Survey

[sancho]

Hello All I have a small survey that I am conducting for an outdoor recreation class at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. I will only be sampling from December 1st till December 10th. Please fill free to email your completed survey to fsdls10@uaf.edu or ajchleb@simla.colostate.edu to save space on the forum. Thanks for your time.

Geocaching Survey

1. How many times have you been Geocaching in the last week? Last month? Last year? (estimate)

2. Have you ever been Geocaching in a National or State Park? Was geocaching your main motivation for going to the park?

3. If you have Geocached in a National or State Park before, where did you go? Did you use existing trail and access systems or did you blaze your own trail?

4. When Geocaching, is caching your main activity? Do you add geocaching to other activities as a side activity? If so, what activities do you add it to?

5. In what setting do you Geocache most often? (urban, rural, wilderness, etc.)

6. How do you feel Geoaching has been managed? Need more, less or about the same regulations?

7. Do you Geocache most often solo or with a group.

8. How far on average do you travel to cache? What is the furthest you have traveled to cache?

Feel free to add any additional comments concerning Geocaching in reference to parks, government, or future of the sport.

Once again Thanks for you time

[MrsGeoark]

Sancho, the survey has been sent via email. Thanks for putting this survey out there, was glad to help in your class.

MrsGeoark

[Gaddiel]

Survey sent. Glad to help.

By the way, I got a return message when I tried to send to the first address. It said:

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- <dls10@uaf.edu> (reason: 550 5.1.1 <dls10@uaf.edu>... User unknown)

[LadyEngineer]

Well, I've just sent my survey in.

[strider869]

Sent mine in, hope it helps out.

:D

[BACKPACKNJACK]

Done

[sancho]

Thanks for the survey results I accidentally left out part of my email address so I am editing in the original survey to correct.

Sorry for the mistake.

Sancho

[SJClimber]

Response sent.

Good luck, SJClimber

[TeamMGGPS]

Completed survey on the way.

[arkansas_stickerdude]

when will the results be ready?

[sancho]

we are keeping the poll open till the 10th we have a running total, so should be ready by monday.


Ok so it's Monday and I have the results, but not here currently. I will post by Friday at latest. (It’s finals week)
The management would like to thank you for your cooperation

[GEO]

I DID IT!!

[sancho]

Thanks to all who participated here are the results. Sancho and Ter

Geocaching Survey

1. How many times have you been geocaching in the last week? Last month? Last year? (estimate)

Week – 3, 2, 2, 0, 0, 1, 1, 3, 3, 1,0, 0, 3, 0, 1, 0, 0,3, 4 Month – 7, 3, 0, 2, 4, 2, 6, 12, 6, 3, 1, 2, 10, 0, 5, 2, 1, 6, 10 Year – 40, 24, 60+, 50, 69, 20, lots, lots, 75, 100, 1, 15, 100, 5, 60, 85, 2, 75, 200+

2. Have you ever been geocaching in a National or State Park? Was geocaching your main motivation for going to the park?

Park: Yes - 16, No - 3 Motivation: Both – 3, No – 4, Yes - 9

3. If you have geocached in a National or State Park before, where did you go? Did you use existing trail and access systems or did you blaze your own trail?

Where: Canada – 2, Florida – 2, Arkansas – 12, Texas – 1, Missouri – 3, Colorado – 1, Trails: Yes – 10, Mostly - 6

4. When geocaching, is caching your main activity? Do you add geocaching to other activities as a side activity? If so, what activities do you add it to?

Yes – 12, No – 3, Sometimes - 4 Side Activities: Hiking – 6 Camping - 4 Any other activity – 2, Eating – 1, Kayaking – 2, Road Trips – 3 Four-Wheeling – 2 Benchmarking - 1

5. In what setting do you geocache most often? (urban, rural, wilderness, etc.)

Urban – 12 Rural – 8 Wilderness - 6

6. Regulations more specific to area – 3 Has adequate regulations – 11 Paranoid about caches on public land – 2, NPS needs to work on it – 1, Less regulations – 2 State Permits - 1

7. Self – 9 Duo – 4 Group - 7

8. Furthest: 30-45 min – 1 225 miles – 1 350 miles – 1 75 miles – 1 93 miles – 1 150 miles – 1 2000 miles – 2 Honduras – 1 1600 - 1 800 miles – 1 4 miles – 1 500 miles – 1 400 – 1 1200 miles – 1 4000 miles - 1
110 miles – 1 1600 miles - 1
Average: 20min – 1 Local – 5 50-100 miles – 4 Ten miles – 3 150 miles – 2 30 miles – 4