Cache Density

January 29, 2004

Just wondering but is a cacher's feelings about virtuals and locationless caches related to the density of regular caches in their area?

There are 71 caches of all types (excluding locationless) within a 50 mile radius of my home. frankly I can't be all that choosey with the cost of gas.

I know I'll end up being jealous but how many caches are within 50mi. of your location?

3.1k · January 29, 2004

516 within 50 miles of my joint. Not bad but I have to travel a long ways to get one I haven't found and gas is going up up up.

January 29, 2004

I'm almost embarrassed to say after the poverty of caches that you just described but I have 904 within a 50 mile radius. I have well over 100 within a 10 mile radius.

January 29, 2004

2014 within 50 miles!

6.5k · January 29, 2004

290 for me, but not many left to find except for a few new ones I haven't run out to get. Oh yea, there's that webcam cache we all ignore too.

January 29, 2004

Only 1680 for me but about 1/4 of the 50 mile radius circle is in the ocean.

2.2k · January 29, 2004

Only 327 Caches within a 50 miles radius.

4.8k · January 29, 2004

206

1.6k · January 29, 2004

Exactly 376 within 50 miles of my hometown.

But what you really gotta look at here is sort of an average "Attainable Caching Area." I mean, 50 miles As the Crow Flies in Pennsylvania would be different then 50 miles in Nebraska. I mean, we don't have straight roads all over the place and it's kind of harder to get to the caches.

So really, I mean there's 376 caches within 50 miles of my house, but if you take into account all the driving I'd have to do to get to them, I'd say it's way more than fifty miles, and so I'd probably cut that number in half or so...

January 29, 2004

107

January 29, 2004

280 caches

January 29, 2004

304, which is a step up from where we used to live (118)

1.3k · January 29, 2004

1273

To answer your question, I don't think it would change my views. Our family visited Texas last year and spend a few days on the gulf. There were a few virtual caches in the area but no physicals to be found. We choose not to cache rather than hunt the virtuals.

I think virtuals have their place, I'm not against them, I have a few in my find count. But I prefer to find something that was hidden by someone for only the select few smart enough to know about geocaching to find.

January 29, 2004

...but how many caches are within 50mi. of your location?

873

There are 63 of those that I have not found, of which 6 are disabled.

-WR

9.2k · January 29, 2004

There are 343 caches within 50 miles of my house, a bit northwest of Pittsburgh. Most of them are also in Team K-9's list. I have spent a lot of $$$ on gas and driven a lot of miles to find 229 of those and to hide 22 of the caches included in that total.

Since it was mentioned in the first post, I note that there are 20 virtuals included in that total of 343 caches. I've found 19 of them.

January 29, 2004

566, but a good 90% of those are seperated from me by the Chesapeake Bay and take up to two hours to get to, even though they may show up as only 13 miles away. If I look only in a NE, E, or SE direction (without crossing the Bay) the number is about 30 caches, 5 of which are mine.

2.2k · January 29, 2004

317, most of which are buried in snow right now. virtuals are starting to look more interesting.

3.9k · January 29, 2004

2904 within 100 miles of 11772

570 within 50 miles

73 within 10 miles

Edited January 29, 2004 by JMBella

4.1k · January 29, 2004

We have a grand total of 55 caches within 50 miles. Of that 55 caches 22 are on the shores of Lk Powell and we have no boat. Another 8 caches are the ones we placed. That leaves a grand total of 20 caches.

John

edit- that should read a grand total of 25.

Edited January 30, 2004 by 2oldfarts (the rockhounders)

January 30, 2004

392, but we have the bay, soooooo.

1.3k · January 30, 2004

206

223

But Carleen has Jim-eye.

January 30, 2004

2202 caches all types

Edited January 30, 2004 by Dagg

1.3k · January 30, 2004

33 geocaches (all types, except - of course - locationless).

Yes, that's Thirty-Three.

I own 10 of those 33.

southdeltan

January 30, 2004

There are 71 caches of all types (excluding locationless) within a 50 mile radius of my home. frankly I can't be all that choosey with the cost of gas.

I know I'll end up being jealous but how many caches are within 50mi. of your location?

Interesting Instep guy.

You and I are almost in the exact same geographic location. but I only have 69 while you have 71. Oh well.

January 30, 2004

135 within 50 miles (half of that circle is Gulf).

More interesting than that is that 47 of those have been placed in the last 4 months.

