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2016 Geocaching Resolutions

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Possible Caches along the 14 missing degrees for my 360 degree challenge
Possible Caches along the 14 missing degrees for my 360 degree challenge
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Any 2016 geocaching resolutions? I want to finish my 2015 resolution by picking up the one day that I missed in 2015 on the "days with finds" grid. I also just discovered that I have only 14 degrees left of the 360 degree challenge. So for 2016, I want to pick up at least one cache in each of those missing degrees (closest per degree being anywhere from 11-40 miles ATCF). See the attached map of the possible caches I can find along my missing degrees. P.S. I am amazed that I have found a cache in every degree that is heading toward the lake. Those 1 degree cones are very thin when they are close to home, yet I have found at least one cache within the Toledo area in each of those degrees.
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To get even closer to completing our Fizzy grid.
And if that means finding at LeAST one of the missing half-dozen or so combos, so be it. :)
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Getting to 6000 in 2016. Shouldn't be hard, as I'm close. Or maybe the goal should be 7000! :D
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caching more, but perhaps the logging of the finds sooner - yup, i'm gonna pick that goal - quit procrastinating on the logs' postings!!!...
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My goals for 2016

1) No DNF's (got 8 on January 1st.)
2) successfully carpet bomb one cache.....in work
3) solve one Ovitziga puzzle......probably won't happen
4) 8000 finds...
5) meet SW00P
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I'd scratch off number 5. I've met the guy, real screwball. Good luck on the rest though!!
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1 - Work on our Fizzy - we have 4 left
2 - Complete Jasmer - we have 1 left
3 - have lots of great adventures with fellow cachers :-)
4 - try to find caches in a few new states
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I'd honestly forgotten about these until I saw this topic.

1.Reach 7,000 finds
2. Place a small Geo-Art
3. Host a Geocaching event in at least 4 states
4. Build a Wherigo for Findlay
5. Complete Illinois/Indiana/Ohio County and DeLorme challenges

As of now,
1. About 1500 away (possible but tricky with my work schedule)
2. Early planning stages
3. 0/4
4. Not yet, but have ideas for a ton of caches for this year.
5. Longshot goal, hoping to finish either Illinois or Indiana at this point.
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1. Clean out Putnam County (now that I live there)

2. Reach 25 cache hides

3. Reach 1500 finds

4. Hide a letterbox

5. Host an event

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Good goals Andog. #4 & #5 should be easy. 250+ more finds by the end of the year makes #3 doable. Putting out 13 more hides is ambitious, but doable for #2 (and fun for the rest of us). About how many unfound caches do you have in Putnam County for #1?
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How's everyone doing on their resolutions?

1. Dependent entirely on if I reach some power trails over the summer. Right now on track for 6500 or so finds (career).
2. Planning stages
3. 0/4.
4. Not on my radar yet.
5. Indiana is looking likely, Illinois significantly less so. No chance on Ohio.
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Yippie! I completed my initial 2016 geo-resolution of completing the 360 degrees around my home and finding a cache on the one day that I missed on my calendar fill the previous year. Early in the year I added another goal to make a huge dent in the second round of the finds calendar fill. I had 97 days with 0 or 1 finds and I wanted to get that number to under 30. Well, today I got that number down to only 12 days. So that was a success. About a third of the way through the year I noticed that I had hidden at least on new geocache and had at least one FTF in each month. So I added additional goals to continue that for the rest of the year. Well, as of today, I completed those goals as well. Now to come up with my 2017 geo-resolutions...
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