Well, he's gone and done it. 200 hides. A bunch of alerts went off this morning, pushing Chadd over the 200 hide mark. I do believe that's the most in the state, at the present moment.
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Well, he's gone and done it. 200 hides. A bunch of alerts went off this morning, pushing Chadd over the 200 hide mark. I do believe that's the most in the state, at the present moment.
Team Horwich as of 12/19/09 has 235, Serious Tool is at 228.:)
Stay Tuned, a changing of the guard is imminent.:rolleyes:
Northwoods Explorer has 199, Ekidokai has 186
Great time to be a cacher in Maine!:D
I knew it...will need to make another trip to the West Kennebunk area
When did that happen? I knew TeamHorwich was up there, but I didn't think they had cracked 200 yet. Oh, well. :o
TearHorwich hid their 200th a little over a year ago, including some which have been archived and some nice older caches which they adopted. While I am not a proponent of large numbers of hides, it seems they keep up with all the maintenance and have placed many memorable caches as well. Kudos to them for that.
Well, as of this morning, Chadd has had some more caches published, pushing his number of hides up to 239. And as I wrote this, I checked on TeamHorwich, and his count's up to 246.
Brdad is absolutely right about the effort Jim Horowitz puts in with cache maintenance. On a couple I found ( or couldn't find) that had issues, he immediately archived and had them fixed within a day. Ed and Dave, lexmano and DSKG are the same way. Lots of caches means a lot of responsibility! Congrats and thanks to Chad for all the new caches and good luck and thanks for keeping them all ready to find.:)
Once the Star Wars Tribute is finished at about 100-120 caches total, I will be stepping back from placing caches, and concentrating on maintaining all of mine, and making some of my early hides more permanent and better! I have been influenced by several Maine cachers in style of hides, from Ekidokai's SMR run, to the Historical hides of Horwich, to the geographically influenced park and grabs of Lex, to the sneaky and devious hides of HD and DSKG! A big thank you is needed for all of these guys for the effort they have put into this sport, and the inspiration each of them has given to me!
. . . and then you get folks with over 1,000 finds and not a single hide to their name. I still can't figure that one out . . . with all of the time to find caches and they can't find one place to even hide a micro? Sorry, it's Monday and I'm feeling cranky again. ;)
I'll side with a person who hesitates to hide a cache long before I will one who haphazardly places one or 50 or just puts one out to give back to the community. A perfect example is Lee - She was concerned with hiding a quality cache at proper location and a cache that she felt she could maintain. She also was concerned people may not have a fun time finding it. She was not going to settle for a micro, she wanted to do something that was more unique to the area.Quote:
Originally Posted by firefighterjake
Not to mention, in today's cache density, 1000 finds could be a month or less. I suppose you could use the time a person has been caching as a criteria, but there are many cachers who only go caching a few days year or while on vacation.
I don't believe every cacher has to place caches to "give back" to the community. We have more than enough power hiders to make up for it. There are also some people who should just not place caches either because they have time or geographical restraints, and some who don't or won't pay attention to safe and quality hiding practices (primarily by reading gc.coms Cache Listing Requirements and Guidelines as well as their TOU) which make a positive impact on the activity. And then there are those who won't maintain their caches.
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I don't believe every cacher has to place caches to "give back" to the community. We have more than enough power hiders to make up for it. QUOTE]
I tend to think the same way myself. Before I left to move down here to SC I had about 800 or so finds and only had about 6 or so hides but I think they were quality hides and that's the way I wanted them to be. I don't have any hides down here yet and to be quite honest it seems all the "quality places" have already been taken in my area. I'm not one to hide a micro and there are plenty of those around to appease those who like that type of hide anyway. If I do find that 'special place' I'll make sure it is as special to me and the cache finder as well. JMHO
I still maintain that anyone who finds over 1,000 hides should be able to find at least one quality place to hide a cache . . .
Right now, I am preparing containers and logs all ready to go for when I need them for maintaining caches. I am trying to stock up on ready to go replacement caches. As soon as I get a few DNFs, I am all over the cache. I even have performed repair and replacement on other's caches.
