Most Ftf's

[+Chaz]

How many FTF's do you have? I've gotten 3 in the past week and a half. 9 total. You?

[+IV_Warrior]

I've got a couple, I don't really keep close count. The highest number I've heard so far, is the geocacher Facedances, who has 100 FTF's, and 1072 total finds.

[+planetrobert]

once I got 14 in a single day.

[+Renegade Knight]

If you never kept track how would you know how many you have?

[+briansnat]

I'm pretty willing to bet that a good portion of Bassoonpilot's 1,000+ finds are FTF's. When he was logging his finds he was FTF on most of the caches in our region over a period of a couple years. When he wasn't first , Stayfloopy was there. With 3,000 plus finds and a lot of them FTF's, Stayfloopy may well be the FTF king.

 

I don't know if either has tracked their FTF's, but I wouldn't be surprized if their FTF's were in the high 3 figures.

[+fly46]

I don't know about either of them.

I think that Dozer&thedirtclods are at least at 100.. Momma Dirt Clod's big thing caching is the FTF.

[+sept1c_tank]

I don't have a lot of FTFs, but this one, 1995 miles from my home, must be in the running for "the furthest from home."

[+cache_us_if_you_can]

How many FTF's do you have? I've gotten 3 in the past week and a half.   9 total. You?

We've gotten 4 in one day and a grand total of 10 out of 185 total finds. The toughest FTF was this one. It took a few weeks of checking out maps to find a route in that didn't have a locked gate.

Edited October 21, 2004 by cache_us_if_you_can

[+ChileHead]

I've got about 40, most of them in the last 3 months, and mostly found at night.

[+geoSquid]

I have 4 or 5 out of 119 finds.

[AJK]

Up here in Red Sox Nation (!) g-o-cashers has over 100 FTFs, and has been a member since May 2003 (600 odd finds).

 

I have about 5 - not so impressive

[+Team Perks]

According to his profile, FishPOET has 182 FTF's since July 2003.

[+Markwell]

Actually - I prefer to take my time and be second or third to find.

 

I hate being a Beta Tester.

Edited October 21, 2004 by Markwell

[+JohnnyVegas]

I have no idea how many I have, it's a bunch though. I even found one a few weeks ago, in the log it had a box for the FTF in said "FTF reserved for Johnny Vegas"

 

When you are not working you have lots of time on your hands.

[+horsegeeks]

We love the challenge of FTFs. Our count is 75 out of our 714 finds in the 10 months we've been caching. One of them is a 5/5 that we worked on for 2 1/2 weeks.

[avroair]

Ask Stayfloopy. He has about 3200 finds and about 1500 of those are FTF!!!

[MMACH 5]

Out of 250 total finds, I've got 98 FTFs, (Officially, 97; one of those I found before it went live and it never got approved). Most of these are late night finds.

 

The kids and I are planning on finding three more this weekend, with #100 being a 5 star terrain that's just waiting for a finder. Of course, we don't let them stay up until the wee hours, so we're going to get up before sunrise and start hunting.

[+Marky]

I thought we had way more, but when I went back and counted, we only have about 225 (not counting FTFs done as a group). One of the reasons I was keeping track was that I was trying to hide a cache for every FTF I had. I think having a 1/1 ratio of FTF/Hides is cool.

 

--Marky

[kayaker22589]

I don't know about either of them.

I think that Dozer&thedirtclods are at least at 100.. Momma Dirt Clod's big thing caching is the FTF.

They have FTF on one of my caches

[+Kit Fox]

I have 12 FTFs and have found a total of 192 caches. This is in a 4 month period.

 

All but three of my FTFs were before 0630. I check for new caches before going to bed. I have skipped 2 FTFs, one because of muggles, and the 2nd one was because I wasn't supposed to find the cache : Do Not find This Cache. I'm proud to admit that rule number 15 was written because of what happened to me

 

My rules are that I only find FTFs before and after work or when I happend to be "going in that direction."

 

I have skipped a few new caches because I didn't feel like driving 30 miles just for a FTF log.

