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I know that these Geocaching records are done in a team and that they always claim that the team stays together, but I still have a hard time actually believing those 24 caching records.

 

Just do the math. To find 263 caches in a 24 hour period, you would have to average findinga cache every 5 mins and 40 seconds.

 

I know the Jacksonville area is rather flat, but still 263 caches in 24 hours?

 

- Are they actually opening up the cache container and writing in the log?

 

- Are these caches that anyone in this team has found before?

We followed them the entire time we were there and probably saw 150 logs with their names signed on them. It seemed everywhere we went we saw their signatures. They were great guys too, interesting and very funny. Congratulations goes to them for a great job that I couldn't do.

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<The Leprechauns>

 

<I'll thank you to not insult my ability to remember the caches I found while doing <my world record run, nor to insult my friends geopirat and huskie. Don't make <assumptions regarding experiences about which you know nothing.

 

Whatever, you an thank me all ya want, it wont work!

 

I know more than you think! You think you have me impressed with 260 caches that are all touching one another - NOPE! Sorry!

 

Try that in my area. I'll bet if you get 20 your doing good - I doubt you'd even get that!

 

<Although it is a year later, I can describe many -- probably a majority -- of the <240 caches we found to set the record. Several of them made my all-time <favorites list. We took pictures along the way and stopped to catch our breath <when there was a nice view to be had.

 

Doubt it, but if you believe you can - then you can!

 

>Regardless of whether they are part of a ten-cache run or a world record-run, a >good geocacher remembers good geocaches.

 

OK, but im still not convinced!

 

Tootie - Loo!

 

Enjoy your numbers!

 

sholmes

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world record runs

 

Who is the authority on this anyway?

 

What are the guidlines?

 

and who is ensuring that these are valid runs?

 

Im sorryl, but im just not convinced anyone can do this independent of a team and in the numbers they claim.

 

In a team, im not sure that they all visit the same cache together - rather than each visit a cache and sign the log for all three.

 

K - here is my 2 cents -

 

260 - Nope, can't be done

 

240 - NOPE!

 

200 - NOPE!

 

175 - Nope!

 

150 - NOPE!

 

100 - NOPE!

 

Still can't be done

 

75 - Nope!

 

50 - OK, maybe - if they are all touching one another

 

<SMILE>

 

sholmes

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world record runs

 

Who is the authority on this anyway?

 

What are the guidlines?

 

and who is ensuring that these are valid runs?

 

Im sorryl, but im just not convinced anyone can do this independent of a team and in the numbers they claim.

 

In a team, im not sure that they all visit the same cache together - rather than each visit a cache and sign the log for all three.

 

K - here is my 2 cents -

 

260 - Nope, can't be done

 

240 - NOPE!

 

200 - NOPE!

 

175 - Nope!

 

150 - NOPE!

 

100 - NOPE!

 

Still can't be done

 

75 - Nope!

 

50 - OK, maybe - if they are all touching one another

 

<SMILE>

 

sholmes

Sorry that you have such a myopic view.

Your rock is waiting for you to go back and crawl under again.

 

Let me guess... you don't believe in the Waffle Fairy either.

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sholmes, in a game built on trust and courtesy, you make few friends by accusing so many people of lying. You obviously have little conception of just how many people have found 50 or 100 or more caches in one day.

 

I won't dignify your post with a detailed response. It would further derail a thread that should rightly be devoted to congratulating our friends Geopirat and Huskie on their accomplishment.

 

:D

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world record runs

 

Who is the authority on this anyway?

 

What are the guidlines?

 

and who is ensuring that these are valid runs?

 

Im sorryl, but im just not convinced anyone can do this independent of a team and in the numbers they claim.

 

In a team, im not sure that they all visit the same cache together - rather than each visit a cache and sign the log for all three.

 

K - here is my 2 cents -

 

260 - Nope, can't be done

 

240 - NOPE!

