Same Question, Different Form

[+Isonzo Karst]

This question has been asked (and asked) but never (okay so never that I remember) in this form. How many miles away from your home coords do you need to go to get 100 caches? Including your own, but not archived. And, if you remember or can guesstimate, how many were in the same radius a year or two ago (or three if you can go back that far). From my home coords it's 12.4 miles to 100 caches. 2 years ago in that same radius there were 3. Three years ago there were none. One year ago is more of a pain than I care to work out 19 of those are mine.

[+zcubed]

8.1 miles for me and that doesn't include my only hide that is about another mile away. I don't know about years past as I am still a newbie.

[+Mr.Benchmark]

5.1 miles for 100. 7 miles for 200. 10.1 miles for 400. 16.2 miles for 800.

One year ago, probably 8 miles

Two years ago, probably 13 miles.

Closest cache is 0.2 miles away. Next closest is 0.3 miles. 6 caches are within 1 mile of where I live.

[+BlueDeuce]

31.1mi

 

Welch could probably do better on the past history.

 

edit: Hmmm, I wonder how many of these I've not found. Be right back.

 

34 not found

 

15.6mi to the nearest not found.

Edited March 4, 2005 by BlueDeuce

[+Isonzo Karst]

I've not found 2 of the 100 nearest me. One of those was the closest to my house when we started caching. I didn't much want to go into the motorcycle pit area then, and I still don't. It will remain unfound - but it's no longer the closest to my house. The other just showed up about 45 minutes ago. If it weren't pouring rain, I'd be hunting it instead of hanging out here.

[+DuncanClan]

14.2 miles...and we haven't yet got half of them.

 

DC

[+TeamK-9]

Living in a rural area, I was surprsied when I saw that it was 16 miles. I would have thought it would be a lot farther.

 

But then I realized that that 16 miles puts me inside the major metropolitan area that is Pittsburgh, PA.

[+top pin]

22.9 miles been only caching for 5 months so not sure what it was like a year ago with out reading every cache page. I know in these last 5 months alot have sprouted though....

[+Team Virginia Browns]

52.8MI as the crows fly. Well over 65 MI to reach the closest one across the Chesepeake bay.

[+Camo-crazed]

7.2 km, 4.5 mi

I've only been around 7 months now, so 2 years ago

[+CompuCash]

well let me answer you this way -

 

my PQ is set for 10 miles and 300 caches and I don't get them all.

 

There are more than 300 caches in 10 miles from me.

 

that is a lot of caches and they are growing in number regularly -

 

I have over 400 in GSAK and I have found a few outside the 10 circle, 252 unfound.

[+1setter]

It must be all big city folk here. I have to go 141.9 miles and I included virtuals and locationless. South Dakota is a bit sparse. If I pretend I am at my old home town in Montana, I would have to go 33 miles to get to the first cache, but about 110 to get 100 because it is closer to the cache laden Black Hills.

[+Team GPSaxophone]

I just moved recently, so I have 100 caches within 7.8 miles of my house. Filtering finds increases the radius to 8.9 miles.

 

For comparison, I had 100 caches within 11.2 miles of my house in Albuquerque. Filtering finds, that radius was 16.3 miles

[cacheaholik]

100 caches within 28.3mi. I don't know how many there were a few years ago but I do know I remember looking for caches near me about 3 to 4 years ago and the closest one then was nowhere within 28.3mi of me.

[+WRITE SHOP ROBERT]

5.2 miles, from the corner nearest my house

[+The Leprechauns]

I hit 100 caches at 10.8 miles. I've found 62 of them, and I own 12 of them.

 

For the historical analysis, it is easier to answer by ignoring archived caches, so these numbers reflect caches in that 10.8 mile circle that remain unarchived as of today:

 

March 3, 2001: 0 caches

March 3, 2002: 7 caches

March 3, 2003: 20 caches

March 3, 2004: 62 caches

[+bthomas]

4.0 miles to 100 caches, and a big chunk of that radius is mudflat and bay. For the Bay Area, this is a cache thin area.

[+StarBrand]

96 miles but 25+ of those are mine. Western Nebraska.

[+Blind Avocado]

I have 5.4 miles for 100, 12.4 miles for 500, and 22.7 miles for 1000. I have done my best to screen out unavailable and archived caches. If you include archived caches those distance numbers come way down.

 

One year ago it was 7.9 miles for 100, 20.9 miles for 500, and 34.6 for 1000. I do not know haw many of those were archived at that time.

Edited March 4, 2005 by Blind Avocado

[+JohnnyVegas]

For me. 7.1 miles for 100

[+IVxIV]

Umm,, in order to keep my pocket query result under the 500 limit I have to set my radius to 75 miles from home.

 

I hit the 100 cache count @ 19.1 miles from home

Edited March 4, 2005 by IVxIV

[dead_white_man]

43.2 miles. 4 of them are mine. To get the first 100 that are not mine I get 44.1 miles

[+marc_54140]

20.6 miles to acquire 100 caches. 26 are mine. 4 are unfound.

 

A year ago - about double th distance, and a lot fewer of my own.

[Kybra]

I must be one of the most isolated Cachers, I only have eight Geocaches within 100 miles of me, two of them are mine. There is one other Geocacher near here, Team VWoffroader, I think they are about 50 miles away.

[+VegasCacheHounds]

Okay, in Las Vegas, from my previous home, there are 100 caches within 9.1 miles. I decided to filter out temp. disabled caches as well, due to the fact that for some reason a lot of caches in Vegas disappear, get disabled, and stay that way for months, even over a year, and never get replaced or archived.

