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Just took a look at the bookmark list of Mega events scheduled for the next year, there are 26.

 

Apart from one that is 50 miles away and a $100 ferry ride, of the other 25 not one is within a 1,000 miles of me.

 

If I were to travel to each mega from home and back home after each one and I traveled straight line I'd come very close to making it to the moon.

 

That's an average of each mega being 4,000 miles away.

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Just took a look at the bookmark list of Mega events scheduled for the next year, there are 26.

...so far.

By the time 2014 is over, there will have been nearly 50 Mega/Giga events this year. You can expect there to be many more than 26 Megas held over the next year. You'll easily make it to the moon. :laughing:

 

...actually, comparing their list to mine here, their list is missing two. There are currently 28 Megas scheduled to be held.

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If I were to travel to each mega from home and back home after each one and I traveled straight line I'd come very close to making it to the moon.

 

 

The total cache-to-cache distance is one of my favorite stats. According to my profile on project-gc my total cache-to-cache distance is 216,946 miles. According to various sources the average distance to the moon is 238,855 miles. Based on upcoming travel plans, I should be able to reach that by the end of the year.

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If I were to travel to each mega from home and back home after each one and I traveled straight line I'd come very close to making it to the moon.

 

 

The total cache-to-cache distance is one of my favorite stats. According to my profile on project-gc my total cache-to-cache distance is 216,946 miles. According to various sources the average distance to the moon is 238,855 miles. Based on upcoming travel plans, I should be able to reach that by the end of the year.

 

11,000 finds and I'm less than half way to the moon but 26 megas and I can get there from scratch.

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If I were to travel to each mega from home and back home after each one and I traveled straight line I'd come very close to making it to the moon.

 

 

The total cache-to-cache distance is one of my favorite stats. According to my profile on project-gc my total cache-to-cache distance is 216,946 miles. According to various sources the average distance to the moon is 238,855 miles. Based on upcoming travel plans, I should be able to reach that by the end of the year.

 

11,000 finds and I'm less than half way to the moon but 26 megas and I can get there from scratch.

 

Mine works to .908x distance to the moon. That's with just over 1200 finds. I actually have more Megas with 300 miles than you do, including Geowoodstock in Maryland. There are also a couple events less than 200 miles away. If I actually had any desire to spend drive 400 miles r/t just to attend a geocaching event I'd consider going to one.

 

 

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I went to one Mega Event. (Not sure how it qualified with only 469 logged attendees.) (Okay. I was told that more people attended than logged. Sort of defeats the porpoise?)

I would not attend another. Far too impersonal to me. Not my type of fun. Classes with fees? Oh, well.

There is another mega event scheduled nearby. I will not be attending.

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Your list does not include the 2015 block party. Don't think there is any ferry involved with that one for you. For me it is a $35 ferry ride.

 

That's Groundspeaks list, it only goes to the end of July.

 

The block party is not a mega, it's a block party.

But Going APE is a mega, and it will be held Aug. 16, 2015, an hour's drive from the Block Party. B)

 

Yah, I know I was just trying to prove jholly wrong:)

 

It isn't on the list yet though and the stats I posted were from the list.

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Your list does not include the 2015 block party. Don't think there is any ferry involved with that one for you. For me it is a $35 ferry ride.

 

That's Groundspeaks list, it only goes to the end of July.

 

The block party is not a mega, it's a block party.

But Going APE is a mega, and it will be held Aug. 16, 2015, an hour's drive from the Block Party. B)

 

Yah, I know I was just trying to prove jholly wrong:)

 

It isn't on the list yet though and the stats I posted were from the list.

Well that is an exercise in futility.

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If I were to travel to each mega from home and back home after each one and I traveled straight line I'd come very close to making it to the moon.

 

 

The total cache-to-cache distance is one of my favorite stats. According to my profile on project-gc my total cache-to-cache distance is 216,946 miles. According to various sources the average distance to the moon is 238,855 miles. Based on upcoming travel plans, I should be able to reach that by the end of the year.

