+team lagonda Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 Whats the farthest you,ve hiked from the parking coords to the actual cache.... Quote Link to comment
bogleman Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 3 miles one way, a very easy trip. I have not found that many long hiking caches in NWPA. My active caches involve a short hike of at least 1 mile one way. Most are 2+ miles one way. I've done a couple of long multis, one I put in 22 miles before I found the final and the other was just over 8 miles. Quote Link to comment
+NorthWes Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 Ahhhh... longest hike has been for a benchmark recovery... 14 miles roundtrip on a lovely oceanside trail (bear-infested, too rough for mountainbikes, with an awesome warm sun overhead). Placed a cache on the way in at the six-mile mark which has been found twice in the last five months... a glorious hike! Quote Link to comment
+Kealia Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 12-16 miles roundtrip isn't unheard of around here. This one was fun: Quote Link to comment
+TrailGators Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 12-16 miles roundtrip isn't unheard of around here. This one was fun: One of my longest hikes is almost actually like that one, but had 500 feet less vertical. I didn't get a single cache on that hike but I hid one. Quote Link to comment
+team lagonda Posted January 23, 2008 Author Share Posted January 23, 2008 wow, thems some purdy fair trampins there..is thier a limit your alowed to place a cache from the starting poit.... Quote Link to comment
+Gary and Mary Adventurers Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 How about kayaking about 10-11 miles round trip - does that qualify? Quote Link to comment
+smithdk Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 About 12 miles round trip. The terrain wasn't too bad but it was in Mississippi during the summer. Quite hot Quote Link to comment
+Team Crime Scene Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 13.7 miles on the Pittsburgh transplant two trail. Through the everglades. No elevation changes but man the wild life. Birds, hogs, deer, gators galore. Quote Link to comment
+StarBrand Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 About 14 miles round trip to visit a single cace. I could have done it in 10 or so but tried to create my own shortcut. Quote Link to comment
+WRASTRO Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 Whats the farthest you,ve hiked from the parking coords to the actual cache.... Horizontal or vertical? Quote Link to comment
+Lil Devil Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 About 14 miles round trip to visit a single cache. I could have done it in 10 or so but tried to create my own shortcut. Ummm, StarBrand, "shortcuts" are supposed to be shorter Quote Link to comment
+joranda Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 Around here the farthest that I have found and done was a mile one way. We are over populated here in Illinois. Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 15 miles RT was my longest for one cache. I've combined a few into a longer hike. Quote Link to comment
+Isonzo Karst Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 bout 14 miles round trip to visit a single cace. I could have done it in 10 or so but tried to create my own shortcut. Remind me not to contact you for "guide duty" if I ever get out your way... I'm pretty sure that the longest hikes I've done have been on my own hides. Two where parking to cache round trip is around 16 miles. Here, in Florida, there's often an alternate route if you have a kayak or a willingness to wade/swim. That's true of both of my longest distance caches. Both are 8 miles of trail walking one way, or, one is several miles of 'yaking to a brutal swamp bushwhack, the other can be 'yaked down to from the north (or mostly portaged down to from the north, a sort of wet hike carrying 'yak - I did it once, never again), or wade the river and cut the walk down to ~2.5 miles one way. Need 4x to get to that ford. Quote Link to comment
+scuba dude Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 (edited) The longest single hike so far has been about 6 miles round trip. But that was stage 1 of a 4 stage multi to get the answers for the final puzzle cache. I put in over 16 miles to get the answer. Then I discovered that the puzzle cache was located back down a previous path in excess of 6 more miles round trip. The way those paths were laid, it could have been nine. I've never done so much walking to cover .60 miles as the crow flies. I don't know if he placed them intentionaly that way or not, but they were all .4 to .6 miles from the trail head according to the GPS. At least I got FTF on 3 of them. Still haven't done the final. I was too tired after the initial hiking. SD Edited January 23, 2008 by scuba dude Quote Link to comment
+Machuco Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 I have hiked 50 miles for one cache. It was a seven stage multi that took me and my cohorts 5 trips to complete. Approximately 10 miles each trip with a 2600 foot elevation gain. What an adventure! Quote Link to comment
+DanOCan Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 (edited) My longest so far was a 12km round trip. With the up and down terrain we ended up doing a total ascent of about 1300m although our net elevation gain was "just" 900m or so. Link to Log EDIT: Oops, I lied. according to my own log the total ascent was "just" 1230m, not 1300m. Either way, that was a terrible thing to do to a fat man! Edited January 23, 2008 by DanOCan Quote Link to comment
