FTF to total finds ratio

[Babokooks]

77 FTF in 2379 finds equal to 1 every 30.9 finds.

[labrat_wr]

currently at 97 FTFs and 1800 finds — 1 FTF every 18.5 caches

Disclaimer : Always answering to a higher power.

[zuma]

Currently at 12545 finds and 1011 FTFs, so that would be a FTF every 12th cache or so, or just over 8% of my finds are FTFs.

zuma

[Trekkin and Birdin]

Trekkin’ is taking the 5th on this one. 😉 At one point, he was at 10%. I don’t think that’s the case at the moment. He has given up FTFs many times, much like some quit smoking…..many times!

[Team Black-Cat]

Yep. I just quit again. Two new caches less than a mile from home and I just didn’t feel like going to get them.

[Sagasu]

We have 363 FTFs of 3003 total finds, a little over 12%, or an FTF out of each 8.3 or so finds, but like some others, we are recovering from the addiction, and declared our “semi-retirement” from FTF chasing after 300 of them over a year ago. And then we retired again after 333 of them. Tough habit to kick, but we are definitely making progress with a little help from a whole new generation of FTF hounds. 😉

Our first FTF a week or so into the game with our 24th find at “The Old Man Returns” (yes one of seldom|seen’s early traditionals), a cache that had eluded some much more experienced cachers for a couple months, got our attention. Dan and I were curious about what a tough hide was like and slid down the slope to DNF it that day. Believing that it must be there somewhere, a notion that we later discovered wasn’t always the case, I went back an hour later with some inspiration and made the find. A month later I got our second FTF with “For Immediate Release” at 3am in 13 below zero temps, also making two trips, mostly because the flashlight batteries got too cold to continue, so I went home for fresh ones. It didn’t help that the Raboon could be hiding anywhere within a tenth of a mile from the given coordinates at that time (it’s now .05 miles for the range). 😯

Along the way there were plenty of other very memorable FTFs; -cheeto- mentioned one of them where we went nuts chasing puzzle finds in a race to log twenty new ones to qualify for the FTF for Crazy Retro Driver’s Wanted!. We each traveled over 200 miles just to log enough puzzle finds in the race for that co-FTF. Crazy indeed. Same for the FTF at peach107’s first hide over seventy miles away past Sturgeon Bay. And the FTF halfway across the state en route to a 20 lonely cache run towards Eau Claire that Labrat_WR and I shared, getting to that one just a short time before none other than the King of FTFs himself, zuma!

The Lonely Cache Game changed much of our focus, and our game evolved to “pick and choose” a bit more. That continues each month and day we have the time to hit the trail, even close to home, but chasing them has been a lot of fun, and we still will when the timing works out. Nothing like making a good find (they aren’t all good) that no one else yet has, with no geo-trail (except for the one the owner might have left in the snow 🙄 ), and seeing a cache exactly the way it was first hidden. Forty-one consecutive months of FTFs, but that streak may also end soon, with no regrets, and a lasting memory of Giz’s introduction of the FAD. We have almost as much fun watching the new competition get their piece of the action these days.

[Lostby7]

I have absolutely no clue how many FTFs I have…maybe a couple hundred… At first is was fun to go after them but now I couldn’t care less (for the most part). I don’t even mention it in the logs. Back when folks put nice swag in caches a FTF was fun…now, not so much.

Once I picked up about 25ish of them one morning…I wasn’t going for the FTFs that day but it happened nonetheless.

[2nd time around]

As of right now we have 86 F.T.F.s out of a total 836 caches so we have a little better than 1 in 10, I would say that we are somewhat of F.T.F. hounds. Nothing better than a nice clean log to sign… 😀

[sevencards]

We have 1 in 29.105 currently. As of right now 19 FTFs only.

[koolma_k]

hmmmmmm I have 6 in 246 which is 1:41…lol, but in my defense.. I have just started and there is pretty stiff competition around Milwaukee!!

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