Do you usually cache by yourself?

[+BikeDH]

Just wondering how you geocache, usually by yourself or usually with other cachers? I enjoy both ways. It fun to cache with others to see their methods and exchange notes on caches. It's also easier to find caches with more pairs of eyes looking.

[+John in Valley Forge]

On my own for the most part.

Thoroughly enjoy meeting other cachers on the local bike trail and caching together for a while.

Sometimes I bring my Golden Retriever along for the walk, but she is a handful to walk with in the woods. I chase Tupperware, she chases squirrels.

My teenagers have little interest in the sport/hobby/obsession.

[TheCacheSeeker]

I never cached by myself, only with other people.

[+Sharks-N-Beans]

It's always Shark and Beans. Beans doesn't like heights and Shark's not so fond of crawly things so ya we're a package deal.

[+ocklawahaboy]

As I've said before, geocaching is another way for me to enjoy the things I enjoy already. Therefore, I usually go by myself but I team up with others about as often as I go fishing, hiking, camping or whatever else with other people. I'd say that about 20% of my finds had someone else along.

[+lamoracke]

usually by myself as I always have time for myself, but sometimes, when I can, will go with friends. However, I often just do 1 cache a day and its hard to have friends who want to go to just that one cache and the time I want. To cache with friends, have to plan in advance on the rare days I want to be more adventurous and have more time.

[+Ecylram]

We're a team but I do most of the caches as a single while traveling to and from my work.

 

I much prefer caching with someone else as it's nice to share the experience with someone.

[+StarBrand]

I cache alone or with my family members on about 98% of all my finds. I can only remember at most 5 times that I cached with another cacher.

[+Bad_Wolfe]

We got into caching as a way to spend time together, so we never cache separately. As far as other cachers, we've only gone as a large group once, but look to do it more often. Well, once, Kesara brought her best friend along, but she was a muggle then, so we're not sure it counts... It was her first few finds, so that was pretty cool to experience from the other side of things...

[+Razor1965]

About 50-50. I live in Chicago and almost always cache with my wife or friends. During the week I work in St Louis, so I cache there alone. I prefer caching with people though especially in the woods. It's no fun falling in the woods when you are all alone.

[+Student Camper]

I only cache when I'm alone or with someone.

[+BeaveMeister]

I have tried to get friends into it, but they are not interested. My brother and I cache together whenever we are in town together.

[+G & C]

I used to cache alone mainly. But since the baby was born, my chances to go caching are so infrequent that I usually want to make it either a really good, tough terrained cache, or a fun day that involves finding several in an area. So these days it's mostly with friends I've made that like to geocache the way that I do.

[+jmw61]

Generally alone but sometimes the better half and the dogs come along.

[+JBnW]

We're a team but I do most of the caches as a single while traveling to and from my work.

 

I much prefer caching with someone else as it's nice to share the experience with someone.

Same here, and its also fun to run into other cachers along the way! Always good to know the secret geocachers handshake.

[+all done]

I only cache when I'm alone or with someone.

That's funny right there....simply funny......somebody had to do it.

[+BlueDeuce]

Usually alone but happy to take someone along. I normally cache over the lunch hour and a co-worker who also cached would often tag along. He eventually fell away from the game so back to mainly caching alone.

 

If I could have a choice I would probably split it 50/50. Sometimes alone, sometimes with another. Both are enjoyable.

[+Chokecherry]

I take my mom on trips with me when I go caching and we do a bunch she is able to get to. Once in awhile I get a wild hair up my bum and decide to go do higher terrain one (or one that was not rated accurately in terrain that we had to skip) and I'll generally do those alone.

[+Highland Horde]

I never cache alone...there is always me and the voices in my head...occasionally there are voices with me that aren't in my head...they are usually a couple of the hordlings...but the voices in my head are still there....usually telling me to be more careful cause there are outside voices with me...lol...the voices in me head aren't so reasonable when there aren't voices outside my head...

so...i think i am hearing things and seeing voices

[+cerberus1]

My other 2/3rds and I have different schedules, so caching together is rare. It'll be worse when/if she ever goes on another shift.

She does C&Ds, I don't. So she knows that the few times we're together are hikes, or at least, longer walks. She's fine with those too.

