+shunra Posted November 30, 2003 Share Posted November 30, 2003 I'm talking about the radius of the closest 100 UNFOUND caches. (My Cache Page > Filter Finds > Page 5 > distance of last entry). Obviously, for each of us that radius is different. For those of us in densely populated areas it will be smaller than for those of us in rural areas, and for those of us on the coast it will be larger than for those in the interior (assumign that the cache density in the sea is low). When I started caching, this radius was 24 miles for me: 100 unfound caches within 24 miles from home, as the crow flies. Obviously, with every cache that I find, the radius for the next 100 expands a bit, but as the circle grows, the area inside grows as well, as does the likelyhood that new caches are hidden inside that circle - and with every new cache, the radius decreases, and the area contracts a bit. So when I started, my 100 unfound caches radius radius was 24 miles. Today, it is 27 miles, but expanding only very slowly. Eventually, I will reach a point where that radius will be fixed, and people will be hiding caches inside that circle at the same speed that I will find caches within that circle. (Caches found outside of that circle are not relevant in any way, for these purposes.) I'd like to hear whether three- and four-digit finders among us have already reached such a point, and after how many finds that happened, for them! Quote Link to comment
+Metaphor Posted November 30, 2003 Share Posted November 30, 2003 Mine will always be skewed. I live on the eastern side of the Chesapeake Bay, and although my nearest unfound cache shows up at under ten miles away, it's actually almost a hundred miles by road. Also, since the western side of the Bay is much more suburban and urban in character, there are a gazillion caches. I have to got to at least the third page to find the nearest "local" unfound cache, about 25 miles by road away. Quote Link to comment
+Team OUTSID4EVR Posted November 30, 2003 Share Posted November 30, 2003 (edited) When MAJELLIN and I started, I would venture to say that the 100th unfound cache was probably 100's of miles away. Obviously, it is much closer now. We tend to take day trips to find caches that are outside of our 100 closest caches that have not been found. Coupled with the fast rate of cache placements, our 100 cache radius is shrinking quickly (now 16.5 miles). Edited November 30, 2003 by OUTSID4EVR Quote Link to comment
+shunra Posted November 30, 2003 Author Share Posted November 30, 2003 Mine will always be skewed. I live on the eastern side of the Chesapeake Bay, and although my nearest unfound cache shows up at under ten miles away, it's actually almost a hundred miles by road. Also, since the western side of the Bay is much more suburban and urban in character, there are a gazillion caches. I have to got to at least the third page to find the nearest "local" unfound cache, about 25 miles by road away. Well, that's no different for me. I live on the tip of the Quimper peninsula, which jots into Admiralty Inlet, separating the Straight of San Juan from Puget Sound. Most of my nearest 100 caches (5 pages) require taking a ferry, or a long drive around. But skewed or not, my question was whether the radius remains the same. FWIW, while my radius for the next 100 has expanded from 24 to 27 since I started caching, my radius for the next 200 has only expanded from 30 to 31, and my radius for the next 300 has remained constant at 34. It looks as if a 34 mile radius from home is the radius within which caches get hidden as fast as they get found by me. That's an area of 3600 square miles, many of which, in my case, are sea. Quote Link to comment
+shunra Posted November 30, 2003 Author Share Posted November 30, 2003 When MAJELLIN and I started, I would venture to say that the 100th unfound cache was probably 100's of miles away. Obviously, it is much closer now. We tend to take day trips to find caches that are outside of our 100 closest caches that have not been found. Coupled with the fast rate of cache placements, our 100 cache radius is shrinking quickly (now 16.5 miles). If it shrunk from 100 miles to 16, that means that LOTS of caches have been added near your home, and that you're not finding them - your caching at farther distances has no effect on the radius of the nearest 100, of course. Quote Link to comment
+Team GPSaxophone Posted November 30, 2003 Share Posted November 30, 2003 My radius is 33.7 miles for the nearest 100 unfound caches. Quote Link to comment
