+Bob&TheGang Posted December 10, 2004 Posted December 10, 2004 I recently saw that 3 Geocachers in the Jacksonville area found 246 caches in a 24 hour period to set the "all time cache record" in the end of November (2004). 246 caches found is very impressive. But when I see something like this, I ask myself, did the hole group stay together the hole time? Or did they split up? To me that makes a huge difference to the type of record they are claiming. If they stayed together as a group, they would have had to average finding a cache once every 5.8 minutes. That almost sounds inpossible to do. Quote
magellan315 Posted December 10, 2004 Posted December 10, 2004 This was a group event, no one split up. What this invloved was a lot of planning and mapping out where all of the caches were, so you can hit them in a series. Quote
Mushtang Posted December 10, 2004 Posted December 10, 2004 the hole group... Were they all fans of Courtney Love? Quote
+The Leprechauns Posted December 10, 2004 Posted December 10, 2004 I am so glad that, as the *former* co-holder of the record (at a mere 240 caches), I don't have to answer these threads anymore. Quote
+sept1c_tank Posted December 10, 2004 Posted December 10, 2004 I am so glad that, as the *former* co-holder of the record (at a mere 240 caches), I don't have to answer these threads anymore. No one remembers *former* record holders anyway. Quote
+RichardMoore Posted December 10, 2004 Posted December 10, 2004 Check out this article in Today's Cacher. Quote
+Wadcutter Posted December 10, 2004 Posted December 10, 2004 I just did a quick calc. To get the 246 caches nearest me I'd have to cover an area of 13,400 square miles. That would be a pretty full day for me. Quote
+Stunod Posted December 10, 2004 Posted December 10, 2004 I just did a quick calc. To get the 246 caches nearest me I'd have to cover an area of 13,400 square miles. That would be a pretty full day for me. That gave me a thought... I PQed the 246 closest caches to my house and let MS Streets & Trips optimize a route to all of them (starting & ending at my house). It calculated 481.7 miles of driving and an estimated driving time of 21 hours, 30 minutes. Quote
+Isonzo Karst Posted December 10, 2004 Posted December 10, 2004 I PQed the 246 closest caches to my house and let MS Streets & Trips optimize a route to all of them (starting & ending at my house). It calculated 481.7 miles of driving and an estimated driving time of 21 hours, 30 minutes. laugh.gif Well, alright then, you've got 2 hours and 30 minutes to actually find those caches and sign those logs! Get cracking That's around 39 seconds per cache - plenty for an experienced cacher like yourself. Quote
+SixDogTeam Posted December 10, 2004 Posted December 10, 2004 they would have had to average finding a cache once every 5.8 minutes. That almost sounds inpossible to do. We agree. Quote
+Isonzo Karst Posted December 10, 2004 Posted December 10, 2004 BTW I just PQed 260 caches of terrain less than or equal to 3 and difficulty greater than 1 from an arbitrarily chosen "central" Jacksonville Fl set of coords: 30 19 80 29. And those 260 caches all lie within 7.4 miles of that center point. I expect a better center could easily be found. It's still a lot of driving. Quote
+Team Perks Posted December 10, 2004 Posted December 10, 2004 They obviously need some more power trails in Jacksonville. Quote
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