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 2024-11-03

I’ve found 1752 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 56 11 8 3 2 0 5 259 1.73
D2.0 52 244 251 70 72 19 13 3 5 729 2.01
D2.5 19 79 72 43 26 19 7 3 6 274 2.21
D3.0 21 34 44 28 28 5 7 5 3 175 2.27
D3.5 6 16 21 8 7 4 1 4 2 69 2.30
D4.0 4 12 6 5 3 3 2 1 0 36 2.18
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 222 597 479 176 148 57 33 16 24 1752 1.99
∅D 1.84 2.11 2.32 2.41 2.39 2.57 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: 714 D2.5s, 205 D3.0s, 120 D3.5s, 85 D4.0s, 66 D4.5s or 54 D5.0s;
to get from ~1.99 to a terrain average of ~2.10 it takes: -1964 T2.0s, 485 T2.5s, 216 T3.0s, 139 T3.5s, 103 T4.0s, 81 T4.5s or 68 T5.0s;
there are 8 holes in the matrix

Country overview

Found caches in 23 countries.

Country Count Share
Germany 1045 59.6%
Denmark 345 19.7%
Italy 48 2.7%
Austria 47 2.7%
United States 44 2.5%
Japan 41 2.3%
Iceland 40 2.3%
Australia 28 1.6%
Portugal 25 1.4%
Norway 23 1.3%
Switzerland 15 0.9%
China 11 0.6%
Canada 8 0.5%
United Kingdom 8 0.5%
Sweden 7 0.4%
Czechia 5 0.3%
Netherlands 3 0.2%
Romania 2 0.1%
Spain 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 1606 91.7%
Multi-cache 75 4.3%
Unknown Cache 59 3.4%
Earthcache 6 0.3%
Letterbox Hybrid 4 0.2%
Giga-Event Cache 1 0.1%
Webcam Cache 1 0.1%

Cache container overview

Container size Count Share
Micro 935 53.4%
Small 544 31.1%
Regular 190 10.8%
Other 64 3.7%
Not chosen 12 0.7%
Large 7 0.4%

Cache history

  Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Σ % ∅/day
2011 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 27 75 102 5.8 2.49
2012 2 0 9 0 19 47 20 33 25 50 42 8 255 14.6 0.70
2013 36 39 16 19 6 15 0 23 6 12 3 11 186 10.6 0.51
2014 19 0 3 0 0 4 10 85 71 4 32 6 234 13.4 0.64
2015 17 6 23 35 12 10 31 26 49 19 12 0 240 13.7 0.66
2016 7 14 0 12 24 17 5 20 17 10 1 7 134 7.6 0.37
2017 0 0 2 17 20 5 15 6 12 7 0 5 89 5.1 0.24
2018 0 1 12 9 29 1 1 33 0 3 3 1 93 5.3 0.25
2019 0 1 10 5 8 20 0 5 0 0 0 0 49 2.8 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 5.4 0.26
2022 2 6 0 24 2 11 0 9 3 1 7 8 73 4.2 0.20
2023 13 11 4 4 3 17 1 40 2 6 1 0 102 5.8 0.28
2024 0 0 21 6 3 0 0 25 8 0 12 – – 75 4.3 0.23
Σ 105 78 108 147 130 147 85 356 193 117 163 123 1752   0.37

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 0 0 4 0 0 4 0 0 0 0   147 16/30
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 4 130 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 2 6 1 3 10 4 5 2 0 31 23 53 30 35 31 9 5 6 3 7 21 6 9 6 5 5 12 356 29/31
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 5 9 9 7 13 9 0 2 0 8 3 0 3 3   163 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 29 52 59 48 66 39 66 59 49 69 64 126 70 82 75 48 49 25 28 42 68 81 36 29 52 58 37 1752  

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 2 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 4 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 4 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 6 2 4 9 11 7 5 2 3 0 13 5   29/30
May 5 5 4 4 3 12 3 3 0 6 4 3 22 6 17 5 0 3 8 8 24 3 2 6 3 5 12 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 2 6 2 5 4 6 15 4 7 5   30/30
Jul 6 3 2 3 4 2 1 8 5 7 12 3 6 9 2 3 2 3 11 4 4 9 4 4 4 11 1 3 5 3 8 31/31
Aug 8 4 6 4 5 2 6 3 4 15 18 1 2 6 7 6 1 5 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 2 3 3 3 6 3 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 2 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