 

200 - NOPE!

 

175 - Nope!

 

150 - NOPE!

 

100 - NOPE!

 

Still can't be done

 

75 - Nope!

 

50 - OK, maybe - if they are all touching one another

 

<SMILE>

 

sholmes

Thats to be expected from a guy who can only find 90 caches in 4yrs. That's what, less then 2 a month? trust me, 50 in a day is a cake walk in any sort of cache dense area. I've done 50 in a day on foot, with 15 miles of hiking. No biggie.

 

Granted, where YOU live may not be cache dense, but climb out from under your rock and look at the cache density of the places these records are getting set. Do a search for caches in Nashville, JAX, or the San Fransisco Bay area, for example. anyone with a reasonable amount of planning (route planning, laptop navigation, auto-routing, etc) can easily break 100 caches in 10 hrs of caching. Breaking 200 in 24hrs requires a little more planning and a lot less sleep, thats all.

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WOW!!  Congrats to the Germans..........It takes me 5 minutes just to get out of my car.

LMAO... I'm still laughing.... still....

 

yep, still laughing....

 

whew... trying to catch my breath.... I know what you mean Cache & Keri.

 

THX for the laugh :D

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I found 69 caches in 7 hours in Lakeland Florida, with a good bit of not so well planned out driving, some DNFs and a modest hiking cache thrown in. I was exhausted, but someone 20 years younger than myself might well have been delighted to keep it rolling.

 

That record will fall this summer in Nashville if Team Rebellion gets up there.

 

I enjoy contemplating the sheer physical stamina of that kind of cache run (contemplating from the side lines). Congratulations to Geopirat and Huskie and thanks for bringing the German Geocoins to GW3.

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This kinda reminds me of the folks that hike the whole ( over 2000 mile ) length of the Appalachian Trail in under 90 days. I did it in 6 months. I wouldnt trade my 6 months for those 90 days for anything. It's about quality, not quantity (or speed) in this persons humble opinion.

Cheers

Mudbone

I took ten years to hike almost a half of the AT. Oh, well.

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how does that work exactly.. it's a team effort? so 10 guys on a team go hunting and they count all their finds togather? i should make a team of 1000 people and we all go find 1 cache! hee hee. are there any rules? do they have to stay togather in the group? or do they split up? someone please explain..

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how does that work exactly.. it's a team effort? so 10 guys on a team go hunting and they count all their finds togather? i should make a team of 1000 people and we all go find 1 cache! hee hee. are there any rules? do they have to stay togather in the group? or do they split up? someone please explain..

In every case I know of, they stay together. No different then caching with your friend/wife/kids/whatever. Often these record breaking attempts do have a dedicated driver/navigator/record keeper, so that saves boatloads of time. While the team is looking for one cache, the navigator is plotting the next cache. He's relaying directions to the driver while also keeping notes of what caches the team has found. He's also probably telling the cache team what waypoint they are heading to next. The actual record attempting cachers don't need to worry about anything except hopping out of the van and looking for a cache. Trust me, when you have several cachers each with 1000+ finds already under their belt, no cache stays hidden for long. This is really caching on a whole different level, and it's not for everyone. Just like riding a bike 100 miles a day, or running a 20 mile marathon isnt for everyone.

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how does that work exactly..

There is no sanctioning body that lists world geocaching records.

 

But if you want to know how it is being done, read this forum topic.

 

I really don't understand why people are so skeptical about this. Either ignore it, congratulate the people who did it, or go set your own record with your own parameters. :D:wub:

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When we set the one-day record for California, we all stayed together. We all visited each cache. We all signed the log. The team that broke our record the the same, and the individual who now (to my knowledge) holds the record here in California...well, he did it solo though he did have an escort to drive him from cache to cache.

 

The highest solo (no lifelines, no co-pilot) that I am aware of is 90+ by Ace Flapperhacker in the Antelope Valley, Calif...and I can attest, knowing his character, that he did it legit.

