How Old Are Most Geocachers?

[+Team GPSaxophone]

Team GPSaxophone:

 

Sax Man is 31

Sax Man's Wife is 27

Rebecca is 7

Jessica is 5

Damian is 3

Geody is 11 weeks

[+Spoo]

I used to be in my 30's and I hope to be in my 50's someday. or should that be 20's and 40's......I don't remember anymore.

[+wildearth2001]

I am 15 but my ride(my dad)(who is NOT a cacher) is 50. I get my permit in 1month 1 week from this past Tuesday (which was yesterday). Then only 5 months and I get my licesnce. I won't even have to take any form of a test (writen or on the road) with DMV because I am waived from taking them. Then I will be free from having to go caching with a non cachers.

 

EDIT: Well somtimes I am free from him because I ride my bike to some caches and he is too much of a crip to ride with me, plus If I am riding a bike why would I want him to come along?

 

EDITEDIT: BTW: My dogs Thunder and Patches are 8 and 4 years respecitvly. My cats SPARKY and Bandit are 6 and 17 respecivly. My bearded dragon is 4, my leopard gecko is 11 and my snakes I have no clue. But I never go caching with any of them, although I would like to go caching with Thunder he is really good on a leash, but because all the caches are two far away and are either urban micros or rock climbing caches thats not pocible.

 

Sparky really isn' my cats name, that cats name is Spot and she weighs over 30 lbs.

Edited February 19, 2004 by wildearth2001

[+carleenp]

Relative age in 2004, well after discovering geocaching: 25

 

Whoo Hoo! My relative age after caching (and starting a Pokemon travel bug) is 10. I figure that gets across my joy of toys and finding them in caches. Just ignore that almost 37 lawyer thing. I just play as a lawyer from time to time!

[+Genoist]

I'm 21, and Dogvetusa is 22.

[+astheravenflies]

I'm 48 but I sure don't feel like it, still skiing fast.

My lovely wife of nearly 14 years is 38

My older son is 9 and we share the same birthday.

My younger son is 8.

My wife is clearly outnumbered.

[+Snoogans]

18? I have scars older than that.

HA, ME TOO!

 

I'll be 37, in March. I have quite a few scars older than 18. Heck, I have a pair of Merrills that are almost 18. (Good for nuthin, but cutting the yard. Still...)

 

Sn gans

[+Corp Of Discovery]

Our ages (not including wife- she doesn't cache, yet):

 

Virtual + Event - Webcam = Me.

 

Locationless - Event - Unknown = Jonathan.

 

Traditional - Virtual - Locationless - Multi + Benchmarks = Robert.

 

Above valid only until this Saturday.

 

ZR- SBEGL, WBANGUNA- FRIRAGRRA, EBOREG- RVTUG.

[+Stunod]

I'm a fragile 33...my dogs are both 63 (in dog years).

[+Snoogans]

Relative age in 2004, well after discovering geocaching: 25

 

Whoo Hoo! My relative age after caching (and starting a Pokemon travel bug) is 10. I figure that gets across my joy of toys and finding them in caches. Just ignore that almost 37 lawyer thing. I just play as a lawyer from time to time!

Yeah, I don't claim to have matured past 19. (Ahhhh 19, that was a pret-ty good year. The legal drinking age, in Texas, was 19 then. Certain other things were still legal. I had all of my hair, a great tan, a new car, and a girlfriend who was a nym....umm, you get the picture....)

 

Sn gans

[+Mastifflover]

I'm 30 will be 31 next month, my wife is 41 and looks about 28. And my big buddy Hannibal is 17 months old.

[+clearpath]

  I had all of my hair, a great tan, a new car, and a girlfriend who was a nym....umm, you get the picture....)

 

All I can see is a hairless girl sitting in a tan car ...

[+Byron & Anne]

Let's see... Math problem. The oldest daughter is 37. I think I was 24 when she was born. But I don't remember back that far very well anymore. I know I was 2 when she was born. That means I the same age as Jack Benny. Wheee, I not as old as I first thought.

 

For those that are too young to remember Jack Benny was 39 and holding for many many years.

 

Byron

[+Snoogans]

  I had all of my hair, a great tan, a new car, and a girlfriend who was a nym....umm, you get the picture....)

 

All I can see is a hairless girl sitting in a tan car ...

YOU KNEW HER TOO!!!

[+mattt]

Matt : 34

Emily : 6

Katie : 4

[+Logscaler and Red]

18? 22? 37 ?

 

I have scars older then that.

Heck, some of those scars had more stitches then that.

 

As for the age thing.

Do you mean before (25) or after (80) the four star cache hunt?

As for the rest of the time, I am chasing half a C note and Red is 29 part ..., something like a Jason movie. Same book, different chapter.

 

logscaler.

[+Imajika]

I am the primary cacher in my family and I am 31. My hubby also goes with me from time to time and he is 33.

 

I also have two friends that go with me quite often. They are 27 and 36 years old.

[+thomascanty]

I turned an even 40 last November.

[uperdooper]

I turned an even 40 last November.

sheesh!! i've got scars older than 40. my husband who caches with me once in a while is 64. even though i had no children of my own i have great grand children, one of whom is 5. i usually say i got my children, (step), the painless way, but i married him so i'm not sure how painless it was. depends on his mood i guess.