 

With all your traveling, I would have thought it was more.

 

My numbers:

297958 Miles, Note: excludes locationless caches.

11.98x Earth Circumnavigation,

1.247x Distance to the Moon

 

Helps I made about 15 trips to Hawaii a few years ago, with cache finds on each!

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The closest one to me is over 12,000 km away. I don't think I'll bother.

 

You win!

My closest is only 4300km away

 

Total cache-to-cache distance: 267,500 km

6.67x earth circumnavigation

0.696x distance to the moon

 

Not too dramatic I guess. This one is funny:

Furthest cache found: 13,198.48 km

as we never traveled more than 10 hours by plane. This will go down though once we move back to Europe.

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If I were to travel to each mega from home and back home after each one and I traveled straight line I'd come very close to making it to the moon.

 

 

The total cache-to-cache distance is one of my favorite stats. According to my profile on project-gc my total cache-to-cache distance is 216,946 miles. According to various sources the average distance to the moon is 238,855 miles. Based on upcoming travel plans, I should be able to reach that by the end of the year.

 

With all your traveling, I would have thought it was more.

 

My numbers:

297958 Miles, Note: excludes locationless caches.

11.98x Earth Circumnavigation,

1.247x Distance to the Moon

 

Helps I made about 15 trips to Hawaii a few years ago, with cache finds on each!

 

That would do it. How did you manage to do 15 trip to Hawaii? I've seen cachers with total cache to cache distance much larger, but they also had a lot more than 1200 finds.

 

 

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The closest one to me is over 12,000 km away. I don't think I'll bother.

 

You win!

My closest is only 4300km away

 

Total cache-to-cache distance: 267,500 km

6.67x earth circumnavigation

0.696x distance to the moon

 

Not too dramatic I guess. This one is funny:

Furthest cache found: 13,198.48 km

as we never traveled more than 10 hours by plane. This will go down though once we move back to Europe.

 

15,142.54 km for me. You're moving? Again?

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The closest one to me is over 12,000 km away. I don't think I'll bother.

 

You win!

My closest is only 4300km away

 

Total cache-to-cache distance: 267,500 km

6.67x earth circumnavigation

0.696x distance to the moon

 

Not too dramatic I guess. This one is funny:

Furthest cache found: 13,198.48 km

as we never traveled more than 10 hours by plane. This will go down though once we move back to Europe.

 

15,142.54 km for me. You're moving? Again?

 

Not for now, but it will happen at a certain time :P

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I went to one Mega Event. (Not sure how it qualified with only 469 logged attendees.) (Okay. I was told that more people attended than logged. Sort of defeats the porpoise?)

 

They count warm bodies, not geocaching accounts. Luckily for me, there is an annual mega only 66.6 miles away. I was there the first year it was a mega and observed the Groundspeak auditors.

 

My total distance is 81,144 miles. The average distance to my 4259 finds is 164 miles. (I travel a lot.)

It's amazing what statistical tangents that we can fly off on.

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113,003 miles, 4.54x earth circumnavigation, 0.473x distance to the moon

 

I would have thought our total would have been higher. Guess that's the downside of no trips to Hawaii!

 

On the question of Megas...

 

I attended three of them this year, and all were very different. That's only to say that just because one Mega wasn't enjoyable doesn't mean you might not find another one that appeals to you.

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I went to one Mega Event. (Not sure how it qualified with only 469 logged attendees.) (Okay. I was told that more people attended than logged. Sort of defeats the porpoise?)

 

They count warm bodies, not geocaching accounts. Luckily for me, there is an annual mega only 66.6 miles away. I was there the first year it was a mega and observed the Groundspeak auditors.

 

My total distance is 81,144 miles. The average distance to my 4259 finds is 164 miles. (I travel a lot.)

It's amazing what statistical tangents that we can fly off on.

 

My average distance is 414 miles, I did a lot of power trails.

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