+ventura_kids Posted October 3, 2009 Share Posted October 3, 2009 Have you ever RE-found a geocache because you forgot to log your find? We have RE-found many geocaches. Somehow we miss logging our find, and the cache gets back on our list of caches to find. As we arrive at the cache site, we all say "Hey.... we already found this one.....it's right over there". Does this happen to you? Quote Link to comment
+Harry Dolphin Posted October 3, 2009 Share Posted October 3, 2009 Nope. Never happened to me. I log my found caches within days. And all are listed on the Paw Pilot. Quote Link to comment
+Cardinal Red Posted October 3, 2009 Share Posted October 3, 2009 Have you ever RE-found a geocache because you forgot to log your find? We have RE-found many geocaches. Somehow we miss logging our find, and the cache gets back on our list of caches to find. As we arrive at the cache site, we all say "Hey.... we already found this one.....it's right over there". Does this happen to you? No. I'm organized. Quote Link to comment
GOF and Bacall Posted October 3, 2009 Share Posted October 3, 2009 I've had that moment of déjà vu. Both from having not logged a cache we have found and from finding a cache in the area once occupied by a now archived cache that now sports a newer one. Quote Link to comment
+Knight2000 Posted October 3, 2009 Share Posted October 3, 2009 When my wife geocaches she doesn't log hers so I'm sure this will happen for our team name sometime. No, its not happened to me. I'm kind of anal about logging stuff right away. I can get home at the end of a long caching day and that darn computer nags me until I log them promptly. Maybe someday I will get so many mindless caches that they aren't memorable and I will forget some. Maybe you're just getting older. Of course you did remember that you were already there. Weird. Quote Link to comment
+Team MacKenzie Posted October 3, 2009 Share Posted October 3, 2009 I don't think I've ever forgotten to log a cache completely BUT, I did something just as silly! Found a cache, came home, logged it (or so I thought). 4 months later I'm back at the same cache cause it's in my unfound caches. Finally figured out that I had logged III instead of IV in the series of caches. The one that I had logged I hadn't found yet so I made another trip to actually find the one I had logged way back when! They were less than a mile apart, both were LPC's. Thought about fixing the logs but decided that it would only confuse everyone including me so I left it alone...! Quote Link to comment
+TexasGringo Posted October 3, 2009 Share Posted October 3, 2009 Nope, I usually recognize the area and keep going. Quote Link to comment
+WRASTRO Posted October 3, 2009 Share Posted October 3, 2009 Have you ever RE-found a geocache because you forgot to log your find? We have RE-found many geocaches. Somehow we miss logging our find, and the cache gets back on our list of caches to find. As we arrive at the cache site, we all say "Hey.... we already found this one.....it's right over there". Does this happen to you? I believe this may be a drawback to the high volume caching lifestyle. I have never experienced this particular challenge. Quote Link to comment
knowschad Posted October 3, 2009 Share Posted October 3, 2009 I've done it. I've logged finds on some of them before, too. GSAK filters helped me to find and remove the duplicates, though. Its easily done around here when you cache at different seasons, with a caching buddy and his PQ. Quote Link to comment
+Cache O'Plenty Posted October 3, 2009 Share Posted October 3, 2009 Sometimes my better half accompanies me when caching. When she does, she does the "paperwork" on the PDA. And, sometimes "forgets". So, recently, I went to a cache and thought it was familiar but having seen dozens of this particular type hide (no, it wasn't a LPC), looked anyway. Upon opening the log, there was my signature several months earlier. Had to go backdate the cache page with the original find date. That messed up the subsequent milestones!!!! So, yes, I've done it. Quote Link to comment
+Arrow42 Posted October 3, 2009 Share Posted October 3, 2009 Have you ever RE-found a geocache Yes, a few times when out caching with others. because you forgot to log your find? err.. no. I don't think I've ever not logged a find. There might be one or two, out there I forgot to log, but I'd give it a low probability. Geocache-Nav is quite useful in this regard, assuming I have cell signal. Quote Link to comment
+traildad Posted October 3, 2009 Share Posted October 3, 2009 Once I get up over my 200th find of the day I tend to lose track of logging them. Quote Link to comment
+Isonzo Karst Posted October 3, 2009 Share Posted October 3, 2009 Have you ever RE-found a geocache because you forgot to log your find? I believe this may be a drawback to the high volume caching lifestyle. Not real high volume here....less then a cache a day over the last two years, but I do this perty regular. I do try to log the local stuff, so I don't hunt it twice. An ammo can in the woods approached from the trail looks like one thing, and from a long meandering bushwhack, like something else. I check for my signature. Heck I've even done it on a cache where I was first to find. I've done it with a buddy, and it turned out we'd BOTH found it before, and yet we both had it in our PQs and neither of us recalled it. Ammo can, UPS, big oak. Nice cache in a nice section of the forest, but clearly not all that memorable....although I guess that's a function of memory, perhaps, more than of the cache itself I occasionally cache with a guy with several multiples more finds than I. He remembers each one of them... in detail. I find this staggering. Quote Link to comment
