Geocaching news

I did a little bit of geocaching today with my 7 year old son. He’s really gotten into the idea of a high-tech treasure hunt and is really good at spotting the caches which my old eyes see as part of the scenary. I let him decide which item we take and which item we leave while I sign the logbook. The best one we did today was a 3 part multicache where the 1st cache contains the coordinates to the 2nd part, and the 2nd part contains the coordinates to the third and final cache.

We started geocaching in November and have already racked up almost 30 finds. Here’s some of our statistics and our favorite finds:

Cache Stats as of 12/23/2006 (Get your own CacheStats at www.logicweave.com)

Cache Finds
Total Found:	28 (# found/attended logs)	Find Rate:	0.824 per day (5.8 per week)
Caches:	28 (# unique caches visited)	Average difficulty / terrain:	1.43 / 1.46
FTFs:	0

Streaks		Most finds
Most consecutive days with a find:	4	Most in 1 day:	11
Most consecutive days without a find:	12	Most in 1 month:	24

History
Year	Total Found	Rate
2006	28	0.636

Milestones
Number	Date	# Days between
#1	11/18/2006
#10	12/9/2006	21
#20	12/11/2006	2

Favorites
Category	Cache	Log	Comment
All-time favorite	winter in texas	View
Most memorable	Itsy Bitsy	View
Favorite Multi	Another Oak Grove & Not a Micro	View
Most difficult find	winter in texas	View
Most scenic	Garden Angel	View
Best hike	Don’t Overlook Me!	View
Cleverest hide	winter in texas	View
Most embarrassing	Itsy Bitsy	View

Locations
US States (1):	TX
Countries (1):	United States

(maps from world66.com)

In other geocaching news, I received my very own Unite for Diabetes travel bug. The idea is that Groundspeak is giving away 20,000 bugs until they last. Each bug is assigned a specific city as a goal and the travel bug is trying to get to it’s goal city by hopping geocache to geocache. Once it reaches it’s goal, then it can just circulate in that city’s caches raising awareness for Diabetes and support for a UN resolution on Diabetes.

“Our” travel bug has a goal to get to Anqiu, China. You can track it’s progress on the geocaching.com site along with me. It will hopefully pick up some interesting stories and photos along the way, including mine.