 

My highest "unassisted" find day (meaning me and my teammate, with no lifelines or other outside help) of 82 caches was done almost effortlessly. We could've done another 40 or 50 that day if we hadn't decided to call it an early evening and head back to the hotel for some R&R.

 

Those who doubt have simply never done. It's entirely possible to knock out a lot of finds in a day. In some places, it's downright easy.

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Blitzkrieg caching, how German................

 

For me this is a leisurely activity, if I wanted busy and fast-paced I would work as a hobby.

And that is your right. All should enjoy caching in their own way. Why hint at bashing someone else for their fun? Fun is what you make of it, just as angst is as angst does...... :wub:

 

Edit: I find the "how German" thing rather offensive. What does nationality have to do with it?

 

Anyway, happy caching. I like to happy cache both on mega runs and long hikes for a single cache. :D

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First of all,

 

Its 90 caches in 3 months. Not 4 years.

 

I signed up 4 years ago to take a look at the site. I didn't actually (start) become a geocacher until after i returned from IRAQ in December of 2004. I started Geocaching as a form of therapy for injuries received while conducting combat operations in Samara. I am still recuperating and I am still using it as therapy.

I didn't get my first cache until Febraru of 2005!

 

I think thats pretty good stats for a man with shrapnel in his leg.....

 

Thirdly,

 

No one is bashing anyone. I have a right to say I don't believe the numbers, as much as you do to post them. I DON"T BELIEVE THE NUMBERS.

 

because of the time it takes to do the following

 

1.) Get in vehicle

2.) Drive to cache (time consuming)

3.) Find the cache (time consuming)

4.) Open the cache

5.) Get log out of bag

6.) Sign log

7.) Put log in bag

8.) close cache

9.) move back to vehicle

10.) Get in vehicle

11.) Drive to next cache

 

260 in 24 hours period would be (~11 / hour)

 

SORRY! NOPE! - Not convinced!

 

Have a good day!

 

sholmes

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Hi sholmes, you might want to follow this link to a log on The Number Ho Celebration Dinner. About one of the cache runs on Sunday, lead by Ice Cream Man

 

The Beaches Marathon Run drove 80 miles in 10 1/2 hours and changed 1 flat tire while finding 103 caches! Wow, what a blast!

 

ICM's log with links

 

Sorry we couldn't make any of the Sunday runs - we had family commitments - but some winter weekend, we'll be back and using those bookmarked lists. Though the best of JAX will be at the top

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1.) Get in vehicle

2.) Drive to cache (time consuming)

3.) Find the cache (time consuming)

4.) Open the cache

5.) Get log out of bag

6.) Sign log

7.) Put log in bag

8.) close cache

9.) move back to vehicle

10.) Get in vehicle

11.) Drive to next cache

 

260 in 24 hours period would be (~11 / hour)

 

SORRY! NOPE! - Not convinced!

 

Well in that case you're calling some pretty decent, well respected people like CarleenP and Lep, liars. They claim the old record of 240 in 24 hours and if they said they did, I believe them.

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No you are calling them a liar, not me!

Don't put words in my mouth.

Like i said in my earlier posts, if they believe they did some kind of record, then thats fine with me.

I don't believe it. Thats my right!

 

Im done witht his thread - good luck with all your records!

 

Happy Caching!

 

sholmes

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No you are calling them a liar, not me!

Don't put words in my mouth.

Like i said in my earlier posts, if they believe they did some kind of record, then thats fine with me.

I don't believe it. Thats my right!

 

Im done witht his thread - good luck with all your records!

 

Happy Caching!

 

sholmes

OK if they said they did and you say they didn't, what else could that be?

 

"Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational

position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd" - Ann Besant

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Find the cache (time consuming)

 

Maybe for rank amateurs it is time consuming to pull a hide-a-key off a guardrail or to remove a film canister from a lamp post base. For those of us who know what we're doing, however, it is a fairly quick process. Maybe someday sholmes' caching skills will progress to the point where he can find caches fast, and his social skills will progress to the point where he will quit insulting people.

