Objectives
Time to write my 2016 Caching Diary. It turned out that I had a bit of a problem with my caching mojo for much of the year. I was also quite busy with work, and therefore more interested in spending the weekends with Kas and the girls. What I did do though, I greatly enjoyed. I went out less often, but enjoyed it more, so it was a good thing to do, consciously or otherwise.
2016 had the lowest number of finds in the year that I’d had since 2012. That was offset by having a number of fantastic individual days and involved some fairly epic locations for finds.
Having said that, I did actually make quite a large number of caching trips, and nearly 1,400 finds can’t be regarded as a poor year.
Highlights
Key highlights of my geocaching year, in no particular order, were:
- My first Geonord event, held in July in Valenciennes.
- A family holiday in the Lake District in May and June which turned out to be rather good.
- Another family holiday in the French Alps, based in Chamonix.
- A long weekend at the UK Mega Event in Llangollen.
- A Geolympix mega event right on my doorstep.
- Another trip to the Lake District in September for a running event.
- A long weekend in Wales with “the lads” on our first ever November boys weekend.
Monthly Statistics
So here’s a monthly summary of cache finds:
- January – 132 finds
- February – 172 finds
- March – 114 finds
- April – 128 finds
- May – 122 finds
- June – 53 finds
- July – 144 finds
- August – 225 finds
- September – 71 finds
- October – 114 finds
- November – 17 finds
- December – 66 finds
Summary
So there we have it, my 2016 Caching Diary. So what did I actually achieve:
- A total of 1,358 finds, made on 60 different days
- Fourteen days ticked off my Shifty Fifty Challenge
- Two days with over 100 finds and 9 days with more than 50
- One new country – Italy. This was added while we were on a family holiday in Chamonix.
A year of consolidation, to some extent. Fewer finds than the previous year, but that’s partly because we had lots of family holidays / trips away where we spent time together.