Anyways, 9.1 miles in Vegas, and I rmember when I started in June of 2002 there were only 150 within a 100 miles.

Now, from my new house in Plano, Texas, the 100 cache radius is 4.4 miles. As far as historical data, see Mr. Benchmarks post above as reference, as he is in the same general area as me and knows the history here.

 

Shannon

[+Team Perks]

4.6 miles for me. My 100 closest unfound caches are within a 29.5 mile radius.

[+Jennifer&Dean]

11 miles, 8 not found, 19 are ours.

40 miles for 200 caches.

76.5 miles to reach the 100th cache we haven't found yet if I filter out our finds and owns. And we are getting Idaho caches as well as MT at this point.

-J

[+capnjack46]

Just a skosh over 3 miles from home on the UCSC campus here in Santa Cruz.

[+the hermit crabs]

10.1 miles for 100 caches.

34 of those 100 are new within the past year (including all 3 of ours).

 

We've found 58 of them (I would have guessed that it was more than that). I was looking at the unfound ones, trying to decide the reasons we haven't gone after them.

 

Some are puzzles that so far we have been too dim to figure out; some we've actually driven to but found the parking to be either too dangerous or too much feeling like we're right in somebody's yard, so we just left without getting out of the car; some have other characteristics that don't interest us: parking lot micro (just one, luckily!), or reports of ferocious dogs chasing cachers away, etc. Others we're saving for a certain time of year. And some, we just have no excuse for not doing: they've been on the list of ones we should find for a long time, and yet whenver we go out, other ones just seem more appealing. Now I feel kinda bad for those caches.

[+dumbdiety]

19 miles for 100, none of which are mine (yet).

This would be in Hollywood, Florida.

[+nfa]

38.4 miles from my house to the nearest 100 caches

 

nfa-jamie

[+Greymane]

For me that would be 21.2 miles (as the crow flies) for 100 caches, but since I live between the two largest lakes of the Finger Lakes, some of those are actually over 50 miles driving distance.

[+Markwell]

Today: 8 miles to 100 caches.

Jan 2004: 10 miles

Jan 2003: 17.4 miles

That's as far back as my records go...

[+Gary and Mary Adventurers]

18.4 miles for the first 100, of which 4 are mine and about 5 are not yet in my 518 finds

[tubby and]

111.1 km as the crow flies to the hundredth unarchived cache on my search list.

[+Team yGEOh]

7.2 miles for 100 active/non-archived caches.

[+dgas71]

54 km or 33.5 mi for 100 caches. One of the caches are mine and I've found 20 of the caches. I'm not sure what these stats were like 1 year ago.

[+dnrdmr]

11.1 miles to 100

1 is mine, 1 is my sons

I have found 63 of the 100

[+Wadcutter]

Central IL. 48.8 miles.

[+Cool Librarian]

12 miles radius for 100.

12 of them are mine.

I have found all of them.

 

Not sure about 2 years ago - except that none of them were mine....

 

EDIT - TWO NEW ONES!!!! Heh, I will fix that by tomorrow.....

Edited March 5, 2005 by Cool Librarian

[+SwampGoat]

Current: 35.1 miles

1 year ago: 46.7 miles

2 years ago 92.1 miles

 

I used GSAK with current/active caches, so not entirely accurate for prior years, but gives the order of magnitude anyway. I live about 20 miles from the Atlantic coast so that skews it too. One of these is a cache that I have adopted and heck I've only found 19 so far so I better get busy... gotta go!

[+Mopar]

12 miles out for 100 caches of all types/status.

21.3 miles if I filter out logged finds and caches I own or helped hide.

23 miles or so if I factor in found but not logged online.

 

I'm in one of those weird locations where this isn't really an accurate depiction of my caching area though, since these ranges are including cache-dense Long Island. They may only be 20 crow-miles away, but to actually get there from here requires a $100+ ferry ride (car and 2 adults, round trip) or several hours of driving.

[+Anonymous']

Exactly 5 miles to 100 caches here, 2 of which are mine.

[+Fergus]

7.1 miles for me. When I started geocaching I would have had to gone over 50 miles out to find that many.

[+reveritt]

13.2 miles radius, and 15 of them are mine. I have found all but 3...wait...OHMIGOD, there's a new one!

 

Gotta go....

[+DavidT21 & Fisherwoman]

5.04 miles for 100 caches and 10.32 for 200.

[CoyoteRed]

22.3 miles for the closest 100 total non-archived. All of which have been found by us or we own.

 

81.7 miles for the closest 100 caches that we have yet to find.

 

Nearest unfound 32.3 miles that just popped up last week. Next nearest 51.2 miles.

 

Can't remember what it was like last year.

[+fly46]

Really, I feel for those of you with no close caches.

Before I moved to Nashville, the answer to that question would have been: 27.6 miles :and the closest two are mine. (now, this does include Lake Erie, but I don't think that makes much of a difference; the 20th cache is 6.9 miles away) That distance still doesn't hit any large city. Erie, PA is about ten miles further, Cleveland, OH is about 20 miles further.

 

Now that I've moved, however, the answer is: 5.5 miles :which includes about 15 of my own caches.

 

(Of course, the sad thing is that there are so many caches near my house, and filtering out finds and owned, the number has only jumped to: 7.2 miles - which includes a lake and a river)

[Shoobie & the Sand Crabs]

the closest hundred for me at 44720 is 17.5 mi.

[+Moose Mob]

9.1 from the southern edge of the Las Vegas valley.

6.5 miles if centered on The Strip.