Hobbies - Geocaching

Geocaching

Thanks to some of my dear friends (you know who you are), I got infected with a virus called Geocaching back in 2011. Since then it has brought me to many places I wouldn’t have seen without it.

Statistics updated on 2025-09-22

I’ve found 1782 unique caches since my first cache find on 20 November 2011.

Difficulty – Terrain – Matrix

  T1.0 T1.5 T2.0 T2.5 T3.0 T3.5 T4.0 T4.5 T5.0 Σ ∅T
D1.0 74 56 7 6 2 1 1 0 2 149 1.41
D1.5 42 132 57 11 8 3 2 0 5 260 1.73
D2.0 55 252 258 71 72 19 13 3 5 748 2.00
D2.5 19 80 73 43 26 19 7 3 6 276 2.20
D3.0 21 36 46 28 28 7 7 5 3 181 2.27
D3.5 6 17 21 8 7 4 1 4 2 70 2.29
D4.0 5 12 6 5 3 3 2 1 0 37 2.15
D4.5 1 10 6 4 1 1 0 0 0 23 1.93
D5.0 3 14 16 1 1 2 0 0 1 38 1.93
Σ 226 609 490 177 148 59 33 16 24 1782 1.98
∅D 1.85 2.12 2.31 2.41 2.39 2.58 2.42 2.91 2.31 2.22 2.10

D1.0 and D1.5 are shaded as I try to follow a D2+ quality cache policy (few exceptions apply);
to get from ~2.22 to a difficulty average of ~2.30 it takes: 709 D2.5s, 204 D3.0s, 119 D3.5s, 84 D4.0s, 65 D4.5s or 53 D5.0s;
to get from ~1.98 to a terrain average of ~2.10 it takes: -2059 T2.0s, 509 T2.5s, 227 T3.0s, 146 T3.5s, 108 T4.0s, 85 T4.5s or 71 T5.0s;
there are 8 holes in the matrix

Country overview

Found caches in 23 countries.

Country Count Share
Germany 1048 58.8%
Denmark 345 19.4%
Austria 52 2.9%
United States 51 2.9%
Italy 48 2.7%
Japan 41 2.3%
Iceland 40 2.2%
Australia 28 1.6%
Portugal 25 1.4%
Norway 23 1.3%
United Kingdom 23 1.3%
Switzerland 15 0.8%
China 11 0.6%
Canada 8 0.4%
Sweden 7 0.4%
Czechia 5 0.3%
Netherlands 3 0.2%
Spain 2 0.1%
Romania 2 0.1%
Bulgaria 2 0.1%
France 1 0.1%
Mexico 1 0.1%
Slovakia 1 0.1%

Cache type overview

Cache type Count Share
Traditional Cache 1635 91.8%
Multi-cache 76 4.3%
Unknown Cache 59 3.3%
Earthcache 6 0.3%
Letterbox Hybrid 4 0.2%
Webcam Cache 1 0.1%
Giga-Event Cache 1 0.1%

Cache container overview

Container size Count Share
Micro 949 53.3%
Small 551 30.9%
Regular 192 10.8%
Other 69 3.9%
Not chosen 13 0.7%
Large 8 0.4%

Cache history

  Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Σ % ∅/day
2011 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 27 75 102 5.7 2.49
2012 2 0 9 0 19 47 20 33 25 50 42 8 255 14.3 0.70
2013 36 39 16 19 6 15 0 23 6 12 3 11 186 10.4 0.51
2014 19 0 3 0 0 4 10 85 71 4 32 6 234 13.1 0.64
2015 17 6 23 35 12 10 31 26 49 19 12 0 240 13.5 0.66
2016 7 14 0 12 24 17 5 20 17 10 1 7 134 7.5 0.37
2017 0 0 2 17 20 5 15 6 12 7 0 5 89 5.0 0.24
2018 0 1 12 9 29 1 1 33 0 3 3 1 93 5.2 0.25
2019 0 1 10 5 8 20 0 5 0 0 0 0 49 2.7 0.13
2020 8 0 0 0 4 0 0 12 0 0 0 2 26 1.5 0.07
2021 1 0 8 16 0 0 2 39 0 5 23 0 94 5.3 0.26
2022 2 6 0 24 2 11 0 9 3 1 7 8 73 4.1 0.20
2023 13 11 4 4 3 17 1 40 2 6 1 0 102 5.7 0.28
2024 0 0 21 6 3 0 0 25 8 0 15 0 78 4.4 0.21
2025 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 24 0 0 0 0 27 1.5 0.07
Σ 105 78 108 149 131 147 85 380 193 117 166 123 1782   0.35

