Objectives
As another year ends it’s time to write my 2020 Caching Diary.
I didn’t really plan anything for this year, and due to circumstances somewhat beyond my control, opportunities were rather limited. It (again) proved to be my slowest year ever with the exception of the very first (see 2010 Caching Diary).
I enjoyed the caches that I found and the days out that I had, so maybe the slow year wasn’t all bad. I returned a little bit to thinking about why I enjoy caching in the first place. So, no targets, no ambitions, no regrets. Just a bit of caching when the mood took me, and when we were allowed to go out.
So here we go. A whistlestop tour of my year in tupperware, in the form of a list with links to specific blog posts for the longer days (i.e. those where the caching was significant enough to warrant an individual post). You will notice the big gaps resulting from the global pandemic.
Statistics
- January – 11 finds
- February – 76 finds
- March – 90 finds
- April, May, June, July – No finds
- August – 67 finds
- September – 236 finds
- October, November – No finds
- December – 58 finds
Summary
So there we have it, my 2020 Caching Diary. So what did I actually achieve:
- A total of 538 finds
- No new countries
- 6 days ticked off my Shifty Fifty Challenge
- No days of more than 100 finds
It was a decent year, given the previous one. I got back into the swing of it and I had a couple of excellent mega events to attend. I haven’t (still) finished the Difficulty/Terrain grid and I still haven’t finished the “Full English”.
So there we have it, the end of my 2020 Caching Diary. A year of very little caching. Not being able to go out for six of the twelve months had some effect. What can you do? Anyway, here is the usual pretty matrix of all the days in 2020 where I did manage to get out caching, and where I made enough finds to justify writing a whole post.
Caching Expeditions in 2020
