What is your next milestone?

1.1k · January 24, 2011

I am slowly closing in on 600. A couple friends are right at 700. What is your next milestone? Do you choose the milestone cache carefully or just grab one? How do you celebrate a milestone?

8.6k · January 24, 2011

We're heading for a major milestone this year - our 1000th.

We (that means "I" because MrB couldn't care less ) usually try and choose a cache that's a bit special, or different, for each milestone. However I failed with our 900th because I didn't realise we were so close to it and I only realised we'd actually done our 900th two days later! :lol:

We might end up doing our 1000th at the UK Mega event at the end of July or, depending on how much caching we do, I'll have to start looking for something really unusual.

MrsB

38.2k · January 24, 2011

I don't do anything special for milestones. About the only one that I paid attention to was 100, back when reaching 100 was a pretty big deal and I placed some importance on find counts. Since then there was no difference to me between 454, 500 or 667.

1.5k · January 24, 2011

Coincidentally, we got our 1000th yesterday. We just grabbed one at the top of a pass we travel through regularly. We really don't go out of our way to grab special caches for a milestone.

We once tried timing a milestone with finding our state's oldest cache, but realized we'd have to skip over a bunch of good caches on our trip there to make it work. Instead we just grabbed caches as we went, which for us was a lot more fun.

18.9k · January 24, 2011

My goal for year's and year's was 1000. Once I passed that, the numbers are getting fairly meaningless. My current goal isn't a number at all. I have been stuck in the hospital and at home for 2 months now due to a leg infection. My goal is simply a day in the outdoors during which I hope to find a few caches. That will be oh so meaningful to me.

1.5k · January 24, 2011

1000 coming up next. Whatever it is, it will be. There are two power trails I'm planning on doing once the snow melts and the mud dries, so it very well may be somewhere along one of them.

2.1k · January 24, 2011

If I can keep my cache-a-day streak going, I'm 35 days or less away from number 200. I'm planning to make this one find #200: http://coord.info/GCGNE7

January 24, 2011

We made # 1000 a memorable one. It was an awesome cache in the middle of a early season blizzard. Other than that we have not gone out of our way to make any of our milestone caches anything more special than any other ones, although I do keep track of them as a gauge to track how quickly I'm finding them. I have a few ideas for # 2000 but that's a few months down the road.

January 24, 2011

Wow, some of you folk really do have milestones already under your belt.

Well, for us, we are currently at 25 and the next milestone will be 30! Yep, 30!

Then to celebrate, we are going to find a place nearby home for our very own cache.

We've already identified a couple of likely spots and currently getting all the bits together.

Then at 50 found, we will let our own Travel Bug loose on a mission our young lad is working on.

Edited January 24, 2011 by rascar66

January 24, 2011

Wow, some of you folk really do have milestones already under your belt.

Well, for us, we are currently at 25 and the next milestone will be 30! Yep, 30!

Then to celebrate, we are going to find a place nearby home for our very own cache.

We've already identified a couple of likely spots and currently getting all the bits together.

Then at 50 found, we will let our own Travel Bug loose on a mission our young lad is working on.

I'm with you rascar, I'm looking at 25 as my next milestone and have been preparing to create my first hide and also to let my first TB loose but have not decided when to do it; maybe 25 for the TB and 50 for the hide.

January 24, 2011

I just passed the #250 milestone (I'm at 251 now).

I do nothing to celebrate milestones, really. I think it's fun to see what I'll run across for each given milestone, but beyond that, I couldn't care less.

Interestingly, I found a 50 cal VERY urban ammo box for #200, and that was just an accident!

Also, I don't plan to reach X number of caches by X date. I just go with the flow, and cache as I have time.

... What a boring answer that was, haha.

2.1k · January 24, 2011

#1000 is next for me, but it's about 3 months off and I haven't a clue what it'll be. I'd like it to be a "special" cache but given that every time I get close to a milestone, either I don't realize it or I miscount & end up with a non-memorable cache for the event, it may end up being a dud. Time will tell.

