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

[Brian Casteel]

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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