RE: [Az-Geocaching] Poll

Wow, will the wonders never cease! Thanks for the very thorough
explanation. And good for us for earning 399 challenge points! We didn't
know we had earned anything besides a new addiction! There is much
research to do--and before the weekend, cause that time is spent out seeking
and finding. Of course, it is not about the numbers.... right? :-)

Thanks again, Dave


Terry-wogunhiker

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From: az-geocaching-bounces@listserv.azgeocaching.com
[mailto:az-geocaching-bounces@listserv.azgeocaching.com] On Behalf Of David
Thompsen
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 10:37 PM
To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
Subject: RE: [Az-Geocaching] Poll


You want stats... you got stats. :)

1) This page shows a pure ranking of all cachers with over 200 finds. This
is by far the most accurate worldwide accounting of stats for Geocaching.com
that I've seen. You can search by state/country also. I think it updates
roughly twice a week.

http://grand_high_pobah.home.comcast.net/

2) You can also see cache stats if you register at
http://www.keenpeople.com/index.php?option=displaypage
<http://www.keenpeople.com/index.php?option=displaypage&Itemid=55&op=page&Su
bMenu> &Itemid=55&op=page&SubMenu=

The problem with this one is that it relies on people opting in and manually
adding their stats.

3) Of course, azgeocaching.com's own
http://www.azgeocaching.com/team_stats.php is quite good statewise. Only
occasional hiccups in the numbers. :)

4) Challenge points aren't caches :
http://www.deepsouthwest.com/geocaching/stats/ website takes all active
caches in the state and assigns them a point value based on number of finds
and how long they've been out there. It's neat in that you can search by
county (never seen that anywhere before) and that it only counts caches that
are active. There's nothing you need to do to join or anything. It's just
another way of looking at the numbers. (BTW, wogunhiker has earned 399
challenge points.) You can learn about Noshood Tsoh's Challenge Points at :

http://www.deepsouthwest.com/geocaching/stats/aboutchallengepoints.html

--Dave, The Cow Spots

Wogun1 <wogun1@cox.net> wrote:

Ok, I know this is off the subject of tc vs gc.... but what is a challenge
point cache? And how does it become a challenge point cache? And are there
other statistical websites out there that we haven't stumbled across in the
last six months?

We have just been merrily caching along and had no idea such a thing
existed!

Terry
wogunhiker



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