Edited October 21, 2004 by Kit Fox

[+pater47]

52 of my 412 finds have been FTFs, but today was the first in seven months. I'm most proud though that my first cache to ever find was a FTF!

[+sduck]

I've got a lot of ftf's, but my real record is for 1st dnf's of caches. Someday I'm going to have to start counting this stuff....

 

[+TerraViators]

How many FTF's do you have? I've gotten 3 in the past week and a half. 9 total. You?

I have 8. I started caching 4/12/10 and found my first FTF on 5/22/10 and my most recent on 7/30/10

[+tozainamboku]

I have 124 FTFs between the time this thread was last active and the when it was resurrected

[+thedeadpirate]

I have 124 FTFs between the time this thread was last active and the when it was resurrected

 

Hey, 6 years is a long time.

[+Scubasonic]

Got my Fist cache Jun 16th 2008 as of today I have 6,429 Finds of which 935 are FTFs I do keep track I love GSAK.

 

Most FTFs in a Day 10

 

Most FTFs in a Month 79

 

Scubasonic

Edited July 31, 2010 by Scubasonic

[+narcissa]

How many FTF's do you have? I've gotten 3 in the past week and a half. 9 total. You?

 

Recently unemployed, are you?

[+gnjeepn]

In the year and a half that we have been caching we have almost 800 finds. Of those 800 finds we only have 1 ftf. We both have jobs and it seems that caches in our area are published while we are at work. There are quite a few people in our area that use the I phone app and a soon as a cache is published they drop what they are doing and go get the ftf. The 1 ftf that we got was basically a fluke. We got it on the Mrs birthday. We decided to go out for a walk on the nearby bike path so I check for caches before we left and loaded up the caches that were on the path. We had found a couple along the path and were signing the blank log of the ftf when some other cachers came running down the path as we were signing. They were some of these people with the I phone. Appeared to be real bummed that they didn't get there before we did. As it turns out the cache we got the ftf on was published a minute or so before I loaded it onto the gpsr. I guess until we can afford to retire we will have to settle for the occasional ftf. I'm sure not going to try and kill myself getting them. We enjoy the interesting caches and the places that we find caching more than chasing the ftf.

Edited July 31, 2010 by gnjeepn

[+TABjuggler]

2 total

[+NYPaddleCacher]

Last September there was a local event held on 09/09/09. There were nine new caches placed by several hiders (I hid one of them) published the morning of the event. I took the day off of work to grab some of those caches (all the major cache types were represented) and was out about 8:00am. I was FTF on the first three I found, then started to feel guilty about getting all the FTF opportunities so took a brunch break until about 11:00am. So, the most I've found in a day is 3 and I have somewhere between 15 and 20 total. I don't keep track so I don't know the exact number. My general sense about my area is that there are many geocachers that like finding a clean log to sign but I wouldn't consider any of them FTF hounds. There's a cache about .9 of a mile from me that was placed almost two weeks ago that has yet to be found, and as far as I can tell, nobody has tried to search for it either. The page listings indicates that access to a trail to the cache is through the COs driveway and backyard and local cachers just don't care enough about getting a FTF that they'll risk a neighbor calling the cops about someone wandering through the COs property.

[+Team Cotati]

How many FTF's do you have? I've gotten 3 in the past week and a half. 9 total. You?

 

Recently unemployed, are you?

 

Toe hurts, does yours?

[+hukilaulau]

I started this thread at the beginning and didn't realize it was resurrected until the fifth post mentioned that Stayfloopy had over 3,000 finds. Now THAT'S an old thread!

[+drfred]

I used to get into the whole FTF thing, but was always beaten out by a local cacher who has over 500 FTFs. So my game is the STF. You have to time things just right - wait long enough for one person to get it but not so long that the whole crowd has been there. Caching couples and teams really screw up the whole STF game, but the spirit of the game is still there.

 

That said I have 147 FTFs and 192 STFs. That's out of ~3500 caches so about 10%!

 

I work and have a very busy job these days, so my caching numbers have been going way down over the past year. Oh well...

