Interesting topic!

So far for this December we’ve found 118. We plan on caching in Appleton for several hours tomorrow so the total should increase. In December of 2010, our first winter of geocaching, we found 97 with at least one for every day of the month. All of the dates in our calendar are now filled except for February 29th, which we are highly motivated to fill this coming leap year when it arrives. Since we only started a little less than two years ago, and we found caches every day of last winter without a miss, we kind of don’t know what it’s like to not cache in the winter. We don’t own a snowmobile, snowshoes, or a four wheel drive vehicle, although I did get Kim some ice cleats for Christmas that she hasn’t had a chance to try out yet. We’re fortunate (?) that we live near Milwaukee where there’s a few thousand caches to find within about 15 miles. Makes it much easier to handle winter caching. And as some cachers have heard me say, one of my favorite quotes is “there’s no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.” 🙂

So far we’ve cached on 24 of the 28 days of December 2011. Last year it was all 31.

We especially liked caching on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day these past two years. I think it will remain part of our holiday tradition. Same thing for New Years Eve and New Years Day. We have special caching plans for New Years Eve; haven’t figured out yet what we’re doing for January 1st though.

Further proof of global warming! 😆

(Not intended to be a serious comment not intended to confirm or deny the possibility of a global warming effect)

its never about how many I get, but how fun they were

Ive done 33 fun ones this month so far, only 20 traditionals (some were LCG caches), and 13 puzzles, multis and one earthcache.

went from over 15 holes in my dec grid to less than 3!!

86 left to fill.

We found one cache today to bring our total for the month to 60. Time of the year or weather doesn’t mean that much to us as we have found 100+ caches in almost every month. We hid 180 caches this year and that took time away from finding. We also have no caches to find within 10 miles of home. This month we found caches on 9 days, hid caches on 9 days and did maintenance on 11 days for a total of 18 days of geocaching related activities. One more outing with a group planned for this Saturday to end the year. Our New Years Resolution to the dismay of many of our friends will be more finding and less hiding.

We ended up with 130 for December One of our better months for 2011

I haven’t counted. We’re kind of like Muggle B in this regard. Our focus the last month or two has been different, so we may be down from previous winters (snow was never that much of an issue other than impairing extended travel plans). I do know we’ve been busy placing a number of caches this past month as well as making sure everything is maintained well.

Overall, though we’ve worked really hard to maintain more balance in life and pursue our other interests again, we have been up overall for the year, after two years with an overall drop in numbers. Lots of travel combined with retirement has allowed that to happen. With all that, I’ve still done two Christmas Bird Counts, finished up an art project, and dug in to revamp a garden this past summer. Trekkin’ is playing his banjo again as well. We’ve been able to enjoy some non-caching socializing and hosting, too!

Personally, as someone who is never happier than on my skis in the woods, I’d like enough snow to make that happen for a couple months. Trekkin’ is not of a similar mind. 🙄