A lot of people used to scrounge data from the web site, which dragged it down tons. They have since prohibited doing that and stopped most of it.
Anyway, I parse my information using my pocket queries using the Watcher program I mentioned in another thread here (It has a stats feature)
Since it does not break down difficulty/terrain for stats, I'd have to manuaully do each possibility - which comes out to 100 possible combinations (because each category has ?/1/1.5/2/2.5/3/3.5/4/4.5/5 for possibilities.
Incidently, ?? is a rating for older caches whose hiders did not specify diff/terr. Maine has no ?? for any of it's caches.
I did do a quick run of 1/1s, and there are 97 of those, and 2 5/5s. Unfortunately, I am betting many of the 1/1s are under rated because a terrain of 1 should indicate it is handicapped accessible. I've done quite a few 1/1s which definitely did not meet that criteria. As for the two 5/5's..
Horse Mnt. (GC4701) by Msansanbi (5/5)
Since there is no puzzle or multiple stages involved, the difficulty on this cache rests soley with the hidden container. I can't say as I have never been there, but it would have to be hidden pretty durn good to be a 5.
Sights to Bewhole (GC93F0) by Rslyfox (5/5)
I really don't think this one could be a 5 for difficulty, unless finding the answers to the virts are real tough. Possible, not probable.
The terrain ... never been there (yet), but it's close to a 5, probably at least a 4.5
Incidently, if you want to see what caches are rated for each possibility, get Watcher and see for yourself!
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