Closest Cache

candaceandwill · Veteran Member

Closest Cache

Dragonfreys · Senior Member

This is the only cache that comes up in our closest search. We almost don't want to do it because then our closest search will come up blank. How depressing.

W
76.8km

(1/3)

1 Aug 05
Birthday Cache by Wild About Cache (GCQ0AA)
Manitoba
06 Oct 06

ertyu · Senior Member

Closest Currently:
1) 56km W
2) 57km N
3) 63km W
4) 79km NW

GC limits closest search to 80km now.

burchil · Veteran Member

The closest cache to my home is a multi-cache that involves, I think, a trip across the city at least once (if not more). I am waiting until I am sure so I don't do 40+km on my bike and find out I was wrong. Being wrong in wet cold rainy (snowy) weather is a real downer The starting point is just under 900m.

The next is a ? that I just don't get. Someday I will actually go and look and hope a light goes on. 1.8km

Finally a traditional cache that I can't find at 2.2km

Unlike Dragonfreys I live in a place with a fairly high density of caches so I can pick the ones that look interesting or are on a route that I am going anyway.

FoodNinja · Veteran Member

The unfound is closest to me is wacko willy and I just cant get it. it is .2 from my house I have considedered starting a grid search of assinaboine forest.

slippery_1 · Senior Member

N
68.5km

(1/1)

1 Apr 06
Logs to Stump You? by Joker4 of 1Q4J (GCV7GF)

N
70.6km

(1.5/1)
Size: Regular
3 Apr 05
Sawdust Junction Jukebox by KR2 (GCNM0Z)

N
79km

(3/3)
Size: Regular
21 May 05
Simon Says by KR2 (GCP2QT)

N
79.1km

(3/1.5)
Size: Regular
21 May 05
SUMMER DAZE by Capt.Kirk and McDee (GCP1TG)

So what you see is about 80 bucks worth of gas for these ones alone.

dani_carriere · Senior Member

Closest found is:

N
0.5km
Found It!

(2/1)
Size: Small
8 Aug 05
Root Of It by rbt_trio (GCQ2JZ)
Manitoba

Closest unfound is:

SE
2.4km

(1.5/1.5)
Size: Micro
30 Jul 06
Conquista Del Mundo-Ukraine by skaven (GCXDNK)
Manitoba

But as you can see it's disabled. Closest unfound active cache is:

S
3km

(1/1)
Size: Micro
19 Jun 06
Weather...or not by Lizardo (GCWP3Z)
Manitoba
3 days ago*

Between the closest and this one, there are 28 found caches.

And this is the furthest unfound cache:

(1/1.5)
Size: Regular
17 Jan 02
The Valley of the Giant Cache by Georoaches (GC338C)
Western Australia

Only 330,162 unfound caches between here and there

junglehair · Senior Member

Closest to my house is Greetings from Belgium 2, but it's my cache (0.3 miles). Next closest is Norwood Blitz at .4 miles. The closest unfound is Patriot Game which I just haven't found the time to work on yet. It's 0.5 miles from my house. Given the Gears is also .5 from my house. That was just recently replaced though, so I could go find that now.

I have 380 unfound caches within the 80 km radius that GC lists (542 total caches).

Lizardo · Senior Member

The closest cache is Conquista del Mundo - Egypt @ .49km. And that seems appropriate based on my commitment to skaven's evil game.

The closest unfound cache is Minty Cache @ .82km. But that one is my wife's. So I can't count that.

The closest unfound that I could potentially find is Stuntman's Buoy oh Buoy @ 2.6km, but it is requiring maintenance.

So this brings us to PGP (Pretty Good Puzzle) by Some Jerk @ 3.1km. This one will surely haunt me for a while. I am not quite bright enough to crack this one...yet.

And finally - the cache I have ignored for no good reason - Woody by Northernsoul @ 3.5km. I can't say why, I just havent put in the effort.

I have 162 unfound caches within 80km of my house. Sounds like it's gonna be a busy winter. Who wants to go caching?

Peter and Gloria · Senior Member

The default search radius is 80 km, but by adding "&dist=100" to url, the distance can be increased to 100 miles (160 km). Actually it can be changed to any distance up to 1000 miles.

Closest unfound caches:
W 7.7 km Heidi Hide, Heidi Home (New - just published on Tuesday)
SW 9.4 km Conquista Del Mundo - Kamchatka
SW 12.13 km J.B.'s End (New - just published last Saturday)

Closest Found Cache: NE 0.66 km Collector Edition ' J ' (Archived)
Closest Active Cache: N 0.96 km Floodway - Dunning (Our Cache)
Closest Found Cache (Active): NE 1.8 km Bogalicious

Unfound within 80 km:   94      Total within   80 km: 546
Unfound within 160 km: 238      Total within 160 km: 778
When we started on Apr 01/04, there were 54 within 160 km. By Oct 20/04, 44 new caches had been placed but there were only 6 caches within 100 miles that we had not found. One has since been archived; one has not been found by anyone since May 20/04; three we are ignoring due to difficult terrain (6 hr hike or overnight canoe trip) and one we still haven't gotten around to doing - Rainbow's End.

Unfound within 1000 miles: 69899    Total within 1000 miles: 70570

Furthest unfound cache (10486 miles): Cape Leeuwin
Dani - That's only about 100 miles from your farthest - Maybe we should go together and knock them both off.

TurdleEggs · Senior Member

TurdleEggs Closest Cache

grnbrg · Senior Member

RE: Closest Cache

MHz · Veteran Member

I've only got 41 caches left to find withing 80km of my house in Winnipeg. Even fewer from the farm at Morris or my cabin out at West Hawk.

