VAVAPAM

Exactly!

This is a classic!!!!! <-refer to barefootjeff's post ?

Lady Penelope Carrington is featured in many of my logs about certain caches. It puts an amusing spin (I hope) on an otherwise usually rather mundane cache; helps me write my story from another angle.

That was one of my first thoughts when I heard about folks doing hundreds in a day: How do they remember them all; how do they log them? As a CO *and* as a cacher reading logs, those looooong logs with nothing to say about the cache really are annoying.

While we're at it, let's include how to write a log for those really tough ones ... the ones that you don't particularly find appealing. If that's ok with the OP?

Try to get across your feeling and/or thoughts while your were hunting or when you found that particular cache.

I don't disagree with grimpil's assertion completely, but there people in all age groups who have difficulty with written communication. Just consider, when making a list of ways to write a good log as a way showing thanks to the CO, that it doesn't begin sounding like a chore. Turn-off; tune-out; buh-bye for folks who aren't as comfortable with written communication as those who are, say, in the Forums, for example? Totally agree about the Field logs. I just don't. Because I'm like: T ....... h ........ i ...... s w ......... a ...........s ! Heck with it; I'm burning daylight here. An actual Draft shorthand: Mushr; pipe; spt-on; swag: SouAirDothan--MoonPie; *NO TBs*; dry lg full; RiR overtop; pics.

But then there's this: Fam couldn't find but I did [ ! x 20] Pumped! Still makes me smile.

Bingo!

Nothing that requires finding more caches.

There have been a couple of other Forum mentions of Message Center weirdness recently. I hope that it clears up quickly, and that there's some way to identify what did and didn't get to the intended destination. I've sent a couple of messages as a CO, too, in the past 3 weeks or so. Receipt of those messages is important in determining my follow-up.

Thanks !

Just guessing, but they are probably referring to HQ's current souvenir challenge involving finding clues, jewels, then finally accessing the vault. (The final stage requiring 35 cache finds.)

Everybody go to your window right now .... - - Network I feel like jumping up and down and yelling at someone in HQ, anyone, to please just get rid of these default log types! ☺️

In a neighboring community, a rather prolific CO passed away. When the COs partner moved to another area, many caches were left without a real maintenance plan. I will say that the partner did communicate, and upon occasion archived when community service didn't suffice. After a while, a relative new-comer to the area adopted all of the remaining caches left by this CO. Before that happened, though, I wondered if the caching community there cringed when outside cachers did maintenance ... if they were just waiting for those caches to go away.

I have, too. Original container/log and everything. Cool to find those. That tends to be the exception in our area, unfortunately. It's not unusual to see a community allow one to limp along or simply lay untouched. Or perhaps it's been on every local's ignore list for so long they forgot about it? Then an unsuspecting traveling cacher passes through, finds - or doesn't find - it, and thinks, "Why are there no logs about the state of this cache?" Or it becomes an armchair logger resort. Sometimes when travel-caching, I really think hard before posting what appears, to me, to be an obviously needed NA. (NMs don't do that to me.) What's going on here? Am I asking to kill off a local sweetheart for which nobody has the heart to pull the plug? Ah, well, let the Reviewers decide; they'll know better than I if it's "time".

While admittedly not quite the same, I have seen the Reviewer say, in their Archive note, that it would be appreciated if somebody could pick up the geolitter. (Archived because it WAS a geolitter-al mess with a non-responsive CO.) It may not show up on the search map, but it can very well show up elsewhere. Personal lists is but one example. I know I'm gonna look to see what happened to a cache on my bookmark list.

That's really funny! FWIW, I've only ever found one Altoids-like tin (it was actually a metal mini first aid kit, but definitely looked like one). Maybe because things tend to rust quickly in the SE US.

Granted, I don't live in an area rife with guardrail trails (actually, guardrails [and other DOT-owned property] are out of bounds in my state) or teeming with COs competing for placement space, but I certainly hope that doesn't happen. Before you bring out the tar and feathers, do consider that while a cache may be .1 as the crow flies, that crow may be flying over a ravine or other impassable territory.

My very first thought? "Dadgum, I'm glad I don't cache around there!" It would seem that the Reviewer and cachers expended time/energy to publish/hunt&log this cache. If you don't want people to log your cache, you need to do the same: Get off your duff and remove the cache and log - and post a note that you have done so. Any log after that would be a throw-down; therefore, subject to deletion. Fully eligible to be logged if Published and original container/log are in place. Big signatures that take up space are annoying to me as a cacher (not a CO), simply because I might have to find a non-sequential space to sign when it gets full. I take a photo in such instances, just in case the CO can't find my sig. As a CO, replacing a full log sheet is not on my list of maintenance annoyances; it's a given I'm going to have to do it - and I use RITR logbooks/strips, not inkjet printed on copier paper.

Bet those would sell like hotcakes at a Mega.

[gif: Signal, milk shooting out his nose]

My muggband always wonders why it takes so long for me to plan "our" vacation route. heh heh

Yes, as a CO, I definitely like to see trades in the logs. If I see a string of logs with no mention of trades (not even a TNLN), I figure it's time to assess the inventory (or lack thereof).

The clue type (for a locked Stage) is shown on the Android App, but on the iPhone it shows ‘Hidden’, like the website. I think the Android version is out of step with what was intended... I checked the Android Official App while searching for the 1st (Detective) and 2nd (Clues) levels, and this revelation of Clue Types above my game level never occurred for me. In fact, it showed NO clue; I had to Open in Browser. Until this morning. (Could've been last night.). It's now showing the clues in the App's cache description - hallelujah! But hey, once you get to the second level, if it still says "Hidden", you know it's a .... Although some people report getting credit for having found Jewels before completing the previous level, I'm going level by level, rather than hoping that [what, to me, seems] a glitch in the intended game-flow remains intact. I.e., Log Detective; Log Clues; Log Jewels....