Objectives
Time to sign off on my 2022 Caching Diary. It’s been a busy year.
2021 was a somewhat improved year compared to 2020, what with there being no pandemic lockdowns for most of the year and with me having the time and energy to meet up with friends and go out caching. 2022 looked like it ought to be even better.
My plan for 2022 was mainly to suck it and see. I mean, at the start of the year, planning was still a bit tricky with the whole pandemic thing is still around. Anyway, I planned to find loads of caches.
Over the winter I was planning to stay on roads and paths. I’m done with being knee-deep in clart. The “agricultural” series could all wait until spring and summer. There’s several hundred available within an hour’s drive that are designed for bikes, and hence won’t involve muddy fields.
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).
Statistics
- January – 160 finds
- February – 387 finds
- March – 122 finds
- April – 236 finds
- May – 108 finds
- June – 521 finds
- July – 130 finds
- August – 531 finds
- September – 116 finds
- October – 328 finds
- November – 139 finds
- December – 251 finds
Summary
So there we have it, my 2022 Caching Diary. So what did I actually achieve:
- A total of 3,029 finds
- One new country – Greece
- 102 sets of Adventure Labs finished
- 26 days ticked off my Shifty Fifty Challenge
- 10 days of more than 100 finds
- A new one-day high of 384 finds when doing the EHB Series in June
I’m calling that a satisfactory year of caching. I haven’t (still) finished the Difficulty/Terrain grid and I still haven’t finished the “Full English” because I’ve not been setting out specifically to do that. Maybe that can be a target for next year (at least one of the two).
Anyways, here is a pretty matrix of all the days in 2022 that were significant enough to write a whole post.
