remote caches

[+Foinavon]

Does any one know which are the remotest caches in the UK in terms of

 

(1) Their distance from another cache?

(2) The longest walk?

 

I would imagine (2) would fall into the scottish highlands somewhere but (1) is difficult because somebody may have put several caches in a remote spot. Which cache is all on its own with no neighbours for miles around?

 

I like the remote ones. My count is not as high as it could be as on the rare occasions when I have had a whole day to go caching I have ended up finding one or two lonely moorland caches instead of bagging about

twenty odd more urban ones.

[markandlynn]

Does any one know which are the remotest caches in the UK in terms of

 

(1) Their distance from another cache?

(2) The longest walk?

 

I would imagine (2) would fall into the scottish highlands somewhere but (1) is difficult because somebody may have put several caches in a remote spot. Which cache is all on its own with no neighbours for miles around?

 

I like the remote ones. My count is not as high as it could be as on the rare occasions when I have had a whole day to go caching I have ended up finding one or two lonely moorland caches instead of bagging about

twenty odd more urban ones.

 

Can agree with you on that one day one cache can be much more enjoyable than number crunching.

 

Sounds like you need geohikes a search by high value terrain on GUK or have a look at our bookmark list of D4 T4 and above caches most of which provide a high physical and mental challenge.

Im sure someone can come along and identify the UK's lonliest cache.

[+rutson]

Oh dear.... I feel a spot of PHP coming on.....

[markandlynn]

Oh dear.... I feel a spot of PHP coming on.....

I didnt want to say that by someone i meant rutson but as you've volunteered

[+rutson]

Hmm... first run produced U-110. How the heck did THAT get approved?

 

Edit:

 

Second run: Grockles Gumbo: Here Be Treasure! ditto...

Edited September 13, 2006 by rutson

[+Team Ballibeg]

How about The Devil Deals a Hand at about 14km from a road. Its on the edge of Rannoch Moor.

 

Dave

[Lactodorum]

Hmm... first run produced U-110. How the heck did THAT get approved?

Ah! That be me It was approved (when we still used the word) way back when the guidelines were different and you could get away with posting dummy coords in the middle of the ocean

 

Actually it's less than 2 miles from another cache so not really that remote!

[+Pharisee]

One of the more remote caches (south of Scotland) is SAS: Are you tough enough?. It's a hike of almost 4 miles across the Black Mountain in the Brecon Beacons. Having proved you're tough enough, you can carry on east... ford the Afon Twrch and head up to the the trig point (TP1826) on Bwlch y Ddeu-Wynt. That has to be one of the most remote TPs south of the Scottish border. I did these plus another three caches and one trig on a 13 mile, 9 hour hike last Easter. I never saw another soul until I got back to the car. The solitude was awesome.

[+Moote]

Does any one know which are the remotest caches in the UK in terms of

 

(1) Their distance from another cache?

(2) The longest walk?

 

I would imagine (2) would fall into the scottish highlands somewhere but (1) is difficult because somebody may have put several caches in a remote spot. Which cache is all on its own with no neighbours for miles around?

 

I like the remote ones. My count is not as high as it could be as on the rare occasions when I have had a whole day to go caching I have ended up finding one or two lonely moorland caches instead of bagging about

twenty odd more urban ones.

Kipling Cache is a long and tough walk and at 14 mile round trip is certainly a hard cache, and it is not far from you

[+rutson]

FFS! This one is in the middle of the north sea and listed as a trad

[Edgemaster]

Yep, absolutely insane, really does screw with stats. It should really be listed in the middle of a nearby lake if they want the dummy to be somewhere impossible. The sea takes it to stupid extremes.

[+rutson]

But it's listed as a tad, so it MUST be AT the posted coordinates

[Edgemaster]

Hmm, I thought I remembered typing 'and it's been listed as the wrong type'

 

obviously not

[+rutson]

Hmmm.. just spotted a flaw in my algorithm, but the cache furthest from any other as far as I can find thus far is Inveralmond CH School box by weststandman, the next nearest being Tobermory (Mull) some 33.5 miles away.

[+Foinavon]

Hmmm.. just spotted a flaw in my algorithm, but the cache furthest from any other as far as I can find thus far is Inveralmond CH School box by weststandman, the next nearest being Tobermory (Mull) some 33.5 miles away.

 

Thanks Rutson, I see from your profile you are a stats lover like myself.

 

As for the other ones listed the one at Rannoch Moor is about 4 miles from the next nearest cache but the SAS and Kipling are within a mile of other caches. Kipling sure looks a tempter.

[+Jaz666]

FFS! This one is in the middle of the north sea and listed as a trad

 

Not anymore, it's magically turned into a mystery - now how could that of happened overnight?

[+rutson]

Looks like this is the Top 10, third column is metres(ish) from nearest active cache, so the Inveralmond school one appear to be 'it'

 

U-110 GCJN6Z 1498601

Grockles Gumbo: Here Be Treasure! GCH816 234721

Wanstead Park Mystery cache (bonus) GCM93T 164411

Summit to Sea - The Hidden Cache GCGHJJ 134311

Cuckoo Cache (could be anywhere) GC4C35 84401

Inveralmond CH School box GCJVHA 53951

Out on a limb GCB59F 42311

Mountbellew GCQDZ9 35861

Knock Airport Travelbug Hotel GCJQXC 32761

Rum & Egg GCPNZJ 30841

Edited September 14, 2006 by rutson

[+The Ross Co.]

How about this one?

 

GCX5KY

 

Did it recently but it is definetly not walkable unless you have some divine powers

 

(sorry don't know how to post it as a link)

 

Cam

[+The Forester]

A couple of years ago I looked into the possibilities of placing a cache Britain's remotest place, defined by the OS as the point farthest from any road.

 

I'd love to create a cache there and the, sadly recently deceased, landowner was up for it, but there is simply no way that I would be able to overcome the obvious maintenance issues!

[+2202]

Erinmore Mixture by Mad Max involves a 20 mile hike!

[+Simply Paul]

Is there anything on Knoydart? It's a two day hike from surfaced roads to get to the far end of it.

[+Teuchters]

My "Summit to the Sea" cache is not in the sea! It doesn't rate as a long way from anywhere really, as these are dummy coordinates. The actual cache can only be found if you do the rest of the "Summit" series. So far, in 3 years, it's only been found six times and not at all since September 2005.

 

The actual distance to the nearest Trad cache is probably about 2.5 miles!

 

However, it is quite watery where it is.....

[+Simply Paul]

Is there an easy way of working out the top five or ten most remote (from other caches) caches in the past? Be interesting to see how distances have changed over time. If anyone has the skills and knowledge (and time, and will...) to do this, I'd love to know the state of affairs on the 23rd of June 2005 - for my own personal reasons.