Far Away GEOLAND

[+shmidly1909]

Where is the farthest you been from your house geocaching??? I've gone 800 miles away.

[+seattlegeekgrrrlz]

About 3000 miles (opposite corner of the country), but it helps that we have family in Florida who were patient enough to let us do some caching while we visited. I hope to do some caching overseas some time, but that would entail vacation time that we don't have quite yet.

[+CurmudgeonlyGal]

2500 miles is the furthest I've been. We made it to South Carolina... and the cache that would have been the furthest away for me was a big ol' DNF. I wasn't gonna move poopy baby diaper trash to find anything. No thanks!

 

 

michelle

[+Mr. 0]

My farthest find is 4461.3mi from home, but I was on vacation. I wasn't there just to go caching. The farthest I've traveled specifically just for caching is about 360mi from home.

[+Semper Questio]

A little over 1740 miles on a caching trip with my brother and his spousal unit in their home turf.

[+Monkeybrad]

Looks like the farthest I have been on a specific caching trip is about 4300 miles one way.

Edited August 7, 2007 by Monkeybrad

[+Lotho]

18 mile round trip cycle is the furthest ive gone just for a cache but around 80 miles whilst on holiday.

[+ScoutingWV]

1485 miles as the crow flies.

 

Now you have me wondering what finds of mine are the furthest apart ...

 

thanks!

[mtbikernate]

The caches farthest from where I live now are in Michigan and Kentucky. But, to be fair, the caches in MI were only a few miles from where I lived at the time. Probably about 400-500 miles away, at any rate. I've never gone on a trip specifically for caching, though. If I know I'm going somewhere for another reason, I might check to see if caches are in the area.

[+Road Rabbit]

About 4400 miles away in the UK. Took a geocoin with me to leave in a specific cache and lost it in a hotel. Drat!

[+Cpt.Blackbeard]

NW 1273.9mi from your home coordinates

[+Primitive Person]

Farthest from home, around 400 miles in Ayr, Scotland - but I was on holiday there anyway. Farthest for specifically caching purposes, a mere 60 miles.

[+wesleykey]

Approximately 787.5mi from my home coordinates

 

Make that 792.7 miles

Edited September 26, 2007 by wesleykey

[+Hula Bum]

2400 miles, also a vacation.

 

Just for caching-500 miles

[Shiraz-mataz]

The most-distant cache that I've ever found was in Fort DeSoto Park south of Tampa at 814.2 miles. That was a business trip though.

 

As for actually driving somewhere to look for caches I have to plead guilty to being a slacker! Heck, it's probably less than 25 miles. Some of my friends in the MDGPS laugh and ask if I ever leave St. Mary's County!!!

[+tomfuller & Quill]

The first geocache I ever looked for was Translant Chess cache on the island of Terciera (Azores, Portugal).

This cache is 4654 miles from my present home. At the time I was living in PA which is somewhat closer.

Last year I actually found a cache close to the Atlantic in Florida which is 2505 miles from home.

Tom Fuller

Crescent, OR

[+imajeep]

About 2500 miles away. We live in Chicago, and we've cached almost a dozen Western states, including California.

[+JoGPS]

4987 miles one way, to find one cache, but ended up finding three, it was Tooooooooo COOL

 

Joe

[+Vinny & Sue Team]

For me, it was 8,531 miles, when I hunted in late 2005 for two caches in southern India that had been hidden in a religious park about 800 feet apart. One cache had been missing in action for a long time, and thus I quickly scored and logged a DNF on that one, and the other one, Peaceful Park on Tom's Hill, I quickly found, and best, I even got to meet the owner, Minnesota Dave (an American missionary living in Chennai at the time), a week later in a newly-opened diner in Chennai! And, while we were talking at our table, a waiter (a young Hawaiian man also doing social missionary work in Chennai) came over and introduced himself; he too was a geocacher!

 

BTW, this thread would likely get far more exposure and airtime if you were to ask the moderators to move it to the Geocaching Topics forum section!

[+HaLiJuSaPa]

Ironically, our furthest are our first two finds as we were introduced to caching by relatives we were visiting in North Carolina. That was two years ago and that is the furthest we've been from home since that time for various reasons. I believe that as the crow flies it was between 400-500 miles from home. If we got into this earlier we could've hit some caches in Toronto (I think about the same distance from us as the NC caches were) and London (UK, since there's also a smaller London near Toronto).

[+Nochipra]

Only about 250 miles on vacation.

[+Blaidd-Drwg]

My furthest was Centennial Memorial in Dunedin NZ. Granted this was a vacation, but I cache on all my vacations and consider it just one more reason for where I choose to go. Based on this type of caching, almost 5% of my finds are over 1000 miles from home.

[+Metaphor]

about 4300 miles to a Soviet-era nuke base being reclaimed by nature outside Tallinn, Estonia.

[+currykev]

London,UK to Sydney AU.Thats 10560 miles... a 10 hour day city-caching in Melbourne was a tough one!

I'm also hoping to frab a cache that is nearly 17000 feet in altitude this year at Gokyo Ri in Nepal...But not listed on GC.com.

Edited March 14, 2008 by currykev

[+Billy Goatee]

774.14

633.23

562.76

217.5

196.45

192.05

186.74

177.05

83.10

 

Thanks. That was interesting to see.

[+belair56]

Around 2400 miles, New York (near the Canadian border) to Arizona.

[+oldsoldier]

Cuba, gitmo to be exact. But, alas, the cache was not there. There was only one when I was there in 03-04. May be more now, who knows.

[vtmtnman]

5782mi in Ramadi Iraq.

 

Wish I could've done some more while I was there.