I thought the T in T2H was Team? That means the team found it if they were both there. My user name implies both my son and I, he rarely goes now but I would see nothing wrong in him logging the ones he went to. But, it's all a matter of personal decision.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kaching Karen
Lately, whoever retreives the cache between Lee and I seems to log for both, so technically one of us don't sign the logbook. So, maybe we're not such the purists?
Since the rules in this game are vague and tend to vary, I think its up to the cache owner to set the rules to claim the cache as a find. Just reading the comments here shows the wide range of opinion as to whether signing the log is required. The bottom line lies with the cache owner.
I was having a similiar problem with one of my TBs in the Saco TB Hotel Cache. Lots of people were logging him out and right back into the same cache. I finally posted a plea for someone to move him out of that cache. Thanks to Hipointer and Capiti for giving him a ride out. I still haven't decided whether those logs should be deleted or not.
i agree with brdad - he was part of the team, he helped find the caches but you signed for the team. i think he should be able to go back and post for the ones he found with you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kaching Karen
Gotcha! :p :p :pQuote:
Originally Posted by brdad
Recently changed the log in one and found just the reverse, 38 names on the logsheet with only 8 logged on the computer.
I see this sometimes also. I think what some of this is from friends that are tagging along with the cachers will sign the log book sometimes but are not cachers themselves.Quote:
Originally Posted by Northwoods Explorer
ON another note I have sometimes run into people while caching and got there GC names and found that they never sign their finds in GC.
I've seen this as well . . . I ran into a geocacher on Deer Isle who said he never signs on-line and just geocaches as a fun hobby to do with his grandson.Quote:
Originally Posted by attroll
I've also met a geocacher who doesn't sign on-line . . . and he says he repeatedly has looked for the same cache . . . this seems kind of boring to me to find the same cache over and over again (unless you have sort of long term memory loss in which case I imagine you would constantly be surprised every time you find the cache and you could have the excitement of finding the same cache over and over again without having to travel far from home which could result in a lot of savings in gas expenditures! :D :rolleyes: )
My first Cache the log was signed by several muggles that found it :)
reading this gave me a headache, but i DID follow it every step of the way! geez, now THAT'S scary! :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by firefighterjake
firefighterjake : They let me log it, but I later deleted the log just because.
[edited - Sorry, wrong attribution - Mainiac1957 said that, not firefighterjake]
Regarding the accuracy of logs - I have (at least) two travel bugs logged that not only no longer exist, but actually map to a different TB! Formerly "yin" and "yang" which I had the privilege of reuniting (my first and only paired TB that I brought back together). The same numbers now map to... Huh... GC.com doesn't seem to want to let me track any TBs today, and searching by name returns a ton of "yangs". Flakey... :rolleyes:
Anyway...
Personally, I try to sign into each book, but I consider the actual opening of the cache the "find". if I don't get to open it, no find (I had two of those due to muggles last weekend :( ). But if I open the cache (even if for some reason I don't sign in - Usually bugs or rain or no more pages), I count it as a find and log it.
I also keep a personal webpage of my finds, which seems to drastically disagree with GC.com's count - My personal count (123 as of Sunday) actually stays quite a bit lower than the "official" number (135), as I do not count repeats as a find, but it also includes visits that GC.com seems to have completely forgotten about - Not "deleted by author", not renamed, not delisted for planting in a forbidden zone - Just no record that I ever logged it.
I have no intention of "cheating" (as an aside, I have photographic proof of every cache and TB I claim to have found, frequently including an in-frame GPS lock and an additional context shot of the spot from a distance) - I do this because I love finding new places to hike, and don't know of any better way (for that matter, can't even imagine a better way) to get me to such places. But I also don't like the idea that "credit" for a find depends on an ever-increasingly commercialized site that allows whimsical cache planters to erase any record of my finds. A nice friendly "contested" annotation, or showing it in all struck-out text I wouldn't mind, but to just erase it - Too "1984" for my liking.