MissouriCasting Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 What's the farthest you've gone for no other reason than to find a cache? It doesn't count if you were on vacation cross-country to visit family and went caching while you were there. It would count if you went on vacation specifically for the great caches they had in a location. Quote Link to comment
+Coldgears Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 120 miles to centralia pa. I frequently go 30 to 50 miles to find caches. I like to go to memorable areas when I go out geocaching. Those parking lot caches can wait until I'm in the area forf other reasons. Quote Link to comment
+Redfist Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 (edited) Farthest for me (not including trips for other purposes)... while in Redmond, WA decided to drive to the Original Cache SE of Portland. Stayed the night in a hotel somewhat nearby. That's roughly 211 miles (one way). Edited June 6, 2011 by Redfist Quote Link to comment
+terrkan78 Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 120 miles (one way) to the Original Stash. I toyed with the idea of driving 370 miles to go grab a travel bug that belongs to a good friend (it originated on the other side of the country), but I waited too long and someone grabbed it and flew it back east. Quote Link to comment
+Ecylram Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 112 miles from Denver to Cripple Creek. We picked up a Travel Bug that a kid had placed and wanted to go to Cripple Creek. We used that as an excuse for a road trip. It was an enjoyable day and we got a nice email from the father. Quote Link to comment
+Coldgears Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 Oh forgot to mention the 120 miles was one way. I also drove 80 miles the new york city and 80 to the beach. I'm traveling another 120 miles to cache in baltimore within the next month or so. Quote Link to comment
+BBWolf+3Pigs Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 1540 Miles to GCN1YW near Dallas. I was on a caching trip to grab caches in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas. It was strictly a caching trip. Quote Link to comment
+StarBrand Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 About 300 miles - one way. Just a wild idea one weekend to head off to the East end of the state. Quote Link to comment
+The Fun Group Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 (edited) About 1200 miles on 3 separate occasions. Our local geocaching organization hosts the Cache Across Maryland (CAM) each spring and hides 10 caches spread across the state. Finding all 10 CAM caches within the designated time period (typically 5-6 weeks) gives the finders the coords to the picnic. Some cachers are known to do single marathon road trips, but our family tends to make 3 dedicated road trips to complete each CAM. Edited June 6, 2011 by The Fun Group Quote Link to comment
+uxorious Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 "original Stash Tribute Plaque" GCGV0P. That's 140 miles as the crow flies, much farther as the Geocacher drives. Probably 180 or more by road. (distances are one way of course.) Quote Link to comment
+Team GPSaxophone Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 A few years ago we drove out to the Pacific Northwet on a geocaching vacation. Our main goals were Champoeg, the Original Stash Tribute Plaque, and Groundspeak Headquarters. We added in several other things like visiting Ambrosia and family in SoCal. The whole trip was around 4000 miles from our home in Colorado Springs. If you look at my finds map (below) you can see a lot of the route clearly enough. Quote Link to comment
MisterEFQ Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 Maybe 30 mile. Crazy huh?!?!? Quote Link to comment
+NYPaddleCacher Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 About 55 miles one way as the crow flies to find "The Spot". I've also added 60 miles to a drive from Providence, RI to Darien, CT to detour off 95 to go get Brenton Point, the oldest cache in RI. Although the OP excludes caches that may have been found during a vacation that wasn't specifically a geocaching vacation I have to assume that caches found while traveling on business wouldn't count either. However, I have factored in the availability of geocaches into my choice of hotel or itinerary when planning a couple business trips. Typically, I choose and book my own travel when going on business trips and get reimbursed when I get home. As long as I don't choose an itinerary which adds to the overall cost I can be pretty flexible. For example, last year I attended a 3 day meeting in Montpellier, France. One of the options was to fly from home (NY) to Paris, then to Montpellier. The travel times were not the most convenient so I looked at other options. One of them was to fly from NY to Frankfurt (where I could grab the virtual located in the airport) to Marseille and take then train from Marseille to Montpellier. Then, for my return trip I added a vacation day and paid for a 215 mile (one way) train trip to Barcelona and flew home from there. So instead of a business trip where I could find a few caches in Montpellier, I found one in Germany, a bunch in Montpellier, and a handful in Barcelona (plus, I got to see Barcelona) for *less* than if I had flown to Montpellier via Paris. I *did* pay for the Montpellier -> Barcelona train and hotel in Barcelona out of my own pocket but it doesn't cost the funders for my trip anything more. Quote Link to comment
+Redfist Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 About 55 miles one way as the crow flies to find "The Spot". I've also added 60 miles to a drive from Providence, RI to Darien, CT to detour off 95 to go get Brenton Point, the oldest cache in RI. Although the OP excludes caches that may have been found during a vacation that wasn't specifically a geocaching vacation I have to assume that caches found while traveling on business wouldn't count either. However, I have factored in the availability of geocaches into my choice of hotel or itinerary when planning a couple business trips. Typically, I choose and book my own travel when going on business trips and get reimbursed when I get home. As long as I don't choose an itinerary which adds to the overall cost I can be pretty flexible. For example, last year I attended a 3 day meeting in Montpellier, France. One of the options was to fly from home (NY) to Paris, then to Montpellier. The travel times were not the most convenient so I looked at other options. One