Travelingtacks Posted October 3, 2009 Share Posted October 3, 2009 Have you ever RE-found a geocache because you forgot to log your find? We have RE-found many geocaches. Somehow we miss logging our find, and the cache gets back on our list of caches to find. As we arrive at the cache site, we all say "Hey.... we already found this one.....it's right over there". Does this happen to you? Yes, This has happened to me. It must be something in the water, I'm in Port Hueneme. We cache in the same neck of the woods Quote Link to comment
GOF and Bacall Posted October 3, 2009 Share Posted October 3, 2009 Have you ever RE-found a geocache because you forgot to log your find? We have RE-found many geocaches. Somehow we miss logging our find, and the cache gets back on our list of caches to find. As we arrive at the cache site, we all say "Hey.... we already found this one.....it's right over there". Does this happen to you? I believe this may be a drawback to the high volume caching lifestyle. I have never experienced this particular challenge. I'm not what you would call a high volume cacher. A dozen caches in a day would be an extremely busy day for me. And I have gone after a cache and not realized I had already found it until I got there. Quote Link to comment
+Cache O'Plenty Posted October 3, 2009 Share Posted October 3, 2009 I hate getting old..... Quote Link to comment
+ventura_kids Posted October 3, 2009 Author Share Posted October 3, 2009 Sometimes my better half accompanies me when caching. When she does, she does the "paperwork" on the PDA. And, sometimes "forgets". So, recently, I went to a cache and thought it was familiar but having seen dozens of this particular type hide (no, it wasn't a LPC), looked anyway. Upon opening the log, there was my signature several months earlier. Had to go backdate the cache page with the original find date. That messed up the subsequent milestones!!!! So, yes, I've done it. I use the same method....I've tried to blame the Paperwork, but it doesn't seem to work out. So now, I throw out the paper list after we are done logging...just in case it IS my fault. Quote Link to comment
+Turtle_Sask Posted October 3, 2009 Share Posted October 3, 2009 Never happens to me because I log my finds as soon as I get home Quote Link to comment
+ventura_kids Posted October 3, 2009 Author Share Posted October 3, 2009 There is an advantage to logging live as you find them. This Re-finding probably doesn't happen to those lucky cachers. Sometimes we drive around caching from state to state, and use a different color pen for each day. When we get home, it takes me a week or so of logging to get them all logged. Our gsak printout gets to be a big scribbly mess. Quote Link to comment
+carleenp Posted October 3, 2009 Share Posted October 3, 2009 Now that I tend to get horribly behind on logging, it is bound to happen. I also revisited one a couple of years ago with friends and things were not filtered for my finds. It was not in my normal caching area and I had found the cache in 2002 when it was pretty much the only cache in that area and I was traveling through. As we started walking toward it I suddenly got a sense of deja vu and then realized where we were going. That was kind of fun, especially since it is also a pretty neat cache. Quote Link to comment
+KBI Posted October 3, 2009 Share Posted October 3, 2009 Have you ever RE-found a geocache because you forgot to log your find? We have RE-found many geocaches. Somehow we miss logging our find, and the cache gets back on our list of caches to find. As we arrive at the cache site, we all say "Hey.... we already found this one.....it's right over there". Does this happen to you? In order to find a cache twice one must first find it once, so ... no, it has never happened to me. (I KNEW there would someday be an advantage to all my DNFs!) Quote Link to comment
+Sagefox Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 Have you ever RE-found a geocache because you forgot to log your find? Yep. Every once-in-a-while I get to a cache site and say to myself, "Haven't we been here before? (I always refer to myself in the plural when asking myself a question.) Isn't the cache hidden right over there?" Then I feel lucky that we get to log that cache as found. Quote Link to comment
+geodarts Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 My old gpsr used to drop caches marked as found and I occasionally forgot to log some. If I was with friends I could rely on their logs to doublecheck things. But sometimes it was hard to remember one lamp post hide from another, particularly on a day when there were a lot of caches to log. Sometimes they got lost in a list of GC codes. Sometimes I was traveling and could not log right away. Now that I can upload field notes there is less excuse to forget either a find or dnf. Of course it is still hard to come up with something original to say about a cache that I can't remember much about. Quote Link to comment
+rob3k Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 Hasn't happened to me, but I was looking at the google map near my home and noticed a very nearby cache I hadn't found yet. When I pulled up the page I realized I had found it the week before. Makes me wonder if I haven't forgotten to log a few. I typically use field notes and then log from those, but this was one I found when I was out and about and didn't bother using field notes as it was a one-off. Quote Link to comment
+Count Fartula Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 Groundspeak for iPhone has kept me away from this. Quote Link to comment
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