 

I rarely go with other cachers. Maybe if the terrain is a true "5".

 

Most styles are so different than mine, I don't have fun and that's the reason for heading out in the first place - to have fun and relax.

I don't PQ hides and may spend the entire day on one find. Most these days want to "get 'em all".

- Not usually a good fit. So I cache by myself.

[+Sithlock Holmes]

I started off caching by myself.

After a few months, I finally suckered my husband in to join me.

Now I rarely go out without my Watson.

[+E_ZIG_A]

I generally cache by myself and the Geo-Beast (combining an extra walk for her with my hobby!). Sometimes my Geo-Partner-In-Crime and I cache around to explore places we're travelling in (great thing to get to know a new city, town, area or to break up a long drive!) and sometimes I take the Geo-Stepdaughter, who is learning to drive so it combines great driving practice for her and also we get to hunt on the way!

[+BaylorGrad]

I cache alone about 90% of the time, but that's because I'm in graduate school in Indiana, and I'm too timid to ask anyone to go with me. Frankly, I don't like caching alone much--but it ironically does take my mind off of how lonely graduate school is.

 

When I go to Texas, where my family and girlfriend are, I always cache with others--never alone.

[+jacob501]

I am a teenager so I usually just ask my parents if I can go and find a cache while we are out somewhere. They don't exactly "like" it so they don't usually get out help me find it. They are fine with it but never act like it could actually be a hobby of mine. They bought me a nice (cheap) 80 dollar gps for my birthday but over the course of one or two years I have only found 30 caches. If I had my own car and could go out by myself I probably would've found about 200 by now. I mean...its okay but its kind of awkward especially around my sister. The first time that I went geocaching (my grandparents told us about it) me and my sister and my went to go find a few that were near our house. We found our first two and my sister and I were really excited about it. But then we went and we couldn't find some other ones because we only had a car gps. And ever since then my sister has thought it is kind of dumb.

 

I always wonder how other people know each other so well (like they always say I went on a cache run with this person and him and her and that person)...I guess they just meet each other at events, but my parents would probably never take me to one of those.

 

I wish there was some way I could make my family like geocaching or just for it to be less awkward around them.

Edited February 27, 2011 by jacob501

[Cath&Austin]

It's something my husband and I do together.

[+BlueDeuce]

I never cache alone...there is always me and the voices in my head...occasionally there are voices with me that aren't in my head...they are usually a couple of the hordlings...but the voices in my head are still there....usually telling me to be more careful cause there are outside voices with me...lol...the voices in me head aren't so reasonable when there aren't voices outside my head...

so...i think i am hearing things and seeing voices

 

I've heard that about you.

[+simpjkee]

I usually cache by myself.

[+mithrril]

I have never cached alone, though I am new. I always go with my husband. He enjoys caching as well but he's not as into it as I am. I don't feel like I would enjoy caching alone. Firstly I hard driving and my husband nearly always has the car if I'm not with him. There aren't any caches within walking distance of my home. Also I think it is much more interesting to cache with someone else. We can both look and have fun together. I want to get other people involved and go caching with them too. I already got my mother, her boyfriend, and a coworker into it so far, but I haven't been with any of them yet.

[+QuiltinNana]

I usually geocache with my husband, daughter and granddaughter who is 4 years old. Friends got us interested last summer and about half the time we go with them, but they've moved far far away, so it probably will be the 4 of us this year.

[+popokiiti]

I've never cached alone. I enjoy caching with Popoki Nui, and we enjoy meeting other cachers when we're out and about. Popoki Nui does cache alone, usually on bike rides - I am not that energetic...or well balanced!

[+cre8v1]

I go it alone most of the time. It is nice when I can con a family member to go along.

[sdarken]

I find a cache while with family members about 1 in 75 caches. I like to cache with other geocachers but my trips are fairly spontaneous so it's too difficult to ask other people to come along. Plus the most prolific cachers (who I'd be inviting along) have generally already visited the caches by the time I get there.

[+cdwilliams05]

It depends on my mood. If I want to do some "serious" caching (Find it and move on to the next, as quickly as possible) I go on my own. If I want to cache, but don't plan on making any strides in my smiley count, I'll grab some buddies and go. We goof around, crack jokes, and so on....all depends on what I am looking to do for the day.

