I started this blog a year ago to post (semi-regularly) about my geocaching adventures. I have failed to post in any kind of consistent basis, which I blame on two main things: 1) Changes in my career, which have greatly increased the number of hours I spend working and decreasing the hours I spend geocaching, and 2) a lack of discipline. It is funny how I could manage time to blog when I was working insane hours (I think it created a stress-break), but haven't managed to blog as often when I have actually had some time to do so.
Anyways, I decided to start the new year off by looking back at some things I did accomplish during the year of 2012. I had decided at the start of the year to try to make an effort to make progress on several challenges (Jasmer, Counties, etc,.) and did somehwat well in some of those and no so well on others.
My biggest personal feat was my 1000th find on December 23rd, but as always, the best part of my caching year was spending time with friends at events and on the caching trails.
Jasmer Challenge: I filled in 20 blocks on the Jasmer grid in 2012. This consisted of finding a cache placed in all 12 months of 2012, as well as 2 blocks from 2001, 3 blocks from 2002, 2 blocks from 2003, and one from 2004.
Well-Rounded Cacher (Fizzy) Challenge: I did not make much of an effort to concentrate on this challenge in 2012, but I did somehow manage to fill in 5 squares on my grid this year.
Finds by Find Date: Even though because of my job this will be the toughest challenge for me to probably complete (January through April 15th will be practically impossible for me to complete), I tried to fill in as much of my calendar as possible when time allowed me this year. If nothing else, I have a goal to fill in May through December completely. I filled in 69 days on this calendar this year.
TN County Challenge: I had planned to make progress on my Tennessee County list this year, but managed only one new county (Chester) for the year.
KY County Challenge: I had never considered even thinking about this challenge before this year (and it will be a long time to finish), but two trips to Louisville this year (one for GeoWoodstock X and one for a Mumford & Sons/Dawes/Apache Relay concert) and cache run in western Kentucky saw me add 13 Kentuck counties to my cache list.
States: I added three new states with finds this year: Missouri, Alabama, and Florida. I only had 2 finds in Missouri, 3 in Alabama, and 2 in Florida, but they still count!
Other Milestones: I did hit several milestones number-wise in 2012. I had my biggest year in total finds (362), my biggest month (June with 86), and biggest day (June 27 with 78). I put together my longest consecutive days cached streak (18), my first day with 5 cache-types in a day, and my most consecutive months with a FTF (5).