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263? That seems like a lot for 24 hours, even though they were in a cache dense area. Assuming they were caching the whole time without really going to the restroom and eating on the go and no sleep while caching in the dark, that means the time between finds was a little over 5 minutes! It often takes me 5 minutes to find one, and sometimes more! Even if the caches were within walking distance, this would have been hard to do, and I don't know of anyplace that has 263 caches within walking distance. The most I have ever done in that time stretch was 23, I believe. Realistically, the most I can see one group do together is 60. If this is true, then this record may be harder to break than any record in sports.

You have to understand they don't mind urban micros like we do in SC in other parts of the USA Yeah it would be VERY hard to even try to crack around the record around here It is VERY possible cause I went on a run that was camo type caches and I can see how a record like that can be set and broken.

 

As for the team that did it, they were an AWESOME team.

 

As for anyone who doubts the record was broken don't even start I did not see you at GW3 :lol:

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The Germans, along with CCCooperAgency are currently feasting on Daytona (see our) caches. I say this because GeoPirat is logging them in as he finds them. If Daytona was bigger, this would be fertile ground for record breaking. I would say we're getting logs about every 4 minutes.... which I find quite believable.

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The Germans, along with CCCooperAgency are currently feasting on Daytona (see our) caches. I say this because GeoPirat is logging them in as he finds them. If Daytona was bigger, this would be fertile ground for record breaking. I would say we're getting logs about every 4 minutes.... which I find quite believable.

They have real time e-mail on their cellphones so they are also logging the caches as they find them on the site.

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First to stay OT-congrats again to my geopals geopirat und huskie! B) Enjoy your limelight, at least until this record gets broken. B)

I find it oddly curious that the doubting thomases and sherlocks in this thread are the less experienced cachers, while those defending the truth are the more experienced ones. :)

For those of you who are having trouble envisioning how a power caching team can be set up picture this:

Team CHB averaged about 100 finds/day :) for the four full days spent in JAX and attending the Friday and Saturday events. We were 7-8 ( I had to leave early, and we had a guest with us at times) cachers in a rented 12 passenger van, so there was ample room to shift about, carry food and beverages. The rare stops are for refueling both the vehicle and our supplies of sugary snacks and cold non alcoholic beverages. Bathrooms ae found along the way except in the most urban routes. B) We did several of those at night and on Sunday, but on Thursday and Friday we did the beaches run to the south, and the A1A run to the north to take in some scenery as well as find some caches.

 

There is a driver and a passenger up front.

Behind the driver is the navigator. He is operating a laptop running the latest version of Streets and Trips, with an external antenna on the roof of the van, giving accuracy of 5-6 feet. All of the caches are already plotted on the map, using different colored pushpins for each of the 12 created routes. The route planner feature shows the targeted route to the left of the map on screen. The "optimize route" feature of S&T was used to minimize left turns across traffic lanes, and to ensure a complete loop instead of just zigzagging to the nearest cache. :lol:

 

Behind the navigator is the "answer man" running GSAK on another laptop. As we are en route between a find and the next cache, he is reading the cache details, including decrypted hint to the team. We know what we are looking for, and many times where to look before we even hit the ground.( Think about that the next time you write up a cache page.) Everyone has several pens, and even some stickers for the log sheets. We also carry multiple flashlights, including headlamps, and of course lots of extra batteries. We also carry FRS radios, in case parking is problamatic, we'll just drop off the hunters and circle back for them. They also come in handy with the virts, so you can talk to the answer man and be sure the correct info is collected.

