I know as I write this, there are geocachers out there who find 100 geocaches in a day or over the course of weekend. For me, a 75-find month, followed by an 80-find month is a big deal. They are the two most productive back-to-back months of geocaching I’ve had since January through April 2017 when I had found 62 each in January and February and 76 in March and 69 in April.
So what gives? One, I went to Southern Indiana in May and picked up several new counties in addition to completing a couple of five-stage Adventure Labs. Later in the month, we went to Illinois, and I picked up several new counties there. Then in early June, my son and I went to the Ohio GeoClash and Festival mega. We found a number of caches on the way to the event in Mount Vernon, Ohio. The event organizers put out several dozen new caches for the mega, and we found 20-some of those.
After we returned home, we continued to geocache regularly, including an Adventure Lab based on a War of 1812 battle in Grant County, Indiana. Thus, 155 finds over the course of those two months.
In addition, we went to two weddings in June. One of my many nieces got married in Greenwood, Indiana, and on the way to the wedding we found a challenge cache GCGGF1C Reviewer Challenge: Bronze and a traditional cache near a church about 2 miles from the church my niece got married in. A Brood X cicada decided to land on my suit pants.
The following Saturday, my brother got married in Bloomington, and on the way down, we took a circuitous route. We got caches in two new Indiana counties — Montgomery and Putnam, in addition to finding caches in Boone and Monroe counties.
Now here I am in July, and suddenly, my geocaching has hit a lull. Capt. TailWagger and I got two DNFs on the two caches we looked for Tuesday. One appears to be in a spruce tree, and spruce trees irritate my skin, so I tend to do the bulk of my looking with eyes and don’t move around the branches. The cache could well be there. I didn’t see, so I didn’t find it. The other was in some thick foliage. If I remember, I’ll try again in the fall after the leaves fall.
In a couple of weeks, I plan to go to Midwest Geobash in Wauseon, Ohio, and I suspect my geocaching will pick up again. Midwest Geobash is a mega I’ve been to three times before. In addition, the GPS Maze will be there. I know of people who are going to go for a 14- or 15-icon day on July 24, the main day of the mega. The nearest Webcam cache to the mega is here in Fort Wayne.
Geocaching with Capt. TailWagger 