Caching Dry Spell
We haven’t been doing a lot of caching lately so have also been pretty quiet on here. We did the Fundy event in May, had a quick 2-day trip to Colorado at the first of June where we grabbed about 15 caches and went out this past Sunday with a group to do some of the Viking Series. Other than that we haven’t done much. Work, my mother selling her house and cleaning out 40 years of living, family events and sickness….all taking their bite out of our geocaching time. We plan some caching and something comes up or find we just don’t feel like it. Has this happened to you?
The dry spell is over now, though. This Sunday got us back into caching. We’re looking forward to caching our way to Bridgewater and the Maritime event in a couple of weeks. Then we’re on vacation in August and are going to fly to Calgary and take a week to drive/cache through the Rockies/Banff/Jasper and over to Victoria. We have a week on Vancouver Island and hope to get up-island a couple of times to hit Cathedral Grove (old growth forest) and some other great spots. I lived in Victoria for 10 years, before caching, so we should be able to find our way around alright! We’re really looking forward to it. I’ve been reading on here about all your recent caching adventures and are now looking forward to some of our own!
If anyone has any TBs or coins they want to send west let us know.
I’m the same this month seems to have been one of my slowest so far. but in the next couple weeks I’ve got a whole bunch of caching planned along with a potential 100 cache run up in the Acadian peninsula at the end of July so i don’t feel so bad.
I went through a big dry spell, I went about 8 months and only found about 20 caches, most were events. Twice my recent find page (last 30 days) was blank. If I hadn’t gone out to find Zor’s series I would have only found about 75 or so since last August. Hoping to go to the July 10th event and find a couple hundred over 3 days if lucky. I am going with Incepit so it shouldn’t be hard to get a bunch.
i had a bit of a dry spell last year as well. i got caught up with work and school and just found that i didnt have anough time for caching. whenever i had a day off, i would prefer to watch a movie or read a good book.
The numerous events in Fredericton recently (thanks Milosheart) gave me the bug again, and now i am hooked. this year, i have found more caches that any other year since i started caching. and we are only in June!!
For me, like anything else, too much of a good thing can get a little old. i take a little break, then go right back at it.
We started to cache in July of 2008 and the longest dry spell we had was in Feb-May of 2009, 95 days without a cache (Tks to logicwave cache stats I can get all kinds of numbers like this). Last winter was a bit of the same. It’s more of a winter thing, I guess I tend to hibernate and grow fat layers that time of the year: so not just a dry spell for caching, dry spell for physical activities all together (not good!)
We also have a bunch of things going on in the summer, so sometimes caching gets put aside a little, just a little. We enjoy the walking trails in the area, so once we cleared all the caches there, we will not stop going for nice walk in those trails because there is no more caches to do. So if after work we go for a nice long walk there, well, no geocaching is done.
We also tend not to do a whole bunch of caches at the same time. I like to remember all of them when I get home and entered the logs accordingly. The most in one day was 17 and I could hardly remember them all. I cannot figure doing more than that. When caching can be part of what we do, we typically get anywhere between 1 to I’d say 10 caches at the very most at any one time.
I guess we are “slack” or ‘’casual’’ geocachers. Good thing not everybody is like that, as there would not be much caching done 😉
Drrryyyyyy spell here. Haven’t cached and don’t see that we are going to any time soon. Man can work get in the way, and just life in general. We spend as much of our summer as possible in Barachois and sad to say we haven’t even done the Shediac caches that are available to us.
We are planning to walk a trail out there but, it can’t be a beach type day, not a rainy day nor a Sunday, sooooo, next fall we’ll lace up the boots and get out there again.
Big time dry spell here at the moment. All kinds of things going on, thinking about quitting the job for something else, stressed out and all, and worse, no caching whatsoever for what seems to be an eternity. I need a kick somewhere to get me going. Anyone interested to provide me with the ”boot”? LOL