repeat visits?

[family_on_the_go!]

Is it ok to revisit a geocache? For example I see a travel bug is in my local area at a geocache I have already logged. Can I go back to retrive the TB and move it along? Thanks!

[+cache_test_dummies]

Is it ok to revisit a geocache? For example I see a travel bug is in my local area at a geocache I have already logged. Can I go back to retrive the TB and move it along? Thanks!

Absolutely! Just be sure to log your follow-up visit to the cache as a Note, rather than a 'Found it'.

[+BlueDeuce]

ayep.

 

Move them bugs!

[+sauterelledesiles]

Thanks for the question and the replies... as a "tadpole" I was wondering the same thing. As we get ready to travel for the holidays, we might get some TB on the move.

 

Sauterelledesiles

[+RussellM]

If you revisit a cache and log it as found again, does that throw off your find count? I've been trying to decide this for years

[+Isonzo Karst]

If you revisit a cache and log it as found again, does that throw off your find count?

 

If you log another "find" your find count will go up 1. If you log 10 finds, your find count will go up 10.

[+Harriet the Spy]

edit: Re read my post and decided i was a little to angsty for my own good

Edited November 6, 2007 by Harriet the Spy

[+sataraid1]

There is a cache close to home I visit repeatedly for the purpose of dropping off TBs. The cache is kind of lonely, and when I put TBs in there people visit it more frequently. I just leave a "TB drop" note in the log and on the cache listing.

[+KoosKoos]

If you revisit a cache and log it as found again, does that throw off your find count? I've been trying to decide this for years

 

Define "throw off". Some would say that every time they visit the cache, it's a new "find" and should increment their count. Others disagree.

 

As was pointed out, you can log multiple "finds" on a cache and yes, your count of smileys will go up.

[+CSpenceFLY]

Seems I look at this a little different then others. While I don't think it is wrong to revisit a cache to drop a TB or to move one along that has been stuck for a while. I feel it is a bit wrong to revisit the same cache over and over to remove TBs or coins. TBs are somewhat of an incentive for some people to visit a cache. I think you are robbing the cache owner of new cache entries.

[+BlueDeuce]

Seems I look at this a little different then others. While I don't think it is wrong to revisit a cache to drop a TB or to move one along that has been stuck for a while. I feel it is a bit wrong to revisit the same cache over and over to remove TBs or coins. TBs are somewhat of an incentive for some people to visit a cache. I think you are robbing the cache owner of new cache entries.

 

Feel free to visit and revisit any of my caches to move a traveler. I don't mind.

[+Cedar Grove Seekers]

Feel free to visit and revisit any of my caches to move a traveler. I don't mind.

 

Ditto that.

[+Cedar Grove Seekers]

Define "throw off". Some would say that every time they visit the cache, it's a new "find" and should increment their count. Others disagree.

 

As was pointed out, you can log multiple "finds" on a cache and yes, your count of smileys will go up.

 

I am one of those who disagree. If someone logs the same cache 10 times, their number of caches "Found" will increase by 10, but they really haven't found 10 caches, they've found one cache 10 times. The statistic is labelled "Found" which to me implies unique caches found.

 

That's just my opinion, and of course you are free to log how you wish.

Edited November 7, 2007 by Cedar Grove Seekers

[+Earl B. Fisk]

My way of thinking is 1 smiley = 1 find. If you can't get another smiley, it's not a find. Anyway, how can you "find" something if you already know where it is?

[+Scare Force One]

I have definatly gone back to pick up a TB in a cache I have already found. It's incouraged to pick up a TB anytime as long as you can move it along soon.

 

~.~Scare Force One