What is the farthest you've travelled to hide/find a cache

Stargiver · Post by **Stargiver** » 08 April 03 10:32 am

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is the farthest youve travelled to hide/find a cache ?
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After just completeing a 48
hour 650 km round trip, involving about 8 hors of 4x4 'off roading&
just to hide a cache i was wondering... 
 
how far have you travelled to hide a cache? and also How far have you been
to find a cache. 
 
i guess it would also be intresting to hear how you got there, plane, car,
helicopter, bycycle, feet, whatever. 

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From Echuca to Mt Koscuiosko
(about 12hrs drive) then a 11km return hike through snow with a overnight
stay on the mountain to get &Australia's Highest&
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the furthest i've had to
travel is about 20km from my house. and i drove there.
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We put many of ours out in the
Flinders Ranges and outback. Hmm.... 600k round trip probably, and there
is one going up the Birdsville Track in April

As for getting them, most South Australian caches are around Adelaide, and
as we rarely go there and when we do we are busy doing a rushed day of
city things, we don't get too many.
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Well, I flew 9000 miles or so
from the UK to hide some in Western Australia, but I did combine that with
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My personal farthest found
cache is 
<a href="http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_de ... 
which is just south of Wagga Wagga 410km from Sydney. My personal farthest
hidden cache is 
<a href="http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_de ... 4">Careful
With That Axe, Eugene</a>
which is near Bendigo, 696 km from Sydney. Team Chaos' farthest hidden
cache however is 
<a href="http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_de ... 
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Hounddog and I did the round
trip from Sydney to Mt Kossie to place a cache(Panorama) but unfortunately
the weather was so bad that we couldn't find the one we came
for(Australias Highest). That was over 1000 kms.
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We went to Penang in
Malaysia...does that count ? We had graet plans but our son broke his arm
and we couldnt risk him walking down the Penang hill and sliping on the
mud. We ended up placing a film canister near a rock up on the top of the
hill with a packet of &Fruit tingles& in it and a small
note.Maybe someone from here could upgrade it and move it further into the
bush for us if they are going to Penang some time...cheers all
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Well Malaysia certainly does
count. 
Welcome to the board Lynpatnat. Or is it Lyn, Pat and Nat? 
 
Looking forward to reading your posts and replys. 
 
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I have also put one in
Malaysia - Camerons Folly - placed about a year ago with one visitor so
far. Apart from that I have hidden and hunted on various trips in SA and
to ACT, NSW, & Vic. Adelaide to Mudgee, 1600km, would be the furthest. 

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Well according to my GPS,
exactly 16,913km from my house to hiding this cache in the far western
highlands of Scotland a couple of weeks ago: 
 

<a href="http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_de ... 
 
 
Now if only someone would find it... 
 
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You mean you do other things
than geocvache when you travel???? Oh my! I must be missing oout on so
much! 

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Well Quasar, you beat me, I
went to London to do a cache, would of done more but was too busy
sightseeing with a friend. But I do think I win in the amount of time
taken to get to a cache, I spent 50plus hours riding in the back of a
C130H Hercules aircraft to get to the UK and then spent about the same
amount of time returning to Aus. If anyone here wants to know what the
noise is like in the back of a Hercules, only comparison I can give is to
stick your head in a concrete mixer with just gravel in it and turn it on
and stay there for a few hours.
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I used to fly in Herc's when I
was in the Army. Did you have ear plugs. I was thinking more like camping
in the manifold of a Bathurst 1000 touring car. 
 
So far the furtherest I've been to hide a cache is about 10k's and the the
furthers to find one about 18. Luckly there are a few areond here and when
I score the closest then I'll venture further afield. 
 
The Bronze. 
&To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a
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Mary & I went to a reunion
in Townsville in June, and called in on the Rocky View cache on the way
(1700km As the Crow Flies), and also logged the Big Cassowary at Mission
Beach (2200km ACF). Picked up the odd cache at other places on the trip as
well. We also manage the occasional trip to Adelaide (a mere 640km ACF,
but what a great place for caching).
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Oky's mates went over 2000 km
to get their first virgin cache (Brachina breakaway). We picked up a
couple of other virgins in the Northern Territory while we were away. We
also placed a couple over 2000 km from home. The trip between &Which
cairn?& and &Blazing trails& was all off road (literally no
road or track) across sand dunes took about a week - driving for ~8 hours
a day at an average speed of 10 km/hr. 
 
We are already planning our next trip outback and enjoy finding caches -
especially in great but otherwise not so well known spots.
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Farthest or longest?
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Well this one felt the
farthest, although as the crow flies it was nothing! 
 
First drive from Sydney to Blue Mountains (2WD) 
Drive as far along dirt track as possible without destroying car. 
Get pushbikes out. Cycle as far as possible without falling off /
destroying bike and self. 
Then walk along road. 
Road ends. Bush bash for 2 days. Plant cache. 
Do the same thing in reverse to get out. 
 
At a total of 4 days, many blisters and limping, dehydration, and general
exhaustion - I'd say thats the furthest I'll ever go for a cache! 
 
