Indigowolf13

We have been noticing that a lot of geocaches near us have a lot of plastic bags in them. Not "here's a bag for picking up trash". Rather every item in the cache is in a seperate plastic baggi. I understand it if the item is electronic or paper based, but most of them are plastic items. We even found a golf ball in a baggie!! Does anyone know why someone would do this? It just seems to be a waste of plastic bags and not very environmentally friendly.

Thank you all! I was worried I'd be breaking some code or rule if I did. Thank you!

I've seen these travel bug stickers that people put on their vehicles and have their geocaching name with them. When I look at the logs, they have been logged at every geocache that the owner has visited (even ones in places where a vehicle can't go). This gives the travel bug a high mileage and an awesome map. So, I was wondering if you had one of these, can you go back through all your previous finds and log the new bug as a visitor? I'd like to get one and would love for it to show a map of all my finds, but I am 700+ caches in.

So I first noticed this on Christmas day when we went out for our annual hike. The caches we logged on sunday did not save. Then the caches we logged on christmas didn't save. So I just went to the map to relog them from my computer instead of using the app (android) and noticed caches we logged weeks ago were no longer smilies. They were definetly smilies when we went out on sunday because they are part of a trail we are slowly working our way through. I'm not sure how to fix this besides going back through and relogging everything. Is someone erasing our logs? HELP! We were trying to do the 3,2,1 challenge, but this has seriously messed it up for us.