Geocaching 2025
2025 was an incredible year for geocaching.
I found more caches (315) than in any other year.
I found my 1,000th cache and earned my 100th favorite point.
I attended my first mega (my first Cachin' the Bay) and giga events (my first GeoWoodstock).
I found caches in 29 new counties in California. That's exactly half of all of the counties in CA. (I also visited 5 new national parks. Thanks StadsAlv!)
I found Bridges & Arches of Central Park, a multi that I had started in 2019.
But the accomplishment that I am most proud of: logging 12 Cache Across America caches.
For those unfamiliar, Cache Across America is a series of caches, one in each state, and a final in Washington, D.C. that is available only if you have found all of the other 50. Only 61 people have logged the final.
On my trip to West Virginia to attend GeoWoodstock, I had planned on finding Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. I later realized this would isolate Delaware, so I extended my trip to pick that up as well. In the end I logged four states in five days, including driving 650 miles over two days.
In July, I attended a music festival in Indianapolis. This was even more intense: Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio, all in two days. I had hoped to get Kentucky as well, but time ran out and I wanted to get to the venue to see a particular band, so I skipped it.
For Thanksgiving, my wife's family held a reunion in Atlanta. We decided to spend some time in Orlando beforehand. This gave me a good chance to pick up Florida, which was the longest hike I've done for CAA so far. I picked up Georgia along the drive to Atlanta. Then I made an early morning solo drive into Alabama, arriving before the host park had opened (after the posted opening time, though).
Finally, when my wife and older son decided to go to Korea for Christmas, she gave my younger son the chance to go with them. He said no. I asked if he wanted to go to NYC with his grandma and aunt. He again said no. "Well, where do you want to go?" "Death Valley". We spent nearly a week in Las Vegas first, making a drive to Zion to get Utah, and then a moderate hike to get Nevada.
You can read more about my CAA progress here.