Joshism's Geocaching History

10/24-10/25/2014
Attended Florida Finders Fest 10. I completed in Gauntlet as part of the team Here For The Hike with Bonsairad, TDBRIGGS, Cantley1758, and KPfound.
10/16-10/19/2014
Found my first caches in DC, MD, NJ, and DE while on a trip to DC and the New Jersey Lighthouse Challenge.
9/27/2014
My 100th cache listing, a CITO at Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse Outstanding Natural Area (JILONA) for Public Lands Day.
8/2014
Successfully collected all "7 Souvenirs of August".
4/2014
Dupuis Wildlife Trail published. I helped set up this cache trail with Sticks&SkariShari.
3/15/2014
Found 47 caches (with 19 different D/T combinations) in the Volusia Longleaf Pine Preserve while bike caching with efrodo and seastar255.
3/12/2014
Found my 100th multi.
1/18/2014
Attended Cacheapalooza 8.
11/26/2013
Filled my Calendar Grid having now found at least one cache on each of the 366 days of the year.
11/17/2013
Hike-n-cache on an 8 mile section of the Florida Trail in Green Swamp West (471 to River Road) with efrodo and Team Short Stuff. Found 20 caches and attended the GSW Lunch event.
10/26/2013
Attended Florida Finders Fest 9 which was my 3000th Find! I competed in the Gauntlet as part of the team Here For The Hike with efrodo, GladesLibrarian, Bonsairad, TDBRIGGS, and Cantley1758. Our team finished 4th in the Gauntlet and 2nd in the t-shirt contest.
10/25/2013
Found a cache (GCMYEP) that had not been found in 3 1/2 years.
10/23/2013
Busy Day in Blackshear, GA while I completed the Blackshear GeoTour.
9/28/2013
Hosted a National Public Lands Day CITO at Jonathan Dickinson State Park.
8/19-8/23/2013
Visited California and found my first caches there. Also introduced spottedcatfish (my girlfriend) to geocaching.
May 2013
Set a personal record with 223 caches in one month.
5/26/2013
Busy Day in Gainesville, FL. Also completed the Gainesville Virtual Historical Tour and That Old Sinking Feeling, the oldest Earthcache in Florida.
5/25/2013
Attended GeoWoodstock XI at Circle B Bar Preserve in Lakeland, FL. Had a Busy Day with 7 cache types.
5/24/2013
Completed my Placed Date Calendar Grid while biking 20 miles on the Van Fleet Trail. Five days later, I found my the Hidden Every Day Florida Challenge Cache.
4/21/2013
Participated in all the events in I HOP Across Brevard (aka the 2nd Annual SCGA Earth Day CITO Marathon).
4/20/2013
Hosted an Earth Day CITO at Jonathan Dickinson State Park.
3/1-3/2/2013
Made a two day trip to grab the last Florida counties I needed then completed the CCC Series, South Florida Challenge Quest, and Final Florida Challenge Quest. I also found my 100th benchmark on this trip (counting only those listed on geocaching.com).
2/9/2013
Found the Florida Bingo Challenge, Christmas Cache (the oldest cache in Florida), and traveled scenic Loop Road to get Wet Foot Dry Foot.
1/19/2013
Attended Cacheapalooza 7 which was also my 2200th Find. I had exactly 800 finds between CP6 and CP7. Despite some afternoon rain, Cacheapalooza went Mega again.
1/18/2013
As part of CP7 weekend, Paddlepalooza event was attended by more than 40 paddlers. Excellent 10 mile paddle down the Wild & Scenic Loxahatchee River!
12/8-12/15/2012
Took a week-long solo trip through northern Florida with visits to 20 state parks and 1 national park (Fort Pickens in Gulf Islands National Seashore), plus my first cache in Alabama. I found a total of 76 caches and completed the North Florida Challenge Quest. I did find a cache on 12/12/12, but was not able to attend any events.
10/27/2012
Attended Florida Finders Fest 8 which was my 2000th Find! I competed in The Gauntlet as part of Team Go with DennisTheMenace2, Whopper Jr, EyeCache, and EyeCache2.
10/13/2012
Spent 8 hours paddling the Econlockhatchee River near Orlando and picking up trash as part of a CITO with eFrodo, Clan Riffster, and Kleetus.
9/2/2012
Found 110 caches in a single day with Sticks & SkaryShari, mostly while bike caching the TECO/Auburndale and Van Fleet Rail Trails near Lakeland, FL.
6/16/2012
Had a Busy Day in Brevard with 7 different cache types and appropriately finding my first Busy Day Challenge Cache. It was also a personal record of 14 different D/T combinations found and I found the oldest cache in Brevard (Monkey Madness).
