What's the general age of people who geocache?

[Morseman]

I'm not sure if I posted to this thread already, I did take a quick look and couldn't find anything.

 

I was 40 last year and have two children, 12 and 14 years old respecively. I also have an ex-wife and a partner, who is a bit older than me and that's all I'm saying in case she reads this!

 

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Morseman

[KimsFriend]

Ok I am 45 and my girlfriend is 35. We are new to the hobby but find it interesting. We like to backpack but can not always do this so caching is a nice way to get out on short walks.

[Team Dragon Racing]

slith is 34

t'schillin is 21

typhon 30

storm ?? have to check with him first

team dragon racing

[+Daisy&me]

I'm nearly 6. The man says he's 59.

[+beejay&esskay]

One of us is 55, the other 14.

[yeahright]

My average age is 24.

Next year it'll be 24.5

They year after, 25

 

Hey, I like this average age stuff!

 

Faster, Better, Cheaper

Pick any two.

[+ETDiver]

ny whole family dose it mom and dad are in the 70's my brother and his wife are in their 40's We are in our 30's and our 4yr old loves to go .

[Dazen]

I just logged my first cache today, and I hope to get my best friend and my girlfriend into it. Me and Kitten are both 18, Duntada is 19. Not one of us has a GPS! This gonna be fuuuun!

 

Mentally, I'm too dadgum old and so is Dunt, but we both act like kids when we're havin' fun. And that's what it's all about, isn't it? Kitten is mentally twelve but acts like she's in the midst of menopause. lol. I loves her, please don't kill me!

[excop1313]

After reading This, I Must Be Too Old at 54.

[diaspenne]

I'm new at this and after reading previous posts, now I know why none of my friends have heard of geocaching....we're all OLD. I'm 52.

[GPSTexas]

Was worried that I would be one of the older ones. Newbie (obviously), got hooked by reading the forum, getting my GPS V tonight!!! woo hoo!

 

I'm 33 and plan on dragging my 6yr old daughter along with me...until the whining starts!

 

[+Hiemdahl]

Born in 1945, at the leading edge of the baby boomers.

 

Has anyone noticed that there is a bi-modal distribution to the age curve? It is even more pronounced when you apply age demographics.

 

The over 50 crowd is well represented. So there!

[+Rygel]

SWM 30

 

Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.

[+Pat in Louisiana]

When this thread started we were 48,

49 now!

 

Pat in Louisiana

 

I never get lost. I simply investigate alternate destinations.

[smashsquatch]

quote:

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Originally posted by brettd:

If you are counting birthdays, I am 9 and a half...

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let me be the first to wish you happy birthday, feb 29, 2004.

 

(edit)

~hmmm... means you were born in 1964.

(/edit)

 

quote:

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Originally posted by BrianSnat:

According to US Census Bureau statistics, the average Geocacher is a married, Caucasian male, 37 years old with 1.5 children and employed in the Information Systems field.

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mouse is 2.3 years old, and 1.5 regular size. you pick.

 

oh - and i'm un-employed in information systems.

 

and i'm immortal. that's why my doctor says i'm much too cynical for someone my age

 

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hey... what's that smell?

[Momsboys]

Momsboys are 47 and 12

[milesdlevy]

62 but have been working with gps since 66 (mil work - called BRN-3 back then by the Navy)

[+M&MAsheville]

Just spotted this post - Mid 50's for both, and the dog is getting elderly too. Geocaching is the perfect excuse to act like a kid. M&M

[Abandoned Outpost]

Why, I'm only 15. Does that make me a bad Geocacher? I doubt it.

 

I've been hiking since I was 12, primarily alone. Obtained a GPS unit recently, and found my first cache yesterday, rather enjoyable outing.

[GeoTharn]

39 and still a whippersnapper

[dsandbro]

I heard a line last night.

 

"My Age? Somewhere between puberty and senility."

 

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"The time has come" the Walrus said "to speak of many things; of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and Kings".