of them was to fly from NY to Frankfurt (where I could grab the virtual located in the airport) to Marseille and take then train from Marseille to Montpellier. Then, for my return trip I added a vacation day and paid for a 215 mile (one way) train trip to Barcelona and flew home from there. So instead of a business trip where I could find a few caches in Montpellier, I found one in Germany, a bunch in Montpellier, and a handful in Barcelona (plus, I got to see Barcelona) for *less* than if I had flown to Montpellier via Paris. I *did* pay for the Montpellier -> Barcelona train and hotel in Barcelona out of my own pocket but it doesn't cost the funders for my trip anything more. I flew from Phoenix, AZ to Sao Paulo Brazil for work. I did find a cache down there, but it was only a few blocks away from a meeting I had. I didn't count that 6000 mile journey since I was going there for work anyway... However, I did get a Brazil cache and it will likely remain my southernmost cache on my stats for quite a long time. Quote Link to comment
+geodarts Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 (edited) A few friends and I did a whirlwind trip from the SF Bay Area to the APE cache in Washington, getting there the day after the Tunnel opened. So I suppose that would be the longest for me. But sometimes the line is hard to separate. Would I have gone to the Toroweap overlook in a remote section of the Grand Canyon if there had not been a cache there? Would we be planning a trip to Yellowstone if it were not for all the caches there? Edited June 6, 2011 by mulvaney Quote Link to comment
+Harry Dolphin Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 We've been known to take vacation trips to color in new states on our maps. WE do see sights along the way, but the porpoise of the trip is to color in states. So, my furthest so far is 850 miles to St. Augustine, Fla. This year, we are hoping for Winona, Minn. Which is 900 miles away. Next year, not so far: Newfoundland. Quote Link to comment
Andronicus Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 265 km one way. It was a mountain scramble we had planned, but with a late melt, we were forsed to find a mountain on the extream south of the province where most of the snow had already melted. Quote Link to comment
+captnemo Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 How about 1559.041 miles. Of course it was for a locationless cache. Quote Link to comment
+Walts Hunting Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 Flew from Anchorage Alaska to Barrow to get the furthest north on the continent Quote Link to comment
+Coldgears Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 porpoise Haha, very punny. Quote Link to comment
+niraD Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 Usually I go no more than a few miles out of my way for a cache. Those of my finds that have been the most distant from home have been during trips that we would have taken anyway. But I have joined a few group geocaching hikes for which I've driven up to 50 miles. Quote Link to comment
+BaylorGrad Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 I'll be perfectly honest, I don't think I've ever gone more than 4-5 miles for the SOLE purpose of caching. What I love most is the convenience of Geocaching--I can get in the car and go grab one a mile away and be back home 10-15 minutes later. I would never take a trip for the sole purpose of Geocaching. I do enjoy Geocaching, but my life doesn't revolve around it. (I do completely understand that many of you will disagree! ) Quote Link to comment
+BaylorGrad Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 (edited) Double--my computer isn't liking the forums today. Edited June 7, 2011 by BaylorGrad Quote Link to comment
+CanDMan47 Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 This is a difficult question to answer. I have gone on a family and wouldn't have gone but to find caches along the way and while there. But since I did other things while there, I'll skip that. My furthest away "just to get it" cache was about 80 miles. It was part of my 500th milestone day where I got several and I probably drove 100-110 miles or so before heading back. Quote Link to comment
Andronicus Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 Funny to hear lost of people saying that they rarely travel far because they love the convenience of almost always having unfound caches near by. I like that too. But the next thread to start will likely be complaining about cache saturation. You can't have it both ways... Quote Link to comment
+Viajero Perdido Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 (edited) I went 5271 km (millions of miles) from Canada to Nicaragua, because I really really wanted to find Primero de Nicaragua ("First in Nicaragua"). It was a potential FTF after 5½ years in the jungle, and unfortunately I left with a big fat DNF. But I had one heck of an adventure. Top that. Oh, and I once detoured from southern Mexico into Guatemala to DNFTF a cache that I was pretty sure I wasn't going to find. But it was only 125 km as the satellite flies from where I was hanging out (or a full day of travel on the ground), so I had to check it out. It would've been a 5-year FTF. Edited June 7, 2011 by Viajero Perdido Quote Link to comment
+me N u Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 We added about 1000Kms (600 miles) to a trip after developing an earthcache (GC2NJ9A)to revisit GCHANK as we had previously logged a DNF and it was subsequently found so we knew it was there! The extension involved camping in a sandstorm and a 14 hour drive home the next day in the same sandstorm. Quote Link to comment
+Starkes Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 About 14 miles to get the first Arizona geocache (GC57). Quote Link to comment
+terratin Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 Apart from the odd FTF (a few km) we have not gone out to find that one specific cache. We did -however- drive from the south of the Netherlands via Belgium, France and Luxembourg to the Hanover area in Germany, just to a) find caches in Belgium, France and Luxembourg and find caches in 5 countries in a single day; succes in both instances!. Admittedly we stayed overnight in Luxembourg, but all-in-all it was approx a 1000km detour just to cache. Mr. Terratin Quote Link to comment
+Ambrosia Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 We added in several other things like visiting Ambrosia Quote Link to comment
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