Farthest FTF

May 25, 2009

I just got a FTF 291 miles from my home. I was wondering what is the farthest away from your home anyone has ever gotten a FTF.

May 25, 2009

I just got a FTF 291 miles from my home. I was wondering what is the farthest away from your home anyone has ever gotten a FTF.

I have two FTFs. One is 983 miles away and the other is 183 miles away. In my area people tend to be retired and can beat any working stiff to a cache. I got lucky on the 983 mile one in Florida, it was just good timing. The 183 one was because of a slow caching community. It had been around all day.

Scott

May 25, 2009

I just got a FTF 291 miles from my home. I was wondering what is the farthest away from your home anyone has ever gotten a FTF.

I have two FTFs. One is 983 miles away and the other is 183 miles away. In my area people tend to be retired and can beat any working stiff to a cache. I got lucky on the 983 mile one in Florida, it was just good timing. The 183 one was because of a slow caching community. It had been around all day.

Scott

I got my farthest FTF in Florida, too! 659.9 miles away at New Savannas Recreation Area

4.5k · May 25, 2009

(Could've sworn we covered this a while ago, but what the heck...)

I went 4458 km from my home base in Canada to an FTF in Mexico.

And IIRC, one of my countrymen topped that in the last discussion with an FTF from Calgary to South Africa, I think it was a 5-digit distance. Hard to beat that.

May 25, 2009

Wasn't really trying for the FTF but I just happened to run a PQ and noticed a couple of new caches near where we planned to be later that day. I ended up being FTF on two caches about 1995 miles from home. Still like the comment the STF person made ' Well, I'm embarrassed. We let one of them left-coasters (oops, no pun intended) sneak in here and grab a FTF out from under our noses....'

May 25, 2009

Ours is 2634.2 km from home, as we were all driving around apparently in the same direction, being in front of the crowd helped a lot!

Nordurland 2 was a great sunny find!

May 25, 2009

Hy

Three of mine was in Whistler, BC, Canada.

Around 8200km away from my homecoords. And one of the three was hidden around 2 years before. (I had to walk for around 2 hours, I think that was the reason)

Salbedo

May 25, 2009

2445 miles on a cache that went unfound for over 2 years. GCHZPH

May 25, 2009

The furthest I've driven was maybe 10 miles.....LOL! I hate to drive.....I'll ride shotgun with you all day though.

My geocaching friend's grandmother is from Ecuador or another country down that direction. He says there are still 9 caches that have never been found and have been out for years. Who's going to go get 'em?

3.9k · May 25, 2009

My record is 10,288 miles, with the coordinates 1,000 feet off.

However, I know of at least one case (UK cacher with an FTF in New Zealand) whose furthest FTF was over 12,000 miles from home.

May 25, 2009

Living History 2 - Grass Maze 136 miles as the crow flies, 243 miles by TB, originally set out for Mt. Harris Info. Stop-a close second!

10.1k · May 25, 2009

315.5 miles. Try asking my brother! He has FTFs in Thailand and Egypt.

10.2k · May 25, 2009

I was actually FTF on a cache in Scranton, Pa. about 200 miles from home as the crow flies. Much further than that on roads, of course. But it turned out to be one of those caches where the cache owner gave the coords to their homeboys before publishing. Good thing I couldn't give a rats a** about who is FTF

May 25, 2009

Well, I was feeling pretty good about my 600 mile FTF the other day until I read these messages. Now that seems close to home.

2.8k · May 26, 2009

Just shy of 8000 miles! And I found it about 3 weeks after it was published.

1.5k · May 26, 2009

Our farthest FTF is 2113 miles.

We were visiting Pueto Vallarta, Mexico in August of 08. Drove the rental to Mascota to make the find that was placed by a class of 8 year olds from a German School in Guadalajara....it still hasn't been logged by anyone else. It's a great cache- GC1EA68

May 26, 2009

Mine is 9948.2 miles (6181.5km) - Atlanta GA to Johor Bahru, Malaysia.

I love business trips!

1.8k · May 26, 2009

952.4 miles from my home coords, in Kansas.

We were out Oklahoma way, visiting family. I saw this cache pop up while we were on our way to Tulsa.

And still unfound on our way back.

No way was I gonna let it stay unfound any longer.

3.2k · May 26, 2009

GCQJKZ

682.5 miles from home as the crow flies. We drove so it was 1,057 miles away. Not nearly as far as some folks but it was my very first FTF and was pretty cool to me.

