Caching Teams?

[+OmniCitadel]

what is the deal with cache teams? Why would some one want to be a part of one???

[+The Source]

Well I cache with my wife and kids as one team.

 

J

[+wandererrob]

Some do it as a family team, others do so simply for the social aspect of it (e.g. it's more fun to cache as a group).

[+Teamhawaii1981 & blueicyrose]

From my general experience, when there is a Team (or family) there is usually one person who goes to every single cache and the other members come sometimes, but enough to say that the one person is not a solo cacher. Those other members would generally not log on their own; have no interest in having an account; but enjoy making the trip and do sign the logs in the tangible log book.

 

So the reasons I would guess:

- The account holder doesn't consider him/herself a solo cacher

- Wants to notify the cache owner of their team status to account for names in the books

- Wants to advertise they have friends/partners

- It is a more accurate description of what happens when they cache; rather then every single time they log saying: "Came in with: A,B, and C..."

 

For me caching is with my girlfriend and I always ask if she wants to come; if she doesn't it doesn't stop me though.

[+briansnat]

Most of the time they are families that cache together. In a few instances they are a few close friends who usually hunt together. I know at least one instance where the "team" is now one person but he never bothered to change the name.

[ImpalaBob]

We have a collection of river island caches close by .... and it is safer and more fun to go as a group. There are also "TEAM" caching events put on that are very competitive. ImpalaBob

[CamoCachers]

From my general experience, when there is a Team (or family) there is usually one person who goes to every single cache and the other members come sometimes, but enough to say that the one person is not a solo cacher. Those other members would generally not log on their own; have no interest in having an account; but enjoy making the trip and do sign the logs in the tangible log book.

 

So the reasons I would guess:

- The account holder doesn't consider him/herself a solo cacher

- Wants to notify the cache owner of their team status to account for names in the books

- Wants to advertise they have friends/partners

- It is a more accurate description of what happens when they cache; rather then every single time they log saying: "Came in with: A,B, and C..."

 

For me caching is with my girlfriend and I always ask if she wants to come; if she doesn't it doesn't stop me though.

thats how it works for me and my girlfriend. i started caching, and after i did a few, she started coming along. we had seperate names, and each logged caches seperately online and in the cache logs.

 

my girlfriend doesnt spend near the time on line i do. and she didnt enjoy logging the caches online. everything she couldve said in a log, i had already said in mine. seeing her finds rack up as a number did nothing for her. she does it just to get out and do something with me. she slowly got very backed up on logging her finds. and finally decided she wasnt going to log them online she was so backed up.

 

i decided to change my caching account to a name we would both go by. she does 99% of the caches i do anyways. i can only think of 6 that i have done when she wasnt along. its easier for everyone. we sign one name, i make the log, and its less bandwidth we take up on the site.

[SAWKS]

A geocaching team is often a family with kids that can't drive yet...

[+Team Red Oak]

Our team consists of me and my husband. I usually do the online logging, but he has on occasion. He usually writes in the log book, but I have on occasion. In the forums it is always me because I have access to a computer all day long and he does not. He has never gone caching w/o me, but I have stopped at a few on my way home from work without him and I always sign as the team. There is one cache we haven't been able to find that he plans to go back to after work one day without me, if he finds it he will sign as our team. We have been a team for 20 years now so it just made sense to be a caching team as well.

[Earthdog Patrick]

I don't know if anyone has mentioned this yet, but many teams are comprised of family members, parents and kids, or friends.

[+zoltig]

...and sometimes you and your "team" can go to the pub and drink some beer after a hard day of caching! (slurp...hic)

[+Team Flashncache]

In our first iteration, we were FlashnCache. But since my wife and daughter (sometimes and almost always, respectively) come along on caching adventures, I decided to change our name to the current, Team FnC listing. I guess I felt like it made it more of a family thing that way. Anyway, when I sign the logs I always identify the members that came along - i.e. Dave and Josie of Team FlashnCache, or Dave, Cathy and Josie of T FnC; sometimes it's just plain ol' Dave of T FnC... (Yes, I identify the Team even when I go solo. Gives it that "We're all in this together" feel!)

 

And hey! We just passed 50 finds! Not much of a milestone, but it's our first!

 

Woohoo! Go Team FlashnCache!!!

 

[+saxdiva and mr. vibes]

Our team consists of me and my husband. I usually do the online logging, but he has on occasion.

Same thing happens here. I bear the responsibility for getting us into this, and he joins me on about 75% of the cache hunts I do. Good thing, too, since he usually spots them. It's usually me who posts in the forums, though.

 

-Leanne

[+jamrasc]

Well our "team" is a mom, dad and 3 young kids. So we all cache together. Sometimes it is just mom and kids or mom with friends. But our name, jamrasc, is each of our initials and we are a "team" in everything we do.