Guest rusty Posted July 2, 2001 Share Posted July 2, 2001 Just wondering how far away people go on a normal caching trip? I'm not talking about hitting them while travelling or on vacation, I mean when you head out with no other purpose than geocaching. Here in Michigan I have logged everything nearby and now have to travel 40-60 miles to get to new pockets of caches I haven't visited. Is that the norm? On a related note, I have been planning a multi-part cache that would actually be 4 individual caches spread all accross the state with clues to a 5th cache. Each cache would be posted and logged individually but you would have to find all four and solve a puzzle to locate the last one. Would you hunt a 150 mile span without knowing where the last one might end up being located? Rusty... Quote Link to comment
Guest jeremy Posted July 2, 2001 Share Posted July 2, 2001 I usually will travel up to 3 hours away for a cache. Being in the Pacific Northwest, 3 hour trips are especially pleasant, especially when your destinations can be Vancouver, BC, Portland, Oregon, the Pacific Coast or the deserts on the other side of the Cascades. I'd certainly be willing to do a long distance cache like the one you describe, but it would be one that would span over the course of a few trips. I guess it would also depend on the destinations and whether they were worth the trip. If someone is native to the state and knows "the road less travelled," I'm there. Jeremy Quote Link to comment
Guest Cache-potato Posted July 2, 2001 Share Posted July 2, 2001 The first seven caches we found we all 1.5 hours drive from me. It looks like my radius may have to grow. I would drive twice that without question. More than 3hrs I would have to look at a little closer...................................................... Okay, I thought about it. Let's go! Quote Link to comment
Guest mcb Posted July 2, 2001 Share Posted July 2, 2001 Most of my cache hunts have been within thirty miles of my house. I did drive 400 miles to chicago for a weekend of cache hunting a couple of weeks ago. mcb Quote Link to comment
Guest Ttepee Posted July 2, 2001 Share Posted July 2, 2001 So far my hunts have been within 30 miles of home... my 2 caches I've planted have been within 100 miles...I'm still working on the homebased cache.. I want that one to be special. I'm only at 10 find/2 hide and I've got another 27 to go at this point before I pass the 30 mile limit...hopefully that number will keep growing as I get closer to it. But I must say that from now on any vacations I take will hopefully include geocaching... heheh I love the guy that finally went to visit his sister in Atlanta because they had lots of caches around there ;-) Quote Link to comment
Guest ClayJar Posted July 2, 2001 Share Posted July 2, 2001 My five weekends in geocaching have had the following round-trip distances (rounding to the tens digit): 30 miles 0 miles (due to Allison's flooding) 350 miles 1110 miles 1450 miles So, how's that for starters? (By the way, that 1450 mile round trip included visiting my sister in Atlanta. Yep, I'm the guy.) [This message has been edited by ClayJar (edited 02 July 2001).] Quote Link to comment
Guest Exocet Posted July 3, 2001 Share Posted July 3, 2001 The furthest I've traveled to place a cache is about 500km (310mi), round trip. the furthest I've traveled to seek a cache or several caches has been about the same distance, around 400-500km (250-300mi) for the entire trip. Quote Link to comment
Guest rijn Posted July 3, 2001 Share Posted July 3, 2001 On our normal weekends of GeoCaching we drive 1hr 30 Min to the S or SW or 2hr and 30 min to the north, one way (up hill both ways, through hail and hot as Hades temps ). Thankfully we are now getting some other cachers around our area so the trips can be shortened. Maat of Me, Maat and Rijn Quote Link to comment
Guest rijn Posted July 3, 2001 Share Posted July 3, 2001 On our normal weekends of GeoCaching we drive 1hr 30 Min to the S or SW or 2hr and 30 min to the north, one way (up hill both ways, through hail and hot as Hades temps ). Thankfully we are now getting some other cachers around our area so the trips can be shortened. Maat of Me, Maat and Rijn Quote Link to comment
Guest Jeffrey R Posted July 3, 2001 Share Posted July 3, 2001 I live in the San Francisco Bay Area so most of the caches I've found have been less then 30 minutes away. But I'm lucky. Quote Link to comment
Guest Rin Posted July 3, 2001 Share Posted July 3, 2001 I'm with Jeffrey. Being in the Bay Area, the geocaching sites are exploding. 12 new ones in the last week. While there's only (only?) 158 here now, at the rate it's going there will be 830 a year from now. I'll have to start kicking them out of my doorway to get to work in the morning. [This message has been edited by Rin (edited 03 July 2001).] [This message has been edited by Rin (edited 03 July 2001).] Quote Link to comment