 

As soon as the van has slowed enough, the three right side teammates are out the doors. If they do not find it within 60-90 seconds, the second wave of seekers is out the door. If it still isn't found the rest of the team hits the ground to look. If we are still unsuccessful after 5-8 miuntes, someone will call TIME, and the hunt for this one is over. One person, ususally a right side bird dog signs the log for all as the rest pile back in the van to plot the next target.

 

Now this isn't how we cache all the time, but a few times a year this is how we have FUN geocaching. And that (not the hokey pokey) IS what its all about. :P:D:D:D

 

I think this weekend I'll get up early to beat the heat and got for a nice long hike and find 2-3. I came up jjust short of 2000 in JAX, so I'll find something special for that landmark smily. :P

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"Maybe someday sholmes' caching skills will progress to the point where he can find caches fast, and his social skills will progress to the point where he will quit insulting people."

 

Being a lawyer, you should know i never insulted anyone (go back and read my posts) - I just clearly stated that I don't believe the numbers. I have also clearly stated, that you have the right to believe your numbers as well as i have the right to believe what i believe. I also apologized in each and every post. I just can't seem to caclulate what you are calculating - Sorry!

 

Maybe you could list all 240 (0r 260) of the caches here, so we can caluclate it the odds. I'd be very interested in seeing the distance between each cache, the time it would take to travel to each and compare it against the 24 hour priod - I will be very shocked if it was done without some type of cut corner!

 

As for skills.... (now who is insulting who) - you gotta be kidding me right. You don't even know me. If you knew my military background, you wouldn't be making that comment. I'll leave it it that.

 

Again, sorry - and im sorry YOU have to get insulting....

 

sholmes

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For those of you who are having trouble envisioning how a power caching team can be set up picture this:

Team CHB averaged about 100 finds/day :) for the four full days spent in JAX and attending the Friday and Saturday events. We were 7-8 ( I had to leave early, and we had a guest with us at times) cachers in a rented 12 passenger van, so there was ample room to shift about, carry food and beverages. The rare stops are for refueling both the vehicle and our supplies of sugary snacks and cold non alcoholic beverages. Bathrooms ae found along the way except in the most urban routes. :) We did several of those at night and on Sunday, but on Thursday and Friday we did the beaches run to the south, and the A1A run to the north to take in some scenery as well as find some caches.

 

There is a driver and a passenger up front.

Behind the driver is the navigator. He is operating a laptop running the latest version of Streets and Trips, with an external antenna on the roof of the van, giving accuracy of 5-6 feet. All of the caches are already plotted on the map, using different colored pushpins for each of the 12 created routes. The route planner feature shows the targeted route to the left of the map on screen. The "optimize route" feature of S&T was used to minimize left turns across traffic lanes, and to ensure a complete loop instead of just zigzagging to the nearest cache. :lol:

 

Behind the navigator is the "answer man" running GSAK on another laptop. As we are en route between a find and the next cache, he is reading the cache details, including decrypted hint to the team. We know what we are looking for, and many times where to look before we even hit the ground.( Think about that the next time you write up a cache page.) Everyone has several pens, and even some stickers for the log sheets. We also carry multiple flashlights, including headlamps, and of course lots of extra batteries. We also carry FRS radios, in case parking is problamatic, we'll just drop off the hunters and circle back for them. They also come in handy with the virts, so you can talk to the answer man and be sure the correct info is collected.

 

As soon as the van has slowed enough, the three right side teammates are out the doors. If they do not find it within 60-90 seconds, the second wave of seekers is out the door. If it still isn't found the rest of the team hits the ground to look. If we are still unsuccessful after 5-8 miuntes, someone will call TIME, and the hunt for this one is over. One person, ususally a right side bird dog signs the log for all as the rest pile back in the van to plot the next target.

Congratulations to the latest record breakers!!!

 

Thanks for elaborating on some of the deatils of your run, wimsey. I enjoyed hearing about your experience.

 

Two points to make:

 

Everyone has their own interpretation of fun.