+trippy1976 Posted December 1, 2003 Share Posted December 1, 2003 I increased mine from 17.1 to 25 miles with 260-some finds. Many not within that circle... It's an interesting theory. I suspect you are on to something, but think it's probably a range like 25-50 for most cachers. You'll have the crazed ones among us that skew that because they have done every cache in the state, but hey Us mere mortals will have to be happy with 25 miles or so. I think I've been hovering around that for quite some time. Quote Link to comment
+beejay&esskay Posted December 1, 2003 Share Posted December 1, 2003 Oh, man! One more statistic that I wasn't previously tracking.... 121 finds. 100 unfound within 43.8 miles. Nearest 100 within 39.4 miles. I explain that by having Cincinnati about 40 miles southeast of home....and I haven't yet started visiting Cincinnati caches. Quote Link to comment
+shunra Posted December 1, 2003 Author Share Posted December 1, 2003 It's an interesting theory. I suspect you are on to something, but think it's probably a range like 25-50 for most cachers. You'll have the crazed ones among us that skew that because they have done every cache in the state, but hey Us mere mortals will have to be happy with 25 miles or so. The equilibrium radius I'm looking is individual and different per cacher. I don't think you can make a generalization about THAT! And those who've done their entire state will have such a radius too, because more caches will be added within the circle of their 100 nearest unfound. Quote Link to comment
+Keith Watson Posted December 1, 2003 Share Posted December 1, 2003 My radius is 18.3 miles to the 100th not found cache. Quote Link to comment
+RocketMan Posted December 1, 2003 Share Posted December 1, 2003 I have almost 300 finds and my 100th unfound cache is only 14 miles away. And to top it off, I live near the ocean. I guess you could call our area cache rich. RM Quote Link to comment
+The Leprechauns Posted December 1, 2003 Share Posted December 1, 2003 Thanks for sending me on another statistics-gathering time waster. On the day in June 2002 when I received my GPS in the mail, the 100 closest caches took me to a radius of 44.5 miles. Today in that same radius, there are 303 caches, so the cache concentration has tripled in 17 months! Fast forwarding to today, my closest 100 undone caches takes me to a radius of 52 miles. There are 348 caches within that same area so I've found a few along the way. Quote Link to comment
+res2100 Posted December 1, 2003 Share Posted December 1, 2003 I don't remember what the radius was for my 100 unfound caches when I started just over a year ago, but right now my closest 100 unfound caches is at a radius of 80.6 KM. When I started geocaching there were 401 unfound (obviously) caches within 100 miles of my house, and now there are 420 unfound caches within the 100 mile radius. Quote Link to comment
+ShadowAce Posted December 1, 2003 Share Posted December 1, 2003 ok color me slow.. Can someone assist? I use My cache page then filter finds and it shows me 484 caches within 100 miles. From what I am reading, some of you have it list the closest 100. How do I tell it 100 caches instead of 100 miles? Quote Link to comment
+Corp Of Discovery Posted December 2, 2003 Share Posted December 2, 2003 ok color me slow.. Can someone assist? I use My cache page then filter finds and it shows me 484 caches within 100 miles. From what I am reading, some of you have it list the closest 100. How do I tell it 100 caches instead of 100 miles? Well, I think it shows 20 caches per page on the search so the distance of the last cache on page 5 shows your 100 not found radius. Quote Link to comment
+ShadowAce Posted December 2, 2003 Share Posted December 2, 2003 Thank you for the information. Would you also know a way to remove caches marked as "This cache temporarily unavailable. Read the logs below to read the status for this cache." via the filtered finds or is there no place to modify the filters? Quote Link to comment
+RJFerret Posted December 2, 2003 Share Posted December 2, 2003 24 miles, but CT ranks as one of the densest areas and I'm under 150 finds. The number of caches in CT has doubled over the past year (since I started). Enjoy, Randy Quote Link to comment
+Semi-Hex Posted December 2, 2003 Share Posted December 2, 2003 I started this year 100 caches with-in 3.4 miles of my house now its 4.6 miles Semi-Hex. Quote Link to comment
