How Far To Your Closest Unfound Cache....?

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QUOTE(R.O.B @ Jun 28 2006, 02:40 AM) 2308137[/snapback]

I thought it would be interesting to see how far people have to travel to get to their closest unfound cache. How far away is yours...?

The closest unfound cache for me is currently 2.4 miles away.

2.5 miles. After this weekend, it will probably be farther, since a couple of us are going after that one and its four closest caches that we haven't found.

[+Rich the Bushwhacker]

1 Mile. It's a lampost Micro in a shopping center parking lot. It took 3 seconds to decide to add it to my ignore list.

[+bwmick]

1.4 km but it's a webcam and I am not likely to get it any time soon

[+Haffy]

I have one at 14 miles away and another at 18 miles from my home but both are on islands and I have no boat so I'll just have to wait for the ice to freeze over before I can get to them.

Edited June 30, 2006 by haffy

[+Thrak]

Like Beffums, the nearest cache I haven't yet done is across the mighty Ohio, only 1 mile from me--but at least 5 miles one way to the cache by road.

 

Ten pages out from me only takes me 4.7 miles from the house though, and there are over 2000 caches within 50 miles of home. SHould keep me busy for a little while.

 

Oh, MAN am I jealous!

 

Nearest cache is .6 miles and is the only cache in my town I haven't found (it's new). I almost went for it last night but I know where it must be located and I was too lazy to put on actual shoes. Birkenstocks definitely wouldn't be advisable for this cache. I'll probably go find it tomorrow since I'm a cache ho and can't really stand to have it sitting there unfound. I even went and found one this morning for a FTF while I was supposed to be working. Sheesh.........

Edited June 30, 2006 by Thrak

[+Ciyt]

The furthest cache that I have tried to find is about 13 miles from home. That was a nice jaunt to not find although I did get the chance to sign some kind of a log book at that very spot - I think it's a Sierra Club thing.

 

You have to turn off of a semi-busy highway, go through a gate and then 4x4 it for a while just to get within a mile of this cache. Then, if you decide to NOT take a topo map to help get your bearings, you get to test your rock climbing skills. And THEN as you finally reach the summit, you look down, see a jar that contains a logbook (yeah, it was way too easy to find this one). Wrong one! The geocache is about 100 feet away and what you just signed was something entirely different.

 

I'll try this one again later.

[+hotshoe]

Under 0.5 mile. Tried for it twice, (logged the DNF once, or maybe both times, too lazy to doublecheck now); it gets found by others regularly enough so we know it's still there. We've found everything else in town and fairly nearby, but after that, the map gets cache-dense quickly. More than 6000 caches in the hundred mile radius... so we can be quite relaxed about ignoring the one we can't find or don't want to bother looking for.

[+maggieszoo]

Closest that isn't mine or my husband's is 14.5 miles and is currently disabled. After that 15.3. There are 10 within 20 miles. Average difficulty is 2.5. Two are multis, a 3.5 and a 4. One is a 5 requiring a boat. One is in a state historical area that is only open during hours when I'm asleep (night shifter). A couple we just haven't gotten to, yet.

[+GPSlug]

440 meters (fake coords, could even be closer), and I'll probably never get it over its lifetime. It's the end of a 15-part series that easily takes more than 200 km of driving to complete. I've found one in the series though.

[+Inmountains]

Currently, it is 20.2 miles to my nearest unfound cache, in the neighboring state of New Mexico. There are 4-5 in that area, and once I log those, it will be over 30 miles. Makes it hard to reach 150 this summer, currently at 130 found.

[+GClouse]

The closest to my home is 2 miles.

closest to work is a mile.

 

THere is a puzzle cache that has co-ords listed at about 1.4 miles, but I dont really know where it is since I haven't solved the puzzle yet.

[+BigFurryMonster]

600 meters. It's a fake start point of a 30km bicycle trip.

[+ajayhawkfan]

A few months ago the closest cache to me was 100 miles. Now I have only 24 within 50 miles of me. (There are a total of 684 caches within 50 mile of me.) Today a new cache showed up 5.1 miles away, that is the closest.

Edited July 1, 2006 by ajayhawkfan

[+ArriBlossom]

1 Mile. It's a lampost Micro in a shopping center parking lot. It took 3 seconds to decide to add it to my ignore list.

THAT long?

[+Blaidd-Drwg]

I've been slacking with planing for an upcoming event and the summer weather. My closest is now at 17.0 miles with 16 within 30 miles. I'm going out this weekend, but unfortunately, not in the direction of the closest hides.

[+parker313]

GCD399 is closest as the crow flies, but not by roads (and not accessible by foot from my house as it would mean crossing an interstate). It looks like a fun, active, hiking one so I'm saving it to be a whole family treasure hunt

[+Ladybug Kids]

16.1 miles, but it's on an island in the middle of the Tanana River. I missed my chance to skijor with my dogs to it last winter when the river was frozen. Otherwise, I'm down to 16 caches within 100 miles.

[+woodberg]

1 mile haha pathetic isnt it

[+jave042]

The only cache that ever mattered is 21 miles: "Rough and Tumble" (GCHD1V). AHHAHHH!!!!!!! It's like a knife in our eye and each passing day it twists a little more!!!! AHHHHHH!!!!