 

No one is forcing anyone to believe it. But whether you believe it or not, playing nice is required. No throwing sand in the sandbox, please.

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Everyone has their own interpretation of fun.

Exactly my point; thanks for getting it K&MS. (one of these days we'll actually meet up in NC or CT :lol: )

In fact there are several flavors of fun to choose from each time you go caching.

Last time I was up in your CT woods I got to go snow caching, something we can't do too often around here. :)

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Maybe you could list all 240 (0r 260) of the caches here, so we can caluclate it the odds. I'd be very interested in seeing the distance between each cache, the time it would take to travel to each and compare it against the 24 hour priod - I will be very shocked if it was done without some type of cut corner!

 

The caches were logged online, you can find them. At one time there was a GPS track log recorded. I have no idea if that is still around, perhaps JoGPS still has it (he was our driver). Better yet, go to Nashville and find the caches. You will see the names in the logs (along with the names of the German team because they were in front of us in Nashville, but didn't run the full 24 hours). The number of witnesses who were also out caching most of the night over the 24 hour period was quite large. I have no intention of proving myself to you beyond that, or continuing to discuss the matter with you. :lol:

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The Germans, along with CCCooperAgency are currently feasting on Daytona (see our) caches. I say this because GeoPirat is logging them in as he finds them. If Daytona was bigger, this would be fertile ground for record breaking. I would say we're getting logs about every 4 minutes.... which I find quite believable.

I believe the German Team told me that they wanted to find at least 50 a day during their trip. I bet with CCCooper along, they are finding even more. She is like the energizer bunny, just goes and goes and goes...... :lol:

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I know that these Geocaching records are done in a team and that they always claim that the team stays together, but I still have a hard time actually believing those 24 caching records.

 

Just do the math. To find 263 caches in a 24 hour period, you would have to average findinga cache every 5 mins and 40 seconds.

 

I know the Jacksonville area is rather flat, but still 263 caches in 24 hours?

 

- Are they actually opening up the cache container and writing in the log?

 

- Are these caches that anyone in this team has found before?

Why do folks have to disbelieve this???? I mean do you feel threatened or inadquate???? I would just be happy with the results and congragulate the folks. It is a goal they set for themselves and so I say a JOB WELL DONE. Okay next week someone may come along and do 300 in 24 hours. Yes conditions have to be right and planning is involved but soon there will jsut be a physical limit. Also there are differant ateas that have features that will preclude doing a monster cache run but the prime requirement is cache density.

Any way I wax and wane but why not just say a job well done.

cheers

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FOR CRYING OUT LOUD. Would someone PLEASE post the link from Today's Cacher that has the story about the firefighters in Florida who set the previous record. It explains exactly how you plan to do something like this.

 

Shlomes, sorry if you can't accept it but it can be done. It does require a few weeks of preplanning. One does not simply load the caches to your GPS and go.

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Congrats to those that go for this kind of caching.

 

I finally got to 200 and its almost 4 years, and I've enjoyed every minute of it. From lame micros to stupendous virtuals to boxes in the woods, I made the decision as to what to look for and when to look. And have met a hell of a lot of nice people along the way and am looking forward to meeting more as time rolls on.

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Ms horsegeeks and I were a little dubious about record attempts so we tried a little experiment. We were in Jacksonville about a year ago and decided to try something. We had only been geocaching about three or four months. We managed to do 11 in an hour with our bad backs and 60-ish bodies that made it tough to get in and out of the car. So we decide to go to Nashville and try again. We found 52 in twelve hours and 48 the next day in 11 hours (including eating a meal in both cases). The next day we decided to do a bit more of the park caching and hiking and only did 18 (along of course with me breaking my ankle). We had a blast doing both types of caching and always do. Our unorganized team of five did 225 caches in three and a half days at GW3 caching only half a day each day. The numbers are possible with the organization they had.

