Re: [Az-Geocaching] Who's at the top?

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 <bcasteel@uccinc.net> 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.
>
>
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> >From: Brian Casteel <>
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> >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
>
>
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