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Your 2012 caching in review, and goals for 2013
By: Griff Grof Date: December 31, 2012, 1:57 pm
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From my blog:
What a year 2012 has been for caching! Unlike 2011, it hasn't
really had any major downs - apart from not finding much caches
in the second half - but instead has seen a rise in the quality
of caches, and I've surprisingly managed to break ALL my
previously set records. You're in the right place as I'll be
reviewing my years caching in detail, looking back to the past,
and the future as another years caching begins tomorrow. It's
surprising how quickly time does fly, and this year was no
exception!
The year kicked off with some ABFTN caches, which were very
clever. We then embarked on several trails in Wiltshire, before
Wrighty invited me to an event with him on January 15th - never
before would I have imagined the local caching celebrity,
Wrighty, to invite me caching - it was an honour! We went
caching in the area beforehand, and generally had a great day.
I went with him again in February where we completed the QBS
series, before summiting White Horse Hill and going onto the
Cold War Cache, which I can announce is my cache of the year!
This was where my new rule of quality over quantity began taking
play - one simple cache could represent hundreds!
This month was also the start of a long and fun journey, as I
attended the CacheWalker Butcher Bash event, having helped out
with some of the activities. I launched a new forum as admin for
CacheWalker on February, and introduced all sorts of new ideas
such as Weekly Polls. The forum was the start of a journey for
me with CacheWalker, as I ended up co-organising the next two
CacheWalker events after that, which was an honour to play such
a part in a caching groups of what was originally my local
caching celebrities!
March and April saw me break whole new records. In March I
finally logged my 1000th find, Topofthehill, after a super day -
it was my main goal of the year, and it was already achieved on
a very worthy cache. April saw me break an even bigger record,
which wasn't even a goal, originally! I found 156 caches
throughout the month, which I felt was a huge achievement. Plus,
by this time, my series 'Snowshill Scramble' was receiving very
positive reviews, and I enjoyed checking over it on my first
maintenance run. I also checked over my resoundingly popular
(somehow) Westcote Wander and got each and every cache back into
tip-top condition.
The summer truly was a festival for Geocaching, as the Geolympix
branded it as. After a quieter month in June having missed out
on the CacheWalker climb up Snowdon, July brought more records
and highlights for the year. I attended the Geolympix Mega
event, on the very day that I managed to bag 11 icons in 11
hours. Then two days later, I broke my record for most in one
day, with the Geolympix Mega Ring, bagging 65 caches in a day!
The summer continued with some caching Spanish-style, and then
in September it ended with a rather wet CacheWalker picnic
event!
In October, I remembered I had set myself another goal to find
100 more Geocaches by my fave cache hider Wrighty. So, we set
off to do one of his most talked about series' "Many Steps"
which was wonderful, and one of my highlights. Caching then took
a slow down until Twixmas, as things got busy elsewhere in life
(in other words... 'taxi's' were booked! Haha!)
And, of course, the years caching concluded in true CacheWalker
style yesterday at the Twixmas Bash. A perfect end to a good
years caching.
So how did I do? Well I didn't find 100 more Wrighty caches, so
that's one for next year! But I did beat my best in 1 year, one
of my original goals, hitting 510 caches for the year. I also
managed to reach my last original goal - to find my 1000th
cache. So overall a successful year of caching for me, the best
yet.
What does 2013 hold? Will I spur on to 2000 finds? Will I find
200 more caches by Wrighty? No goals set yet, just going to go
with the flow and enjoy whatever the caching world has in store
for me next year.
How do you think your 2012 caching went? do you have any goals
for 2013 set yet?
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Re: Your 2012 caching in review, and goals for 2013
By: Bear and Ragged Date: December 31, 2012, 2:09 pm
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2012?
Hit my goal. (Yep, that's my vote!)
A cache every month.
(Only the 1 in December... :-\ but still a cache find every
month! ;D)
Managed a new all time extreme South and South and Wes tfor the
year
(Same cache, plans for another South or West, if I'm down that
way again...)
And new distance between caches in a day.
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