May 2012
Found my first caches in South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia during a 2 1/2 week trip that included several days hiking on the AT.
1/21/2012
Attended Cacheapalooza 6 which was also my 1400th Find! I found exactly 800 for the year between CP5 and CP6. Even better, CP6 went Mega!
1/17/2012
Published my first Wherigo (Simple) for CP6.
1/15/2012
Busy Day In The ONF (7 cache types, plus a benchmark).
1/14/2012
Found 49 caches while hiking the FT in Ocala National Forest with Sticks & Skari Shari.
12/31/2011
Found bigFOOT, my first 5/5. Found with BabyRuthie and Sticks & Skari Shari.
12/29/2011
Completed the Fowl Language series at the CREW Rookery with EyeCache and EyeCache2. My 1300th Find and over 100 Mystery caches found.
12/23/2011
Found my first Chirp cache.
12/4/2011
Found 43 caches in one day while biking the Urban Primer series in Port Saint Lucie with Rnrgrl, Zeke The Peak, Froggy Girl, Gator Man, EyeCache, and billedm.
11/5/2011
Attended the first Hike & Seek event at Highlands Hammock State Park in Sebring, FL.
10/22/2011
Attended Florida's first mega event: Florida Finders Fest 7. Competed in the The Gauntlet as part of NavWizards with Foxtrot7, RTexplorer, InitialJoe, Helvetica42, and Tyna_D.
7/23/2011
1000th Find! Red Scorpion with EAT MOR CHIKIN, Herchenroder, and Tristan442.
6/4/2011
Participated in WorldWide Flash Mob (WWFM VIII).
5/14/2011
Set a new personal record for most Finds in a day with 42 during a 7 hour 13 mile hike. Also the first day I've broken 100 combined D/T stars (with 190).
4/18/2011
Qualified for general A to Z Challenges by finding "Ziggy Stardust?".
4/16/2011
Hid my 10th geocache (and first Letterbox Hybrid): "Butterflies Of Hoke Library".
4/13/2011
Got my first embedded tick, compliments of geocaching.
4/9/2011
Attended the 2nd Annual FGA Geo-Extravaganza.
Mar 2011
Found more than 100 caches in a single month for the first time.
3/19/2011
Found my first multicache that had significant distance between stages ("OTL"), getting FTF in the process. Also found 13 different D/T combinations found in one day.
3/15/2011
Logged my 100th Waymark visit.
3/12/2011
Rescued a lost small child while on a geo-hike at Jonathan Dickinson State Park.
3/7/2011
My first Earthcache was published - "Barrier Island & Dune Dynamics - Hutchinson Island".
1/23/2011
Attended my first CITO during Cacheapalooza 5 weekend.
1/22/2011
Attended Cacheapalooza 5 which was also my 500th Find!
1/21/2011
Found my first Moving Cache - "One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest" - during CP5 weekend.
1/2/2011
Celebrated one year of geocaching by geocaching with friends (InitialJoe and JadeVala). I have 443 finds (plus 3 backlogged finds) and 5 hides in my first year.
10/10/2010
Found my first Wherigo - "Here's Your Sign". Used the Droid app WhereYouGo.
10/10/2010
Participated in the worldwide 10-10-10 event: "10-10-10 Multi Event on the Space Coast". Also my first Busy Day.
8/21/2010
Attended SCGA's August 2010 Paddle Event at Juniper Springs, FL.
7/17/2010
Found my first Letterbox Hybrid: "The Blue Switch"
6/26/2010
Found my first Webcam Cache: "One For The Team".
6/12/2010
Hid my first geocache: "A Man A Plan A Canal Panama".
5/20/2010
Became a Premium Member.
5/1/2010
Attended my first geocaching event: "10 Years! Celebration at Riverbend".
4/30/2010
Found my first NGS Benchmark: AF3116.
4/26/2010
Found my first Night Cache - "Roosevelt Reflective Runaround Ramble".
April 2010
Started Waymarking.
4/10/2010
My first FTF - "Conjunction Junction #4".
3/21/2010
Found my first multicache - "Dippity Do High Ho Multi".
2/15/2010
Found my first puzzle cache - "Chicken Itza".
2/6/2010
Found my first Earthcache - "Hawks Bluff".
1/2/2010
Found my first geocache - "Bear Den". Found with InitialJoe.
5/22/2009
Visited Gettysburg for the first time in my life with InitialJoe. After I started geocaching, I discovered that we had visited 3 Virtuals while there. After providing the necessary information, I received permission from the COs to backlog them as Finds. Thus my geocaching statistics will be screwed up forever!