+Corp Of Discovery Posted December 2, 2003 Share Posted December 2, 2003 Thank you for the information. Would you also know a way to remove caches marked as "This cache temporarily unavailable. Read the logs below to read the status for this cache." via the filtered finds or is there no place to modify the filters? I don't think you can modify the filters. However if you do a pocket query they do not show up in that, so that may be the best way to go. Quote Link to comment
+JMBella Posted December 2, 2003 Share Posted December 2, 2003 35.8 Miles. I'm in Long Island NY. 1/3 of the radius is the Atlantic Ocean. Quote Link to comment
+sea_dragon Posted December 2, 2003 Share Posted December 2, 2003 Interesting....another way to distract me from my studies. Let's see, I've got a distance of 18.5 miles including disabled caches, and 18.9 miles not including disabled caches. I'm also in a coastal region, with no hydrocaches , so you could say that my stomping grounds are pretty cache rich (2312 w/in 100 mi). Quote Link to comment
+WaldenRun Posted December 2, 2003 Share Posted December 2, 2003 As of THIS moment, I have to go out 53.6 miles to include 100 unfound caches. There are 893 active caches within that circle. If today was my first day of geocaching, I could find 100 within 13.5 miles. There are 888 active caches in MA. I have 883 finds in MA. -WR Quote Link to comment
+Salvelinus Posted December 2, 2003 Share Posted December 2, 2003 Mine is 63 miles. However, when I eliminate the ones I know I will not look for such as: virtuals, rest stop and wal-mart micros, or caches placed that I know (based on past experience) will be boring, my 100 closest unfound caches is 123.6 miles. Salvelinus Quote Link to comment
+bitbrain Posted December 3, 2003 Share Posted December 3, 2003 If I go out to my full 100 mile radius, I have 65 unfound. #65 is 99.4 miles from my house. #21 is 47.8 miles from my house. It's gonna take me a lot of driving to hit those last 65... Quote Link to comment
+vds Posted December 3, 2003 Share Posted December 3, 2003 12.8 miles for first 100 not found, 7.4 miles for nearest 100 including found. It's a target rich environment around here between Seattle and Tacoma, even with little things like Puget Sound in the way. Total density is 2064 within 100 miles of home not including 100 or so past founds that have been archived. Furthest distance between consecutive finds was over 5000 miles (Seattle area to Frankfurt Germany). Closest distance between two finds was 'zero' (two virtuals at the same place next to Villanova University near Phila) closely followed by 8 feet (two unbelievably lame caches in a person's front yard, both placed the same day). Lots of reason for the 0.1 mile separation rule :-) Quote Link to comment
+chikn' huntn' Posted December 3, 2003 Share Posted December 3, 2003 24 mile 100 cache radius for me Quote Link to comment
+Sparky-Watts Posted December 3, 2003 Share Posted December 3, 2003 33 miles for my closest 100 not found...but I've only found like, ummm, half a dozen or so.......still, this area in Kansas is actually quite heavily populated with caches, if not people (15 mi NE of Wichita). Quote Link to comment
+ShadowAce Posted December 3, 2003 Share Posted December 3, 2003 Having found over 60 in our area so far, I am concerned to find I only have a 24.6 mile radius for 100 more. And here I was hoping to use Geocaching as an excuse to travel I guess I have to brave the desert more so I can start telling the wife we have to drive across state lines for new ones .. Quote Link to comment
+CurmudgeonlyGal Posted December 3, 2003 Share Posted December 3, 2003 Nearest 100 - 39m Nearest 100 undone - 59.9m Nearest 100 undone NOT including virtuals (loathe them) - 61.1m Would were they all really THAT close. It's about 90 miles of driving to get to the cache that's 61.1m away. -=- michelle Quote Link to comment
+ShadowAce Posted December 3, 2003 Share Posted December 3, 2003 Would were they all really THAT close. It's about 90 miles of driving to get to the cache that's 61.1m away. I so know the feeling of that. Cache distance 54.2mi driving distance 183miles. Talk about a wrong turn Quote Link to comment
+1setter Posted December 4, 2003 Share Posted December 4, 2003 I far as I can see, I either win or lose depending on how you look at it. My radius is 159 miles and 3 states. Quote Link to comment
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