campy877

All, thanks for the ideas. This is still a mystery. 2 days ago, the geocoin showed in my inventory (and the old location showed I grabbed it) and suddenly, yesterday, it was no longer in my inventory. Coin owner did his Columbo routine and determined that the old cache still showed it in its inventory and he was kind enough to move it along for me. Any other ideas as to how this may have happened would be welcome though. Steve

HELP! I have a mysterious disappearing geocoin inventory issue. I picked up a geocoin from a site by my house and logged it as retrieved (the system show this as well). However, today I placed it in a cache that was designed to swap trackables and when I went to log it, it as not listed in my inventory and it does not show as an item I can drop off. It just has disappeared. When I click on the actual geocoin, the last action it shows is me actually retrieving it from the cache I picked it up from. Any ideas on where this went, how I can find it and how I can let the owner know where it is without the geocoin id#? Any help is appreciated. campy877

CYBret, Thank you for your article. I stumbled across it a week ago and realized that I was cheating the game. I love writing about the hunt and the find but as I am new to the whole sport, just followed along with the short notes in the logs because I saw everyone else with 3000+ caches to their name doing and just assumed that the proper ettiquette was "keep it short and to the point". Your article helped me realize that there should be a lot more to recording the find than collecting smileys! In my opinion, having only been doing this for about a month, most newbies are introduced to this by friends who show them how to do the actual search but then don't really tell them how to log. To me, I agree with you. I enjoy reliving the hunt with others and in fact, find myself reading those longer logs as they give me more flavor on the actual cache before I ever head out. I really enjoy seeing if the picture that detailed loggers have painted in my mind is really how the hunt plays out for me. It also helps me paint the picture for my kids and gets them psyched for the hunts when they go with me. Thanks gain for the "4T's" of logging. It should be required reading for all new cahce hunters out there.