From http://mgs.cano.sk/Quote:
Originally Posted by NativeMainer
SeriousTool239TeamHorwich209Ekidokai178Mapachi158Northwoods Explorer120lexmano109law1646100Katadin Goddess94MARTES80LaughingTerry73EMSDanel70kayaking loon68iampaw67shuman road searchers55hoamdezinahs52
We need to measure the body of work over time, so counting archived caches and events, TH is at 248 and the Serious Tool is at 252. A changing of the guard has occurred.:p
congrats to the SeriousFool...I mean Tool ; )
Thanks everyone! Now.... to begin retrofitting my earliest hides and maintaining them all! I have a feeling Horwich will be back at it again and the counts will go back and forth between us for the coming months.
Was happy to see that TH and DSKG had some FTFs this morning (3 of them involving S-Ray as well!)....
I'm just starting! Look out behind you, I still have my power run to put out!
:D Keep it close by Pat!:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Mapachi
I think a power run would be fun to do.
Ah, and in conjunction with the WWWWWWWWW event perhaps? Should someone rent a bus? :D Anyone know where to find a 4 x 4 bus? :D LOL ;)
WWWWWW 6 will be Saturday, Feb 20th. Just got email back from Gerry at "Big G's", so will be posting the event in the next couple of days.Quote:
Originally Posted by hollora
:D:D
I know the perfect place to do a power run..... besides SMR which is THE PERFECT power run :-)
If we're all doing a power run, why waste time at the event? We can order our sandwiches, sign the event logbook while we wait for our order and head out and eat on the way! :rolleyes:
Hopefully Lee and I can make the WWWWW event this year. Even if that's the only log we sign all day.
Excellent!! Are you planning the Kennebec County Centum? :D The Somerset County Centum? the Penobscot County Centum? :D I'll be sure to set aside days to do them!! I got the York County Centum (Not the actual cache but all the Star Wars themed caches plus enough others for a total of 102 caches in York County) out of the way now. Thanks you for your effort and the good time we (SRS and myself) had. Lots of laughs while we were "offroading" in the deceptively "offroadish" Nissan Sentra.Quote:
Originally Posted by CARoperPhotography
"If not for Geocaching I would not have known of these areas!" Thanks Chad/CARoperPhotography/SeriousTool for placing these caches. Looking forward to seeing more of the State of Maine.
Cache On!!
http://www.geocachingmaine.org/forum...ons/icon14.gif What a great idea! A centum run in each of the 16 counties! Al we would need then is a 16 county centum cache that you can only sign once you have done the centum in each of the 16 counties in Maine. Sounds like Patrick,Chad and Mike need to get busy!http://www.geocachingmaine.org/forum...cons/icon7.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by TRF
I'm out. I give up. Brdad is right.
Why stop at counties? Especially the larger ones. It seems to me no one should have to drive more than 20 minutes to find 100 caches in a day. If we could get 52 hiders together, they could each hide a centum series on a different week of the year, and after it was out for a year, they would archive and re-submit the series, so people could find them over and over every year! Every week there would be a new centum to do!
I was about to suggest 365 centum series for the centum a day challenge, but that would just be silly, wouldn't it?
BRDAD, it is nice to see you come over to the dark side!Quote:
Originally Posted by brdad
Actually Dave's suggestion about archiving a whole pile of caches after a year so and placing new ones is being done in other places. Di and I were in the Jonathan Dickinson State Park in Jupiter Florida in mid August this year. This park is a cacher's paradise with well over 400 caches placed, none like SMR, just a huge variety in every type of terrain imaginable.