[2blindmice]

We are 27 and 28, and we are just getting started! We think this will be great! Hope to meet others our on the trails, ~Cheers

[white_owl]

quote:

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Hope I'm not playing a childs games. :-) But it doesn't seem so.

 

Rob

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A while back, on the 'Canada' forum, the question was asked 'What motivates you to Geocache?'

 

My answer was

 

'High tech hide-and-go-seek! I get to play an old fashioned kids' game AND play with the big boys' toys!'

 

Are you playing a child's game? I would say yes and may it always remain that way

 

I'm 46 going on 15

[beaver96]

I'm 46 and Sabretooth Tiger is 6. I act like I'm 12 and Sabre acts like he's 20. So I guess we average out about 25.

 

I just wanna be a cosmic cowboy. NGDB

[+DapperDanMan]

Did you know that 38% of statistics are wrong?

 

quote:

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Originally posted by BrianSnat:

According to US Census Bureau statistics, the average Geocacher is a married, Caucasian male, 37 years old with 1.5 children and employed in the Information Systems field.

 

Actually I just made those statistics up becuase they sounded good, but I bet I'm not too far off.

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[+TotemLake]

I'm 44

Dog is a full grown puppy at 5

Kid is 15

 

Cheers!

TL

[Radman Forever]

I'm 18

 

 

"If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure."

- Dan Quayle

 

"Si nous ne r?ussissons pas nous courons le risque d'?chec."

- Dan Quayle (If he was French!) [Those crazy French!]

 

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[+smithdw]

I'm 39 & my son is 2.

[Skippy2]

I'm 66 and after a day like today, (looking for over an hour for a cache and didn't find it) I feel like I'm 106.

 

Jeez.

[Star_Wolf14]

I'm 16, and I just got hooked on Geocaching because of a news segment on it last night. Now to get the GPS device..

[+clearpath]

I have found there to be a similarity between age and number of caches found by an individual. For instance, five months ago I wasn't even born. At two months of age, I was drinking beer and chasing skirt. Now I'm five months old and can say the alphabet and I'm old enough to know better and young enough to do it again.

 

"heck, that scares me and I'm fearless"

[SuMpn FuNkY]

man i feel like a little kid now, at 19. And i thought i knew it all

 

FuNkY

[+Satch47]

I am 56 and my caching daughter/partner is 26. I hid my first cache before there even was geocaching. About 48 years ago, I hid a coin behind an electrical box in the Washington Monument in Baltimore, Maryland. Even, way back then I reveled in the fact that some day in the future someone would find that coin and wonder who hid it there.

You're never too old to have a happy childhood.

 

What if the Hokey Pokey really is what it's all about?

[Rizzo]

I'm 23 and my twin brothers are 12. The pooch is a little on the lazy side, and usually prefers the air conditioned kitchen to the woods and hills, but using Husqui's formula he would be 68. So I guess that makes us 28.75.

[+Kenith]

49 for me. I just started in the hobby.

Ken

[+MiTuCats]

We've been playing "age games" with Maldar. At the risk of tipping him off, I'm 53 and the best half of the team is (well, hmmm ...) younger! We're still fairly new at this, joined in early April after the best half attended a conference at which a geocacher was present, and heard about it. We've both enjoyed and benefited from the outdoor activity, but we now find ourselves resenting the time required to do laundry, mow the lawn, build rock walss in our yard, etc.

 

I remember the furor when Sputnik was launched, my uncle returning from the Korean War, "Gunsmoke" at noon (or was it 1:00 PM) on the radio on Saturdays, live studio bands at WJR in Detroit, IBM 360 computers (my dad had one in his office) and keypunch terminals, writing computer programs on Hollerith cards, turning the deck of cards in overnight at the computer center to be run and getting a huge stack of results printed out in the morning, CPM operating systems (before DOS), where I was when Kennedy was assasinated, the first Apollo landing on the moon (my youngest sister wasn't yet born!), and a host of other things.

