Overnight Caching

[+clearpath]

Curious, on average, how many nights do you sleep in a tent each year? And when you do, is geocaching involved or is it for another activity? If another activity, what is it?

 

I'll start... on average each year I spend approx. 10 12 nights in a tent. That breaks down to 5 days/nights camping, canoeing, hiking in the Boundry Waters. Roughly 4 days/nights camping with the family and several scout camping trips with my boys. Of all these overnights, I have yet to go geocaching. Mostly, because I don't have time and because there are very few if any geocaches in the Boundry Waters of Northern MN.

[+briansnat]

Before I got involved with coaching soccer (which means practice on Saturday and games on Sunday, mostly during prime camping season), I'd spend anywhere between 10 & 15 nights outdoors. Usually backpacking, but I did a few extended canoe trips on the Allagash.

 

Now it's 2-3 nights a year. But my daughter just reached high school and the club team only goes up to age 14, so I will no longer be involved with coaching. This means we'll certainly have more opportunities to get out. We're planning a few days of canoe camping in the Adirondacks this fall.

 

I only combined camping and geocaching once.

[+Shop99er]

Sleep in a tent!?!?!

 

Camping?!?!?

 

Not since I was 16!!

 

I got as much of sleeping on rocks and having bugs crawl up my nose as I needed.

 

These days, my idea of roughing it consists of:

 

1) A black & white TV.

2) No remote for above.

3) Only one shower head.

4) Anything smaller that a Queen-size bed.

 

[+McMurdo1]

About 21 days per year in a tent the last few years...

Camping for cash (some will know the phrase

Recreational camping in my "tin teepee" on the back of the 3/4 ton 4x4!

Just started geocacheing so have not combined the two but plan to start.

[+ZackJones]

Tent: 0 Dog House: Too many to count

 

Unless Coleman has started making tents with A/C in them I doubt seriously that I could get Donna to go camping at least until it cools off a good bid.

 

Zack

[+gsguru]

Between scouting and my love of the outdoors, my geokids and I camp 4-5 times per year. I, too, have just started caching and will combine the two in a couple of weeks when we visit the Rock. I have included caching on my weekend getaways this summer. Makes for an interesting (and inexpensive) thing to do with kids.

[+Planet]

A lot more lately. Here in CT paddle and camping events are our favorite kind of event. We had one in June and another coming up Sept. 11th. And I just got back from a week of cabin camping (no phone, no lights, no water, no luxuries) with Ttepee, and Dave and the mann, and we did a bunch of caches in MA and VT. But I never counted the nights, and I don't see well in the dark, so we cached during the day. I have done one night cache intentionally and walked out after dark on one or two unintentionally.

[+Mosaica]

I do a lot of 2-day caching trips. I did a 5 day trip recently, but got so caught up in fly-fishing and Carcassonne-playing that I only did ONE cache! Eeeek.

 

I love camping, whether it's in a tent or just in the back of my pickup.

 

../Mosaica

[+Anonymous']

We camp in our Airstream usually once a month and go find a couple caches.

[+wimseyguy]

Nights sleeping in a tent=0.

Night staying up waaay past midnight to find more caches= quite a few.

Nights out caching 'till sunrise= 2 or 3.

Sometimes it IS all about the numbers. Gotta love Krispy Kreme drive thru for those nights.

[+rusty_tlc]

Nights I actually spend in a tent=6-8

Nights I'd like to spend in a tent=25 -30

 

I won't count RV camping since it's more like spending the night in a nicer hotel room.

[+Dagg]

55 bag nights last year

38 so far this year

 

most of these were caching related. You can keep track of your bag nights at backpacker.com

[uperdooper]

every year my family goes to drummond island off the tip of the upper penninsula of mich. we have electricity so it's not totally roughing it, but i do sleep in a tent. i even had decorations this year.

 

 

don't laugh. if it hadn't been for that flamingo it would have been too dark to find my tent at night. we had about 2 hours of northern lights on our first night.

[+evergreenhiker!]

None this year. Two nights last year wth Wienerdog for my 1000th Find up north of Stevens Pass...Valhalla by MOhai. Great trip! However, I'm moving back to washington and if the weather holds up, I may tr;y to sneak in two days of backpacking on the Pacific Crest trail to nab a couple of mountain caches for number 1999 and 2000.

[+W7WT]

This Sunday, I will be going after my 700 find. Many of them have been done on a sightseeing-geocaching trip. I am now 79 and have done my share of tent camping trips including a kayak trip down the Noatak River in Alaska. Also have tent camped using our Piper aircraft. Today we travel in a Roadtrek van type RV. This time last year we traveled from Bremerton, Washington to the East Coast and back. Manage to pick up 60 caches in three weeks. About three weeks ago we made a week trip to Canada and picked up 42 caches. Next week we will travel around the Olympic Peninsula. This is mostly a sight seeing trip and I only have 16 caches loaded into my iQue and 76C. The biggest problems in traveling and geocaching is you want to do them all but must limit your selection. By hunting out caches we have been to many interesting sights that we never would have found otherwise. Dick, W7WT

[+LthrWrk]

Interesting question.. I spend 24-30 nights a year in a tent. This while doing SCA activities. Society for Creative Anachronism,, middle ages/living history. My persona generally represents about 1350 AD. Curiously I enjoy stepping back in time. Since it is more or less seasonal and the season has nearly ended.

 

Look to combine the travels to those events with geocaching. I have been to some interesting locations that very well might be good for this modern technology sport/game.

 

Might end up that I will spend quite a few 'extra' days in the woods but certainly without the structure of a group organized event. I do work for myself, and will more than likely strike off to look for stuff as a whim or wind may allow.

 

Charles

Mt Vernon WA

[+Tprints]

I've camped out quite a few times this summer. It saves a lot of money and allows for more caching time. I close up shop Saturday afternoon and drive to my destination. On the way I try to grab a few caches. Then I setup camp and get up early Sunday and cache the entire day. Then I camp out again Sunday night and cache Monday until I feel like heading back home. Tuesday morning I re-open my shop and wait until the next weekend. Had fun doing this throughout the summer and managed to find a ton of caches.

[+Sagefox]

At least 20 nights per year, often more, in our Subaru powered Vanagon camper. Caching for us usually requires an overnight stay somewhere so most often it is in the van.

[+Beta Test]

Theres no overnight caches in my area that I am aware of, but if there were I would jump on them fairly fast!

[+The SuzyQs]

We TRY to camp once a month. But with the Hurricanes this season, we are a couple of months short this year. Most campouts are GeoCaching event caches. Others are with our Cub Scout Pack. All in tents, as when NEFGA camps out, it is normally primative camping.

[+CapnJackSparrow]

Four season camper here. I would live outdoors if I could! Tent? well yes, I guess if it's raining.

[+Will+Bill]

I am in Scouts, so we camp about once a month. That makes about 20 nights in a tent a year. We have started going on high adventure trips (Boundary Waters last year), so that makes about 4 more tent nights. We usually go cacheing on scout trips, but don't make special caching camping trips.

[+Cherokeecacher]

In the past 9 months, since we started caching, we have camped for a total of 8 nights specifically for cache related activity. This does not include our summer road trips to Delaware and back to Houston or from Houston to Eastern Iowa and back to Houston.

 

We still need to log some caches from that last trip. LOL