[I am banning myself from the forums]

hey, what's wrong with bickering?

[Do you remember your significant finds?]

I don't remember our hundredth find, I think because it was in the middle of an urban power caching spree. In Orange County, California, we have the Bikencache series, which is quite a long stretch of tightly packed caches, so somewhere in the middle of all of that was number one-hundred. Number two hundred was very memorable, because we had to reach it by a very long, rough dirt road with a car not built for that kind of terrain. It was technically an FTF also, with beta testers. It was the only day we've ever been FTF. That and some others had been sitting along that road without any first finds for about a month before we got there. Two others lay beyond our 200th find, but we could not get to them do to the worsening condition of the road and an oncoming thunderstorm. I believe they still have yet to get official FTFs (not counting the beta testers).

[must log be signed]

Do we need an Act of Congress here? Sometimes it's easy to forget that Groundspeak isn't the sole provider of geocache hides and that the game extends well beyond it's own authority. The website, itself, has vested its authority in the owners of each cache, which means that the rules, in fact, are necessarily up to each owner. There's no rule that says you can't keep your own personal list of finds on your own computer and say, "Yay, I've found this many caches." We all start at different times, and we all have varying amounts of time and money to burn, so there's really no comparing find counts anyway.

 

GCT75F is an example of a cache that you can find, but grabbing is a whole other matter. I "found" it myself, but extracting it is the only challenge that makes this cache what it's worth. I can honestly say that I will never grab this one. Hence, I will never log it as "found." I could fill a list of caches like this.

 

If you get a kick out of simply doing a drive-by and calling it good without signing the log, then yay for you; keep track of your finds on a map at home or something. Don't gripe when the cache owner disagrees and deletes your log. There are so many caches out there I'm sure you'll have no problem finding plenty that will accept your terms.

["couldn't Sign Wet Logbook"]

Personally, I prefer to carry a set of return adress stickers with my cacher name and logo. They sometimes stick when the log is too wet to write on. At least I can toss one in there for good measure if nothing else .

 

I know some people claim finds that they didn't find. More people don't claim DNFs for caches that they did not find. The same people tailgate me on the freeway for all the same reasons: they just want to get ahead of the next guy. At least here they don't threaten my life with their shallowness. If the greatest accomplishment a person has is a bigger number next to their name on a geocaching website, then I feel sorry for them. I log in my finds on the web for my personal benefit, and I would feel irked if some arrogant baboon deleted my post because they thought they had some clairvoyant ability to see where I was on a given day, especially if that person wasn't even responsible enough to provide a well-equipped, dry cache . Chill out, people. Stop trying to control each other .