246 caches found in 24 hours by a team of 3

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Post by Rabbitto » 13 November 04 9:50 pm

We found 153 caches in one hour last weekend. We opened them all up and they were all empty. We are no longer welcome in K-mart.

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Post by GeoWombats » 15 November 04 10:12 am

The most you can do in the Top End is 17. And you probably would have driven at least 800 km by the time you have finished.

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Post by Webguy » 15 November 04 11:00 am

Rabbitto wrote:We found 153 caches in one hour last weekend. We opened them all up and they were all empty. We are no longer welcome in K-mart.
As long as you did not go down the cache log aisle and start signing the hundreds of log only caches, you should be ok.

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Post by teamkittens » 15 November 04 11:24 am

Just wondering what those record setters behaviour around caches withmuggles in the area was, did they wait a couple of minutes for the muggles to move on, just turn around and move onto the next immediately or just dive right in and ignore them....

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Post by Team Piggy » 15 November 04 1:59 pm

Our standard is that if there is anyone around we leave and try later.

I have been at caches before waiting for muggles and then watched other cachers go straight in and get them in full view :shock: , and lo & behold the cache is archived within a week :?

I wonder why?

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Post by Papa Bear_Left » 15 November 04 2:01 pm

We've done 10+ in a day a few times, while travelling into new areas for us (but with lots of driving in between) and I really wouldn't want to do many more than that. As it was, I started taking notes as we finished each cache, so I'd remember the features of it for the online log.

It seems a waste of good caches to blur them all together, but I guess that's because we've done almost all of the caches within a couple of hours' drive and well over half of the South Island cache tally. Unfound caches are a precious commodity, to be treasured!

If there's thousands of caches in your vicinity, many of them lame "car park micros", then clearing 'em off the radar could be a good thing!

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Post by Mr Darcy » 15 November 04 5:49 pm

Of course if they wanted a real challenge I could suggest one cache in 24 hours.
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Re: 246 caches found in 24 hours by a team of 3

Post by traineediplomat » 17 October 13 10:50 am

Sorry all, looking at old old old messages and found this funny..... wow 21 in a day! CRAZY!!!

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Re: 246 caches found in 24 hours by a team of 3

Post by Yurt » 17 October 13 1:51 pm

Yes it was a good laugh. Amazing how times change. There are people who think they are slacking off if they don't find 30 in a day! (not me...)

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Re: 246 caches found in 24 hours by a team of 3

Post by LouiseAnn » 17 October 13 5:45 pm

Or me

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Re: 246 caches found in 24 hours by a team of 3

Post by squalid » 22 October 13 5:00 pm

This thread totally confused me until I saw the dates. Yes, times have indeed changed. :lol:

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Re: 246 caches found in 24 hours by a team of 3

Post by Team Pathfinder » 24 October 13 12:32 am

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squalid wrote:This thread totally confused me until I saw the dates. Yes, times have indeed changed. :lol:
Thanks Squalid I was completely baffled whilst reading this one too and at this time of night wouldn't have thought to check the date :D

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Re: 246 caches found in 24 hours by a team of 3

Post by Brother Colin » 02 January 14 8:31 pm

So what is the record for 'Most finds in a single day' in Australia? the world? now.

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Re: 246 caches found in 24 hours by a team of 3

Post by Goldenwattle » 03 January 14 1:27 am

My record is 31 in a day (or afternoon perhaps it was?), but that was a power trail and I cycled between them. I also found over 20 caches one day in Wellington NZ, but I had to walk about 18kms to find and log them. So I can't imagine finding 246 caches in 24 hours. However, there were three people and that helps, plus I wonder if they ever split up to search separately for caches?
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Re: 246 caches found in 24 hours by a team of 3

Post by caughtatwork » 03 January 14 8:39 am

Brother Colin wrote:So what is the record for 'Most finds in a single day' in Australia? the world? now.
Not sure if this is still up to date:
http://wiki.geocaching.com.au/wiki/Caching_record

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