January 24, 2011

Congratulations to everyone reaching a milestone! It is most definitely the journey, and not so much the destination. We've always tried to choose a cache that is just a little bit special for our milestones, whether it's a cache put out by a particular hider or in a significant spot or just a name that means something to us. Makes it more fun somehow.

January 24, 2011

I don't really try to get a specific cache for a milestone, unless it completes a challenge or stat that I want to accomplish. I purposely got my last 81 difficulty and terrain matrix cache on my 810th. I am now attempting to have at least 30% of my finds at least a 3 star difficulty or terrain on my 1000th. I haven't looked at my numbers in a couple of weeks, but I need about 35-40 more out of my next 75 caches to accomplish that.

January 24, 2011

I'm still new! I just hit 47... for 50, I plan on finding First Mass (GC74), the oldest cache in Massachusetts.

I also learned that one of the caches I hid has received a Favorite... this absolutely made my day! Did not see that coming!

January 24, 2011

Haven't been caching for long, so haven't achieved anything like some of the numbers I am seeing quoted here. Have managed 52 in my first two weeks, so I guess 100 is a goal of sorts.

But what I do consider a goal, is to get my first cache published. I've got a lovely Woodland Park site in mind, decided on how I want to hide the cache, no it won't be a micro tucked under the nearest rock, and I am currently looking at finding contact details of the land managers to make sure I have permission. All I will have to do then is build the cache housing, sort out the listing, and submit it for publishing.

January 24, 2011

my next milestone is 23,195

i might buy a round of drinks.

January 24, 2011

I'm with you rascar, I'm looking at 25 as my next milestone and have been preparing to create my first hide and also to let my first TB loose but have not decided when to do it; maybe 25 for the TB and 50 for the hide.

Thanks Kameharem.

If your avitar is for the Seattle Sounders Soccer Club, cool !

We lived in Magnolia until Christmas 2001 and used to walked daily in and around Fort Lawton and the shores of the Sound. If only we knew about Geocaching then as Discovery Park would be such an excellent spot for caches. Not sure about the security rules though.

Good luck with your goals.

3.3k · January 24, 2011

I always try to do a sweet cache, but usualy end up messing it up, and getting a very mediocre cache. I am currently at 400 finds, and my 400 was a uneventful penutbutter jar under log cache. The interesting thing was, that even though it was burried in snow, I got lucky and found in it under 3 seconds.

January 24, 2011

I like making my 100 milestones a big deal. With about 10 left to go, I plan a longer drive to one of the harder, longer, or more difficult caches in the state. It is a reason to go for a cache I would normally balk at just because its so far away, or I could easily just find a shorter one near home. I can clearly remember each 100, so they make for great memories.

January 24, 2011

I am slowly closing in on 600. A couple friends are right at 700. What is your next milestone? Do you choose the milestone cache carefully or just grab one? How do you celebrate a milestone?

My next milestone is 150 consecutive days caching with at least 1 cache found for those last 150 days. I will achieve that on January 30th, 2011. (Assuming of course I can get at least one cache for the next 6 days)

How will I celebrate? I will order me some supplies to make some more geocache containers. As part of the enjoyment I get from geocaching.com is using my CREATIVITY, to create and produce some very nice & interesting geocaching containers.

My next milestone after that will be reaching 2000 cache finds, as well as hopefully hitting the 250 cache callendar days milestone as well. That I should achieve sometime between Feb 14th, and Feb 28th. I hope. LOL

TGC

1.2k · January 24, 2011

I try to make every 100th cache a little more special. It doesn't always happen. For example for my 1000th cache I had huge plans. I was visiting a friend in Kansas City and was able to get to 999 before flying out. 1000 was going to be my first cache across the Mississippi, not only that I found an awesome looking cache on the way back from the airport (http://coord.info/GCX612) but do to a delay we had to drive staight to a picnic. Now the cache I found was nowhere near as cool as that one, but I still have a great memory.

For 1900 I have no idea for 2000 I'm hoping I can make that the SC Delorme or SC County challenge we'll see.

