mat.knott Posted July 11, 2008 Share Posted July 11, 2008 hi all. is it ok to revisit a cache to pick up a travel bug or geocoin to move them on or should it be one visit and dont go back if theres a tb is it after your visit? Quote Link to comment
+The Blorenges Posted July 11, 2008 Share Posted July 11, 2008 It's fine to go back to any cache for a re-visit, for any reason. Just remember that when you put another log on the cache page saying, "Called back here to pick up TB..." or whatever, do it as a "note", not as another "found it" log. MrsB Quote Link to comment
+dctalk007 Posted July 11, 2008 Share Posted July 11, 2008 It's fine to go back to any cache for a re-visit, for any reason. Just remember that when you put another log on the cache page saying, "Called back here to pick up TB..." or whatever, do it as a "note", not as another "found it" log. MrsB I've never known what happens if you accedentaly log a second found it log. What happens? Quote Link to comment
+The Blorenges Posted July 11, 2008 Share Posted July 11, 2008 (edited) It's fine to go back to any cache for a re-visit, for any reason. Just remember that when you put another log on the cache page saying, "Called back here to pick up TB..." or whatever, do it as a "note", not as another "found it" log. MrsB I've never known what happens if you accedentaly log a second found it log. What happens? Not a lot - It just means that if you do more than one "Found it" log your statistics of "Caches Found" won't be very accurate. Some people aren't bothered by that. In fact, I understand that some cachers do this deliberately to boost their numbers of "Finds". I think most cachers would agree that you can only "find" a cache once. (Although I know there are one or two exceptions to this.) MrsB Edited July 11, 2008 by The Blorenges Quote Link to comment
+Eartha Posted July 11, 2008 Share Posted July 11, 2008 It's fine to go back to any cache for a re-visit, for any reason. Just remember that when you put another log on the cache page saying, "Called back here to pick up TB..." or whatever, do it as a "note", not as another "found it" log. MrsB I've never known what happens if you accedentaly log a second found it log. What happens? It messes up your actual milestones! Quote Link to comment
+Lockheed Hudson Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 It's fine to go back to any cache for a re-visit, for any reason. Just remember that when you put another log on the cache page saying, "Called back here to pick up TB..." or whatever, do it as a "note", not as another "found it" log. MrsB I've never known what happens if you accedentaly log a second found it log. What happens? Not a lot - It just means that if you do more than one "Found it" log your statistics of "Caches Found" won't be very accurate. Some people aren't bothered by that. In fact, I understand that some cachers do this deliberately to boost their numbers of "Finds". I think most cachers would agree that you can only "find" a cache once. (Although I know there are one or two exceptions to this.) MrsB I presume a significant relocation ( a few hundred yards - oops metres) of a muggled cache would be one such exception. Quote Link to comment
+BlueDeuce Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 I presume a significant relocation ( a few hundred yards - oops metres) of a muggled cache would be one such exception. Not really. Quote Link to comment
+The Blorenges Posted July 13, 2008 Share Posted July 13, 2008 It's fine to go back to any cache for a re-visit, for any reason. Just remember that when you put another log on the cache page saying, "Called back here to pick up TB..." or whatever, do it as a "note", not as another "found it" log. MrsB I've never known what happens if you accedentaly log a second found it log. What happens? Not a lot - It just means that if you do more than one "Found it" log your statistics of "Caches Found" won't be very accurate. Some people aren't bothered by that. In fact, I understand that some cachers do this deliberately to boost their numbers of "Finds". I think most cachers would agree that you can only "find" a cache once. (Although I know there are one or two exceptions to this.) MrsB I presume a significant relocation ( a few hundred yards - oops metres) of a muggled cache would be one such exception. No, not if it's the same cache. If it's been muggled and the owner disables it, then replaces it 200yards down the path and then re-activates it as the same cache but with slightly different co-ordinates, then it's still "the same cache". However, if it's been muggled and the owner decides to archive the cache completely, then a week later he recreates it as a new cache listing 200 yards down the path from the original cache then it's a new cache and you can legitimately claim a new smilie MrsB Quote Link to comment
+mrspopo Posted July 14, 2008 Share Posted July 14, 2008 When I was starting out I went to visit a TB motel to pick things up for a trip. As a noobie I simply logged another find and it just showed up as having been found twice. However a little while later I rescued a cache that was floating in the river about 30 feet away... this involved getting very cut up through the black berry bushes, and ending up with a drenched cache. I logged it as a needs maintenance only. I definitely earned a find for that cache, but a maintenance log doesn't add a "find." I eventually figured out how to log actual finds, and just decided that the two balanced each other out. Then it started to bug me so over a year later I went back and changed my find to a note, and added a find for the other one. I guess the moral of the story is that everyone does their own thing. You are welcome to leave your logs as they are. At any time you can go back and change them like I did. Some people are sticklers for rules, some people just want to have fun. The beauty of geocaching is getting out of it whatever you want. I revisit caches all the time to pick up TBs for trips, or to drop off TBs when I want to unload them quick. Quote Link to comment
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