A late journey to New York from New Zealand made Christine an easy winner in this year’s Dartmoor Geocoin Race. The trip of nearly 9,000 miles took Christine’s coin from 3rd place to first for an easy win by nearly 7,00 miles. 
Unfortunately the previous leader’s coin, owned by Justine, has not been seen since 25th September and has now been marked as missing, 
but might still reappear as coins often do.
Considering that Kevin’s and Sue’s coin didn’t even get placed until August, it is amazing they they managed to finish third with Tammie’s coin fourth. The top 4 coins have a total mileage of over 63,000 miles and visited places all over the world, including two going to New Zealand and one to Hawaii. Trips to Europe and America by the race participants were almost common place, with almost all the coins reaching foreign countries at some stage.
What is really amazing is that out of 27 coins which started the race, it appears that 20 of them are still being moved around, which is excellent considering the quality of these coins and all the bad news stories that are always being circulated regarding trackables. Two of these 20 coins did reappear after it was thought likely that they had been lost, so you should never give up hoping.
I did say that I would offer 4 prizes if we received 30 entries, and it is no fault of those participating that some coins never got activated or placed. I will therefore honour that and award 2016 Dartmoor Geocoins to the first 4 in the race. 
So that’s all for the 2015 race, we will start the 2016 one some time in the new year and hope for the same great support that we had this year. Many thanks indeed! 
| Name/Geocoin Link | Cacher Name | Miles Travelled | Last Location | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christine Hutchins | chutch74 | 21,955.2 | Massachusetts | In cache |
| Justine Tear | The Old Grey Mare | 15,151.3 | Hessen, Germany | Last seen on 25th Sept Marked as missing 🙁 |
| Kevin & Sue Bastow | dartmoor strider | 14,225.7 | Coffs Harbour New South Wales | Still visiting! |
| Tammie Walker | tacks spaniels | 12,423 | Washington | In cache |
| Steve Godfrey | Godfairies | 8,064.8 | Near Sunderland | Retrieved - no news since 16th August |
| Brian Imeson | Ponte Raiders | 7,614.5 | Halifax, Yorkshire | Still visiting! |
| Paul Smirfin | The Smirfs | 7,010 | Ontario | Retrieved |
| Colin Ramage | BigCandLittleC | 6,915.3 | Hessen, Germany | Retrieved |
| Nigel Greer | TeamGruffalo | 6,308.6 | New York | Visiting |
| Neil Armstrong | Finder-Man | 5,995.4 | Limburg, Belgium | Still visiting! |
| Sue Nickels | tobytwirl | 5,855.8 | California | In cache |
| Andy Manning | Touc and Becks | 4,663.2 | Karlovarsky kraj, Czech Republic | In cache |
| Trevor Pearce-Jones | angels55 | 3,578.7 | Ontario, Canada | In a TB Hotel - no news since 6th August |
| Sammie Jane | tiggersam | 3,924.5 | Niedersachsen, Germany | Visiting |
| Janet Kneller | Weather-IT | 3,781.9 | Hamburg, Germany | In cache |
| Cathy Pengilly | Pinguigloo | 2,615.7 | Bayern, Germany | Visiting |
| Joe Bird | miss130 | 2,467.4 | Salzburg, Austria | In cache - no news since 1st September |
| Kevin & Hels Ashford | Eros & Us!!! | 1,771.4 | Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany | Retrieved |
| Adam Holland | tango5tavy | 1524.9 | North Wales | Still visiting! |
| Paula Grebot | Qashguy+2 | 1,263.1 | Niedersachsen, Germany | Visiting |
| Bill & Mary Kingdon | The Odyssians | 1,050.1 | Near Stockport | Retrieved |
| Suzy Ayshford | jazz_a (-339 miles) | 713.3 | Exeter | In a TB Hotel since 22nd June 🙁 |
| Colin Masters | Clan Masters | 550.2 | Knighton, Powys | In cache - no news since 29th August |
| Zara Lester | zjac | 517.3 | Noord-Brabant, Netherlands | Retrieved |
| Jason Deane | dixie_gooner (-2.1 miles) | 423.6 | TB Hotel on the M62 | Still visiting! |
| Paul Blake | ping68 | 177.4 | Hampstead Heath | Visiting |
| Theresa Phillips | taz9213 | 13.7 | Exeter | In cache - no news since 4th June 🙁 |
| Alex Goedhals | Team Noodles | 0 | With Owner | Never released 🙁 |
| Emily Branson | Brave bransons | 0 | With Owner | Never activated 🙁 |
| David Routley | daver59 | 0 | With Owner | Activated - but withdrawn from race 🙁 |
| Graham North | Flexburyites | 0 | Please confirm location | Unknown |
