What Are Your Extremes?

[Mr. TSP]

This topic is of no earthshattering importance, and may not even be related to geocaching, but it is similar to another recent topic and IS about using a GPS. Besides, it's a slow day here and I wanted to start a topic.

 

A recent thread asked what your odometer reading is. But has anyone kept track of the farthest north, south, east or west they have been WITH THEIR GPS? I haven't seen this discussed yet so thought I would bring it up just for fun. If it has been discussed before then I apologize.

 

For me:

 

North -- N 41° 45.918

East -- W 85° 49.378

South -- N 30° 35.326

West -- W 104° 01.369

[bug and snake]

Dunno how to answer that. Furthest west or east or...... OK, I took my eTrex around the world on a working trip last year. Went from PA to the west coast then flew to Australia. From there, Singapore then London. From London back to PA. The trip was, on average, westward all the time so, is a little east of here the maximum distance west it has taken me?

[+fly46]

Well, my North/East extreme is pretty simple. That would be the first cache I hid: N 41° 53.621 W 080° 40.833

 

Furthest south is: N 35° 37.988

 

West I'm not sure of. Might be something like 087° 01.275

[Stony2008]

A recent thread asked what your odometer reading is.

 

hey that was my thread

 

the furthest north: grand rapids Michigan

furthest south: florida Keys

furthest west: colorado springs

furthest east:virginia

 

highest: 14,000 Pikes peak

lowest. ???

 

Edit: exereme elevation

Edited March 24, 2005 by Stony2008

[+bthomas]

The cardinals:

 

N: Vancouver, BC, Monuments Plaques GC58E9 at N49 18.266

W: Bodega Bay CA, Rabbits View GC9C at W123 03.513

S: Palm Sprs area, CA, Painted Cyn Ladder Trail GC6B2 at N33 37.818

E: Nashville, TN, Johnny's Cache GCJE17 at W86 35.544

 

also

Up: Mt. Whitney, CA, Muir Was Here GC151D at 14495 feet

Down: Badwater Death Vly, CA, How Low Can You Go GCECCB at -280 feet

[Mr. TSP]

also

Up: Mt. Whitney, CA, Muir Was Here GC151D at 14495 feet

Down: Badwater Death Vly, CA, How Low Can You Go GCECCB at -280 feet

Thanks for adding these. I know my highest 8182 ft. at GCGJFW From NM to OK As the Crow Flies. Don't know my lowest elevation.

 

edit: double typed two words corrected highest point.

Edited March 24, 2005 by KB9BIT

[+Lemon Fresh Dog]

So far I've only found a cache in San Diego and a caches in Calgary, Alberta. Pretty good on the north\south -- pretty lame on the east\west.

 

I WILL, however visit both poles in this life.

[+Jamie Z]

Ever since I went to China, I can't figure out how to do my east/west extremes. I guess I have to consider it west, since I went that way. In that case, my extremes are:

 

Furthest West: Longitude ~100°East (Lijiang, Yunnan, China)

Furthest East: Longitude ~80°West (Eastern shore of FL on bicycle)

Furthest North: Latitude ~50°North (Kenora, ON)

Furthest South: Latitude ~9°25'North (Costa Rica)

 

Highest elevation: A little over 9000ft (NM on bicycle)

Lowest elevation: -235 ft (Shore of Salton Sea on bicycle a few days later)

 

Here is my confluence map, which closely approximates my extrema.

 

Hey, this was fun!

 

Jamie

[+sTeamTraen]

My extremes (to which I have physically been) are:

 

North: History in a Bottle N 51° 34.145 W 000° 08.625

West: Canadian Gravity Standardization Net N 43° 17.817 W 079° 48.095

South and East: Poacher's Lookout(Kenya) S 02° 57.749 E 037° 58.603 (FTF!)

 

That's a range of a little over 54 degrees of latitude and 117 degrees of longitude.

Edited March 25, 2005 by sTeamTraen

[+DiscGolfer]

North N 90

South N18

East E 33.5

West W123

 

Edited March 25, 2005 by DiscGolfer

[+sTeamTraen]

North N 90

You've been to the North Pole with your GPS ? Kewl...

[+wimseyguy]

Neat topic, and shouldn't cause any silly angst either

East is N 41° 53.520 E 012° 29.159 The Roman Forum one of my all time fave caches

West is N 39° 44.879 W 104° 56.457 Denver Benchmark

North is N 42° 53.429 W 072° 53.012 Spyglass Cache in VT

South is N 33° 39.595 W 078° 56.155 Sunny's in Myrtle Beach. That will change very soon though. GW3 is a bit farther south.

[+WildGooseChase]

West is N 22° 12.930 W 159° 31.790 Pennsylvania Wanderers on Kauai, HI

North is N 43° 29.968 W 112° 01.471 Sunrise Kite Cache in ID

South is N 17° 57.354 W 087° 56.344 You'd Better Belize It! on Ambergris Caye, Belize

East will soon be N 24° 32.847 W 081° 47.553 Trails of Margaritaville in Key West

 

Oh, what fun!

[+Greymane]

Well, since I had my GPS long before I started caching, I can't use caches to reference, but:

 

North: ~68°30'N

South: ~12°00'N

East: ~60°00'E

West: ~112°00'W

 

But, I will be heading to California in a few weeks on business. That will stretch my West a bit!

