was the venerable pairing of Team PerkyPerks.)

Edited June 23, 2004 by Brainerd

1.8k · June 22, 2004

Excuse me? "Another cacher"? Tom, I'm not talking to you anymore. :tongue:

June 23, 2004

That's an average of nearly one find per 10 minutes for a 24-hour period and has to include driving/walking/whatever, actually finding the cache, and signing the log. :lol:

1.8k · June 23, 2004

Actually we only spent a total of 17 hours caching (6am-midnight, plus an hour for a much-needed meal). So that's, um, one cache every 7.8 minutes. And boy did we feel it for the next couple of days. :lol:

June 23, 2004

Oops. Sorry Team PP. I wasn't sure who the other guilty party was, so I didn't list ya. :lol:

Congrats! :lol:

I'll still talk to you at the picnic. It will be a rather short conversation, since you won't be responding. <_<

Edited June 23, 2004 by Brainerd

June 23, 2004

WOW! Congrats! Around here you have to be a 4x4 or a mountain goat to get to some of the caches, and that's after driving 5-15 miles. I think a run of 3 in an afternoon is fantastic for me! And I'm pretty worn out after that! I can climb a mountain, but I still don't think I could match your pace!

Did you swap TBs around or trade items, or just TNLNSL all of them?

June 23, 2004

Wow, I saw that (mostly) Team Nococh trail of caches on the map, that's rather different. Someone's spent too much time in the desert sun I think. :lol:

Pretty neat, and certainly a tempting target for anyone who gets near that area.

Congrats on the cache blitz.

1.4k · June 23, 2004

Just one question: Did all three of you personally sign the logs of all 130 caches? :lol: <_< :lol:

June 23, 2004

130 caches in a day?WOW!!!!I'm impressed!I hope we can repeat this in phoenix!

1.8k · June 23, 2004

Did you swap TBs around or trade items, or just TNLNSL all of them?

We're usually TNLNSL types anyway, so we don't spend much time trading, but others in our group did trade TBs.

Just one question: Did all three of you personally sign the logs of all 130 caches?

We did it the easy way. Slap your pre-dated stickers in the log book and run.

I'll still talk to you at the picnic. It will be a rather short conversation, since you won't be responding.

Okay, we'll still talk to you, but only because we want to say we knew you before you were famous. :lol:

I would like to say that none of us could have done this without the kindness and hospitality of Team Nohoch, who are in our minds two of the most generous people we've ever met. They were instrumental in helping us plan our attack and even spent the entire day running around town with us in their truck. Daryl & Jamey, you guys rock!! <_<

5.7k · June 23, 2004

Just one question: Did all three of you personally sign the logs of all 130 caches?

When you are just going for numbers (and this is fine, if that's what floats your boat), I think it's fine to play a bit loose with "the rules". Speed caching has its problems though, since it's hard to be stealthy when you are racing around for smilies, and the normal care taken to re-hide the cache would waste valuable minutes. :lol:

--Marky

1.8k · June 23, 2004

Speed caching has its problems though, since it's hard to be stealthy when you are racing around for smilies, and the normal care taken to re-hide the cache would waste valuable minutes.

I agree with you, Marky--when you're running from cache to cache, it's easy to forget how visible you can be. The overwhelming majority of the caches we found were not urban caches along hiking or 4x4 trails (similar to the Power Caching Trail in Thousand Oaks), and most of the urban caches we did weren't in high-muggle areas...at least, not when it's 105° out. :lol:

1.4k · June 23, 2004

Just one question: Did all three of you personally sign the logs of all 130 caches?

We did it the easy way. Slap your pre-dated stickers in the log book and run.

OK, stickers are fine, but did all three participate in the search for, and lay hands on, or at least see all 130 caches? :lol:

Rumors abound about another group of three cachers who had a high-number day. We're just curious if the shoe fits here, too. :blink:

5.7k · June 23, 2004

Rumors abound about another group of three cachers who had a high-number day. We're just curious if the shoe fits here, too.

It sounds like this group was together for all the finds (but I could be misinterpreting what I've been reading). Those are some cool power caching trails down that way. When will it be cool enough to do those? :lol:

--Marky

June 23, 2004

Having been on an 83 cache day with EMC, I believe that they all went to, and searched for each cache. Also, having 4 cachers look for the cache is a bonus, as it can speed up the find.

Boy, 83 sounds so pathetic, now! :blink:

Edited June 23, 2004 by Brainerd

1.8k · June 23, 2004

OK, stickers are fine, but did all three participate in the search for, and lay hands on, or at least see all 130 caches?

Rumors abound about another group of three cachers who had a high-number day. We're just curious if the shoe fits here, too.

Absolutely, yes. I would never log a find that I didn't see for myself.

The area we were in is so cache-dense we could have scored 200 had we cared to be "loose" with the rules.

1.4k · June 23, 2004

Wow! Then I am impressed. Both with your caching day and with your ethics :lol:

I'm sorry for hinting at anything less :blink:

1.4k · June 23, 2004

I was ready to raise the "BS" flag on this one then did some research :blink: . Over 200 caches reside at just over 10mi. R. from Team PP's last log. Truly cache density is an understatement.

