Everyone who comes to geocaching does so with their own biases.    Mine is to geocache while exploring, hiking, paddling, and snowshoeing.    Sports like golf, curling, and many others are just too slow for me.    I also don’t hike the same route and I try to vary the hike each time to make it a little different.   Often exploration is part of it.   Sometimes nature is the focus, but whatever the goal, it is always based on exercise and the outdoors.   

For geocaching I avoid Park n’ Grabs, City Park hides, roadside GCs, puzzle caches, and micros that are hard to find (5 Minute Rule).   When I go out to hike, geocaches along a route are on my list.    

In the end, the total number of caches has no personal benefit, but the experience of hiking each day does.   So when I go by some of the posted geocaches, I purposely walk on by: