Carpincha

The last holder was the owner when they released it. It had been at least three days. The person I first thought had moved it had logged both caches two days prior and they say the TB was already on the second cache when they got there. I did the logs the day after talking to them. The first thing I did, still at GZ, was to discover the TB with a note for the owner telling them what happened. In the grab and drop logs I did indicate the cache where its owner dropped it and the one where I found it, both of which I had found that day, so it has the kilometrage it would have had.

Thank you all. I did message the only person I saw who had logged (online) both caches in between the travel bug being first dropped and the day I saw it. It wasn't them, they first saw it already on the second cache and did nothing because they didn't even know what a travel bug was. It's possible the person who moved it just didn't log their finds online, but I'm not going back just to check the paper logs, so I grabbed and dropped it, noting in the comment what actually happened.

I found a travel bug today, in a cache that had nothing in its inventory. When I looked the trackable up I found it was fairly new, and the only two logs were the owner dropping it in a nearby cache, and someone discovering it through the photo the owner posted (¬¬). Either the owner picked the wrong cache when logging it, or someone moved it without a log (I think it's the latter, the owner hasn't logged a find on the second cache, but someone else has been to both since the drop). At this point I'm not picking it up (although I might before long, I'm meaning to go quite close to its intended destination), but I wanted to at least log it at the proper location. I logged as discovered, but it didn't let me tag the cache. Should I log as if I picked it up at the original cache (that I had found about 5 minutes earlier) and then dropped it where I found it, even if I didn't actually move it, or is there another way?

That is definitely not the motivation. I thought we were all interested in keeping caches alive for everybody's enjoyment, and adding a piece of paper, a bit of duct tape, or a bag of silica gel would be kind, but I guess I'm mistaken. Like I said in the OP, in the case that got me wondering this, whatever happened to the CO, it really doesn't look like they're going to do any kind of maintenance to their caches (a few already got archived for not responding to a request for action by a reviewer). It just seems a bit silly to let a cache doomed to be archived when the only problem is there's nowhere for people to sign. But if that's the thing to do, that's what I shall do. That's why I'm asking. I had seen the guidelines you linked, but I was wondering about what people do in the real world with all its universe of possible nuances. Yeah, I'm already getting this feeling, although I could be misinterpreting the tone. Do you also do that if the cache is not likely to be found by many people, due to either high difficulty or being premium only? And what if the previous logs were photologs but should really have been Owner Attention Requested (months earlier, couldn't sign, container was outside its hiding place, full of water, with the lid meters away)?

I'm posting a few of what might be noob questions, but I just started geocaching about a week ago (even if I initially registered here a long time ago), so please be patient. In my area there are a few caches owned by someone who doesn't seem to be active anymore (their last find was about two years ago, last online almost a year ago, I hope they're ok and just are too busy or got bored). One of their caches that I will try to find soon has several logs and a request for maintenance saying the logbook is full. The cache is otherwise in good shape. Is it acceptable to replace the logbook if the CO is unlikely to do it? If so, what do you do with the old one? Another one looks to be gone. The last few logs said the cache was in disrepair, and from some of the comments I'm pretty sure I found the hiding place, but there was nothing there. Given the location, it wouldn't suprise me if it was found by an NCP who, considering the state it was described to be in, thought it was just rubbish. I flagged it as needing maintenance, but I wonder if I should have flagged it for reviewer attention instead, given the context, even if the previous few people did find something. What kind of maintenance is considered acceptable without stepping on the CO's toes? I've seen that cache ownership can be transferred, but that can only be initiated by the CO, not requested, right? I wouldn't take over any of these, anyway, I'm planning to move away soon and we'd be back in the same situation.

Especially ones you didn't actually find. (I'm posting a few of what might be noob questions, but I just started geocaching about a week ago - even if I initially registered here a long time ago -, so please be patient.) I was just watching a video about trackables and the person on the video showed the code of a couple of their own, saying you could log them as discovered if you want to. I know that it's against the rules and can end up with the trackable page locked, but I also don't see why you would want to do that anyway. Sure, a number on the internet goes up, but it's meaningless, isn't it? If I moved a trackable, I played a small or larger part in something fun, but if I just saw it on a photo or video online? Even if you found it in a cache but didn't move it, I'm not sure I get why you would log anything. Is that just so the owner knows it hasn't been stolen?

I'm posting a few of what might be noob questions, but I just started geocaching about a week ago (even if I initially registered here a long time ago), so please be patient. The question on the title, what do you do with a trackable if you find its mission is already over and it doesn't have specific instructions? Do you start moving it back to its owner? Do you get in touch with them to mail it? I suppose it's not ever acceptable to keep it. Do you just keep moving it along? I've only found one trackable so far. I left it there because it was on my first find, and I didn't want to screw things for the trackable owner if I didn't go on caching, but when I went to log online I saw that it was on a race with another trackable to see which one got the furthest in one year, and that year had passed, so that got me curious if there is something you typically do at that point.