+dwayne23 Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 I got off work early yesterday to eat with some others from work for the holidays. I stopped by the park with a friend and his kids to find a cach found it and didn't have a pin to sing the log. I have never done this before and I have not loged it yet as found. Do I need to wait and go back and sign the log and then log or is it a problem to go a head and log it??? Quote Link to comment
+El Diablo Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 I would log it as a found with an explanation as to why I didn't sign the log. I would also send the owner an email with enough information about the cache so they knew I had actually been there. The owner of the cache may delete your log, but you know you were there, and that's all that counts. Caches should, but don't always contain a writing instrument. Some exceptions are micros. El Diablo Quote Link to comment
+x_Marks_the_spot Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 I just can't help myself ... Unless you were playing golf with the cache or poking a small hole in it, you didn't need a pin, you needed a pen. Oh, come on, now. That wasn't helpful. You're just being mean. Bad x_Marks!! You go sit in a corner. Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 Ask the owner and see what he says. Some (not a lot) will go through paper logs, match them with online logs and delete the online ones that don't have a signature in the logbook. If it's a easy to get to cache, maybe you can just go back and sign to eliminate doubt. Quote Link to comment
Neos2 Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 I just can't help myself ... Unless you were playing golf with the cache or poking a small hole in it, you didn't need a pin, you needed a pen. Oh, come on, now. That wasn't helpful. You're just being mean. Bad x_Marks!! You go sit in a corner. Yes, x_Marks, you were naughty...although--If you really did have a pin, instead of a pen, you could use it to punch out your caching signature in pinholes that could be read when held to the light or up against something dark! Quote Link to comment
jholly Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 Yes, x_Marks, you were naughty...although--If you really did have a pin, instead of a pen, you could use it to punch out your caching signature in pinholes that could be read when held to the light or up against something dark! That only works in Flordia Jim Quote Link to comment
+Indotguy Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 Some caches never had one and others used to but don't anymore. A writing device is a basic part of the Geocacher tool kit and one should NEVER leave home without one. I carry a Fisher space pen. They fit nicely in the pocket, won't leak, and will write on nearly anything. Quote Link to comment
+ChiefWings Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 If I lived/worked near the cache, I'd swing by and sign the log then post. IMHO Quote Link to comment
+MaplessInSeattle Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 Bash yourself with a rock for forgetting a pen, and then sign in blood. Whoa! where did that bit of madness come from? Seriously though. I'd claim it as a find, and let the owner know you'll sign it as soon as you are back in the area. Then I'd make it a point to get to that area as soon as convenient. Quote Link to comment
+JohnTee Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 Got a cell phone with a camera and the ability to transfer the picture to your PC . . . Did that one time. Cache On! JohnTee Quote Link to comment
+joranda Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 I've lost a pen inbetween caches, it happens. Or even forget with pocket it went in until I pull it out of the washer"Many times", not a nice sight. But most cache owners have been there before so I still think you can log it with little grief. How's the local geo-police around there anyways? Quote Link to comment
+MaplessInSeattle Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 I haven't forgot my pen since this happened to me. Quote Link to comment
+dwayne23 Posted December 20, 2007 Author Share Posted December 20, 2007 I went back today and signed the log. Took off work and made a day of with a 13 year old boy who has never been. He doesn't have a daddy that does anything with him so he spent the day with me. We had a ball. Thanks for the help. Quote Link to comment
+wesleykey Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 I went back today and signed the log. Good for you. I at times forget a pen, but almost always have a pocket knife. I have been known to cut a square into one of the lines of the log sheet to prove I was there. Quote Link to comment