Edited January 24, 2011 by IkeHurley13

January 24, 2011

My upcoming milestone is 100. I know it sounds petty to most but I just started in August. I moved from MA to Oklahoma and lost all my geocaching buddies. So getting to 100 is slow going. Does anyone know of any groups in the Fort Sill/Lawton area that I could meet up with?

For my 100th I just hope to take alot of photos and buy myself the 100th cache geocoin.

14k · January 24, 2011

My goal for year's and year's was 1000. Once I passed that, the numbers are getting fairly meaningless. My current goal isn't a number at all. I have been stuck in the hospital and at home for 2 months now due to a leg infection. My goal is simply a day in the outdoors during which I hope to find a few caches. That will be oh so meaningful to me.

Hope you get healthy soon.

Once I hit 1000 finds I pretty much stopped looking towards milestones but have a few goals.

A few things happened around the time I was approaching 1000 finds. Power trail discussions were hot and heavy and the whole idea of "caching for the numbers" just felt wrong for me. One of the local cachers had created a 1000 finds Golden Ammo can for me and kept asking when I thought I might hit 1000 so she could place my tribute cache. I went out and found a bunch of caches so that she could get it over with. One of those caches turned out to be a micro next to a really smelly dumpster. When I was at that location I thought "the only reason I am finding/logging this cache is so that my total number of finds will get closer to 1000". Once I achieved that goal I had no desire to find/log a cache like that and have pretty much become a lot more discriminating about what caches I look for. I really don't care if I get to 2000 finds, or even 1100.

However I do have a few goals.

I want to go to Geowoodstock this year.

I'd like to find a cache on a 5th continent (Hoping for South America).

I want to have fun.

1.5k · January 24, 2011

For those who are shooting for 25, 50 or 100 cache milestones....

A 1000, 2500, 5000, etc. milestone is no more of an event. Your first caches are difficult as you don't know what to look for or how to search for it. You've worked for those finds and there is no shame in enjoying the accomplishment.

Congratulations to all those hitting their 25, 50, & 100 cache milestones!!

P.S. It gets more fun from here.

2.1k · January 24, 2011

My upcoming milestone is 100. I know it sounds petty to most but I just started in August.

Looking at my X00 milestones, the few that stand out don't stand out so much for the cache itself, but the person I was with or the experience I had.

#100 - It was a dark & stormy night Thanksgiving weekend. Cold, pouring rain, windy, a night not fit for man nor beast. And a nice piece of local (actually, national) history.

#400 - Out caching with a friend from halfway across the country who I get to see once a year at most. The cache itself was pretty mundane (hide-a-key in a guardrail, I didn't realize that was going to be a milestone), but we had more trouble finding the sunglasses he dropped while we were there.

#700 - Should have been an FTF, but I didn't really try. Ended up wandering in some woods, bushwhacking some swampy areas in shoes not well-suited for the terrain, and then discovered the trail after the find.

#900 - A quick run on the way home from work, out in the dark, snow & cold, I had tried twice before to find access to that particular part of the park and finally tried a better approach. Again, pretty mundane hide, but getting there was the achievement.

7.4k · January 24, 2011

Getting from 100 to 200 was way more difficult than getting from 200 to 1000, for me. You're on such a learning curve for the first few hundred.

1.1k · January 24, 2011

For those who are shooting for 25, 50 or 100 cache milestones....

A 1000, 2500, 5000, etc. milestone is no more of an event. Your first caches are difficult as you don't know what to look for or how to search for it. You've worked for those finds and there is no shame in enjoying the accomplishment.

Congratulations to all those hitting their 25, 50, & 100 cache milestones!!

P.S. It gets more fun from here.

+1 on that one! My 50th, 75th & 100th were really the most exciting for me. It does get more fun as you try new cache types, challenges and get involved in your local caching community.

9.4k · January 24, 2011

I am slowly closing in on 600. A couple friends are right at 700. What is your next milestone? Do you choose the milestone cache carefully or just grab one? How do you celebrate a milestone?

