Geocaching

Geocaching is a sport using a GPSr to find caches hidden in specific locations. There are caches all over the world. For more information go to www.geoaching.com. All my caching related posts are available in the "Misadventures in Geocaching" category. I also tend to Tweet when I'm Geocaching. The statistics below are the latest stats from the Cachestats HTML Export function. This is a useful tool that uses the MyFinds GPX File (a premium member benefit on Geocaching.com). More information about how I get this to display "nicely" is available in this blog post.

My Cache Stats as of 31/12/2009 (Generated by CacheStats 3.0. Get your own stats at www.logicweave.com)

Cache Finds
Total Found:	200 (# found/attended logs)	Find Rate:	0.554 per day (3.9 per week, 202 per year)
Caches:	200 (# unique caches visited)	Avg. difficulty / terrain:	1.67 / 1.88
# Archived:	21 (10%)	FTFs:	4
Avg. in 1 day:	2.9	Oldest Cache:	A Meating place for Martyrs (GC22E5 placed 16/10/2001)
Most in 1 day:	12 (06/05/2009)	Most in 1 month:	38 (8/2009)
My Goal:	200 by 31/12/2009

Days Cached
Total days cached:	70 (every 5.2 days or 19.4%)	Most consecutive days with a find:	5 (20/04/2009 - 24/04/2009)
Most in 1 month:	13 (8/2009)	Most consecutive days without a find:	49 (05/10/2009 - 22/11/2009)

History
Year	Total Found	Rate	Days Cached / Frequency
2009	200	0.554	70 / every 5.2 days

Milestones
Number	Date	Cache	# Days between
#1	03/01/2009	Shark of the Gill (ies)
#10	17/01/2009	Bernie's Copse Cache	14
#20	31/01/2009	As We Were Passing No1	14
#30	13/02/2009	Portsmouth International Travel Bug Hotel	13
#40	23/02/2009	Trapezia Lick	10
#50	01/03/2009	Daedalus #1	6
#60	13/04/2009	My Ampshire 7.2	42
#70	23/04/2009	It's Good to Talk (23) Tyndrum	9
#80	02/05/2009	Solent Way - Titchfield Haven	9
#90	06/05/2009	The Paddy Field	4
#100	26/05/2009	Somewhere (near) the Middle #3 (Alverstoke)	20
#110	25/07/2009	Brent Burp!!!	60
#120	04/08/2009	Fareham-Gosport Branch Line - What's the point?	10
#130	10/08/2009	Hursley Circular #17	6
#140	16/08/2009	Border on Insanity	6
#150	19/08/2009	Whiteley Lake	3
#160	12/09/2009	Across Land First	24
#170	23/11/2009	A Meating place for Martyrs	72
#180	26/11/2009	Jack the Ripper 4 - Catherine Eddowes	3
#190	15/12/2009	Solent Way - Strawberry Fields Forever	19
#200	31/12/2009	Portchester Micro 4	16

Size Breakdown
Size	# Found	Percentage
Small	80	40.0
Micro	62	31.0
Regular	36	18.0
Other	10	5.0
Not chosen	8	4.0
Virtual	3	1.5
Large	1	0.5

Type Breakdown
Type	# Found	Percentage
Traditional Cache	172	86.0
Mystery	12	6.0
Multi-cache	11	5.5
Virtual Cache	3	1.5
Event Cache	2	1.0

Difficulty Breakdown
Difficulty	# Found	Percentage
1	61	30.5
1.5	59	29.5
2	52	26.0
2.5	14	7.0
3	9	4.5
3.5	5	2.5
4	0	0.0
4.5	0	0.0
5	0	0.0

Terrain Breakdown
Terrain	# Found	Percentage
1	37	18.5
1.5	62	31.0
2	52	26.0
2.5	13	6.5
3	34	17.0
3.5	0	0.0
4	2	1.0
4.5	0	0.0
5	0	0.0

Difficulty / Terrain Combinations

	Terrain
Difficulty		1	1.5	2	2.5	3	3.5	4	4.5	5
	1	22	13	22	1	3	-	-	-	-
	1.5	4	30	10	2	13	-	-	-	-
	2	7	8	15	8	13	-	1	-	-
	2.5	1	5	3	2	2	-	1	-	-
	3	2	3	2	-	2	-	-	-	-
	3.5	1	3	-	-	1	-	-	-	-
	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	4.5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	29 out of 81 combinations found

Favorite and other Notable Caches
Category	Cache	Log	Comment
Recent favorite	Gray Mare's Cache (Vampirhummel's Honeymoon)	View
Most memorable	Baden-Powell’s 1st Stubbington Cache	View
Favorite Multi	Funtley Frolics	View
Most scenic	Gray Mare's Cache (Vampirhummel's Honeymoon)	View

FTFs
Number	Date	Cache	Log
1	13/01/2009	Baden-Powell’s 1st Stubbington Cache	View
2	26/01/2009	2468	View
3	13/02/2009	Kingfishers and Coffee	View
4	01/03/2009	Daedalus #2	View
5	25/05/2009	Dave's Detour	View

Locations
Other States (4):	Southern England (140), South East England (4), Northern Scotland (1), London (10)
Countries (1):	United Kingdom (200)