When you make a boo boo!

[Hi-de-Hi's]

Wonder if anyone knows the answer to this one.

 

Today I did 3 caches. Picked up a Geocoin from one and dropped it at the next. Stupidly I didn't take the code off the coin and when I got home I couldn't log it.... So, much later on, I went back to the cache I dropped it in (in the dark, mud and rain!!) and obtained the code under torchlight.

 

If I ever did this stupid thing again (lesson learnt incidentally!!) is there any way of logging a trackable without the code?

[+JeremyR]

If I ever did this stupid thing again (lesson learnt incidentally!!) is there any way of logging a trackable without the code?

I don't normally drop something on the same trip that I collect it on. Means that all trackables end up at home with me when I'm logging at the end of the day. If you do drop it straight away and then forget the tracking number, you'd need to ask the owner (by following the link from the cache page where you found the bug/coin). They will have the code you need. Of course, if there's more than one similar trackable in the cache, you'd need to remember which one you moved... Another reason for not dropping straight away because things could wind up very confused if you ended up with the wrong tracking number

[Hi-de-Hi's]

If I ever did this stupid thing again (lesson learnt incidentally!!) is there any way of logging a trackable without the code?

I don't normally drop something on the same trip that I collect it on. Means that all trackables end up at home with me when I'm logging at the end of the day. If you do drop it straight away and then forget the tracking number, you'd need to ask the owner (by following the link from the cache page where you found the bug/coin). They will have the code you need. Of course, if there's more than one similar trackable in the cache, you'd need to remember which one you moved... Another reason for not dropping straight away because things could wind up very confused if you ended up with the wrong tracking number

Many thanks

 

On this occasion, mainly because it was raining so heavily and I knew that the trackable needed to be moved on quickly, I didn;t pause for thought. Indeed, I take your advice that it wouldbe nice to take the trackables home at the end of the day. Thanks for the info... Ted B

[+gazooks]

I made that mistake once and it took me several days to get the code as the owner was away. I left a note on the cache and asked the next person to find the cache to email me the code.

 

I now do as JeremyR does - take them home first.

 

[+T.R.a.M.P.]

I did just that this last weekend

I had made a note of the tracking number on a Geocoin and dropped in another cache before I got home - only to find the number did not work

I emailed the owner and put a note on the cache where I dropped it asking the person that picks it up not to grab it but to send me the code so it could all be correct.

Unfortunately, the owner has not replied and the coin has now been grabbed. I got an apology from the cacher concerned but I guess the moral is to "do as JeremyR does - take them home first".

 

Trevor

[+kbootb]

I try and take a picture of the TB with the number visible so I've got a record. Even a mobile phone camera will do the job.

[+Bear and Ragged]

We either

 

1. Take it home

or

2.

I try and take a picture of the TB with the number visible so I've got a record. Even a mobile phone camera will do the job.

 

We have emailed the number to the previous cacher, when we found a trackable, and the cacher had left a note on the log page to say they had lost the number...

 

G

[+SidAndBob]

I have vowed to always photograph the tracking number after this weekend. We dropped a TB on Friday and got home to find that someone had visited the cache after us and grabbed the TB.

It took two days and 6 emails to get things resolved, then we had to fight with GC.com to log the events and delete grab logs and I spent ages explaining TB protocol to the 2 noobs involved.

It all worked out in the end, but it would have been a lot easier if I'd still had the tracking number.

[+hiho9]

luckily this hasn't happened to me, but then again i always take them home.

[+ayepee]

 

It took two days and 6 emails to get things resolved, then we had to fight with GC.com to log the events and delete grab logs and I spent ages explaining TB protocol to the 2 noobs involved.

It all worked out in the end, but it would have been a lot easier if I'd still had the tracking number.

 

It is not only new geocachers who do this. My son placed a TB in a cache a few weeks ago, and another experienced (1000+ caches), visited the cache and picked up the TB just afterwards , then grabbed the TB from him before he had time to log his visit.

 

tony

[+macroderma]

I always take a small notebook with me and record the number (it also helps as a memory jogger when I write up the logs later online)

 

Helped me out more than once (like when I dropped a TB into the wrong cache and had to sort it out weeks later ) and I have been able to bail out other cachers too