Well I’ve not personally done 10 years of caching, although I did hear about it some time before I started geocaching. Initially I wasn’t sure whether it would be much fun as I wasn’t sure how accurate gps’s would be. Finally I bumped into someone (Hi David!) who had done geocaching in Canada, showed me his GPS and I knew it would be something I would be interested in. I signed up Nov 28, 2003 and we came over to Dublin, OH for Christmas and I ordered a Magellan Sportrak from Amazon for an early Christmas present and my first cache was found in Dublin a few days later on Dec 3, 2003. This gave me a good start when it came to statistics of miles covered whilst caching as most of my caches were then found back in the UK!
Anyway, Sunday is Geocaching’s 10 year anniversary and lots of events are being planned for this weekend (and this year). The event is Washington (home of the first geocache and Groundspeak) is expected to have over 500 people attend. Here in Ohio, I’ll be attending the 10 Years Columbus event A bonus feature of attending this event will be another new icon for the collection as all 10 year events get a new icon for the cache page.
More information and a place to find the nearest 10 year cache event to you can be found at http://www.geocaching.com/lostandfound
Along with the CacheInTrashOut cache I did earlier this month where we pulled many bags of rubbish by the river front, it’s been a busy month. As usual April has been my most product month of geocaching – It’s a good time of year – not too hot, not too cold. I’m going to try and get every day in May filled next month.
| Date | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | ||
| Jan | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 40 | |||||||||||||||||
| Feb | 1 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | X | X | 26 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Mar | 1 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 15 | 2 | 82 | |||||||||||||
| Apr | 21 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 14 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 26 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 1 | X | 164 | ||||||||
| May | 2 | 2 | 2 | 22 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 77 | |||||||||
| Jun | 11 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 22 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 6 | X | 102 | ||||||||||||
| Jul | 1 | 1 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 70 | ||||||||||||||
| Aug | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 30 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sep | 3 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 1 | X | 57 | |||||||||||||||||
| Oct | 1 | 2 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 55 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Nov | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 1 | X | 66 | ||||||||||||
| Dec | 16 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 48 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 24 | 11 | 45 | 36 | 52 | 10 | 28 | 35 | 11 | 32 | 26 | 34 | 32 | 45 | 17 | 28 | 38 | 64 | 9 | 28 | 25 | 26 | 11 | 19 | 25 | 10 | 14 | 37 | 22 | 17 | 6 | ||
Cool chart! How’d you generate that?
We just made a multi-state trip from KS to GA with the goal of finding a cache in each state. Spent most of the drive outrunning the storms and floods, so missed 2 of the 7 states. I was bummed!
I use gsak for offline work on my gpx files. Using the FindStatsGen macro I then grabbed the relevant part of the html and pasted into the blog post. The full profile is automatically uploaded up to geocaching.com through the GenUploadStats macro. Email me for more details if required.
Oh what a monster I created!!!!
Has it really been since 2003? Wow!
I still have many fond memories of the Alchemy Quest multi we did back in the UK! What a great day!
Please get in touch my friend. We need to catch up!
Dave
HaHa – I think you’ve got about 750 to catch up from my reckoning. I still bore the local caches with tales of that day’s caching 😉
Good to see you are still around. You need to get active again and get your kids caching in Canada.