I did say that I would produce some reviews of my year, and why not begin with the geocaches of 2013?
Overall last year, we found 460 caches. Our biggest month for finds was August, during which 159 were found. We went out on 237 different days (64.7% of the year), finding an average of 1.9 caches on these days. March was our worst month – due to snow and other factors, we only found 1 cache that month.
On average, we travelled 12 miles from home for each cache, although 68% of the caches we found were less than 10 miles from home. 2 caches were over 100 miles away.
We found most caches on a Saturday, although 60% of our finds were on weekdays.
The first cache we found was PhilMyCache (GC43MA3).
All caches have a rating for both difficulty and the terrain a cacher needs to cross in order to find the cache. This range goes from 1 to 5, with half points also possible. This provides 9 terrain levels and 9 difficulty levels, giving 81 possible combinations overall. In 2013, we filled 42 of these.
One of our aims was to try and fill as many empty days as possible in our calendar. These are the days we went caching on in 2013. Below that is our calendar overall showing every day we’ve ever found a cache on.
Other general statistics:
- Consecutive days with finds: 175, from 10th July until 31st December
- Consecutive days without a find: 29, from 6th May until 3rd June
- Most finds in one day: 20 on 24th August
- Best weekend caching: 25 finds on Saturday 17th August and Sunday 18th August
- Best week caching: 57 finds from Monday 12th August to Sunday 18th August
- Most cache types in one day: 4 (WhereIGo, traditional, puzzle and virtual), 17th August
- Fastest 100 finds: 15 days from 10th August to 24th August
- Total cache-to-cache distance: 2328 miles
- Maximum distance in one day: 105 miles, 3 caches on 30th June
- Nearest cache found: Mr Men Collection – Mr Nosey (GC4K6BC)
- Furthest cache found: 108.31 miles, What A Load Of Cobblers (GC3WAYV)
- Caches found which are now archived: 29 (6.30%)
- Highest cache elevation: All About Yorkshire (GC19762), 1280 feet
- Lowest cache elevation: Bike ‘n’ Cache Garforth (GC2WEV3), 3 feet.
So, there you have it. We also placed 20 caches out ourselves this year, one of which we placed on New Year’s Eve and has only been found once so far. Overall though, our 21 caches have been found 834 times by 113 caches – not just this year though.
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