May 27, 2009

1104.19 miles. I arrived at my hotel in Phoenix, Arizona (leaving from Gig Harbor, WA on vacation) only to notice a new cache just around the corner! :laughing:

Edit: I got five dollars and a geocoin out of it!

Edited May 27, 2009 by Spl1nt3rC3ll

9.2k · May 27, 2009

During our spring break trip, my daughter and I were FTF on Crab Soul's cache in Shreveport, Louisiana -- 935.3 miles from our home coordinates.

That FTF made for fun posting in one of the several forum threads about this cache, "old people trying to archive my cache." I'm an old people, but I was the FFTF (first fogey to find).

October 17, 2012

I was in Phoenix for a conference and had a co-FTF 1593 miles from home. The cacher I was with was approximately 2000 miles from home!

October 17, 2012

Ach - I thought I was doing well with over 4,000 miles - Alaska in June. But I know Interloper FTFed at least one in Santiago. We both live in Scotland...

:unsure:

14k · October 18, 2012

Ach - I thought I was doing well with over 4,000 miles - Alaska in June. But I know Interloper FTFed at least one in Santiago. We both live in Scotland...

I got one a last month in Kuching, Malaysia on a cache that is 9369.9 miles from my home coordinates. GC3VCJM

October 18, 2012

12,782 km- but I'm not saying what I found!

2.8k · October 18, 2012

What's the farthest distance between 2 FTFs on the same day?

Mine is about 100 miles, we planned an all day hike and a new cache at the summit came out 2 days before. At 6 am the day of the hike as I was getting in my car a cache came out 2 miles from my house and on my way to pick up my friend. (This is also my furthest FTF so far.)

Edited October 18, 2012 by Roman!

1.3k · October 18, 2012

I recently did a road trip to an awesome event cache (attendance: 2) after which I was FTF on two other caches that had been published for four and and six weeks before I got there. And so far I am still the only to find. Weird.

GC3W7K8 - Abandoned Museum - 502km from home

GC3TRFM - Opishing River Cache - 532km from home

1.3k · October 18, 2012

I was able to snag two FTF's on a trip to Wyoming. I visited Yellowstone for a week and a half and then went to Thermopolis for a few days.The caches were around the Thermop area and were published while I was in Yellowstone. Once I was in Thermopolis (and had phone reception again!), a PAF led to pulling up some surrounding caches and she noted that there were some that hadn't been found yet. They had been out for over a week, so the next day I nabbed 'em both. About 950 miles from home.

October 18, 2012

1782.7 mi from home. a 1/5 Scuba cache that went unfound for just over 3 years. And I didn't scuba dive to find it, either. :unsure:

October 18, 2012

Our best was 2211 miles or so. I just ran a google map from city to city. We live in West Covina, CA and on our Honeymoon, we went to Juneau Alaska. It sure was nice of them to let us find that FTF. Of course, the locals couldn't find it, but we did 400ft or so away from GZ.

1.2k · October 18, 2012

Our furthest FTF was Guarded in St. Kitts while on a cruise. 2085 miles as the buzzard flies.

3.1k · October 18, 2012

I've been able to log a "FTF" on a few caches thousands of miles away. However, it wasn't like I drove or flew there to get that specific FTF. The farthest I've deliberately gone to get a FTF on a new cache is somewhere in the hundreds of miles from home. Someone could happen into Homer, AK today from anywhere in the world and get a FTF on my newest cache here, but it's been out for a while now in context of how long most FTF races go in other places I've lived.

October 19, 2012

43 miles to my farthest FTF. I had to go to the nearby town for work that day so I ran on up to surprisingly find an empty log.

October 20, 2012

From MD, 4737.5 Miles for the FTF on a traditional (placed a month earlier), and 4705 on an EarthCache (placed 2 months earlier). Both in Brazil and snagged during my trip to the APE cache. For you FTF hounds, can you imagine the butterflies I had wondering if I'd get the FTF... for 2 months?!?

Edited October 20, 2012 by Corfmania

October 20, 2012

IM Simonaspetra

This one was 5,186 miles away, and had been out for over two years without a find. Probably because it's on a restricted peninsula that requires a special permit to visit, of which on 10 per day are issued to non-orthodox visitors like myself. Mount Athos, in Greece. I highly recommend a visit, and not for caching purposes.

Oh, and you have to be male - no women have been allowed for over 1000 years.

