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Recently I haven't been able to post much in the forum, but it is finally time to post an update with the coins I have bought or traded for in the past two months. Top half, Norwegian department, lower half, animal department. You can decide for yourself what half the CW88 Vikings belong to.

Oooh, very intriguing! Hearing the call of the Ktulu?

I am not sure that anyone is ready to buy the whole lot. Personally I don't collect all sorts of geocoins, I limit my collection to a theme. You have some interesting coins on that list, so if you have the time to deal with individual purchases, you might make more money selling those separately first. The remaining coins could easily go into grab bags of 5-20 coins. At least that's how I would do it.

My two cents... Trackables are not THAT hot. When I retrieve them from another geocache than the one they are registered at, I wait a few days to see if someone logs them. If it is possible to track down the person that held the trackable before me, I send a friendly e-mail asking if they have forgotten to log it, if they need me to wait a little while, or if they might not know how to deal with it, and would prefer that I grab the trackable. Yes, I do prefer logging trackables as fast as possible, but this is nothing that cannot wait a few days. Personally I try to drop off trackables as soon as my geocaching trip of the day is over. But sometimes I'm travelling, perhaps abroad, and cannot go online immediately. In such cases, I prioritize helping the trackable reach its goal, or placing my own trackable at an excotic place, higher than being able to log it within minutes or hours. However, if I know that my logging will be delayed, I do try to leave a note with the trackable, explaining the situation and when I expect to be able to log.

Congratulations, LadyBee4T! Thanks for the cointest, drneal & dogs!

Hi kaz56, I'm not in Bergen myself, but you will find a large group of geocachers from that region, in our Norwegian geocaching forum: http://forum.gcinfo.no Good luck!

Very cool mystery coin! Love the zebra losing its stripes! Congratulations to the mystery coiner and to the recipients.

Most important thing first: C-O-N-G-R-A-T-U-L-A-T-I-O-N-S on finally receiving these coins, and C--O--N--G--R--A--T--U--L--A--T--I--O--N--S on hanging in there, never giving up, despite all the things that went wrong... Great strength - perhaps Kathy sent this strength to you? What to save... My first thoughts were that when each living soul is rescued, one thing more or less will not matter much. The truly valuable items are safe. But at the same time, it would be silly not to save anything, right? So I would probably go with the external disk where our computers are backed up. That would save most of our photos (especially after we spent hours and hours scanning old family photos last years), years of work, important documents, etc etc. Not the most romantic answer, but an honest answer. Thanks for the cointest!

Name sent: May 10, 2013 Name received: May 13, 2013 Mission sent: YES, May 27th, 2013 Mission received: May 24th, 2013 How many are still chewing old popcorn, waiting for their mission?

Name sent: May 10, 2013 Name received: May 13, 2013 Mission sent: Not yet, sorry - I can't believe they don't have any usable cards in this part of town... Will try again tomorrow! Mission received: YES! May 24th, 2013: The nerd sweets were quickly confiscated by my better half, and consumed by the end of the evening (I did get a taste - nice and fresh!). I was fortunate enough to get a Bubu Lubu. Very tasty, some of my favourite chocolate flavours in there! The Hot Tamales were ... eh, special. We do believe Americans have slightly different taste buds than Norwegians. Over here, cinnamon usually goes into pastry or on top of porridge, in very small amounts - definitely never as a main ingredient of candy. I shared it with my colleagues at work, though - lots of fun! And a geocoin + pathtag very suitable for the mission. Thanks a lot, SixLittleSpookies!

Nice to see the first arrivals! I'm a bit late, but today I have gone candy shopping. It's so hard to find something that is actually Norwegian, not import from the big international brands... Now, which coin to choose...?

I still have 2 or 3 of the Oslofjord edition from the first batch, but I prefer to trade them for the coins that I seek. Feel free to have a look at the trading list in my signature.

I got the 2013 Grenlandsmafiaen geocoin! It's the annual coin of a Norwegian geocaching group, and it features the origin of the telemark skiing style.

Hurray, so nice to join a mission again! Name sent: May 10, 2013 Name received: May 13, 2013 Mission sent: Mission received: Off to hunt for seeking lists.

Thumbs up for getting "Sporty" back into the game, BVnLJ!

