Doh!!! so thats how they get so many FTFs…

[The Pirate Monkies]

Now that I’m a W.G.A. member, I can use the recently published logs list to be a little more competitive… :D…

[bnb]

If you are a paying member of geocaching.com you could set up email notification of newly published caches. Some FTF hounds I know have those emails sent as text messages to their cellphone.

[bugsmasher69]

SSHHHHHH. you shouldn’t be giving out all of our secrets.

[Crockett3663]

I’ve never understood the “need” to be the FTF. Pardon my forwardness, but it seems pretty arrogant if you ask me. Personally, unless the owner reveals that there is something of pretty decent value within a cache, I don’t really care where my name lands in the log.

[cheezehead]

It’s just part of the game. Some play it that way, some don’t. For some, it’s all about the numbers, for some it’s not. For some it’s a friendly rivalry. Sometimes there IS a FTF prize thou. Like an unactivated geo-coin or travel bug. I put a $25 dollar gift card in a Final cache for the FTF.
I had 5 teams scrambling!

[cheezehead]

It’s just part of the game. Some play it that way, some don’t. For some, it’s all about the numbers, for some it’s not. For some it’s a friendly rivalry. Sometimes there IS a FTF prize thou. Like an unactivated geo-coin or travel bug. I put a $25 dollar gift card in a Final cache for the FTF.
I had 5 teams scrambling!

[The Pirate Monkies]

While I’m not a hardcore FTF hound there is a large friendly rivalry in the Racine/Kenosha area and it would be fun to trump them once in a while…
I do have a premium member$hip @ Gc.com but this might be quicker than my E-mail… Thanx…

[The Pirate Monkies]

@The Pirate Monkies wrote:

While I’m not a hardcore FTF hound there is a large friendly rivalry in the Racine/Kenosha area and it would be fun to trump them once in a while…
I do have a premium member$hip @ Gc.com but this might be quicker than my E-mail… Thanx…

[gotta run]

We never understood the allure of FTF until the first time we opened up that log book and it was blank…aha, now we know….

On the Left Side of the Road...

[labrat_wr]

Sometimes the FTF attempt can turn out to be a real bite in the rear however. If the coords are off, entered wrong, or, what we know shouldn’t happen but does, the cache has not been placed yet. All can turn a FTF hunter into a guinea pig for the cache hider. It has happened many times, right Sagasu??

Disclaimer : Always answering to a higher power.

[Team Black-Cat]

Yes, but when the cache owner meets you at the parking area and hands you the container, all is well. 😀

[-cheeto-]

I think the best part of finding a cache first is that it is EXACTLY as the owner intended at that point. We all know caches have a tendency to “change” over time.

Another positive to hunting new one’s is the chance of running into or meeting new cachers is greater. Often if becomes a joint FTF hunt and on the really tough one’s this can be a blessing.

On the negative side, many cachers end up looking for caches in “less than desirable conditions” just to grab that FTF. I.e. visiting a scenic area in the middle of the night, logging the cache in a downpour, etc.

The other negatives I can think of were mentioned by labrat

-cheeto-

[stokstad]

I feel this pain. I went yesterday to look for a new cache that was placed in kegonsa state park. I must have looked for almost an hour by myself until another Geocacher showed up(Wiscota). So we started to team find it and low an behold he found it first. Grrr it was only 200′ 😡 away from the posted coordinates. I got robbed of my first FTF because of crappy coordinates. I don’t fault wiscota but I do fault the cache owner. Oh well I’m sure there will be other chances.

@labrat_wr wrote:

Sometimes the FTF attempt can turn out to be a real bite in the rear however. If the coords are off, entered wrong, or, what we know shouldn’t happen but does, the cache has not been placed yet. All can turn a FTF hunter into a guinea pig for the cache hider. It has happened many times, right Sagasu??

[zuma]

@Crockett3663 wrote:

I’ve never understood the “need” to be the FTF. Pardon my forwardness, but it seems pretty arrogant if you ask me. Personally, unless the owner reveals that there is something of pretty decent value within a cache, I don’t really care where my name lands in the log.

Well, I am one of those who enjoys going after the occasional FTF. For me, it is part of the game, and really no more of a waste of time or “vanity” as Solomon would call it, than searching for tupperware in the woods with government sattelites is in the first place.

From Ecclesiastes:

“”Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”

What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?

One generation goes, and another generation comes; but the earth remains forever.

The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it rises.

The wind goes toward the south, and turns around to the north. It turns around continually as it goes, and the wind returns again to its courses.

All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, there they flow again.

All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

That which has been is that which shall be; and that which has been done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.”

Anyway, I would agree that my love of the FTF is a vanity, yet I enjoy it, so I do it.

To misquote another philosopher that I enjoy, “It is only cachin n stashin, but I like it.” (M. Jagger)

zuma

[labrat_wr]

occasional????

Disclaimer : Always answering to a higher power.

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