6.1k · October 20, 2012

We got 4 yesterday 130 miles from home. A few months ago, we got a few about 200 miles from home.

October 24, 2012

I have this list of FTF's currently...

•Nevada - GC2ATB4 Nevada Water Torture (9 Miles from home)

•California - GC2Y46A Nooks and Crannies (26.1 Miles from home)

•Louisiana - GC38HEA Champions Square! (1798.8 Miles from home)

•Texas - GC31GXX The Faith cache (1394.8 Miles from home)

•Arizona - GC3QK9M George the 1st (616.5 Miles from home)

•Idaho - GC3T1Z4 Brass Table (319.8 Miles from home)

•Iowa - GC3W3H4 Fore Play (1354.5 Miles from home)

•Washington - GC3YF3X Tillamook 3 (STRAWBERRY CHEESECAKE) (456.9 Miles from home)

•Oregon - GC3YQ0P Cache on a Stick (Motherlode #1) (442.7 Miles from home)

(All distances are from the cache pages.)

LOL soon to be MA, CT, RI, NY, NH or VT!!!

Edited October 24, 2012 by ray461

3.6k · October 25, 2012

are you asking what is the furthest we went to get one or the furthest we found one. I know it sounds the same but I have only went 150 miles to get one but went over 600 miles and then found some.

Like I went on vacation with some friends to the Eastern Sierras, and I knew there was a FTF available and though it took another day to go after it once we got there. We did find it.

Another time I went to Oregon to do GC12, GC16 & GC17, and I had notifications on, and 3 popped up on our way there so we detoured slightly to get them.

When we did the 2nd ET Hwy we found 29 FTF on the spaceship which we didn't plan.

3.1k · October 25, 2012

are you asking what is the furthest we went to get one or the furthest we found one. I know it sounds the same but I have only went 150 miles to get one but went over 600 miles and then found some.

Like I went on vacation with some friends to the Eastern Sierras, and I knew there was a FTF available and though it took another day to go after it once we got there. We did find it.

Another time I went to Oregon to do GC12, GC16 & GC17, and I had notifications on, and 3 popped up on our way there so we detoured slightly to get them.

When we did the 2nd ET Hwy we found 29 FTF on the spaceship which we didn't plan.

You're onto something here. I was saying nearly the same thing...

There's a difference between happening on a FTF and heading out to get a FTF.

Who is coming to Homer, AK to be FTF on my latest cache? Buy those tickets, rent those cars, mush those doggies...there's a FTF to get! :huh:

5.8k · October 25, 2012

7,396.6 miles: A Warrior's View, on the top of Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima. I was lucky enough to get onto a flight while I was in Japan for a couple weeks. It was great to be there for many reasons; finding caches there, let alone getting a FTF, was icing on the cake.

By my count sTeamTraen has the current record. Though a true antipodeal (is that a word?) FTF would be about 12,450 miles, so there's still room at the top.

14k · October 25, 2012

are you asking what is the furthest we went to get one or the furthest we found one. I know it sounds the same but I have only went 150 miles to get one but went over 600 miles and then found some.

Like I went on vacation with some friends to the Eastern Sierras, and I knew there was a FTF available and though it took another day to go after it once we got there. We did find it.

Another time I went to Oregon to do GC12, GC16 & GC17, and I had notifications on, and 3 popped up on our way there so we detoured slightly to get them.

When we did the 2nd ET Hwy we found 29 FTF on the spaceship which we didn't plan.

You're onto something here. I was saying nearly the same thing...

There's a difference between happening on a FTF and heading out to get a FTF.

Who is coming to Homer, AK to be FTF on my latest cache? Buy those tickets, rent those cars, mush those doggies...there's a FTF to get!

For the one I got that was almost 9400 miles from home I did think I might be able to get FTF on in when I was still at home and did a PQ of the area on a Thursday afternoon when the cache was published. I was on a plane the next morning but didn't land in Malaysia until Sunday afternoon. Then, after I checked into my hotel, I got a taxi to the park where the cache was hidden and found the cache. So I did head out, hoping to get a FTF on a specific cache, but obviously flew 9400 miles for reasons other than going geocaching.

October 26, 2012

mine was 4863 miles away.

1.3k · October 26, 2012

1501.9 miles

Nearest was .1 mile

4.5k · October 31, 2012

I got one a last month in Kuching, Malaysia on a cache that is 9369.9 miles from my home coordinates. GC3VCJM

In the small-world department, so did I - a cache just outside Kuching. But you win in the distance department, because apparently the shortest path from NY to Borneo is right over my house in western Canada.