Edited July 2, 2006 by jave042

[+Snake & Rooster]

We try to keep a 10-mile radius clear. The closest cache to our home is currently 18.4 miles away. Unless some new ones are placed in the next week, that one and two others close to it are going to be taken care of next weekend

[+team5150]

Ours is about 1.8 miles away.....but only for about another hour!!!

[+NS_Strider]

About 1/2 KM.

[+Bear Paughs]

0.4 Miles to the east, but the vertical climb is much more. It's a multi for which I found the first stage but DNF the final cache at the mountain's top. I keep waiting for the perfect day to get back up there.

 

Happy to say this one is finally found! Now on to my next closest... 1.3 miles for a multi that until just recently was disabled as the first stage was MIA. I know what I'll be doing this weekend.

[4cstrip]

.4 mi from work,19.4 from home. But this is my first ever attempt and I had a nice hour and a half walking around central park in ny bumping into the same fence and walking around in circles, so I will keep trying. I'm sure it was becasue of my inexperience, hope I can get used to the way my unit works and figure out what it is telling me. I read some logs that were successful just days ago.

[+Ed & Julie]

Closest un-ignored cache is 16.4 miles (with 2 dnf logs from me btw).

 

Closest ignored cache (a boat-required-which-I-don't-have) 9.5 miles

 

Ed

[rocketmann]

only 1.1 miles away for me, GCWGJD. I've been thinking about getting that one for awhile...

[+IGJoe]

0.7 miles - but it's a micro

1.4 miles - but they're on a bike trail that's rather militant about hikers

2.3 miles - but that's a puzzle cache, I might have to think instead of barrell through underbrush

2.6 miles - but it's .... oh crap! out of excuses

[+JT & PJ Cole]

My closest unfound caches are:

 

GCVDRV 38 miles to the North.

 

GCB047 48 miles to the West.

 

GCVZF8 38 miles to the South.

 

GCW2TQ 4367 miles to the East.

 

Hope to extend the distance South today to 52 miles.

[Moonsovrbend]

15 miles to my nearest cache and it requires a boat - so based on my relatively small number of finds (151) - and the distance to the nearest unfound cache - i suppose one could conclude that i live in an "unsaturated" area

[+JohnTee]

12.7 Miles as the crow flies . . . something like 30 driving miles.

 

JohnTee

[wheetree]

Depends on the day, there's a moving cache (not the kind that goes to events) that comes in and out of range.

Currently the closest is GCVH6Y. I don't plan on hitting it anytime soon. I don't mind paying GC $30 for member caches (PQ makes it worth it), but I will not pay the State of Illinois Transportation Dept. $1 so I can find a micro. If I happen to be on the tollway, maybe I'll stop and get it; I try to avoid the tollway when I can.

[+sherd]

nano less than a quarter mile from my house[/url] I can't find for the life of me.

 

Oh yeah me too! the closest one to me and I've been there twice and still can't find it!

But isn't it funny the majority have one that is less than 5 miles from their house??

Any one here from oregon?

sherri

[+Lighteye]

Ummmm less than 800' However, I am the cache owner, and my silly white robe keeps me from logging it as a "find", even though I "find" it every few weeks to check on it

[+LetterDude]

13.5 miles for a new one (GCX4HF, placed today) and 43.6 miles for an older one (GCWGHW, placed 6/6).

 

Bear in mind there are 772 found caches within a 15-mile radius of my house and 3,656 within a 45-mile radius!

Edited July 14, 2006 by LetterDude

[+laughingcat]

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QUOTE(R.O.B @ Jun 28 2006, 01:40 AM) 2308137[/snapback]

I thought it would be interesting to see how far people have to travel to get to their closest unfound cache. How far away is yours...?

The closest unfound cache for me is currently 2.4 miles away.

 

not even half a mile. easy walk with the dog but.. it's hot outside. it's in some icky tall weeds etc and you know what? I just don't feel like doing that for a micro! was thinking, oooh.. hot, sticky, scritchy from green stuff and just.. I don't know. Give me some good honest cactus instead! It was even going to be a FTF and I didn't want to get in there and look!

[Mr Walker]

The closest I once had was 30 yards from my front gate. Fellow cachers hid it there and called it "Under your nose." Unfortunately it only lasted a few months, before the scrubland it was in was bulldozed so that we now look out at a street of vacant lots. Now my nearest is 30 miles(under a jetty and only accessible at very low tide) followed by 40 miles, (out on an island and only accessible by boat) and 50 miles (in a national park with park fees and also on top of a steep climb) I will get to them all eventually. After that we are talking about 150 miles to a few more clustered around another town, but out in quite remote saltbush country. There are a few other local cachers who compete for any new caches and i get a kick out of scattering them around my local area.

[+Big Max]

The nearest is 1.5 miles. If I get time this evening I plan on tackling this one. Otherwise, it will have to wait a while till I get home from vacation.

 

The nearest to work is 0.4 miles. I have a dnf on this as there was some confusion as to the actual location. I have good coordinates now so just a matter of time. High muggle area, especially at lunch which is when I would like to do it. I may have to do the clipboard and tape measure disguise for it.

 

Just finished doing the puzzle part of a puzzle cache. Turns out this one is only a quarter mile away. On the corner of a very busy intersection. Should be interesting.

[+Team GPSaxophone]

2 caches within a mile, but I've been rather busy hosting a campout event and taking a vacation. I'll get back into caching around here soon enough

[+SGT red jeep]

Two caches in a 50 mile radius, 42.1 miles and 43.1 miles. The good news is they are close together and I expect to harvest them soon.