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As soon as the van has slowed enough, the three right side teammates are out the doors. If they do not find it within 60-90 seconds, the second wave of seekers is out the door. If it still isn't found the rest of the team hits the ground to look. If we are still unsuccessful after 5-8 miuntes, someone will call TIME, and the hunt for this one is over.

Please tell me that they then log a DNF :lol:

 

BTW, I see that geoPirat has logged GCGTYC twice. So even the greatest make slips in a hurry. (If you log a cache twice, do you score two points?)

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I just clearly stated that I don't believe the numbers. I have also clearly stated, that you have the right to believe your numbers as well as i have the right to believe what i believe.

You also clearly stated that you were done with this thread, and have posted twice since. :)

 

I know, it's no crime to get fed up and say you're done, and then come back when you've cooled down.

 

It's still funny though. :lol:

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If you knew my military background, you wouldn't be making that comment. I'll leave it it that.

 

Again, sorry - and im sorry YOU have to get insulting....

Tsk. As someone who also happens to have a military background, I'm appalled that you would use that to defend your own insults. It's also pretty pathetic to see how every time somebody does something extraordinary, somebody decides they have to pee on their parade.

 

Aside from the fact that you aren't making any friends here, it's clear that you have nothing to base your conclusions on. A couple of weekends ago, I had exactly two hours to kill before an appointment. I found 22 caches in those two hours (including a quick stop to fill the gas tank). Had I kept going at that pace for 24 hours, I would have had exactly...let's see, 264 caches. Hey, isn't that right about what the current record is?

 

Dude. Get over it. It's possible. And it's been done. Many times.

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Heres a suggestion: There is a person who obviously does not believe. Repeated attempts have been made to convince him, but they don't work. My suggestion> Give up. Why do you need to convince him? His opinion doesn't change anything, so let it be. Further attempts will just cause more angst.

 

Hmmm, this seems very similar to advice others have given in the past on how to deal with a troll. Not that I'm calling anyone a troll.

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Congrats to those that go for this kind of caching.

 

I finally got to 200 and its almost 4 years, and I've enjoyed every minute of it. From lame micros to stupendous virtuals to boxes in the woods, I made the decision as to what to look for and when to look. And have met a hell of a lot of nice people along the way and am looking forward to meeting more as time rolls on.

Here is a great post. Tahosa is someone whom I respect greatly because he has chosen the way he wants to play this game, he sticks to that, and he's very, very good at it.

 

Sometimes I choose to have fun by finding caches that are Tahosa-style. A few weeks after attending GW2, I climbed up some mountains in Washington State to find a cache that was many miles away. The weekend before GW3, I hiked 14 miles for three smilies. I will play this game any way I can in order to have fun. I respect those who only hunt for the hard caches, or who only hunt for the easy ones, because that is their definition of fun.

 

Going for the world record is the pinnacle of fun if you don't mind that style of geocaching. It's not for everybody! And oh boy, did we have fun last year in Nashville. Team Rebellion had fun doing it too, and the Germans were grinning ear to ear when I saw them over the weekend. Team CHB was having a BLAST tooling around Jacksonville in their caching van. There were very few logs in the Jacksonville caches I found that didn't already have signatures from Geopirat, Huskie and Team CHB.

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because of the time it takes to do the following

 

1.) Get in vehicle

2.) Drive to cache (time consuming)

3.) Find the cache (time consuming)

4.) Open the cache

5.) Get log out of bag

6.) Sign log

7.) Put log in bag

8.) close cache

9.) move back to vehicle

10.) Get in vehicle

11.) Drive to next cache

 

260 in 24 hours period would be (~11 / hour)

 

SORRY! NOPE! - Not convinced!

Also, consider that much of these 24-hour marathons take place in the dark and that the cachers would still be mindful of muggles (let's hope).

 

These records are truly unbelievable, but that's what makes them impressive. It seems more unbelievable to think that these cachers are lying or cheating. It is no skin off my nose (as my mom would say) to take them at their word.

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