+The GeoGadgets Team Posted May 11, 2002 Share Posted May 11, 2002 I am not sure if this has been discussed before. I checked the search and didn't find anything... We have had a CACHE on our radar that would have turned a year old on May 10th without being found if we had not gone after it. As a crow flies, it was under 50 miles from our home. To get to it, however, took a 400 mile round-trip. There is another dirt mountain road that might have made it closer, but it was (and usually is) closed due to snow. Has anyone else made such a long trek for such a close cache? ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite Quote Link to comment
+KD7MXI Posted May 11, 2002 Share Posted May 11, 2002 50 miles welcome to MY world!!! ------------------------------------------------------------ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CacheAcrossAmerica http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest_cache.asp?u=KD7MXI http://www.cachunuts.com Quote Link to comment
+KD7MXI Posted May 11, 2002 Share Posted May 11, 2002 50 miles welcome to MY world!!! ------------------------------------------------------------ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CacheAcrossAmerica http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest_cache.asp?u=KD7MXI http://www.cachunuts.com Quote Link to comment
+Moore9KSUcats Posted May 11, 2002 Share Posted May 11, 2002 Well, we drove 90 miles one way today to pick up 4 caches in the College Station area. Yes, we had another reason to be there, but we also planned the caching into our day. We were picking up our daughter from A & M. Those 4 caches finished the ones in the immediate College Station area, so we hope some new ones get placed over the summer for us to hunt for in the fall! Quote Link to comment
+Moore9KSUcats Posted May 11, 2002 Share Posted May 11, 2002 Well, we drove 90 miles one way today to pick up 4 caches in the College Station area. Yes, we had another reason to be there, but we also planned the caching into our day. We were picking up our daughter from A & M. Those 4 caches finished the ones in the immediate College Station area, so we hope some new ones get placed over the summer for us to hunt for in the fall! Quote Link to comment
+15Tango Posted May 11, 2002 Share Posted May 11, 2002 Let me just say that I've started down the trail before with nothing but my gps and a couple of trade items for close caches, and then got to wondering a couple of hours later what the headlines would be when they found my dehydrated remains with a gps in one hand and a stuffed toy in the other. If you've heard that Minnesota is flat, that's just a nasty rumor--some of the local parks have really convoluted trail systems due to the terrain, and you can walk over 2 miles round trip to get to a cache that's less than half a mile from the parking area as the crow flies. Also, "flat" Minnesota has one of the top-ten mountain bike trails in the U.S.A. Happy cachin'!!! 15T www.1800goguard.com Quote Link to comment
+georgeandmary Posted May 12, 2002 Share Posted May 12, 2002 quote:Originally posted by The GeoGadgets Team: I am not sure if this has been discussed before. I checked the search and didn't find anything... We have had a http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=2323 on our radar that would have turned a year old on May 10th without being found if we had not gone after it. As a crow flies, it was under 50 miles from our home. To get to it, however, took a 400 mile round-trip. There is another dirt mountain road that might have made it closer, but it was (and usually is) closed due to snow. Has anyone else made such a long trek for such a close cache? ---------- Lori aka: _RedwoodRed_ KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." http://www.geogadgets.com http://www.beautywithattitude.com At the moment, my 'closest' cache is 24.32 miles away, but, to get to it would require a 70 mile drive and then a 16 mile bike ride in. Not an easy bike ride either. We're talking something like 4000 ft of climbing each way. Not that it's on a high peak, but you go up and down numerous hills and valleys to get to it. They're not nice gradual climbs either. I got 2 caches in the same area (not as far in) last weekend. It starts with a 6 mile climb and then starts to roll. We kind of got lost on the way back out and in order to get back to the road out we had to push our bikes 1.5 miles where we climbed close to 1000ft, but after that it was 6 miles down hill on the way out. george Quote Link to comment
+planetrobert Posted May 12, 2002 Share Posted May 12, 2002 180 miles for a cache that was 20 miles away =) Now where did I set my GPS??? planetrobert.net Quote Link to comment
solohiker Posted May 12, 2002 Share Posted May 12, 2002 I have bagged all the caches within sixty miles and I barely cracked twenty. I drove 250 miles yesterday to snag four more. We need more caches in the area. I want to set up one along the Interstate for folks passing through, but it is all private land. Quote Link to comment
+ClayJar Posted May 12, 2002 Share Posted May 12, 2002 I've travelled almost 550 miles for a hydrocache that I considered "close". It was a trip for the express purpose of logging that one cache -- drove there, paddled out, paddled back, drove home -- and I obviously wouldn't do *that* for a cache that wasn't "close", now, would I? Quote Link to comment
+ClayJar Posted May 12, 2002 Share Posted May 12, 2002 I've travelled almost 550 miles for a hydrocache that I considered "close". It was a trip for the express purpose of logging that one cache -- drove there, paddled out, paddled back, drove home -- and I obviously wouldn't do *that* for a cache that wasn't "close", now, would I? Quote Link to comment
+travisl Posted May 12, 2002 Share Posted May 12, 2002 The ''Foxy Cache'' showed up back in February on my nearest 25 list as being only 6.75 miles away (NW). In my attempt to get a first find, I didn't look at a map to figure out where it was, and just hopped in the car heading northwest -- at 10:30 at night. About 30 minutes later, I realize the cache is on an island in Puget Sound. I go for it anyway, and end up driving 90 minutes down dead-end dirt roads, doing U-turns in cul-de-sacs, and finally finding... ''Park closes one hour after sunset.'' I returned two weeks later to be the third finder. "If a boy has enough intelligence, he ought to go into the ministry, except that if when he enters college he is given to carousing, drinking, and wenching, then in that case he should enter the law." - Harvard Student Review, 1796 Quote Link to comment
+Jamie Z Posted May 14, 2002 Share Posted May 14, 2002 Mmm... Not quite the same, but on a recent hunt for the first leg of a multi-cache I parked where my GPS said I was 0.14 miles from the cache. I ended up walking roughly 2.5 miles before I found the thing, according to the tracklog of my GPS. The track can be seen here. Virtually all of that is my wandering around the woods and trails trying to find a way to approach the cache. Jamie Quote Link to comment
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