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

[loranwilcox at chartermi.net]

Number are a highly subjective measure of caching.  Now don't get me wrong as I see nothing wrong with them,  Why else would I know I have 2687 finds.

What is subjective about them:
  Is where you live as some area have way more caches than others.  
  How much you travel in that new areas alway have an abundance of caches to find.
  What kind of cahes you go for whether it be park and grabs or 10 mile hikes.
  And finally how much time you have to cache.

I know that when I move back to Phoenix my numbers will quickly inflate by around 1000 finds.  Only because there are that many new caches to find in a fairly small area.  Till then I will just go along at my slow pace of 10 caches per week. 

Team Sand Dollar

---- Brian Casteel <bcasteel at 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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> >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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