 

Anyone else remember those things called books? I still have a lot of them (over 3500 and growing) in my personal library. I am proud to say I have never seen a show on MTV and have gone years at a time without an antenna hooked to my TV. We used it to watch videos, otherwise I would have thrown it out. I grew up without a TV in the house, my parents finally got the first one in their house when I was 38.

 

I could make an endless list of "remember when" comments, but I'll let someone else have some space on the forum as well.

 

"Roads? Where we're going we don't need .... roads" --Dr. Emmett L. Brown

[+Gusdog3]

I'll be 30 in exactly 3 weeks. Not that I'm obsessing about it, or anything. Men get more distinguished as they age, right?

 

Married with a 2 year old daughter.

 

In an interstellar burst, I am back to save the universe.

[Woods Walker]

Hi. I'm a 48 year old, happily married woman who started Geocaching when I was 47 with a 14 year old son. I love hiking and being outside AND decided that new-fangled technology was not going to leave me in the dark. I got myself a GPS and learned how to use it. I'm a FOSSIL and can say that it is a heck of lot easier using a GPS than it was the old way, ie., map and compass, setent and stars, dead reckoning, etc. However, if the batteries die in my GPS at least I can still do it the OLD way.

 

Susan Z. Handwerker

[Tahosa and Sons]

When it comes to ones age its not until your past 40 that you finally realize what Algebra is good for.

We are looking for our Real age instead of our Birth age. So the formula for your Real age is:

R= (B-39)-1

R= (55 - 39)- 1

R= 16 - 1

R= 15

I just love it I'm still a teeny booper and some of my kids are older than me. Why do we

ever want to discover the real meaning of GPS -Gone Past Service.

 

Tahosa - Dweller of Mountain Tops.

[Vacman]

If you talk to my wife - sh would say that I'm about 9 years old..... She thinks that I am out of my mind.

 

If you drop your keys into molten lava just let 'em go 'cause, man, they're gone.

[+Tsegi Mike and Desert Viking]

We have grey hair and our bones creak.

 

Mentally we're about 8 years old.

 

Mike is late 40's, I'm mid 40's.

 

I've always believed the secret to long life was to learn and play every day.

 

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That moss-covered bucket I hailed as a treasure,

For often at noon, when I returned from the field,

I found it the source of an exquisite pleasure.

 

Samuel Woodworth The Old Oaken Bucket

[other]

Geocachers are ageless! I started when I was 52!

[fugazzi007]

I'm 23, but I'm almost 24.

[Redhats & Comealong Cathy]

I'm 51 and my wife is 52. I have a 21 year old son that goes with me on occasion and loves it because of being outdoors.

Our dog could care less...

[+Huntnlady]

40 (*again, and holding) Single Lady looking for a single man to hunt up tupperware boxes in the woods...

 

Deer laugh when they hear my name!

http://www.geocities.com/ihunts

[+Brian - Team A.I.]

I'm 27, my wife is 26, son is 7 and daughter 2.5.

 

Averaging those together, our average age is 15.5.

 

Brian

Team A.I.

[WindSearcher]

I'm 65. Now if I could only find a way to combine Geocaching with golf, life would be perfect.

[Team Spending Time, Saving Cache]

I am 32 years old, when geocaching I feel like a 10 year old (a good thing) then when I get home and start taking aspirin for my aches and pains I feel 85 LOL

 

John

[tastetherainbow]

Hey, I'm 15 almost 16! I can't wait until I can drive to the geocaches! Anyways, my dad claims to be 30 but he is actually 44. Sorry dad! I have been geocaching for about 2 years, ever since I saw it my brother's boy scout's magazine which is sort of a joke cause I am a girl. So abandoned outpost looks like you and I are the youngest memebers so far. Who says age matters? Not me!

 

"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."

- Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')

"To be only yourself in world which is trying its best, day and night, to turn you into everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle any human can fight, and never stop fighting"

- e e cummings

[Team DuhNPookinz]

Im 33 (pookinz tells me I do not act my age) and she is 37

 

DuhNPookinz