 

Highest: 9050 ft (outside Salt Lake City, UT)

Lowest: ~ -1250 ft (Dead Sea)

[Radman Forever]

I don't know what the coords are but I know the cities.

 

North: Gaylord, Michigan

South: Temple Terrace, FL (Just north of Tampa)

East: Dade City, FL

West: Anderson, IN

[+GEO.JOE]

In one trip I logged my furthest North, Furthest West, Highest, and Lowest. In one year I bagged my furthest East and South.

 

North: Omaha NE N41 15.920 W95 57.275

 

West: Don't Drink the Water N36 13.803 W116 46.064 This was also my lowest at -282 feet, and this is on dry land.

 

Highest: 10663 feet near Vail Pass CO N39 32.231 W106 12.851

 

South: The Founder N 29° 57.271 W 090° 03.885

 

East: Less than a mile east of An Englishman in DC N38 53.352 W77 01.560

[+JT & PJ Cole]

This is fun. All of the these were on my motorcycle with my GPS V. We have found, or attempted to find caches near all of them.

 

North N43 44.689 W088 24.089 North of Milwalkee WI 948 mi. from home

West N38 37.676 W090 11.865 St. Louis MO 712 mi. from home

South N 24 33.267 W081 48.046 Key West FL 451 mi. from home

East N35 35.124 W075 28.029 Wave NC 459 mi. from home

 

Highest N35 46.111 W082 15.865 Mt. Mitchell 6684 ft 317 mi. from home

Lowest Sea level N31 09.098 W081 21.954 1.8 mi from home

 

JT & PJ Cole

[+tls11823]

I thought I was too lazy to look this up, but GSAK made it pretty easy, since I already have a pocket query of all of my finds.

 

East: Belfast, Northern Ireland W 6 13.957

West: Bodega Bay, CA W 117 04.479

North: Belfast, Northern Ireland N 54 43.652

South: San Diego, CA N 33 02.629

 

Longest distance between two caches: 5130 miles

 

Now that I look at them, all of these outer points were hit in the last six weeks, while travelling on business. My "normal" finds that I've done with the family are contained in a much more conservative radius of about 50 miles. We'll see if vacation time this year broadens that a bit.

[+Blaidd-Drwg]

It takes me three caches to list my extremes.

Most East - Royal Observatory Greenwich Cache (GCK7HH) W000 00.090

Most South - Harry Hill Cache (GC325E) N19 41.197

Most West - Hairy Hill Cache (GC325E) W155 27.978

Most North - Fairbanks Travel Bug Drop Box (GCHPMV) N64 49.313

Looking at distance, the furthest east to west is 7295.4 miles.

Edited March 27, 2005 by Team Madog

[+WeightMan]

North and West Taiya's Playground N 61° 09.974 W 149° 57.104

 

East Glorious Greenwich Cache N 51° 28.332 000° 00.000

 

South Firestone N 37° 54.637 W 122° 37.590

 

I did not keep track of elevation although the lowest would be several at sea level and the highest is probably Tunnel of Light which is my only Project Ape cache.

[+worldtraveler]

Farthest north and south isn't too difficult, but the answers the "farthest east and west" questions are not as easy. I've carried my Garmin V around the world and across the int'l date line many times; so in one sense, the answer could be 180° E / 180° W. But I think a better way would be to use the highest N/S latitude numbers and E/W longitude numbers at caches I've found. In that case, they would be:

 

North = EARTHQUAKE!!! (Alaska) N61° 11.927'

 

South = By The Bay (NSW, Australia) S33° 55.022'

 

East = First Landing (Fiji) E177° 24.811'

 

West = Gone But Not Forgotten (Hawaii) W157° 52.278'

Edited March 27, 2005 by worldtraveler

[mufasa1023]

I was both furthest East and West at the same cache! Look Here

[+Metaphor]

East: Vaclavak/Wenceslas Square, Prague CZ N50 04.762 x E14 25.828 (my 200th cache find!)

 

North: Where is Mt. Snowdon?, Wales, UK N53 04.108 x E04 04.576

 

West: In the Mag Mile News, Chicago, USA N41 53.741 x W087 37.439

 

South: The Dunes, Eastern Shore, Virginia, USA N37 20.165 x W76 00.607

[+Jeeocacher]

I am not sure of the exact cords, but I have them in a pic somewhere, but when I was in Brazil with my Dad about 2 years ago, we went to a place called the "Ponta das Seixas" =Pebble Point, Anyway this is the most eastern oriental point of the Americas, It's in North Eastern Brasil. I may be going back this year and plan to do a virtual cache there.

[+NevaP]

My furthest south is also the oldest active cache I've found: Melbourne's First, placed 10/8/2000 at S37° 15.313 E145° 10.020

 

A few other Australian caches were a bit higher in the E numbers. I think the highest was Departure Dragon Yellow at Cairns E145° 44.913

 

West - not very far. Somewhere in the Salt Lake area W111°

 

North - barely past the N 40°s but June 11-12 I will be in Barrow, Alaska where there are several caches and those should be the furthest north I will ever get.

 

Altitude ? I've found at least one that was over 10,000 ft in Colorado. And I've done a lot of barely above sea level ones in Florida.

 

NevaP

[+dgas71]

Without a gps, the furthest north, south, east, and west that I've been are:

 

north - Senneterre, Quebec

south - Florida Keys (Plantation, Florida)

east - St. Paul-du-Nord, Quebec

west - Santa Monica, California