world record

[m@m@]

big red wheel ,

[+Isonzo Karst]

Hello m@m@, the cache you found is The Big Red Wheel GC2R4RA (the GC Code you've used in your forum posts is unpublished).

http://coord.info/GC2R4RA

 

I don't believe anyone is keeping track of distance from front door to first find ;-) as any kind of record, but it's certainly a lot closer than any cache I've found to my own home. It must have been exciting to see that you were would be able to find something so soon and so close. I hope the game continues to be fun and exciting for you.

 

I suspect there are other urban dwellers who've found caches in the parking lots of their own apartment buildings, or at least very close, something in this same range.

 

Indeed, in reading another thread this morning, I see that someone found a cache on the ground floor of their apartment building.

My closest-to-home was (until it was recently archived) 0 horizontal feet from where I sleep. 0 metres, 0.000 miles, 0 kilometres. If you really want to get technical, it was about 7 vertical metres away. It was one of those caches "hidden" inside a business that slipped through the reviewer cracks, and it was hidden in the business directly below my condo unit.

Edited March 16, 2012 by Isonzo Karst

[m@m@]

even if I didn't get closest , how bout easiest

[Mr.Yuck]

even if I didn't get closest , how bout easiest

 

A micro on a big red wheel? No, doesn't actually sound that easy. Did you notice people fondling said big red wheel for years, and check it out? Or did you hear about Geocaching, and were surprised to see the closest one was 38 Meters away? I too would find That very interesting!

 

In the first case, homeowners often see geocachers acting like weirdo's in front of their house looking for caches. Sometimes they find out what is going on, and become Geocachers themselves. Sometimes they don't like the intrusion, and throw the caches in the trash!

Edited March 16, 2012 by Mr.Yuck

[+Totem Clan]

The easiest I've seen was an ammo can with cache written on the front of setting in the open by a flower bed around a memorial marker only 15 feet (5 m) from the parking spot.

 

 

...and yes it was in a front yard of the CO.

[m@m@]

I had seen kids sitting on top of wheel but no activity that seemed stranger than the regular weirdos . and I just heard I was looking for a container it took a while actually 5 - 10 mins looked in sneakiest places first , not sure if 5 -10 is good slow or ? sure I will find out

[m@m@]

co?

[+DragonsWest]

co?

 

CO = [Geo]Cache Owner

[+Totem Clan]

By the way, Welcome to the addiction called geocaching.

 

Now go find some more.

[+Ms.Scrabbler]

I had seen kids sitting on top of wheel but no activity that seemed stranger than the regular weirdos . and I just heard I was looking for a container it took a while actually 5 - 10 mins looked in sneakiest places first , not sure if 5 -10 is good slow or ? sure I will find out

Welcome to geocaching. I'm sure it was cool when you signed up and found there was one across the street.

I don't understand why you are even concerned about being closest or easiest. The quickest/easiest have to be LP skirts and you hear a lot of complaints because they are so easy.

There are all kinds of people that cache. FTF hounds, number players, finding one every day ... many put their own twist on it for an extra goal. It's just a personal thing. I don't think there are any records kept of these except maybe on their own cache page.

Edited March 16, 2012 by Scrabblers

[+CanadianRockies]

even if I didn't get closest , how bout easiest

It could be the closest cache anybody has found as their first cache. Hard to determine. Records like this usually aren't tracked because they would be too easy to manufacture. If I knew my cousin was about to get involved in geocaching, for example, then I could hide a geocache on her front porch (with permission).

[+Lil Devil]

Several years ago I hosted an event at my house. About a week before the event, I had bought several hundred ammo cans at auction to sell to geocachers. For fun, I had lined those ammo cans up on my front porch. So then at the event, one of the guests decides to put a logbook inside one of the ammo cans and list it on geocaching.com. The fun part was searching through hundreds of ammo cans to find the one with the logbook.

 

They did let me get the FTF. Here's the view from my office window when another cacher was searching for the right ammo can

 

[+jellis]

I went to a non geocaching event and all of the sudden the Homeowner jumped up and ran outside almost screaming. A cache went live on her front porch. FTF for her 3ft from her front door.

[Mr.Yuck]

even if I didn't get closest , how bout easiest

It could be the closest cache anybody has found as their first cache. Hard to determine. Records like this usually aren't tracked because they would be too easy to manufacture. If I knew my cousin was about to get involved in geocaching, for example, then I could hide a geocache on her front porch (with permission).

 

I'd still guess someone who noticed people snooping around their house, and rather than being hostile, went over and checked it out, and became a Geocacher. I recall a guy from Oklahoma (whose name escapes me, and hasn't posted lately) who noticed weirdo's snooping around the alley behind his house, and checked it out, and logged as his first find.

 

This would never happen in my area, but I know there are regions out there where people put keyholders on roadside transformers in front of people's houses in residential neighborhoods. Or nano's on Stop signs in residential neighborhoods.

[+GrateBear]

Congrats! 365 more unique days and you fill in the calendar. Too bad it's 4 more years for 2/29..........

[+ArcherDragoon]

Several years ago I hosted an event at my house. About a week before the event, I had bought several hundred ammo cans at auction to sell to geocachers. For fun, I had lined those ammo cans up on my front porch. So then at the event, one of the guests decides to put a logbook inside one of the ammo cans and list it on geocaching.com. The fun part was searching through hundreds of ammo cans to find the one with the logbook.

 

They did let me get the FTF. Here's the view from my office window when another cacher was searching for the right ammo can

 

That would be awesome!!!

[+jellis]

Several years ago I hosted an event at my house. About a week before the event, I had bought several hundred ammo cans at auction to sell to geocachers. For fun, I had lined those ammo cans up on my front porch. So then at the event, one of the guests decides to put a logbook inside one of the ammo cans and list it on geocaching.com. The fun part was searching through hundreds of ammo cans to find the one with the logbook.

 

They did let me get the FTF. Here's the view from my office window when another cacher was searching for the right ammo can

 

Silly question to ask you. But wasn't that considered a temporary cache?

[+Lil Devil]

Silly question to ask you. But wasn't that considered a temporary cache?

The cache was active for over 6 1/2 months before I sold enough of the cans that left the cache no longer viable.

[+Southern_Comfort]

The closest one to my house is in a park, about .1 mile away. The easiest one I've ever found is hard to tell, but it would probably be this one - it was hanging in plain sight

[+OZ2CPU]

one of my geocacher friends hid a cache 18m from my home,

and he did not inform me about it,

so I found out by luck a week after its puplish by luck when I downloaded a new PG for my area :-)

offcourse I was not FTF here, darn..

now and then I see people sneek arround in the tree and bush, haha that is a bit funny..

 

Sometimes when I need to arrange a meeting with a geocacher at my home,

I can now just say, lets meet at this cache, and they will know how to get there,

very nice and easy.

 

The same person live in the big city and placed a cache right outside his own window

on the back side of a metal pipe from the roof. He often sit and look at the visitors

and scare them a bit :-)

Edited March 21, 2012 by OZ2CPU

[+power69]

Congrats! 365 more unique days and you fill in the calendar. Too bad it's 4 more years for 2/29..........

there won't be another february anything as 12/21/12 comes before feb '13