6000 geocaches

Today I logged my 6000th geocache. I started geocaching in 2007 so it is approaching 17 years this hobby of mine. At average I have logged one geocache a day throughout these years. Naturally some years has been better and some worse. I logged number 5000 in February 2022 so the last 1000 has been quite fast over almost 25 months. Some other interesting stats:

• February is the month with fewest finds. Only 264 over the years.
• The busiest month has been July with 733 finds.
• Half the finds has happened in weekends with almost 28% on Saturdays.
• 60% of the finds has been hidden between 2009 and 2015.
• The oldest I have logged is the old Match Stash that was HIDDEN in August 2000.
• I have found caches from 1877 different owners.
• I have geocached in 22 countries finding 1228 caches outside of Sweden where United Kingdom is in top with 183 finds.
• In Sweden 4105 of the finds is in the Stockholm region.
• Of the 290 counties in Sweden I have logged in 136.
• 44% of the caches I have logged are now archived.

Finding caches is one part of geocaching. Hiding is also fun and a nice way to give back to the community. In total I have received 6462 logs on 34 geocaches. Some more owner stats:

• I now have 16 active geocaches.
• The now archived Reservdelslagret got 816 logs before I retired it. The position next to IKEA in Barkarby was probably good….
• Soon UFO Landing will replace Reservdelslagret as number one. It is next the popular webcam cache by road 73.
• Cachers of 34 different nationalities has logged my caches.
• Grazzt and Outride both has logged 26 of my caches being at top of the list.

And there are much more stats. One of the funs part of geocaching…. But the most important aspects for me is how it enables me to see so many different places.