Large number of daily finds?

Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 9:25 pm

I'm thinking of attempting a 100+ day "just because". My best day is only 30 something, but there are a few areas where 100+ should be easily doable. I've been working on a few friends to have a driver, navigator, and cache grabber/signer. It would be mostly non-descript P&G caches, but with the friends I'm thinking about it would be a fun day.

Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 11:41 pm

I did 103 with all 3 boys so it can easily be done, we tackled the Pumpkin trail in Mauston plus some extras thrown in. It was a long day but not terrible.

Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 11:01 am

After about 20 or so P&Gs I'm about ready to quit...I could easily do 100 in a day by myself...but it would be mind-numbingly boring.

I did something like 70ish on Friday at the West Bend event...starting at 11am and finishing at 5ish....those were a combination of event caches and P&Gs.....had I done only P&Gs that day I could have easily hit 150+ in the same amount of time....but then I'd likely never want to see a guard rail or sign again.

Big numbers are not hard to rack up...but there is always a trade off...be it unremarkable views or simply the inability to pop your head up and see where you are in the world.

Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 1:47 pm

So, let's say one does do 100+ finds in a day. Doing the logs is a pain, even with copying and pasting. We've seen references to using a GSAK feature (macro?) that can expedite this process. Can anyone shed some light on exactly how this is done?

Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 2:04 pm

Well, we just spent a little time playing around with this and we might have it figured out!

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We're considering a big numbers run as well...it's always exciting to find those special road signs you didn't know existed or the elusive hidden treasure of a shiny guard rail.

Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 6:21 pm

Captain and Mate wrote:

So, let's say one does do 100+ finds in a day. Doing the logs is a pain, even with copying and pasting. We've seen references to using a GSAK feature (macro?) that can expedite this process. Can anyone shed some light on exactly how this is done?

When I did my 150 cache day, which included the pumpkin trail, I had all of my logging done on my GPS. After loading them up to GC, it saved time because I had my checklist on the screen. I now think that using an app like c:geo would have been even better use of my time. I could have gotten my route to the next cache and also logged the last cache in real time to the GC site.

Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 6:24 pm

CodeJunkie wrote:

I'm thinking of attempting a 100+ day "just because". My best day is only 30 something, but there are a few areas where 100+ should be easily doable. I've been working on a few friends to have a driver, navigator, and cache grabber/signer. It would be mostly non-descript P&G caches, but with the friends I'm thinking about it would be a fun day.

Let me know when and where you are thinking of your cache raid run. I might like to join you, as I am trying to best last years total of 800 finds. I already have 706 to date.

Joined: 2009-06-05 Posts: 2119 Location: Menominee, MI

My yearly breakdown

2009 401 1.5483 caches/day
2010 351 0.9616 caches/day
2011 217 0.5945 caches/day
2012 101 0.4298 caches/day

Yup, yup. Hardcore geocachers have found more in a few days than I have in all of my 3+ years of geocaching.

Joined: 2009-06-05 Posts: 2119 Location: Menominee, MI

Captain and Mate wrote:

So, let's say one does do 100+ finds in a day. Doing the logs is a pain, even with copying and pasting. We've seen references to using a GSAK feature (macro?) that can expedite this process. Can anyone shed some light on exactly how this is done?

I'd like to know about this macro myself.