Blocko
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Good one Blocko.
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And which cache is this, bet
on a good map we find a road nearby just to Pi%$s you off ! 
Don't you hate that after bush bashin for hours you log it on Ozi and find
a road was only 50 mtrs the other side ! 
Doh.. 
Team piggy have travelled to Penang, KL, Malaysia, Thailand, Burma,
Singapore, but all before cachesa were really over there, had a bunch in
the luggage, but it was just after sept 11th, and Mrs Piggy wasn't so sure
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Have travelled to NSW, VIC to plant caches from Adelaide, with a possible
trip heading halfway to Perth coming up by the end of the year too.
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Re: Good one Blocko.
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According to the all amazing
CacheMonkey ... 
Furthest found - 15.142km 
Furthest (and only) hidden so far - 24.988km 
 
If I'd gotten into geocaching a year earlier, then I would made marks in
Singapore, Hong Kong, New Caledonia and New Zealand by now. Someday ...
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Leek's furthest caches...
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I recently hid 4 caches and a
couple of travel bugs in North Wales, UK, the furthest away being 17082km
away from my home: 
<a href="http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_de ... 
which was hidden at the site of a 5000 year old stone circle on top of a
mountain. 
 
I also found several caches in North Wales and persuaded one of the local
cachers to perform cache checks on my caches if necessary... 
 
I also hid a couple of caches in Salzburg, Austria: 
<a href="http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_de ... 
& 
<a href="http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_de ... 
which are yet to be found... 
 
My travel bugs are a couple of Welsh Dragons set free to travel the world
- 
<a href="http://www.geocaching.com/track/track_d ... 82">Scorch
</a>
& 
<a href="http://www.geocaching.com/track/track_d ... 

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We've been lucky enough to get
a couple of overseas trips this year through work - unfortunately vehicles
were hard to come by, so we were limited to virtual caches (they DO have a
purpose!!) 
 
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Two Goth Geeks · Post by **Two Goth Geeks** » 08 April 03 4:51 pm

Furtherest South: Waterfall to hide a cache.
Furtherest North: The Hunter Valley (Pokolbin area) to find a couple of caches and get pissed

Team Geo-Nads · Post by **Team Geo-Nads** » 09 April 03 9:52 pm

we have done a round trip of 880 kms from Dubbo in a day to find 4

Damo. · Post by **Damo.** » 05 July 04 11:46 pm

I took almost 8 hours to do a round trip to find A-DAG. The funny thing was it was only 80km away from my starting point as the crow flies. Factor in the 10 hours it took to get to and from that starting point, that's 18 hours and about 1200 km.

BeccaJ · Post by **BeccaJ** » 06 July 04 10:01 am

When Team Uneven Distrubution went from Dubbo to do A-DAG, I think it took us the better part of 13 hours or so.

It was a long trip from Melbourne to Dubbo, 1,000kms give or take.

Luckily, we had regular rest, stretch and cache breaks along the way.

evil_hitman · Post by **evil_hitman** » 07 July 04 12:14 am

BeccaJ wrote:When Team Uneven Distrubution went from Dubbo to do A-DAG, I think it took us the better part of 13 hours or so.

It was a long trip from Melbourne to Dubbo, 1,000kms give or take.

Luckily, we had regular rest, stretch and cache breaks along the way.

just to add to that, the 13 hours or so was one way and didnt include the extra 2 hour drive from dubbo to a-dag the following day. Well worth it though

Matt

ToolkiT · Post by **ToolkiT** » 08 July 04 1:03 pm

Sydney-Dubbo-Sydney for the Dubbo Caching event...

ian-and-penny · Post by **ian-and-penny** » 08 July 04 2:13 pm

417 km, as the crow flies. It ended up being a lot more by road.

Dingbats · Post by **Dingbats** » 08 July 04 3:55 pm

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After just completeing a 48
hour 650 km round trip, involving about 8 hors of 4x4 'off roading&
just to hide a cache i was wondering...

What is the name of this cache? It sounds like one for the todo list.

bjflick · Post by **bjflick** » 08 July 04 5:43 pm

Hi guys - new to the Australia forum.

Have just returned from Alaska where I dropped a couple of TB off in Anchorage -
K Bear - http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=57419
Murray - http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=57419

Found a number of caches along Inside Passage (was on a ship) and furthest cache North was to Nome, Alaska (nearly to the Arctic Circle).

Great Caching experience.
BJF

The Spindoctors · Post by **The Spindoctors** » 14 July 04 9:36 pm

Vietnam is my limit so far. I think Hawaii will be further.

The Ginger Loon · Post by **The Ginger Loon** » 14 July 04 11:57 pm

Why is the formatting of this thread all over the place?

dcr · Post by **dcr** » 15 July 04 12:26 am

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Possibly an unmatched TABLE HTML code in the Dingbats post above that shifts all content into the post cell?
 
Let' see if we can find out which one

cheers Darren

dcr · Post by **dcr** » 15 July 04 12:37 am

Now that was weird

But should be fine from here down; be very careful quoting fragments from the old ezyboard posts without closing off the table structures

The ELTHAM Mob went to China to cache (oh and visit my Dad), but really to cache

Managed to add 11475.9 miles for a travel bug.

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