The two closest to home are both multi-caches and both disabled at the moment:

Canadian Multi-Cache which is 3.8KM SW.

D-Quest 1 which is 5km N.

The next one that is active is:
Park Lane Pulley is 3.6km SW. This one is just a matter of finding the time to stop in with the appropriate caching tools so that I don't add to the environmental destruction happening here.

I am running out of caching possibilities without having to take a big road trip.

So I'm planning a couple of those to keep me from bouncing off the walls from caching withdrawl :)

MHz

-- Edited by MHz at 11:13, 2006-11-09

Wagonmaker · Veteran Member

My closest found caches are:
0,57 km SW of here, at Mayor of Winnipeg - Point Douglas by spaceman_baz. I went out as soon as that one came out but still was not first to find!
0,69 km E of here, at Conquista Del Mundo - Greenland by skaven.
2 km S of here, at Lotto 6/49 - District 3 by ertyu.

Closest unfound caches:
4,4 km SE from here, at Conquista Del Mundo - Iceland.
6,2 km S from here, at Mayor of Winnipeg - St. James - Brooklands.
6,7 km S from here, at Wolseley03.

I don't really cache based on proximity to my house -- in fact, the further away, the more I like the cache, since it shows the mileage I am willing to put it for a cache. I always think that since they are close to home, I can get them anytime... and then it takes me ages to get to them!

TheStuntman · Senior Member

The top three

NE
6mi

(1/2.5)

5 Nov 05
Winnipeg GPS Validation Network by grnbrg (GCR627)
Manitoba
03 Oct 06

S
6.4mi

(4/2)

5 Oct 06
What, Where? by Devisor (GCYNZH)
Manitoba
01 Nov 06

S
7.2mi

(1.5/2)

9 Oct 06
Conquista Del Mundo - Siberia by skaven (GCYRWW)
Manitoba
3 days ago*

Although I have found the first three stages of the Validation network cache the next stage is something like 20 miles NW.

ThreeTs · Senior Member

Some Jerk seems to be popular today as his is also the closest unfound to my house at 1.1 km away (PGP Cache) but unlike certain dim reptiles, I *am* able to figure this puzzle out but just haven't bothered to yet...

The next closest is In Seine at 1.8 km away which we've attempted once and could not locate the first stage. We simply haven't been back yet to try again. For the longest time, it was my closest unfound cache until Some Jerk came along!

There are 4 caches under a km away which I've long ago found.

ztirnats · Veteran Member

N
0.4mi

Really Dead End Cache by Tannasaurus (GCTC7G)
Manitoba

NE
0.4mi

Zamboni's Bane by Z'tirnats & Z'ad (GCXCRD)
Manitoba

NE
0.6mi

Eric The Ent by Z'ad & Z'tirnats (GCXFBW)

Really dead end cache shows the closest due to where Geocaching.com considers the postal code really is. The true close one is #3 Eric the Ent, it is 26 feet away.

Closest unfound one

N
1.5mi

Conquista Del Mundo - European Continent by skaven (GCXDP2)
Manitoba

winnipegk5 · Veteran Member

The closest cache to me is one of mine :

.14km NW - ESP ADventure

The closest cache that is not mine is :

.65km NE - Quest for Gold

grnbrg · Senior Member

Well, I own 3 of the 5 caches within 1 kilometre of my house. The nearest being At the Blitzing Post, a staggering 10 metres (if that) from my back door.

The nearest cache owned by another is third on the list, and is the (in)famous Park Lane Pulley, about 700 metres away.

If I want a cache I haven't found yet, then Greetings from Belgium 2 (6th down) is where I'm headed -- a brisk 1,100 metre jaunt.

And lastly, my Dani number (unfound within 5k) is 43.

grnbrg.

dani_carriere · Senior Member

Dani number? SWEET!

My Dani number (not found within 5km) is now 25 but 7 of those are disabled. I have 1 cache left within 3km of my place but it's also disabled (Conquista Del Mundo - Ukraine).

junglehair · Senior Member

Sheesh - my Dani number is 44, but 7 of those are disabled at the moment.

candaceandwill · Veteran Member

Our 'Dani number' is 4 (under 5km right?). One is disabled.

4 unfound out of 47 (that are not ours) within 5Km of our house. Apparently we're not fans of burning alot of gas for caching.

burchil · Veteran Member

Since the Dani number appears to be the ruler by which we are measured by I will bend to the collective will - my Dani number is 13 unfound out of 70 total. This gives a Dani ratio of 0.19. Using a ratio should help those individuals living in cache poor areas and provide more fair comparisons of cache coverage.

-- Edited by burchil at 21:54, 2006-11-10

TurdleEggs · Senior Member

Infinite Number of Caches!

Peter and Gloria · Senior Member

RE: Closest Cache

JayPeg · Veteran Member

My Dani number is 4 (under 5km) Lots of puzzle and multies. Guess I'll have spend some time to get these cleaned up.

Wagonmaker · Veteran Member

My Dani number is 1 unfound out of 23 within 5 km.
Using burchil's ratio, that puts my unfound ratio at 1/23 = 0.04

Maybe I'll go out and find that one today ....... It involves climbing a tree limb that may or may not break, though...

Expanding to 10 km, there are 160 caches, 44 of which I have not found, making my ratio to 0.28.

dani_carriere · Senior Member

If I count the disabled caches, my ratio is 25/80 = 0.3125

If I disregard the disabled caches and my own caches, my ratio is 18/71 = 0.2535

junglehair · Senior Member

Ok, my dani number is now 39 out of 89 with 7 being disabled.

ertyu · Senior Member

My ZDNR (Zero Dani Number Radius), to coin a new term is currently at 55km.