Guest bunkerdave Posted July 3, 2001 Share Posted July 3, 2001 I have never had to stay overnight to find a cache, but I found one about 220 miles away in SE Utah. I have found almost everything within 100 miles of my home, which is a lot. I have traveled as many as 300 miles on a cache hunt, but that was out, around, and back again, so the distance to the caches would be considerably less. If I travel 300 miles, it is certain I will pass at least a dozen caches. You see, we Utahans are especially prone to addiction, given that beer here is water, and everyting else is locked up. When we get a taste of something as addictive as Geocaching, the resulting reaction is quite explosive. As I have said before, we don't mind sharing. Come on over, find all you want. We'll hide more. Quote Link to comment
Guest bunkerdave Posted July 3, 2001 Share Posted July 3, 2001 I have never had to stay overnight to find a cache, but I found one about 220 miles away in SE Utah. I have found almost everything within 100 miles of my home, which is a lot. I have traveled as many as 300 miles on a cache hunt, but that was out, around, and back again, so the distance to the caches would be considerably less. If I travel 300 miles, it is certain I will pass at least a dozen caches. You see, we Utahans are especially prone to addiction, given that beer here is water, and everyting else is locked up. When we get a taste of something as addictive as Geocaching, the resulting reaction is quite explosive. As I have said before, we don't mind sharing. Come on over, find all you want. We'll hide more. Quote Link to comment
Guest Lou C Posted July 3, 2001 Share Posted July 3, 2001 " ... I have been planning a multi-part cache that would actually be 4 individual caches spread all accross the state [of Michigan] with clues to a 5th cache. Each cache would be posted and logged individually but you would have to find all four and solve a puzzle to locate the last one. Would you hunt a 150 mile span without knowing where the last one might end up being located?" I think I just might. If I could get my family to go for this (and I am trying), it would be a blast! Tell us when you launch this. Rusty... Quote Link to comment
Guest cache_only Posted July 3, 2001 Share Posted July 3, 2001 Absolutely no more than 30 miles. Why? I used to drive 60 miles and make an entire afternoon out of a geocache. Too many people who were new to the sport were making costly, albeit innocent, mistakes: incorrect coordinates; leaving a cache *directly* on a trail and having it stolen; you name it. Now I drive a maximum of 30 miles and if I get burned...so what. The whole afternoon isn't shot. [This message has been edited by cache_only (edited 03 July 2001).] Quote Link to comment
Guest mfratto Posted July 4, 2001 Share Posted July 4, 2001 I think so far, we have only travelled an hour or so, maybe 40-50 miles at most, though we plan on "vacation geocaching" -- when we go to cape cod in August we are going to search for caches there, and if we get a chance we might take some weekends to Vermont or Penn and track down some caches. Quote Link to comment
Guest kimbeattie Posted July 4, 2001 Share Posted July 4, 2001 I'm located in Sacramento, CA. When I began Geocaching (in April 01), the closest cache was about 40 miles south (with another two a further 10 miles further south). Then there's the Bay Area, which is about 90 - 120 minutes away. My parents live near Mt. Diablo, so there house makes an excellent base camp for cache hunting in East Bay. I can also head east to the Lake Tahoe area, which is another 90 - 120 minute trip. The Sacramento area now has nine caches, five placed by me. As new ones pop up, I hunt them down. It's always nice to see new caches appearing locally. So basically, for most of my caching, I have to travel from 1 - 2 hours. Kimbo 5H/13F Quote Link to comment
Guest Iron Chef Posted July 4, 2001 Share Posted July 4, 2001 I would say that driving no more than 3 hours roundtrip travel time on highways is about as far as I would go. Even then I would only make it if there were two caches that I could hit just in case one of them is suffering from wrong coords, etc etc. Then again I enjoy driving so it isn't so bad. :~) ------------------ -Iron Chef _ _ _ _ _ _____ _ _ _ _ _ agefive.com/geocache/ ~ Fe-26 Lets Drive Fast and Eat Cheese! Quote Link to comment
Guest logscaler Posted July 5, 2001 Share Posted July 5, 2001 Well, July 4, 2001 I had nothing better to do so..... 487 miles, 20 hours 12 hits and 10 finds. But I also was going after two more but to many people around one and fireworks near the other. So, I went back to hide and plot for this weekend. I have about seven more in site. Just depends on if Red will hold out. This will also be around 1100 miles before its over with. Hi Ho and away we go. Quote Link to comment
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