Lonely cache challenges have not been a part of geocaching since the Challenge Guidelines were reworked. There are a host of problems related to the concept of lonely caches as a challenge including encouraging throw-down hides, multiple finders in one day, on-line found logs by cachers who didn't find the cache...
Despite the restrictions for using this as a concept for a challenge, Project-GC now has a lonely cache checker for caches found one year or longer since the prior find. Hunting lonely caches is one of the side games we play within Geocaching so we are happy to now have a tool to see how many lonely caches we have found.
The script output...
The script says 76 since it hasn't updated for our visit to the Ghost Orchid multi in Fakahatchee Swamp. It also shows no lonely cache finds before 2011 which makes me wonder if it is accurate since we started caching in 2004 when there were fewer cachers.
It's still fun to see the stats. I'm not surprised we have a lonely cache find in Mexico, but I forgot the two in Canada. The stats were fun. With lonely finds in ten states I'm inspired to hunt for lonely caches in more states.
Our two longest lonely caches came from an afternoon visit to the LBJ Grasslands in Texas.
Our Mexico lonely cache was part of a mountain climb.
The oldest on this list came from a visit to beautiful Fillmore Glen in New York.
Our most recent lonely cache find a few days ago...
I think there is a flaw in the checker's ability to find older caches, but it is a lot of fun to look back.
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