[+geodarts]

Since I don't see any need to use those three initials I guess I don't have any. But I did count the number of times I have signed a blank log for a challenge cache and stopped when I was fifty over the number. So I guess blank logs can be fun.

[+roziecakes]

I don't often pay that much attention to FTFs, but I think we've gotten 20 or so. I do admit that I got 10 on Wednesday though Mostly because I was really excited to do the cache series, and it was in my area. The FTF was a side bonus.

[+Kelinore]

I've got just shy of 1300 finds and 163 FTF's. I'm known as a FTF hound in my area. lol

[+the4dirtydogs]

We have 384 FTF's in our caching career so far. It's a lot of fun trying for an FTF in our area, we have a big group of hounds over here. It's not uncommon to have about 4 or 5 cachers meet up at the cache, so it's nice to chit chat after or watch others in the hunt. Love those FTFs

[+GrizzFlyer]

After getting 100 FTF's, I slowed down on them because I didn't want to become known as an FTF Hog. Think I have 107 now, 2900+ finds.

 

If you count benchmarks, I have over 700 FTF's in almost 1100 recoveries (finds).

[+ChileHead]

I lost track after about 200, but I rarely get them anymore due to other life stuff.

[+jerpete]

I think I have one FTF, it is 4,678 miles from home though.

[+jerpete]

double post

Edited August 27, 2010 by jerpete

[+The Caching Dead]

We had 9 FTFs in one day (a new series was posted the night before), and those were our first FTFs. We've had one more since then and we have 108 total finds.

[knowschad]

I know that this always makes Bittsen cringe, but I have to ask, "What is an 'FTF'?"

 

I know that we all play this differently, and that's OK, but I hate to see the more competitive aspects of it perpetuated and reinforced with posts like this. Some may, but I don't give a rat aspic if you or I found it first, second, or eleventh. If FTF is all you get out of finding caches, perhaps you'd be wise to look a little deeper.

[+brslk]

I know that this always makes Bittsen cringe, but I have to ask, "What is an 'FTF'?"

 

I know that we all play this differently, and that's OK, but I hate to see the more competitive aspects of it perpetuated and reinforced with posts like this. Some may, but I don't give a rat aspic if you or I found it first, second, or eleventh. If FTF is all you get out of finding caches, perhaps you'd be wise to look a little deeper.

 

That^ and for the record... I have found 1... not on purpose. I find caches because I like to find them.

 

The idea of being with Kate Beckinsale is no less or more tempting because no one has "found" her yet.

Edited August 27, 2010 by brslk

[+webscouter.]

I don't have a lot of FTFs, but this one, 1995 miles from my home, must be in the running for "the furthest from home."

 

I was FTF on Agios Ioannis , 5958.73 miles from my home

 

As far as number of FTF's I don't really keep track but I do know of a cacher that found 40 some FTF in a day when a new series came out. I would guess that a couple of power trail series have had a huge number of FTF on them too.

[GOF's Sock Puppet]

It never occurred to me to keep track of such things.

[Mr.Yuck]

How many FTF's do you have? I've gotten 3 in the past week and a half. 9 total. You?

 

Recently unemployed, are you?

 

Considering Chaz posted that in 2004, and his first page of last 20 finds goes back to July 2007, he must have become employed.

 

Being FTF was as known and coveted when I started in the summer of 2003, and I joined in the race way back then. I think I stopped caring or even bothering to try by 2005. I have always thought new cachers see the "FTF race" on every cache page, and it seems that congratulating users for FTF on cache pages is much more popular than it used to be, so n00bs assume everyone out there is dying to be FTF on every cache, when it's actually the same small handful of suspects in any area.

[+the4dirtydogs]

I know that this always makes Bittsen cringe, but I have to ask, "What is an 'FTF'?"

 

I know that we all play this differently, and that's OK, but I hate to see the more competitive aspects of it perpetuated and reinforced with posts like this. Some may, but I don't give a rat aspic if you or I found it first, second, or eleventh. If FTF is all you get out of finding caches, perhaps you'd be wise to look a little deeper.

 

So how many do you have?