+DanOCan Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 (edited) is thier a limit your alowed to place a cache from the starting poit.... Nope, pretty much everything is fair game. We have a cache around here [click] in which the description says the one way hike is 35km. Cache has been waiting almost 5.5 years for the FTF. EDIT: Fixed typo Edited January 23, 2008 by DanOCan Quote Link to comment
+Annie & PB Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 What I've been wondering is ... What/where is the most remote cache in the world?? Furtherest for parking - or road or any manmade access point???? I know there are caches in Antarctica - which is sort of remote, but I don't think that they are too far from a base or hut or what ever. So where are the truely remote caches!!? Annie Quote Link to comment
+Kit Fox Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 Throop Peak was 6.75 miles "one-way." Total Elevation Gain and loss was 4400 feet, and half of the hike was above 8500 feet. Click for larger image! Quote Link to comment
+team lagonda Posted January 24, 2008 Author Share Posted January 24, 2008 (edited) good stories....there aught to be a listing for the farthest from parking cache for every area code..might give some people something to shoot for besides all the park n grabs when ''placing'' a cache if they got some sort of reconition for it.... Edited January 24, 2008 by team lagonda Quote Link to comment
southpawaz Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 Last weekend I got my first FTF on Rock Tank Rocks which entailed a 13 mile round trip and about a 2650 elevation gain. Here's the track posted by the cache's hider: Quote Link to comment
+Cav Scout Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 I once walked eight miles from the parking lot too find one cache (GCGPY0). 16 miles round trip. Quote Link to comment
+Rattlebars Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 One of my own - Great Blue Heron Cache - 7 miles one way by canoe which includes a 1200 foot portage around a waterfall. This one can actually also be reached from the road about a mile away to the northwest, but I can just about warrant the the canoe will arrive before the hikers due to the terrain and unrelenting tanglefoot then a swamp. One very very very long trip into PA with my quad in the dead of winter. Some was along a defunct rail bed and some was challenging. Did not find the cache, but it was buried in snow and ice I believe. Trip said 17.6 miles when the quad went back up on the trailer. Had an absolute blast however!!!!! Best DNF I ever had. Quote Link to comment
+Cav Scout Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 Did you hike or ride the quad? One of my own - Great Blue Heron Cache - 7 miles one way by canoe which includes a 1200 foot portage around a waterfall. This one can actually also be reached from the road about a mile away to the northwest, but I can just about warrant the the canoe will arrive before the hikers due to the terrain and unrelenting tanglefoot then a swamp. One very very very long trip into PA with my quad in the dead of winter. Some was along a defunct rail bed and some was challenging. Did not find the cache, but it was buried in snow and ice I believe. Trip said 17.6 miles when the quad went back up on the trailer. Had an absolute blast however!!!!! Best DNF I ever had. Quote Link to comment
me_chris Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 Around here the farthest that I have found and done was a mile one way. We are over populated here in Illinois. Depends on where you live in Illinois... Up near Chicago where my parents live, it is really quite remarkable to find a cache that requires a hike of over a mile... But... Down in Carbondale where I live, the longest hike I have done to find a cache was 7 miles round trip. I would like to do a longer one though... That River to River trail is looking more and more interesting, although I have never done an overnight hike before... Quote Link to comment
+NYPaddleCacher Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 good stories....there aught to be a listing for the farthest from parking cache for every area code..might give some people something to shoot for besides all the park n grabs when ''placing'' a cache if they got some sort of reconition for it.... Define "parking". There are caches in Africa which might be 5km from the nearest road but the road is essentially impassable. I found one which indicated that the best way to reach it would be by helicopter. Quote Link to comment
+paleolith Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 We have a cache around here [click] in which the description says the one way hike is 35km. Cache has been waiting almost 5.5 years for the FTF. Probably isn't waiting any longer, since it was in a "clear plastic" container. Throop Peak was 6.75 miles "one-way." Total Elevation Gain and loss was 4400 feet, and half of the hike was above 8500 feet. Well, you can make anything long. I could hike from DC to find a cache in CA. A 2000 mile hike! I've been to Throop Peak, and though you *can* hike that far and that high, you don't have to, not as long as the highway is open to Islip Saddle. Edward Quote Link to comment
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