To avoid geo-trails and keep the interest high, they were planning on archiving almost all of these caches on September 22 will new placements and caches to be placed during October. So the idea isn't all that far fetched and does make sense in an area that is largely urban.;)
Why would it be silly? If someone with the time and desire wanted to hide them and another find them, so what? There effort should have no bearing on your participation in geocaching.Quote:
Originally Posted by brdad
I see sailboats and motorboat and jet skis all on the same body of water. Some are fishing some are water skiing and some are just zooming about enjoying themselves. Understanding that all folks involved are following the prescribed guidelines. The only people complaining and whining are the folks who THINK they own the lake. Always coming up with some lame reason the boaters shouldn't be doing it but none of them genuinely valid.
Regarding geocaching, I think it silly to discourage new ideas and new twist on a fun sport that can encompass everyones ideas of what caching should be. I think it silly to put prerequisites on people who want to place a hide. I think it silly to condemn a certain type of cache when the person doing the condemning is under no obligation to find that type of hide. I think it is silly to condescend to folks who find 100 caches in a day simply because you don't like the idea of it. I think it is silly to patronize a "newbie" because they place a hide that was approved by a "Publisher" but you may not like it.
Forgive me, I was making a joke. Clearly it is not silly, I am predicting it's happening.
And I have no problem with who legally rides what boat in what lake, but if there are 1000 powerboats in that lake, it will probably have an effect of my enjoyment of kayaking in the same lake.
1000 powerboats and 1 kayak. Is that a new twist on dodge ball?
Coming up..... an archiving of The Star Wars Tribute series, with a James Bond Tribute series to replace it! I'll just leave the caches in place and get them all published again :-)
Ha! Seriously though.... my series is complete and I am stepping back from placements and concentrating on maintaining everything and going back to my early hides from the summer when I first started and changing them, and making them more permanent. That, and finding caches. I wanted to end 2009, my first year of caching (Started at the end of April 2009) and the end of the decade, with a good solid even number of finds. So I hit TeamHorwich's(GeoAcer hides originally) Back Cove Bonanza today after meeting up with TH himself, and grabbed 14 more to get myself past 600.
I am enjoying everyone's logs from the Star Wars series, and am very surprised at how much attention it gets from cachers!
600 in less than a year? And Petr hit 800 in less than a year. It took me five years to hit 100! But then again, becoming a father of twins puts a damper on any free time. Now that they're older, they can help Daddy find some caches.
Congrats, you two.
After doing 2 centums this year. First in Tennessee at Geowoodstock 7 and later on the Stud Mill Rd I ended up with 1221 caches for 2009. Up from 900 that I did in 2008. I have a feeling that 2010 will be a bit quieter in terms of numbers. I really need to get back to the hike and paddle caches that I so enjoy. Only time will tell I suppose.
I enjoy this site. I noticed that Teamsnook, who swept through Maine in September has just claimed the #2 spot.
http://www.zinnware.com/HighAdv/Geoc...ESC&Limit=3000
As he asks, I have written to Zinn twice to add Serious Tool and Ekidokai to the list as both have more than 100 hides. I had many months ago written to him regarding myself and Team Horwich and we were added promptly. It is holiday season, so I suspect they will appear shortly.
When they do, Serious Tool will be close to the top 100 hiders in the game. will he be able to resist hiding a few more to get there?:D
Over the past 30 days I did 6 caches, an all time low. My office was crazy. Usually Celeste and Barbara, my two secretaries who have worked with me for over 33 years, can get most everything done without me, but our computers crashed, the back ups failed so December was "hell month" and I didn't cache at all.
But in my first year of caching, 10/31/2007 to 10/30/2008 I logged 1500, all that and reamining gainfully employed. Like Brad, I've calmed down a bit since the first year's binge!:)
Hum, 1726 in 2009, 1687 in 2008, I guess I am slowing down. I did get FTF number 805 the other day.
Actually you have to keep it all in perspective. Just about anyone can get big numbers quickly anymore. It's what you do in the long run that counts, and how you do it. Make no mistake, it is a numbers game or sorts, but it is more than the numbers.
Cache on!
Great to hear from Dick, as always. PA must know who you are by now. Hope all is well with you and Kathy and Happy New Year to you, you caching fiend and legend!:D:D
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Originally Posted by Gob-ler