spitko's First To Find Micro Geo-Award

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Have you been able to get an FTF yet? What was the craziest FTF hunt you ever attended? Please share your story or just paste a link to your finest log entry.

Hint: when you open your own logging, you can see the unique log id on the top right corner (for example GLE9364C). If you click on the arrow after it, you will get a link to your logging in the form of http://coord.info/GLE9364C. Just copy it and paste it to your log and the geocaching site will automatically convert it to (link).

This trackable prefers to travel in mystery caches.

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Oletko onnistunut jo kiirehtimään uuden kätkön ensilöytäjäksi (= FTF = First To Find)? Millainen oli hulluin tempauksesi minkä olet tehnyt ensilöydön saadaksesi? Kerro tapauksesta tämän matkaajan loggauksessasi tai liitä vaikkapa linkki loggaukseesi kyseisestä kätköstä.

Ohjeena kannattaa mainita että kun avaat oman loggauksesi, niin oikeassa ylänurkassa näkyy loggauksen tunniste (esimerkiksi GLE9364C). Jos klikkaat tunnisteen vierestä löytyvää nuolta, avautuu linkki loggaukseen muodossa http://coord.info/GLE9364C. Kopioi linkki hiiren oikealla näppäimellä ja liitä se tämän matkaajan loggaukseen. Geocaching sivusto muuttaa linkin automaattisesti muotoon (link).

Tämä kulkija majoittuu mieluimmin mysteerikätköihin.

This TB was won as an FTF prize from the mystery cache Bonus?

My list of craziest FTF-hunts in chronological order is:

• 2010-11-23@05:09 - Kiviä Euroopan unionissa - I found the solution late at night and already went to bed, but I couldn't get any sleep. So I dressed up and drove some 15 km to the cache, logged it and returned back to bed. After about three hours sleep I had to wake up and start my drive to work. The cache is quite close to my workplace, so I was driving back and forth the whole time.
• 2011-05-07@04:19 - Start Your Engines - I found partial solution similarly in the middle of the night. This time I did not bother to go to sleep at all, as it was early Saturday morning. I still recall the empty streets in the middle of the night when I was approaching the cache.
• 2011-06-11@22:08 - MMMM "Kulta" - This was the ultimate bonus cache for the MMMM-series. I had got two FTFs from the six of the traditional caches and two FTFs from the easier bonus caches. The traditional caches had little mysteries to be solved to get the bonus cache coordinates. Those mysteries were solved while walking back to the car. All of the traditional caches were approximately 1-2km from the closest road in the middle of the forest. The first cache in the series was found at 12:25, a bit more than 1 hour after the series was published. The final cache in the series was found almost 10 hours later. I had only stopped to eat briefly in the afternoon, but other than that I was either walking or running to or from the cache or driving to the next one. Early next morning we were flying for a holiday, so after a full day of geocaching I still had to pack for the next week.
• 2012-04-29@23:56 - A bit of everything - This mystery was solved both individually and as a team. After everyone in the team was back from the weekend activities, we decided to go for this FTF hunt. One way drive was 109 km and the cache was on an island. Ice had barely melted and it was in the middle of the night. When we returned back home the sky was showing first signs of sunrise. Not one of the easiest Monday mornings to wake up for the work.
• 2012-07-11@13:24 - MurhaPappa I - Mystery was solved easily during our summer holiday. While the cache was quite close (just some 20 km as the crow flies), reaching it meant driving about 70 km one way and then rowing on an inflatable dinghy for a bit more than half an hour. It was too windy for couple of days, but on third day I decided to give it a try. The cache was a bit off from the coordinates, so I had to search for quite long time. When I found the cache, I was just half way of the journey which took almost 5 hours altogether.
• 2013-07-23@04:58 - Rite of passage - There was a heavy thunderstorm raging around our summer holiday cabin at the time when the cache was published. I did not know the habits of the local FTF-hunters, so I was not sure whether someone had already logged this or if it had not yet been found. After the storm had passed in the evening, I decided to go for the FTF hunt in the morning if the cache was still not logged online. I woke up before the sunrise, drove by boat to the car, drove to the cache, filled up the inflatable dinghy and logged the cache. And then all the same in reverse order. Everyone was still sleeping in the cabin when I returned from the hunt.
• 2013-11-27@14:46 - Korpisaari - I did have a day off from the work. The winter was coming, but I though that I could still go to hunt for this cache. The cache was on an island and I was planning on using the inflatable dinghy. When I arrived to the shore located closest to the island, I found that there was a thin layer of ice on the lake. The ice would not carry a person but it still needed some force to break. So I became an icebreaker on the boat. After half an hour I had advanced just 10 meters. Then I returned back to shore and fetched a wooden branch, which I could use to push me from the bottom of the lake on top of the breaking ice. Once there, the ice finally held me and the boat without breaking and I was able to push the boat to the island and log the cache.
• 2014-07-22@20:51 - Nyt sua viedään linnasta linnaan IX - The starting point of this multi-cache is in Åland island. The route does not follow the easiest way of using the large commercial ferries. As it was in the middle of the holiday season, those small ferries were fully booked. So we had to drive around the bottle neck to the other side of the connection. All in all it took 100 hours and 4 nights in various hotels since leaving from home to log this cache.

So, what's your story?