Edited February 19, 2004 by uperdooper

[+Snideswipe]

27 years old here, though I got carded when buying smokes for my dear mother while I was visiting her a week or so ago...

 

That was an ego pat.

[+Oneyedjack]

45, which is, plenty old enough to know what I want, and still young enough to go get it!

Edited February 19, 2004 by Oneyedjack

[+1setter]

I get an average up to this point at about 30.1625. I didn't add in the cryptic puzzles or the dogs and other pets.

[+Happy Bubbles]

I'm twenty. One of the caches near my home is a virtual at a winery - I can't go find it for another year yet!

 

It seems strange that so many of the people who replied are in their twenties or younger. My impression was that the average cacher is much older. Maybe it's just because we're more likely to be posting on the forums?

Edited February 19, 2004 by Happy Bubbles

[+Sparky-Watts]

27 years old here, though I got carded when buying smokes for my dear mother while I was visiting her a week or so ago...

 

That was an ego pat.

When I shave my beard, I still get carded buying cigarettes and beer. Without my beard, I look closer to my mental age of 13......

[+The Weasel]

29 here, but have that Dick Clark disease where I look like 17-18.

[+Monkeybrad]

I have as many years as Baskin-Robbins has flavors.

 

Mmmmmm, Ice Cream.

[+Barnacle Bear]

My first GPS had a crank on the side. Didn't have soap since dirt hadn't been invented.

[+2qwerqE]

Old enough to know better!

 

and young enough to do it anyway!

 

For the record, 47, and planning lots of plastic surgery to knock off at least 20 years. This last year has me more active and healthier than I've been in decades, thanks in a large part to GC.com.

[jupilli]

I'm 2+, and the man of my household who is occasionally feeding me (too seldom), he is 51+.

[+carleenp]

I get an average up to this point at about 30.1625. I didn't add in the cryptic puzzles or the dogs and other pets.

 

Since I didn't actually give my parents ages, they are 70 and 72. Both are still caching strong! That might up the average a little.

Edited February 19, 2004 by carleenp

[+boxermom]

Boxermom = 25 (I always get asked for id, guess I must look 17)

Nikki (boxer dog) = 4.5

Mike (hound dog) = 7

[+ADKcachers]

I'm 43, my 9 year old daughter loves to cache, my 15 year old son is "too cool to cache," I wish my 43 year old wife were more interested. It's unfortunate, she's not big on outdoor stuff.

[dead_white_man]

I'm 45 next week. Daughter Jessica is 19, bossgobbler is 18, riverrat is 15 and a half. (he insists I put that half in there because it is the legal driving age in the state of Ohio

[+JMBella]

I'll be 33 in 3 days!

[+rover-r-us]

i'm 41 and the wife say i act like i'm 15

[+Right Wing Wacko]

If you ask my kids, I'm older than dirt and sometimes when I come home from Caching I look it

 

Why, when I was a kid, we had to walk to the cache site in our Bare Feet! Ten Miles, in the snow, uphill both ways!

 

Born in 1958, you do the math, because I've forgotten how

[+Melrose Plant]

Kimberly, 39

James, 36

Max, 4

Elsa, 20 months ( I guess that would be about 12 in dog years)

[+The Blind Acorn]

Me? I'm 30. My dog? He's almost 13 months (1year 20days).

 

But, shhhhhhh I act like I'm 12 sometimes.

 

[+cache-man-do]

Me 37

Wife 36

son 10

nephew 20

neighbor friend that started going also 21

mom ??

dad Yeah like he's gonna go

 

~Mark

[+The Cheeseheads]

Me: 34

Mrs. Cheesehead: 32

Cheese Doodles: 4 and 2

[+1NatureMom]

I am 35 going on 18.

My baby face still gets carded!

Thanksgiving I ran out to get a (another) box of wine (yes, I said box), and this young punk with piercings all over himself said he needed some ID from me.

"I have a mortage, a mini-van, and a tatoo older than you, I'm taking this cheep BOX of wine".

See what cardboard-hangovers can do to you at 35?!

 

You are only as young as you feel; this is the truth!

 

Caching is a younger feeling ~ like a kid on Christmas, who can get to it first, skipping work to cache, etc., etc., etc. We all regress~we're cachers!

 

Leslie

[+oldfriends]

I'm fast approaching 68. I cach with my grandson of 11. Just love being outdoors. I'm feeling younger all the time especially if I can find 4 or 5 caches in one day.

[+LV Hiker]

I'm 40. Act like I'm in my twenties. Still have all my hair + a few new ones growing from my ears & nose.

[nobby.nobbs]

old enough to know better, young enough not to care. 34.

[n0wae]

54 years young. My mind thinks young and I'm still trying to convince my body it's young too. (Boy have I got it fooled!)

[+GeoJews]

The 3 of us are all 16. We think we are one of the youngest group of "cachers", but we are fairly new to the sport, but we are obsessed.

[+Tomax]

I´m 42 (I think) and my horse 22 (I know).

[+robert]

31 in March.

[davwil]

I think I am 47 but while checking my drivers license for my age I found this pic of my first cache-mobile:

 

me and friends

 

 

Hey!... who let the Moose in line!

Edited February 20, 2004 by davwil

[+boulist44]

Pass!