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How far do you regularly travel to geocache?


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Guest rusty

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...

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Guest jeremy

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

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Guest Cache-potato

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! eek.gif

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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

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Guest Ttepee

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 ;-)

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Guest ClayJar

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).]

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Guest Exocet

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.

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Guest rijn

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 icon_biggrin.gif ). Thankfully we are now getting some other cachers around our area so the trips can be shortened.

 

Maat

of Me, Maat and Rijn

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Guest rijn

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 icon_biggrin.gif ). Thankfully we are now getting some other cachers around our area so the trips can be shortened.

 

Maat

of Me, Maat and Rijn

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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).]

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Guest bunkerdave

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. icon_biggrin.gif As I have said before, we don't mind sharing. Come on over, find all you want. We'll hide more.

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Guest bunkerdave

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. icon_biggrin.gif As I have said before, we don't mind sharing. Come on over, find all you want. We'll hide more.

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Guest Lou C

" ... 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...

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Guest cache_only

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).]

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Guest mfratto

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.

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Guest kimbeattie

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

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Guest Iron Chef

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. :~)

 

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Guest logscaler

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.

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