So I went to the tropics and found a cache 12691 km northwest of home.

North - to the jungle!

I still have a hard time getting my head around that great-circle stuff.

Edited October 31, 2012 by Viajero Perdido

14k · October 31, 2012

I got one a last month in Kuching, Malaysia on a cache that is 9369.9 miles from my home coordinates. GC3VCJM

In the small-world department, so did I - a cache just outside Kuching. But you win in the distance department, because apparently the shortest path from NY to Borneo is right over my house in western Canada.

So I went to the tropics and found a cache 12691 km northwest of home.

North - to the jungle!

I still have a hard time getting my head around that great-circle stuff.

Very cool. I had looked at that cache and considered the possibility of trying to find it during the one free afternoon I had that week. I'm surprised that BernGPS didn't find it (he may have looked for it but didn't log a DNF) when he found the other cache in that area. He's the CO for the Reservoir Park, and China Friendship Garden caches.

November 13, 2012

I got one a last month in Kuching, Malaysia on a cache that is 9369.9 miles from my home coordinates. GC3VCJM

In the small-world department, so did I - a cache just outside Kuching. But you win in the distance department, because apparently the shortest path from NY to Borneo is right over my house in western Canada.

So I went to the tropics and found a cache 12691 km northwest of home.

North - to the jungle!

I still have a hard time getting my head around that great-circle stuff.

Very cool. I had looked at that cache and considered the possibility of trying to find it during the one free afternoon I had that week. I'm surprised that BernGPS didn't find it (he may have looked for it but didn't log a DNF) when he found the other cache in that area. He's the CO for the Reservoir Park, and China Friendship Garden caches.

Hi NYPaddleCacher,

First time I really read the forum here. Surprised to see my nic mentioned here.

Yes, I did try to search for the cache that Viajero Perdido FTF. But with 2 young daughters in tow and the hoards of mosquitoes demanding for blood donation on top of a muggle friend waiting at the Prayer Centre, I gave up searching after 30 minutes. I didnt log a DNF cos I will return some day.

14k · November 13, 2012

I got one a last month in Kuching, Malaysia on a cache that is 9369.9 miles from my home coordinates. GC3VCJM

In the small-world department, so did I - a cache just outside Kuching. But you win in the distance department, because apparently the shortest path from NY to Borneo is right over my house in western Canada.

So I went to the tropics and found a cache 12691 km northwest of home.

North - to the jungle!

I still have a hard time getting my head around that great-circle stuff.

Very cool. I had looked at that cache and considered the possibility of trying to find it during the one free afternoon I had that week. I'm surprised that BernGPS didn't find it (he may have looked for it but didn't log a DNF) when he found the other cache in that area. He's the CO for the Reservoir Park, and China Friendship Garden caches.

Hi NYPaddleCacher,

First time I really read the forum here. Surprised to see my nic mentioned here.

Yes, I did try to search for the cache that Viajero Perdido FTF. But with 2 young daughters in tow and the hoards of mosquitoes demanding for blood donation on top of a muggle friend waiting at the Prayer Centre, I gave up searching after 30 minutes. I didnt log a DNF cos I will return some day.

Yea, I noticed that Sarawak has a few mosquitos...though I really didn't get out into the jungle other than to the cultural village at Santubong. I really enjoyed Kuching though. Good to see you here. I'm not sure I've seen any other posts here from a geocacher from Malaysia.

November 14, 2012

Yea, I noticed that Sarawak has a few mosquitos...though I really didn't get out into the jungle other than to the cultural village at Santubong. I really enjoyed Kuching though. Good to see you here. I'm not sure I've seen any other posts here from a geocacher from Malaysia.

I only started reading this forum to try to see the current GC issues. There are a few Malaysian geocachers here . So far I have met Turbosnail, robojsl and offseid.

8.4k · November 15, 2012

I just got a FTF 291 miles from my home. I was wondering what is the farthest away from your home anyone has ever gotten a FTF.

I live in Houston most of the year and my farthest FTF was in Gallup, NM, oover 1,000 miles away.

3.1k · November 16, 2012

By my math, this logger just scored a FTF about 5000 miles away from his home. (Logged on 11/13/12 as 10/12/08) <_<

Edited November 16, 2012 by NeverSummer

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