Now, for your next trick, you must do another power caching day, but everytime you find a cache, you must chug a beer! :lol:

Congrats.

2.3k · June 23, 2004

I was ready to raise the "BS" flag on this one

No doubt, I was gonna say "Sure, pal"...then I saw the map of the trail.

I stand in awe.

And I am planning a trip over there to ROCK THAT TRAIL!

Edited June 23, 2004 by TEAM 360

1.8k · June 23, 2004

Wow! Then I am impressed. Both with your caching day and with your ethics

I'm sorry for hinting at anything less

No apologies needed. I know there are historical reasons to doubt.

If anyone wants to make the stab at getting triple-digits in one day, we're happy to escort them to Palm Springs. Two people found 109 in a day a few weeks earlier out there. That is a serious offer; we'd love to share the experience. (However, for safety's sake we'd suggest waiting til fall. I had to take off time from work due to the heat-related fatigue and exertion.)

1.8k · June 23, 2004

And I am planning a trip over there to ROCK THAT TRAIL!

Count us in for that! Drop me a line and let me know when you're heading out here.

1.4k · June 23, 2004

Now, for your next trick, you must do another power caching day, but everytime you find a cache, you must chug a beer!

ROFL! :lol:

This would make for a great spectator sport, just watching them after the first six-pack :blink:

1.8k · June 23, 2004

Now, for your next trick, you must do another power caching day, but everytime you find a cache, you must chug a beer!

ROFL!

This would make for a great spectator sport, just watching them after the first six-pack

Oh no! My caching partner just hurled on the cache! Quick, sign the log..."Took nothing, left foul odor..."

June 23, 2004

Now, for your next trick, you must do another power caching day, but everytime you find a cache, you must chug a beer!

ROFL!

This would make for a great spectator sport, just watching them after the first six-pack

Sounds like an idea for a cache event to me

2.3k · July 6, 2004

COME ON, COME ON ALREADY!! COOL DOWN THIS WEATHER SO I CAN GET OVER THERE AND HIT THAT TRAIL!!! :blink:

1.8k · July 6, 2004

COME ON, COME ON ALREADY!! COOL DOWN THIS WEATHER SO I CAN GET OVER THERE AND HIT THAT TRAIL!!!

Good news! The forecast is for the temperature to drop down to 98 tomorrow!

2.3k · July 7, 2004

Good news! The forecast is for the temperature to drop down to 98 tomorrow!

Time to put the winter jacket back on....

3.1k · July 7, 2004

Congrats and quite the volumn day.

I won't question how you got your caches as that's up to you and I totally believe you. I'll leave the second degree to the cache police around here.

Years ago a caching team went off and found 25 caches in a day. They drove 400 miles to do it. When he bragged about it people were grilling him as to if they really found them and some even went out to check on the logs.

Again, cache police are boring

I know in many cities now a person could get 25 in a couple of hours.

Again, congrats.....

July 7, 2004

Jealous. Just.... jealous.

If we did 130 caches here, we'd've done a third of the total available in the South Island of New Zealand! (Which is about the same size as Illinois)

Better buy some plastic boxes and get busy to catch up...

July 12, 2004

COME ON, COME ON ALREADY!! COOL DOWN THIS WEATHER SO I CAN GET OVER THERE AND HIT THAT TRAIL!!!

where is "that" trail? planning on spending a day caching and perhaps creating the first ever, well at least first i've heard, 24hr cache-a-thon. idea is to see how many you could log in 24 hrs....no sleeping!!!

July 12, 2004

242 by another crew, at Geo-Woodstock in Nashville, last weekend.

Edited July 12, 2004 by bthomas

July 12, 2004

WHAT!!!! 242 caches in 24 hours....I've been at this 7 months and i've only found 20!!!!

1.8k · July 12, 2004

242 by another crew, at Geo-Woodstock in Nashville, last weekend.

Mmm...242 caches... (drool)

I can only imagine how sore I'd be after jumping out of the car 242 times... :unsure:

July 12, 2004

It was really only 240, I was there, and yes it beat the old world record of 238 caching in a straight 24 hour period ………… JOE

July 12, 2004

I don't buy it, one every 6 minutes! And what about bathroom breaks, food, etc? Just even stopping, jumping out of a car, pasting a label in the log, back in and to the next cache if it was exactly 528' away would take 5+ minutes. That's if you knew where every cache was, no searching required, premapped out, not using a GPS or a compass and someone who had been to everyone being your guide. So basically you're not geocaching!

Persoanlly I don't think anyone could honestly do more than say 80 in a day if they truly had to use their GPS and search for the cache and plan their own route. I planned out a day for someone, it would have been 125 caches, but they wanted to do it at their pace and use the GPS, I think they hit 60 caches, still impressive.

3.1k · July 12, 2004

I don't buy it, one every 6 minutes! And what about bathroom breaks, food, etc? Just even stopping, jumping out of a car, pasting a label in the log, back in and to the next cache if it was exactly 528' away would take 5+ minutes. That's if you knew where every cache was, no searching required, premapped out, not using a GPS or a compass and someone who had been to everyone being your guide. So basically you're not geocaching!

