Geocaching Stats for December 2013

It's been a busy couple of months and I am just now getting around to updating my caching stats properly. I had lots of fun adventures but have slowed down my caching recently since buying a house.

Here's a run down of the highlights:

September

• Placed a new challenge cache in Austin: What size is that? Challenge
• Attended my first Lone Star Roundup event. This year it was held in Tyler.

PyroYo007 and strontium87 at the Lone Star Roundup

• On the way to and from the roundup event, I cached in eight new Texas Counties (88/254)
1. Falls
2. Limestone
3. Freestone
4. Henderson
5. Smith
6. Van Zandt
7. Kafuman
8. Navarro
   

Cached in eight new Texas Counties

• Placed a new cache in Falls County along I-35 to give people an easier way to cache in this county while barely travelling through it: Falls county I-35 Southbound
• Found six more TxGCC13 caches, bringing my total up to 58/80 for the challenge (and had one DNF at Purtis Creek)
• PyroYo007 and I placed our first ever night cache: Copperfield Night Cache
• PyroYo007 and I finally finished up Walnut Creek Super Cachers

Super Cache Member logo

• Closed out my second month in the 365 day challenge by caching every day in September

October

• Cached in a new state and got a new souvenir: Colorado

First Colorado cache with my nephew

• Filled my 2000-07 Jasmer spot by finding Tarryall (GC18) with my mom

Finding Tarryall in Colorado

November

• Attended four events including one for geocaching in space and earned a new souvenir

Geocaching in Space souvenir - November 2013

• Revived a cache out near my parents' house that had been archived: Xerophilous

I think I'll probably continue blogging every quarter instead of every month about my caching stats. As always, you can find my caching stats on my website: strontium87.com. Until next time!

Geocaching Stats for August 2013

August 2013 was the busiest month of geocaching for me so far. This was partly due to Groundspeak's 31 Days of Geocaching challenge which incentivized people to find a cache every day in August by rewarding them with daily souvenirs. I wasn't chasing souvenirs but it gave me community support to start streaking and I'm now to day 40.

So much happened in August that I wanted to jot down these caching events:

• Most finds in a day: 50. On 3 August, Mh171 and I went out to chase the Texas 50 State Star geoart puzzle series finding 47 of 51 (four had been muggled).
• Most finds in a month: 148
• Cached in two new states, Washington and Oregon, allowing me to complete the 10 States and Provinces Challenge.
• Filled five Jasmer spots, clearing out 2002 and 2006, finding the 2nd oldest active cache GC12 5/12/2000 in Oregon and finding Iron Horse (2000-10) in Washington.
• Finished up the AlphaNumeric Cacher Name Challenge (need to sign the log!) by finding caches placed by 50 State Star, 6 Pack Rats and 86suzuki.
• Logged 13 Geocaching Labs caches (which have messed up my stats because they counted towards total finds but nothing else) including the Microbrew Tour before the Block Party and special event caches during it.

Microbrew Tour Lab Caches in Seattle - 15 August 

• Reached my 800 milestone by attending the 2013 Geocaching Block Party for the first time in Seattle, WA on International Geocaching Day, 17 August.

2013 Groundspeak Block Party - 17 August

• Completed the Triad Challenge by visiting the Original Stash Tribute Plaque, Geocaching Headquarters and the APE Cache in Washington.
  
  

  

  Going APE - Snoqualmie Tunnel, WA - 18 August

• Brought my souvenir total up to 52.

New souvenirs for August 2013

• Rounded out the month by caching in 11 new Texas counties (81/254)

Day 31 of 31 Days of Geocaching

• Found four more TXGCC13 caches, bringing my total up to 52/80 for the challenge by visiting Mission Tejas and Martin Dies Jr. state parks.
• Last but not least, I was picked for the Texas Geocaching Association's August 2013 Member Spotlight, thanks to being nominated by the Caching Dead, TXGA's education directors.

My stats are updated monthly around the 7th and can be viewed on my website at strontium87.com.