PC Painter, I definitely agree with you. The problem is, what if you had the opportunity to go back to the correct coordinates the next day, while the guy that searched with you for over an hour did not have that opportunity, and the cache owner offered you both FTF? As there might be people here interested in the proceedings... I went back there again yesterday, found the container, and signed it with my own hand, as FTF. My co-cacher chose to accept the cache owner's offer, and logged FTF based on our experience earlier in the week. He had already been added to the log by the cache owner, but based on the history and the offer from the owner, I would have been happy to add his nick along with mine. We both agree that both of us may claim FTF on this geocache. And to avoid too much confusion, our online logs are on the same date.

Thanks all, for your opinions! Interesting to see that this type of topic (once again) catches such attention. Personally, I reached my decision earlier this morning. I'll return to the location at first opportunity, to sign the log myself. I guess this is your general recommendation. As I said in the first post, I'm not feeling good about logging FTF based on what happened. The major problem here was that solving the mystery was a joint effort between several geocachers, and it is hard to find a solution that suits everyone and treats everyone fairly. I guess the lesson is, never cooperate with anyone on mysteries, as you might have to disappoint yourself or them.

Thanks for clarifying that I've got things right. I don't feel like an FTF "winner" at the moment, although I do think we would have deserved it, and although there are people that suggest that I should. Thank you all, our community has regular discussions about who gets to claim FTF, who gets to log, under which conditions, depending on which suggestions by the cache owner. I guess it's pretty much the same everywhere! Fortunately people seem to be content with disagreeing on the specifics - no flame wars yet.

J Grouchy: It is possible to say that we FOUND the solution to the mystery (the hardest part, with many hours and D5), we FOUND GZ (rather hard, with one hour hiking and T3), we were just hindered from FINDING the log (supposed to be very easy part, to be done in a few minutes) due to a CO error. However, I think most of us seem to agree that it is better not to log a find. I'll see if my partner agrees.

Haha, we were joking a lot about logging FTDNF when we were heading back from there!

Well, it was actually the cache owner that offered to add our names to the log, as he's going to be nearby the cache very soon. So the names would be in the log. However, it is comforting to see that most of you think along the same lines as I do - what we did the other day was not enough to log the cache, despite the offers from the CO. I'll discuss with my co-cacher and see what we can agree on.

I have tried to stay off the popcorn wagon, but I have followed the thread with interest. Very happy that the mission finally arrived - and what a great community to be part of!

Thanks for the answers. Crow-T-Robot, that's pretty much my take on it. The problem here, which you don't seem to mention, is that we were two people going for this together. Myself I can probably get out there tomorrow morning, probably finding the container and getting the FTF. But that would mean ditching my partner in solving and searching, since he is not available tomorrow morning (same as I am not available the coming evenings).

I have been fortunate over the last year... The ToL that I had order was graciously sent by Scavok's family. I was able to buy one and trade for another. New list: 1. Carousel lion satin Silver/black/purple 2. Carousel lion satin gold/brown/green 3. Carousel horse: Gold/white/purple glitter (LE) 4. Colonel H. George Cachington Unicorn Geocoin 5. Gecko98 geocoin

Hi, I could use some advice on whether or not to accept an offer to log FTF on a geocache that I did not sign... The other day I and a geocaching colleague solved a D5 T3 mystery. The coordinates we calculated were confirmed by the geochecker. We went out hunting for the FTF. I guess we spent an hour bicycling + hiking through snow to get to the given location. Then we spent more than an hour searching intensively. We called the CO after half an hour, he checked satellite photos etc, and gave us some advice. The hide itself was not supposed to be hard, just a PET hanging in a tree. We had searched all trees within a ~40 meter radius, we had gotten all the hints we could from the CO, it was getting late, so we decided to give up. Once we had finally returned to the parking lot, the CO contacted us again. He had realized that he had used wrong coordinates when making the puzzle and geochecker. The container was 50-100 meters further away. As it was approaching midnight and we were rather wet, returning immediately was not an option. The CO wrote that we are the true FTFs, and that he would be willing to add us to the physical log book, and let us submit our "found it" logs based on solving the mystery, getting a go from the geochecker, travelling to GZ and searching the (wrong) location for an hour. Normally I really want to find the container and sign the log myself. What I took part in last night, did not feel like a find. The trouble is that I and my colleague will have problems finding a common time slot for going back together and signing an eventual co-FTF, since this is not exactly a drivein. We can probably find time within a week or so - but at that point, several others will have solved and found the geocache. We can probably go there separately - but then we do not get to share the glory of what was a common effort. What would you do? (Edited to clarify, in bold, that the CO would make sure that our nicks were in the physical log book, so that anyone arriving later would not find an empty log. Not that this changes my take on the case.)