[+CruiseGuy]

So far. I do it as part of my daily exercise. And I do this alone. If I had to do it on someone else's schedule, I probably wouldn't stay with it. But I'm definitely open to geocaching with someone else on days that my schedule is more flexible, like the weekends!

[+11hpg11]

Most of the time its my baby and I

[+The_Incredibles_]

50-50. Often I go with the kids, but sometimes it's nice to go alone, things go faster that way.

[+Edsfind]

i take my wife and grandson, but i do alot of them by myself

[+power69]

since i'm bike only, always alone.

[+briansnat]

It's about 50/50 with me. Roughly half the time I'm caching alone and half the time it's with my wife or others. I enjoy doing both.

[+MoonCatKDT & Peanut]

Most of the time i'm out with my Husband-to-be, KDT or with other geocachers. Every once in a while i'll go alone, it's nice to be out by yourself without the chattering of everyone around you. KDT requests though that i stay in smaller parks in the area, no massive bushwhacks by myself in the middle of nowhere.

[+Z_Statman]

I do tend to cache alone but my wife mandates that I have my cell phone and that we check in around noon, regardless

[+mlomeli]

Always with my wife. Unless, traveling for work doesn't permit us to be together. We take our daughter in one of those comfy toddler trailers, that attach to a bike. Gets us all outdoors.

[+gururyan]

I'd say most of the time I am alone, my wife has zero interest and will not join me. Luckily my older son, 10, enjoys it so he'll go with me sometimes. My 5 yr old has a much shorter patience for it and can only handle 2 or 3 max, and they'd better be large ammo cans with toys or it's over. My sister, however, loves it. Whenever she and I can get together to cache we do, but living in different cities makes it hard. Her spouse isn't into it either so both my relationship with geocaching and my sister's is much like a secret affair. We both have to sneak out to geocache. I know most of you find that disturbing or shocking, the very idea of having to sneak around to be able to get some geocaching time in, but there are those of us out there that have to live like this. Repressed Geocachers, I should start a club...errr, support group.

[+Thrak]

The majority of my finds have been solo but I've cached with a friend on a number of occasions. I cache with my wife when traveling and sometimes she'll plan a caching trip to the countryside for us to do on a weekend. She loves to get out in the country whether it's a moderate hike in the woods or just tooling around the back roads to see what's there. She wont' go caching with me in our home town though - it holds no interest for her. Caching in the country is a different thing. We're planning an Alaskan cruise for later this year and we'll be adding Alaska to our list of states cached. There's also a port call in Victoria, BC so I'm hoping we can find a cache there as well. My wife is fun to cache with and she's darn good at finding them.

[Andronicus]

I usualy cache by myself.

[+GeoReapers]

Our family/team is composed of 10 people, so we rarely cache alone. But caching with others outside of our family almost never happens. We meet other cachers on occasion, but not nearly as often as we would like.

[+TerraViators]

probably 60-70% of the time.

[+popokiiti]

The majority of my finds have been solo but I've cached with a friend on a number of occasions. I cache with my wife when traveling and sometimes she'll plan a caching trip to the countryside for us to do on a weekend. She loves to get out in the country whether it's a moderate hike in the woods or just tooling around the back roads to see what's there. She wont' go caching with me in our home town though - it holds no interest for her. Caching in the country is a different thing. We're planning an Alaskan cruise for later this year and we'll be adding Alaska to our list of states cached. There's also a port call in Victoria, BC so I'm hoping we can find a cache there as well. My wife is fun to cache with and she's darn good at finding them.

There are quite a few caches in Victoria, BC close to where the cruise ships dock at Ogden Point. How long are you in town for? If you want any help re distance, nice viewpoints, etc., let me know!

[+Panther&Pine]

I've gotten two or three caches by myself, I'm not very coordinated so it isn't overly smart(or safe) for me to cache by myself. I tend to fall down often (so I get the carry the first aid kit.

I do carry a cane sometimes so that helps, but overall I cache with someone.

[+Alkhalikoi]

Of 900 or so caches, I've probably done about 500-550 solo, about 250 with my son and/or his cousins, and another 100ish with other serious cachers. I love when my son -- about 6.5 -- comes along, although I'm more than happy to go solo.