Cache Boom

junglehair · Senior Member

Cache Boom

1queenand4jokers · Senior Member

Wow 1000 so soon eh? That is what we were hoping for with the May Madness Blitz - that we'd hit it before Christmas! Excellent. How does one tell which one is 1000 when there are so many that don't exist anymore? 1000 active ones I guess is the key. I hid one this week but have changed my mind since I had a better idea...Still out there but unlisted. Should I do it or not. 1000 should be a great one shouldn't it. Not a micro. Ours is a micro. Nope not gonna do it. Even if we're tempted.

Wagonmaker · Veteran Member

Micro caches can be great, too. Granted, there are many out there that are not so hot, but a micro that is well done is nothing to sneeze at.
Micros can:

a) bring you to an amazing place or a fascinating landmark that you'd never have seen otherwise, and that may perhaps not have a place for a larger cache.

b) challenge your skills as a finder. You mentally block out certain hiding spots if you know a cache is a larger size. Micros can hide more easily.

c) be the most satisfactory finds. I look back at most of the caches that made me cry, "Holy cow, what an AMAZING hide!" and most of them are micro caches.

Don't underestimate the power of a micro. We (Daron and I) are big fans of micro caches, and we advocate for them 100%.

dani_carriere · Senior Member

I think it very appropriate that we'll probably hit our 1000th cache in time for our end of blitz event on the 23rd.

As it stands at 11:00AM Sept 21st, we're at 996 caches. Only 4 more to go.

Since this number only represents the active caches, it would be interesting to know what the total active/archived is. Too bad pocket queries limit you to 500 caches.

1queenand4jokers · Senior Member

dani_carriere wrote:

Only 4 more to go.

Since this number only represents the active caches, it would be interesting to know what the total active/archived is. Too bad pocket queries limit you to 500 caches.

I certainly also wish we could figure out the total ever hidden in Manitoba. I know that well over a 1000 have been hidden. We have 70 total hides but 6 are archived and two currently disabled. Does anyone know of a way of discovering this - total ever hidden in Manitoba? Do we need to know what all the archived ones are? Peter must know a way of finding this out. can one do a pocket query for only archived Manitoba ones and then add that to the list of current active ones and come up with a number. Just thinking out loud...

And as for Wagonmaker defending the fact that some micro caches being great and worth of being number 1000 (sigh) I agree but (sigh) the one I hid was neither great nor worthy (sigh) and will not be listed ever. (It was not a criticism of anyone else's hides just our own). And right now the ideas we have will take a short time to develop so...

-- Edited by 1queenand4jokers at 14:04, 2006-09-21

grnbrg · Senior Member

1queenand4jokers wrote:
Do we need to know what all the archived ones are? Peter must know a way of finding this out. can one do a pocket query for only archived Manitoba ones and then add that to the list of current active ones and come up with a number.

You can't do a pocket query of archived caches. Groudspeak doesn't make it that easy.

However, I started work on something earlier in the week, and this seems like a good spot to show it off:

grnbrg's Archived caches in Manitoba bookmark list. Currently at 167 caches.

I may have missed a few -- if you see any archived caches that should be on it, but aren't, please let me know.

grnbrg.

dani_carriere · Senior Member

Looking at ertyu, greatdane, and junglehair's finds may be helpful as well. Look for cachers who have been around a while and who have lots of finds under their belts.

Maybe the cache reviewers can help too.

junglehair · Senior Member

Here are some that are not on your list:

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=8450f39b-14b5-447b-ab74-6b807f3c6b31

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=c8f39577-8d0f-4b78-99d4-6775251f10c9

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=1faa0857-e9b3-4cc8-b74e-a637187f74ac

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=f67c4f60-74f6-4bc4-a9d5-5481ece9465a

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=c5f5ca14-16d4-48a0-a774-0904cb9daca7

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=7b8aad78-3a56-4508-a387-3b2a23860e39

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=7410cfbc-440d-4fd2-bcec-bfe029fad8ca

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=a8cc9d5e-7981-4303-9c5c-4a5721e46dfa

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=e0bbd080-4789-4a0e-a77f-e48c702c61a6

I don't know of any way other than a manual search to track down all the archived caches. I don't think the reviewers can even do it, unless things have changed recently. I asked the New York reviewer once about it and was told they only had access to the same search tools that we have. We were trying to compile a list of archived caches so that we could verify that the containers were removed when the caches were archived.

-- Edited by junglehair at 13:13, 2006-09-22

Dragonfreys · Senior Member

There was a way with the old geocaching maps to check a box that would show archived caches for an area. I'm not sure how helpful that would be for the list generation.

Peter and Gloria · Senior Member

I have a list of 190 archived caches. I will download a pocket query of grnbrg's list and send him a list of the ones that he is missing. That should make his list 99% accurate. I don't think I have missed very many.

Dragonfreys · Senior Member

Here's one: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=652ea6d0-9c3e-4684-a490-8bf3bd70ee96

I hesitate to post is since it may revive not so fond memories of an over 3 hour trek for a removed FTF. The geocaching dark ages of Parks Canada.

Wagonmaker · Veteran Member

Here's a short-lived one you don't have:

Anthony Kiedis Habit

-- Edited by Wagonmaker at 02:32, 2006-09-24

Jimbo 2 · Veteran Member

dani_carriere wrote:

As it stands at 11:00AM Sept 21st, we're at 996 caches. Only 4 more to go.

Sept 24, 4:50 PM....

Site shows 995 caches active in MB right now, but I've got one waiting to be published....