+bettsbugs Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 I got off work early yesterday to eat with some others from work for the holidays. I stopped by the park with a friend and his kids to find a cach found it and didn't have a pin to sing the log. I have never done this before and I have not loged it yet as found. Do I need to wait and go back and sign the log and then log or is it a problem to go a head and log it??? I have seen logs where cachers signed the log books with the charcoal off the end of a burned stick, with grass, or by poking holes in the paper (braille effect) when a pen/pencil was forgotten. Because they identified the mark in the log book as theirs, it would still show they had been to the cache. Quote Link to comment
+Bad_CRC Posted December 26, 2007 Share Posted December 26, 2007 you can sometimes improvise. finding something to sign a log with when you have no pen is sometimes more fun than finding the cache itself. I've signed logs with many different things. the most memorable of which was a tube of chocolate-flavored chapstick someone had left in the cache. I made sure to note online exactly what happened, because it certainly looked like it could have been any number of other things smeared on the page, and I didn't want anyone in the future to be suprised at the log entry. Quote Link to comment
+vw_k Posted December 26, 2007 Share Posted December 26, 2007 I went back today and signed the log. Took off work and made a day of with a 13 year old boy who has never been. He doesn't have a daddy that does anything with him so he spent the day with me. We had a ball. Thanks for the help. If the cache is easy to get too and not too inconvenient, that's what I would do. I'm glad to see you took someone along and hope he enjoyed it, geocaching is a great hobby to share with others and a great way of enjoying the outdoors. I always carry a pen in my pack, not just for caching but so I always have something to write with! But in the past I have torn off the corner of the cache page print out that says "you are logged in as vw_keychain" and left that in with the logbook as proof I was there. Happy caching. Dave Quote Link to comment
+Nero Posted December 26, 2007 Share Posted December 26, 2007 (edited) Some caches never had one and others used to but don't anymore. A writing device is a basic part of the Geocacher tool kit and one should NEVER leave home without one. I carry a Fisher space pen. They fit nicely in the pocket, won't leak, and will write on nearly anything. I completely agree with this. a writing device is essential, its the staple tool for geocaching (yes some even cache without a gps, but not me). find a cache, sign the log. I also carry a fisher space pen, a trekker that clips for my belt loop so i don't loose it. (i lost a bullet space pen while out caching once) Edited December 26, 2007 by Nero Quote Link to comment
+TheAlabamaRambler Posted December 26, 2007 Share Posted December 26, 2007 Moonsilver and I found ourselves without a pen Monday - we wet the end of a twig, daubed the stick in the dirt, I signed with a mud X and he with a Y. When we logged the cache we stated who was X and who Y! It was a micro log; if it had been full size we'd have written our initials. Quote Link to comment
+TrailGators Posted December 26, 2007 Share Posted December 26, 2007 Yes, x_Marks, you were naughty...although--If you really did have a pin, instead of a pen, you could use it to punch out your caching signature in pinholes that could be read when held to the light or up against something dark! That only works in Flordia Jim Does a hanging chad count? Quote Link to comment
+Trucker Lee Posted December 26, 2007 Share Posted December 26, 2007 And next time, perhaps leave an earmark. Sometimes, instead of or in conjunction with branding, notches will be cut in one or the other of a calf's ear. These notches are permanent and can be used to easily identify ownership even if the brands have been tampered with. Tear a notch or two along the edge of the log as your sig, and be sure to identify who dunnit in your log. You can sign the log next time through the neighborhood and leave a note online then. Quote Link to comment
+WRITE SHOP ROBERT Posted December 26, 2007 Share Posted December 26, 2007 I just can't help myself ... Unless you were playing golf with the cache or poking a small hole in it, you didn't need a pin, you needed a pen. Oh, come on, now. That wasn't helpful. You're just being mean. Bad x_Marks!! You go sit in a corner. I guess you haven't found any of those new fangled Caches that require you to sign in blood, thus verifing through DNA that a Cacher has in fact been to the site, rather than having a stunt double sign their name. (the PIN was needed to prick a finger) Oh, come on, now. That wasn't helpful. You're just being mean. Bad WSR!! You go sit in a corner. Quote Link to comment
+wandering4cache Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 I carry a pen, a pencil & a sharpener. Pens stop working or freeze. Pencils always work. And the sharpener is for my pencil AND the pencils we find in caches that need sharpening. Quote Link to comment
+Bad_CRC Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 I carry a pen, a pencil & a sharpener. the sharpener is for my pencil AND the pencils we find in caches that need sharpening. good idea. wish there were more people like you in my area. Quote Link to comment
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