Find days overview

  01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Σ  
Jan 3 12 13 12 3 4 0 0 0 9 0 3 7 0 0 0 0 4 11 7 0 0 0 0 0 8 1 0 3 5 0 105 16/31
Feb 3 15 5 0 1 0 13 2 3 0 0 0 5 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 16 0 1 1 0 1     78 15/29
Mar 4 0 2 5 2 5 1 7 1 2 0 2 2 0 3 3 3 1 1 1 7 0 1 2 3 15 0 10 14 3 8 108 26/31
Apr 6 0 0 3 6 16 6 0 19 14 17 21 4 15 0 6 2 4 0 0 2 0 4 0 0 4 0 0 0 0   149 17/30
May 4 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 3 2 22 9 1 1 2 13 1 6 6 4 11 1 1 2 10 17 3 4 0 1 5 131 24/31
Jun 16 0 2 0 0 0 4 14 13 0 0 8 0 1 1 10 17 11 5 0 0 0 4 3 15 0 0 0 6 17   147 17/30
Jul 2 0 8 2 0 0 1 3 4 0 0 1 5 1 11 0 2 2 1 2 4 4 2 2 1 4 2 0 3 17 1 85 24/31
Aug 0 5 10 11 6 6 1 4 10 4 9 4 1 31 23 53 30 36 31 9 8 6 3 8 21 6 11 7 5 5 16 380 30/31
Sep 7 14 3 9 10 14 15 8 11 7 6 1 11 2 18 12 6 0 5 9 4 0 8 0 9 0 0 0 4 0   193 23/30
Oct 1 0 0 12 5 6 17 6 0 0 5 1 2 1 2 0 4 10 0 7 0 0 0 5 4 10 5 7 0 1 6 117 21/31
Nov 15 12 15 2 0 0 1 1 2 1 2 8 5 8 4 16 6 11 9 7 13 9 0 2 0 8 3 0 3 3   166 25/30
Dec 3 0 4 4 0 1 0 4 0 0 9 3 7 9 0 9 0 0 6 2 5 1 1 3 5 8 12 2 13 6 6 123 23/31
Σ 64 58 62 62 33 52 59 49 66 39 70 61 50 69 64 126 71 85 75 48 54 25 28 43 68 81 38 30 52 58 42 1782  

Alphanumeric challenges

Name 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 33/36
Owner 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 31/36
Placed 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 31/36

Hiding days overview

  01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31  
Jan 2 3 3 3 2 4 3 2 1 3 2 2 1 0 4 0 7 9 7 1 5 3 5 6 3 4 1 1 1 3 2 29/31
Feb 0 4 1 2 2 2 3 2 1 4 3 2 7 1 9 6 7 1 2 5 0 4 1 0 5 4 7 5 2     26/29
Mar 8 2 1 1 6 10 6 2 5 3 4 1 6 3 3 24 4 1 18 5 5 5 5 8 7 10 4 3 3 8 3 31/31
Apr 2 1 18 3 12 4 3 4 4 7 3 2 9 11 8 6 23 19 7 2 4 9 12 7 5 2 3 0 13 5   29/30
May 5 6 4 4 4 12 3 3 0 6 5 3 22 7 18 5 0 3 8 8 24 3 2 6 3 5 13 10 17 3 3 29/31
Jun 5 5 2 8 9 30 6 1 3 5 8 3 4 5 1 1 6 5 9 2 3 6 2 5 4 6 15 4 7 5   30/30
Jul 6 3 2 5 4 3 1 8 5 8 12 3 6 9 2 3 4 4 11 4 4 9 4 4 4 11 1 3 6 4 9 31/31
Aug 9 4 6 4 5 2 6 3 4 15 18 2 2 6 7 6 2 6 3 5 7 11 3 20 1 9 2 8 4 3 9 31/31
Sep 9 5 3 3 4 6 1 4 4 2 3 2 1 7 8 16 4 3 0 7 7 1 12 2 12 1 7 3 5 7   29/30
Oct 8 1 5 2 3 3 8 5 4 2 2 10 5 6 1 2 3 3 3 3 4 6 4 5 1 2 7 2 0 17 7 30/31
Nov 14 2 3 3 0 3 3 2 2 3 7 0 14 2 3 2 1 4 19 2 5 10 2 2 0 1 1 1 2 3   27/30
Dec 3 0 3 1 1 4 2 3 0 1 0 2 1 3 1 4 2 1 1 1 2 2 3 1 2 4 6 2 2 3 11 28/31