105, doing the BoB series down in northern Chicagoland.

(Did 115 for the Hwy 100-100 event).

A good, average day would be 25-40. Depending on far we need to drive, weather, etc.

For some people, 3-5 in one day is great, and perhaps the most they will every do. That’s fine. It’s a wide open sport, where everyone has the choice of what to do.

When I started, I thought 5 in one day was fantastic. Then, we went down to Phoenix, and did 17 in one day! Wow!!! How can you top that!
(BTW, it took over a year to get to 100 caches).

I think mine is 44ish, but I have several days in the 30s as well; I don’t log temps. 😉

But that said when I started 6 in one day would have been a big day for me. Two things have changed since then:
1…there are WAY more caches now and
2…using a new GPS with autorouting makes multiple finds MUCH easier to navigate to (more time spent caching and less time driving around trying to get to the cache location).

You know, it’s funny. I think our top day is around 30, but, for me, those big number days are less memorable than days where we do something difficult. Saturday, we did 18 with a group, but most of the memories will come from hunting a very difficult puzzle based multi, another multi where we were splashing through a flooded area, a couple very difficult micros, and the event we attended after the hunt. Travel bug hotels, micros in lamposts, tupperwares under a pine tree, and other generic type of caches (we found all of these also) tend to get approached with a “Find it, log it, forget it” mentality, whether we intend to or not. Of course, the company present can make finding a very dull cache interesting, but a challenging, clever, or well placed cache is much more memorable.

I guess what I am trying to say is, while it is somewhat about the numbers, you won’t remember much about hunting a film can in a tree in a neighborhood park, even though you can knock out 3 or 4 of these in an hour. You will remember a 2 mile hike through a marsh, a 200 foot ascent up a pine tree, a diabolical micro that took 3 visits to find, a beautiful vista at the end of the long climb, or even a puzzle that took you a couple weeks to work out the solution. Don’t be afraid to attempt those 4 star difficulties or terrains. The numbers will take care of themselves.

Deejay, you did not mention Geocaching School! How could you forget that day!?

For me, including temp caches, which I no longer count: 51 twice. One was during one of the days of The Highway 100/100 event the summer before last, which actually had 117 finds that a number of people netted in one day. Without temp caches, or just straight up caching, invert those numbers and 15 is my tops. I usually go for 4-8 on a run as the norm, as I normally call it quits after about a couple of hours, or after I get my ‘fix’.

When I go caching, my goal is to NOT find more than about 6-8 caches. There could be exceptions to this rule, but seriously, I want my geocaching to involve some nice hikes or jogs, and to take me to new areas that I would like to explore. My best caching day involved ONE find. I found the cache, and hiked the area for about 4 hours after. The other caches I had planned for the day waited for another day 🙂

Although I certainly don’t mind hitting a few park’n’grabs located on the way to some more serious caches, my sincere hope on any day I decide to go geocaching is that my hunts are interesting enough that I remember each individual one… for a long time. This is why I would consider a 20, 30, 50, or 100 cache day to be a complete and utter failure.