Geesh, lateley I am lucky if I can get a cache on my days off....... I want to travel for work so I can do more geocaching!! How do I get that job? On 9/14/06, Brian Casteel wrote: > > EMC is #4 in those rankings, and she works. :) I had the pleasure of > meeting her when she was in town for a performance, and drove her around > for > the afternoon caching. She travels heavily, and between performances has > significant amounts of time to cache. MaxB on the River, while lower in > cache finds, caches to move TBs, and they too travel extensively for work. > Just recently, they achieved the milestone of 6.5 million TB miles logged. > > But it is pretty cool to achieve such goals. > > Brian > Team A.I. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: az-geocaching-bounces@listserv.azgeocaching.com > [mailto:az-geocaching-bounces@listserv.azgeocaching.com] On Behalf Of > Roping > The Wind > Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 9:29 AM > To: listserv@azgeocaching.com > Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Who's at the top? > > > >From: Brian Casteel <> > >Reply-To: listserv@azgeocaching.com > >To: listserv@azgeocaching.com > >Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Who's at the top? > >Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 07:45:39 -0600 > > > >http://grand_high_pobah.home.comcast.net/index.html > > Wow. I didnt know about that website. Finally, a ranking that is accurate. > It shows I have 2239 finds, which is correct. Looks like I am ranked 405 > in > the world. I remember at one time I was well inside the top 100 in the > world > > ranking. But I dont really follow the numbers anymore and havent looked at > any numbers stats since the azgeocaching.com site stopped tracking them. > > I see the top finder has something like 17,000 cache finds!? Must be > retired > > as I dont see how anyone can find that many caches and still carry on a > normal work week and whatever other duties life brings. I have been > caching > since the rather early days of the game and I cached pretty hard at times. > I > > found over 200 in one month and while that was big numbers at the time, > that > > could probably be done in 2 days in some places (like LA area). I am self > employed, so I can sort of set my own schedule. I still dont see how I > could > > ever have had the time or the money to have 17,000 finds, today, 4 years > later. That would require alot of traveling around the region or even the > country to areas with high cache density. I have 2239 finds currently, > which > > is about an average of 40 caches a month since I started caching on > January > 6, 2002. Put that into perspective and think of how much of my life would > be > > totally consumed of geocaching if I were to have been able to find 17,000 > caches in those 4 years. Geocaching has only been a game for about a > year/year and a half before I started and the top team, Team Alamo, has > been > > caching for 9 months less than me (started in Oct 2002)! That is amazing. > I > looked at their profile and it looks like it is an honest retired couple. > Still, that many finds is ALOT of traveling and geocaching! My hats off to > them. That is quite an achievement! > > Scott > Team Ropingthewind > > > ____________________________________________________________ > Az-Geocaching mailing list listserv@azgeocaching.com > To edit your setting, subscribe or unsubscribe visit: > http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching > > Arizona's Geocaching Resource > http://www.azgeocaching.com > > > > > DISCLAIMER: > This message is confidential, intended only for the named recipient(s) and > may contain information that is privileged or exempt from disclosure under > applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient(s), you are notified > that the dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly > prohibited. If you receive this message in error, or are not the named > recipient(s), please notify the sender at either the e-mail address or by > calling the telephone number associated with this transmission. Please > delete this e-mail from your computer (or discard this fax). Thank You. > > ____________________________________________________________ > Az-Geocaching mailing list listserv@azgeocaching.com > To edit your setting, subscribe or unsubscribe visit: > http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching > > Arizona's Geocaching Resource > http://www.azgeocaching.com > -- EMa<<<--->>>Geo Gypsy