My next milestone is 150 consecutive days caching with at least 1 cache found for those last 150 days. I will achieve that on January 30th, 2011. (Assuming of course I can get at least one cache for the next 6 days)

My next milestone after that will be reaching 2000 cache finds, as well as hopefully hitting the 250 cache callendar days milestone as well. That I should achieve sometime between Feb 14th, and Feb 28th. I hope. LOL

TGC

How can you hit 150 consecutive days caching on January 30th and 250 by the end of February? Time travel? :blink:

7.2k · January 24, 2011

I have quite a different type of milestone coming up. I am approaching my tenth year anniversary. It has been a fun thing to watch grow.

January 24, 2011

We are actually creeping up on 500 fairly soon now and are looking into going to Canada to do that.

1000 is supposed to be Europe.

January 24, 2011

I am at 440 right now so I have #500 coming up later this spring. I don't have anything finite planned yet but The Spot (GC39) is certainly on the list. It is (so I am told...) the oldest cache east of the Mississippi. Local cachers hold this one in high regard and save it for a milestone.

14k · January 24, 2011

I am at 440 right now so I have #500 coming up later this spring. I don't have anything finite planned yet but The Spot (GC39) is certainly on the list. It is (so I am told...) the oldest cache east of the Mississippi. Local cachers hold this one in high regard and save it for a milestone.

The Spot is certainly worthy as a milestone cache (it was my 900th find) but Beverly (GC28) in Illinois predates by 13 days and is east of the Mississippi river.

January 24, 2011

I'm with you rascar, I'm looking at 25 as my next milestone and have been preparing to create my first hide and also to let my first TB loose but have not decided when to do it; maybe 25 for the TB and 50 for the hide.

Thanks Kameharem.

If your avitar is for the Seattle Sounders Soccer Club, cool !

We lived in Magnolia until Christmas 2001 and used to walked daily in and around Fort Lawton and the shores of the Sound. If only we knew about Geocaching then as Discovery Park would be such an excellent spot for caches. Not sure about the security rules though.

Good luck with your goals.

yes, that is the Seattle Sounders FC which reminds me I was going to use HQ as a milestone too.

2.3k · January 24, 2011

I really wanted to hit 200 before the end of the year. Never did. A snow storm came the weekend I was going to make my one last serious rally for it and it's snowed ever since then. So I guess I want to hit 200 or 250 this year. However, I don't do anything special for them. Just give a little smile as I log. I think the last time I aimed for something special was my 25th one because that seemed like such a huge deal to me. I have no idea why it was a huge deal but I remember making a real effort for a special cache for 25.

1.3k · January 24, 2011

I hit 1,000 yesterday. I chose this cache, a 5/5 by a cacher known for excellent hides.

1.3k · January 24, 2011

I hit 1,000 yesterday. I chose this cache, a 5/5 by a cacher known for excellent hides.

Nevermind, apparently the CO changed it to a 3/4.5. I have no idea what changed from yesterday to today.

January 25, 2011

I am slowly closing in on 600. A couple friends are right at 700. What is your next milestone? Do you choose the milestone cache carefully or just grab one? How do you celebrate a milestone?

My next milestone is 150 consecutive days caching with at least 1 cache found for those last 150 days. I will achieve that on January 30th, 2011. (Assuming of course I can get at least one cache for the next 6 days)

My next milestone after that will be reaching 2000 cache finds, as well as hopefully hitting the 250 cache callendar days milestone as well. That I should achieve sometime between Feb 14th, and Feb 28th. I hope. LOL

TGC

How can you hit 150 consecutive days caching on January 30th and 250 by the end of February? Time travel?

Not in the same year.... I have cached everday, non-stop since Septermber 3rd, 2010. January 30th, 2011 will make my 150th day consecutive day straight caching.

Thinking in terms of a 366 day callender. Placing an "X" on each day cached on that callendar. (No year for the callendar). Around the End of Februrary I will have "X"'d off 250 of those days on the callendar. Take a look at my stat's page and maybe it will it make more sense.

