Who’s had the most finds in one day?

[huffinpuffin2]

Saw the thread topic “Who has the most hides in the state”, and out of curiosity, wondered:

Who’s had the most finds in one day?

and its corollary

And how the heck did they do it?

Seems like we often plan to do X number of caches, but can only get around to completing X/2 of them……..not looking for any advice here, but curious about the “Extreme Caching Stats & Practices” aspect of the sport. 😈

Thanks!

[Smashing Ground]

not sure in wisconsin,but i guess a group somewhere in colorado found around 500 caches in one day.

[labrat_wr]

California based team in Colorado
413 finds, 24 DNFs in 24 hours

http://emcofnorthridge.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/413-geocaches-in-24-hours-yes-we-did-it/

Disclaimer : Always answering to a higher power.

[huffinpuffin2]

@labrat_wr wrote:

California based team in Colorado
413 finds, 24 DNFs in 24 hours

😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯

[Barry Butrymowicz]

Our best day was 62, was a drive by micro trash day

[marc_54140]

The WI record is held by Zuma, Honeybunnies, Benny7210 and myself – 235.

Did a lot of planning, and picked a route that had a large number of caches close together. Done in IL.

I’ve also had days of 116, 108, and thereon down into the 50’s.

Not difficult getting a big day, if you pick the right area, and plan ahead.

B-Squared, from the UP, came down to Appleton last year, and had a find rate of 105 for the day, along with 20 DNF’s! How? Well, he provided me with a list of the caches (around 70 puzzles) he had on his hit list, I laid out of route that covered the list in the most efficient way, and then I served as driver, so he could concentrate on finding caches as opposed to figuring out where to drive / park.

[Lostby7]

@marc_54140 wrote:

The WI record is held by Zuma, Honeybunnies, Benny7210 and myself – 235.

Did a lot of planning, and picked a route that had a large number of caches close together. Done in IL.

I’m still waiting for my invite in the mail for the team attempt to take down this record….

[Todd300]

Mine was 41 finds out of 54 attempts, I believe. This was done on the last week of November in Appleton. Had I had more daylight to work with as well as taken more time to find some of my DNF’s, I probably would have had more finds for the day.

I’m not a numbers runner, so I started getting tired at the end and actually slowed down my pace after first finding about 15 caches in the first two hours. I ending up finding those 41 caches in about an 8 hour period.

No doubt I’ll get 100 finds in a single day in the summer when I have more daylight to work with.

[MuddyBottoms]

Our best was 38 in one day on our run to 300. That does not seem like many. But this was before we went paperless, or used a nuvi. We had the whole day planned out with each cache written down, and entered manually. Then we had each cache location numbered on a paper map so we could drive to them a little faster. It was a very fun day, and we were beat. Now that we have a little more technology on our side, we plan on shattering that number this spring. I don’t really cache to see my numbers rise, but I do love going on numbers runs, its really fun to see how many you can do in a day.

[Captain and Mate]

We did 52 in West Bend last September. We hope to do 100 someday, probably in that same area of Illinois referenced earlier.

[marc_54140]

A couple of points for a big day:

1. Have a Team – 3-4 people make it more fun, and increase chances you will find the cache.

2. Pick an area you have not cached, nor not alot. Appleton could easily provide a 100+ for Todd, the Captain, and others who have not cached here. And that is only Traditionals!

3. Plan, plan, plan. Creating a map of where the caches are will help in pinpointing where you want to go. Also, the mapping helps to determine which roads to follow to each of the caches.

4. Create a route. Make a list of the caches you want to try for, in what order, and stick to it. No looking for the closest cache, follow the list!

5. Want to find 50 in a day? Make a list of 75. Always have more in case of unforeseen circumstances.

6. Take the time to create a Bookmark of the caches on your hit list. Then
obtain a current PQ a day or two before your trip. Will help in knowing recent finds, DNFs, disablements, etc. And here you can include even more caches than you expect to hit.

7. Summer obviously has more daylight, but you could cache in the dark. Summer also means less hassle with the weather.

[huffinpuffin2]

If you ever get down to Phoenix, here’s a nice spot to start your run
http://www.geocaching.com/map/default.aspx?lat=33.65725&lng=-112.675783

You’ll need to expand the map out a few clicks/rescale, but there is a half loop on the Sun Valley parkway west out of Waddell that will give you about 225 caches……looks like each are right on/near the road at .1 mile increments……but it does indicate something about snakes and scorpions GC1ZYNJ
…… 😯

[Cachelovskys]

@marc_54140 wrote:

The WI record is held by Zuma, Honeybunnies, Benny7210 and myself – 235.

Did a lot of planning, and picked a route that had a large number of caches close together. Done in IL.

So is it the Wisconsin Record if they were found in Illinois??

[huffinpuffin2]

@Cachelovskys wrote:

So is it the Wisconsin Record if they were found in Illinois??

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Good point!

I suppose, if a group came up from Chicago, and got all their caches in Appleton, that would then be an Illinois record, right? Home of da Bears? No Way!

Well then, maybe it’s a Midwest record.

[gotta run]

Hey HP2, all you’d need to do is put 500 film strip canisters on a table at the next event as temp caches and, voilà! A new world record!

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