January 30, 2004

312 within 50 miles of Loveland, CO

January 30, 2004

2,148 within 50 miles. We're very, very lucky. Now if I could only find the time....

January 30, 2004

I have found all but 25 of the 337 caches within 50 miles of my home in the rural east suburbs of Pittsburgh. I would have found them all by now but I am stumped on a rest stop micro less than 3.5 miles away.

I very much prefer quality to quantity!

January 30, 2004

256 within 50 miles. I really wish there were more that way I could be more choosy with the ones I do.

1.8k · January 30, 2004

Wow... 695. More than I would have guessed...

5k · January 30, 2004

From a log entry I made in April of 2002:

"At 62.15 miles, this was the closest cache that I haven't yet found, so I decided to head out and nab it."

Today, I've found 37 of the 230 within 50 miles of my home.

Jamie

[edit] fixed date

Edited January 30, 2004 by Jamie Z

9.4k · January 30, 2004

255 caches within 50 miles (including my own)

144 unfound within 50 miles (mostly in the mountains NE of Albuquerque)

173 within 20 miles (including my own)

76 unfound within 20 miles

January 30, 2004

About 150 total caches within 50 miles, of which 14 are my own hides. I've found all of them with the exception of only one new one I haven't tried to find yet.

2.4k · January 30, 2004

Total caches in 50 miles: 329

Virtual caches in 50 miles: 44

Unfound caches in 50 miles: 209

Unfound virtuals in 50 miles: 16

January 30, 2004

After looking at IV's post....I think I'm bout 50 miles east of him.

I have 475 caches within that 50 mile radious.

up to 5 mile radius 2

out to 10 mile radius 4 (6 total)

out to 20 mile radius 4 (10 total)

out to 25 mile radius 6 (16 total 8 of which are mine)

so there are about 460 caches between 25 and 50 miles from my house.

that is total caches....

Edited January 30, 2004 by retphoto

2.3k · January 30, 2004

10 miles- 52

25 miles- 293

50 miles- 826

100 miles- 1511

We live on the southside of Chicago, most of the above caches are off to our north, at the outermost distance we start to pick up caches in Milwaukee.

Out of all our virts only 1 is local- all the rest were found on a recent vacation.

All of our locationless were found locally- went on an all day locationless search on my b-day this year and found most of them then.

Edited January 30, 2004 by Corp Of Discovery

January 30, 2004

786 within 50 miles.

January 30, 2004

Hmm ... 509 within 50 miles of my house.

With only a dozen finds so far (since I started in earnest at Christmas, dadgum this freezy weather!) I have a lot of fun to look forward to. Yay me!

January 30, 2004

I have 428 within 50mi and 1528 within 100. Looks like I have some serious caching to do with only 60 some finds so far.

6.5k · January 30, 2004

167 within 50 miles (including a few of my own and those I've already found). Not that high, but much better than Southdeltan (these threads must make you crazy!)

January 30, 2004

56 within 50 miles and 455 within 100 miles

9.5k · January 30, 2004

1231 from the center of my zip code.

January 30, 2004

3426

From my work...

3469

From my home...

I have alot of caching up to do...

:blink:

January 30, 2004

I live roughly 15 miles north of Phoenix. I have 881 caches listed within 50 miles.

52 virtual caches...many are in downtown areas; 1 is really a locationless

2 are hybrid letterbox

1 is a webcam

11 are "?" caches of which 1 is disabled

1 is an upcoming Event cache

77 are multi's; 7 of these are disabled

That leaves 737 traditional caches of which 53 are disabled

January 30, 2004

Oops ! That was 100 miles...

50 mile stats

1332 From home

1367 From work

January 30, 2004

I've got 15, but 2 are mine, so I guess the searchable count would be 13. I do have 446 benchmarks within 30 miles which gives me something to do.

3.9k · January 30, 2004

I am your density. (movie trivia)

(Posting here in an attempt to bury the "Wilderness thread" Won't you help? Please post once in any other thread other than the wilderness thread. Make it go away. Please help me.)

3.8k · January 30, 2004

50 mi.=528 caches.

7.3k · January 30, 2004

315 caches within 50 miles.

Probably over 30 caches have been archived in the last two years within those 50 miles.

I own 6 caches within 50 miles.

I can't think of a single virtual in that 50 miles.

I have done 111 caches within those 50 miles.

1050 (about) caches within 100 miles, but only because you run into the Seattle area.

5k · January 30, 2004

I am your density. (movie trivia)

George McFly to Lorraine Baines, Back to the Future.

Jamie

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