TGC

2.6k · January 25, 2011

My next one is the 12th of February, my 10th year anniversary.

I'm also 60 caches away from 5000 which I hope to hit before or on the 12th

1.3k · January 25, 2011

I hit 1,000 yesterday. I chose this cache, a 5/5 by a cacher known for excellent hides.

Nevermind, apparently the CO changed it to a 3/4.5. I have no idea what changed from yesterday to today.

Nevermind, again. Now the CO has archived the cache. I'm not sure what the heck is going on.

January 25, 2011

Currently we are just over 500 finds...the next milestone in my mind in 750 finds.

We do try to do memorable caches for what we consider our milestone finds. My 500th find was a cache called Einstein's Puzzle cache - I did this because of the challenge to solve the puzzle.

Hoping that I will be close to a milestone, when the Groundspeak Block party is running as it would be fun having that event or one of the triad caches to be my 750th (maybe even 1,000th find if my wife will let me convert a couple of our spring/summer weekend road trips into cache runs)

January 25, 2011

I hit 1,000 yesterday. I chose this cache, a 5/5 by a cacher known for excellent hides.

Nevermind, apparently the CO changed it to a 3/4.5. I have no idea what changed from yesterday to today.

Nevermind, again. Now the CO has archived the cache. I'm not sure what the heck is going on.

TV...

PM me the GC number of that cache & let me know what part of DFW it's in. If it's the one I am thinking of. I may know why.

BTW... I noticed you had trouble finding a couple of my caches... need a hint?

TGC

January 25, 2011

I always dork up my milestones

100 went by, then 200

1000, then 2000

I had ideas on which to make for each one but missed

each one

I found out which milestones I had when I was done

logging each day

oh well

all finds are milestones

January 25, 2011

I plan to achieve #900 this Saturday, with the same group of people I marked #100 and #800 with. What cache it will be at is anyone's guess. What I do know, however, is that it will be on the way to, or at, this event. And there will be much celebrating.

January 25, 2011

I remember some of the milestones that we (my wife and i) hit like, 100, 1000, 2000, but after we hit 1000, milestones didnt seem any different for us, so now we some how got roped into an ongoing battle with a few of our caching friends there are four of us always trying to stay in the lead with the most! Its a fun little game we play.

My wife will get a text from a local cacher saying they just picked up 47 last weekend! And my wife will say "Oh no! We HAVE to go caching tomorrow!"

Its fun little banter and games like that we look forward to now.

January 25, 2011

I was proud to find #1000 on December 31st. I chose it because it's the oldest cache in my area. I don't have too many plans for this year yet,but once summer comes around hopefully we'll be able to do some traveling around to provincial events.

I would say my next milestone is 1500, trying to reach it before the end of the summer.

5.7k · January 25, 2011

Our 200th find is a little embarrassing -- the English description says it all. "This is a Lame Micro." After that one, we've tried to keep our century milestones a little more meaningful. A cool cache, a great hike, a new state or country cached, a cache type we don't have many of, a nice event. Anything's better than having "Lame Micro" stuck in our list!

January 25, 2011

We are currently at #198... and I am hoping to get the entire family out for a nice hike to get number 200. There is a multi near our home that involves an outhouse... since we got married in front of an old outhouse (classy, aren't we?) I am hoping we can do that one and maybe take a fun photo kissing by it or something goofy like that. My favorite milestone so far was #150 which also happened to be our first FTF! We don't go after FTFs, so having that one fall into place was pretty awesome.

10.1k · January 26, 2011

Yes. I shall have to contemplate this. After six-and-a-half years, I'm 17 shy of 3000 finds. I try for a nice cache for my milestones. I think the weather and snow will be too bad for the oldest cache in New Jersey. And it will depends where I am that weekend. I shall have to contemplate this one.

January 26, 2011

My next milestone is 50. I'm at 27. :smile:

I have only one or two milestones but i didn't pick any special cache for these.

What is your next milestone?

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