Persoanlly I don't think anyone could honestly do more than say 80 in a day if they truly had to use their GPS and search for the cache and plan their own route. I planned out a day for someone, it would have been 125 caches, but they wanted to do it at their pace and use the GPS, I think they hit 60 caches, still impressive.

I'm no skeptic, if they said they got them I believe them.

Firehouse I know I could do 100 urban caches in a day in a city I haven't visited before without much problem. If a person carefully planned out a route I'm sure it could easily be done. I've done 50+ in a day and cached only 10 hours.

July 13, 2004

Firehouse I know I could do 100 urban caches in a day in a city I haven't visited before without much problem. If a person carefully planned out a route I'm sure it could easily be done. I've done 50+ in a day and cached only 10 hours.

At your caclculation though you'd only make 125 or so, which I think is possible, but 242? Not unless you did the way I mentioned. Either way it's not really geocaching.

July 13, 2004

Geocaching and Golf have a lot in common there are so many ways to play each

Golf has regular and Speed Golf and many others

Geocaching has regular and Speed Geocaching and many others

When the day is over you either played Golf or Geocached

The secret to doing this kind of cache run is all in the planning and knowing the area, we drove by over a 100 caches that were within 250 feet from where you could park, we never even stopped , a local like myself that had been to many of them knew which ones to drive by , no time wasted.

They both signed the logs just like they would have done doing regular caching, no stickers, but stickers are cool , they did not have any.

I drove the route we were going to take every Saturday before the event four five weeks to know which roads were closed and the best and fastest way to get to eat cache always obeying traffic laws except the last one Heee Heee

For all the nay-sayers I will extend an invitation to anyone in CA that has never been here before ( virgin territory ) to do the same for you.

You can guess and calculate all you want but unless you do it you will never know. That is if you don’t mind a smoker and me driving slow………………. JOE

I will be posting to the regular forums in the thread there today with all the numbers, we think you will be surprised

3.1k · July 13, 2004

Not really geocaching? I hear this alot.

I just let others do what they want how they want. It matters not to me. I do some things others wouldn't do I'm sure and I also don't do things others would do.

For all the nay-sayers I will extend an invitation to anyone in CA that has never been here before ( virgin territory ) to do the same for you.

I'm no nay sayer but I'd love a guide someday

1.8k · July 13, 2004

For all the nay-sayers I will extend an invitation to anyone in CA that has never been here before ( virgin territory ) to do the same for you.

Woohoo!! When are you free?

July 13, 2004

I am never free but can be had Heee Heee , any weekend with enough notice, and I just posted to the Geo-Woodstock thread with the numbers………….. JOe

1.2k · July 15, 2004

I don't buy it, one every 6 minutes! And what about bathroom breaks, food, etc? Just even stopping, jumping out of a car, pasting a label in the log, back in and to the next cache if it was exactly 528' away would take 5+ minutes. That's if you knew where every cache was, no searching required, premapped out, not using a GPS or a compass and someone who had been to everyone being your guide. So basically you're not geocaching!

Persoanlly I don't think anyone could honestly do more than say 80 in a day if they truly had to use their GPS and search for the cache and plan their own route. I planned out a day for someone, it would have been 125 caches, but they wanted to do it at their pace and use the GPS, I think they hit 60 caches, still impressive.

I won't question anyone's achievements or make assessments about the limits of what is possible, but IMO, the prep work, route planning, mapping etc. are as much part of caching as finding the cache, retrieving it, hiding it and replacing it, and moving on to the next cache. If you do any of those things before or after the 24 hour period, you haven't done that part of the caches within 24 hours.

Not that any of this matters - there is nothing wrong with preparations whatsoever, but if you want to *compare* numbers, you need to define what constitutes a find.

To extrapolate this into absurdity: one might leisurely collecting 2000 logbooks from caches by way of preparatory work, sign them within 24 hours, and then leisurely return them to where they belong. :unsure:

Everyone can measure what they want, but a record in a number of apples per day does not break a record in the number of oranges per day.

July 15, 2004

Why is every one hatin'...These people hit 130 in a day!!!!! Who is anyone but an eyewitness to contradict their acheivements or their caching "technique" shall we say.. People like to go slow and some people like to go fast........alot of people looking at the same general area yeilds a higher ratio of found caches....and im appaled that everyone is saying that its like "apples and oranges"....so when you get 130 apples post a thread and we'll congratulate you...get 130 oranges and ill congratulate you too but this is an acheivement and people should not question but congratulate.....good job guys :unsure:

3.3k · August 4, 2004

I'm curious, how long did it take to log 130 finds into the webpages? My guess, 2.5 hrs.

1.2k · August 5, 2004

I'm curious, how long did it take to log 130 finds into the webpages? My guess, 2.5 hrs.

Nah...copy and paste a generic log...wouln't take long at all.

Ed

130 Finds In One Day!!!

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