+BWidget Posted January 22, 2003 Share Posted January 22, 2003 Is it acceptable to log a bug as picked up and then placed in the same cache? This way I could track the bug's I've found. I was just wondering if it was generally accepted or if it was frowned upon. Thanks Quote Link to comment
+Webfoot Posted January 22, 2003 Share Posted January 22, 2003 quote:Originally posted by TheWidget:Is it acceptable to log a bug as picked up and then placed in the same cache? This way I could track the bug's I've found. I was just wondering if it was generally accepted or if it was frowned upon. Thanks I'm not sure I'd do it that way. Sure you could do it, but why not just use the watch list? You can add travel bugs to your watch list just as easily as caches. You get email notifications when the bugs move or are placed in another cache. Webfoot My hobby? Tromping through the underbrush looking for Tupperware containers. Quote Link to comment
+nincehelser Posted January 22, 2003 Share Posted January 22, 2003 It does nothing to help the TB in its mission. George Quote Link to comment
+evergreenhiker! Posted January 22, 2003 Share Posted January 22, 2003 It's fine. I do that. There have been times that I've found a few travel bugs in the box. Rather than take all of them, I just take one or two and log the numbers of the others so I can put them on my list. Quote Link to comment
+Webfoot Posted January 22, 2003 Share Posted January 22, 2003 quote:Originally posted by evergreenhiker!:It's fine. I do that. There have been times that I've found a few travel bugs in the box. Rather than take all of them, I just take one or two and log the numbers of the others so I can put them on my list. But you can put them on your list without logging them. I'm not sure I understand the logic of logging the bug. Webfoot My hobby? Tromping through the underbrush looking for Tupperware containers. Quote Link to comment
The Artful Dodger Posted January 22, 2003 Share Posted January 22, 2003 Some TB's just want to meet as many geocachers as possible as opposed to traveling from A to B. Have a look at my Worldwide Geocaching Cap where I indicate that one can 'pick' it up and 'drop' it off in the same cache. Essentially, you have to figure out if the Travel Bug wants to travel or meet people (or both ) Quote Link to comment
+nincehelser Posted January 22, 2003 Share Posted January 22, 2003 ...then it's OK, but I think logging a TB without moving it just to get it on your list is rather lame. George Quote Link to comment
+BWidget Posted January 23, 2003 Author Share Posted January 23, 2003 To me part of the fun of geocaching is finding a travel bug. If I don't know the goal of the TB or I know that I can't help it to it's goal I might not take it with me. Now I would like to keep track that I did find a TB. To do that I would log it as picked up/droped off at the cache I fould it. I don't want to 'watch' the TB, I don't need any more excess emails. Quote Link to comment
+Markwell Posted January 23, 2003 Share Posted January 23, 2003 quote:Originally posted by TheWidget:Now I would like to keep track that I did find a TB. To do that I would log it as picked up/droped off at the cache I fould it. Can't you do that by just posting a note to the bug? You have to have the number to post a note. I do believe that just by posting a note, the bug will show up on your "My Cache Page" without having to take it out of the cache and place it right back in. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. Markwell Chicago Geocaching Quote Link to comment
+WaldenRun Posted January 23, 2003 Share Posted January 23, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Markwell: quote:Originally posted by TheWidget:Now I would like to keep track that I did find a TB. To do that I would log it as picked up/droped off at the cache I fould it. Can't you do that by just posting a note to the bug? You have to have the number to post a note. I do believe that just by posting a note, the bug will show up on your "My Cache Page" without having to take it out of the cache and place it right back in. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. For reasons that escape me, when you log a 'note' using the bug ID#, the bug is 'retrieved' from the cache and put in your hands. ARRRGGHHH!! -WR "Why worry when you can obsess?" Quote Link to comment
+cachew nut Posted January 23, 2003 Share Posted January 23, 2003 quote:Originally posted by WaldenRun:For reasons that escape me, when you log a 'note' using the bug ID#, the bug is 'retrieved' from the cache and put in your hands. ARRRGGHHH!! You are not doing it correctly, we solved this mystery in this discussion. Quote Link to comment
+Webfoot Posted January 23, 2003 Share Posted January 23, 2003 quote:Originally posted by TheWidget:To me part of the fun of geocaching is finding a travel bug. If I don't know the goal of the TB or I know that I can't help it to it's goal I might not take it with me. Now I would like to keep track that I did find a TB. To do that I would log it as picked up/droped off at the cache I fould it. I don't want to 'watch' the TB, I don't need any more excess emails. OK. I understand what you're trying to do now. I hadn't thought about that. I've only found 9 travel bugs and I've picked everyone of them up. I've never just stumbled upon one, always have known that the bug was there in the cache when I went to get it. I see now that you're trying to create your own bug history and it makes sense what you're trying to do. For whatever reason, our area seems bereft of bugs. We just got a bug hotel and are getting another one in the area this weekend, so hopefully, the area around us will encourage some bug travelers to visit the area. Webfoot My hobby? Tromping through the underbrush looking for Tupperware containers. Quote Link to comment
+Treasure Hunters Inc. Posted January 25, 2003 Share Posted January 25, 2003 We have 'found' several TB's in caches which we didn't take because we couldn't help them on their goal or couldn't put into another cache soon, or they were in our own caches when doing maintenance, so we left them. We didn't post notes to the bug page and don't have the log numbers anymore. We don't have credit for finding them though and never will now I guess. $1000 Bill geocaching is living in a 30 foot circle Quote Link to comment
+chaosmanor Posted January 27, 2003 Share Posted January 27, 2003 I can certainly understand those who would answer in the affirmative, as I have made long drives to caches just because I saw that a TB was put in them. What some of us won't do! But, in the long run, the point of geocaching (for us) is to get out to a spot we've never been, and find a piece of plastic or metal with a few knick-knacks in it. If one of the gewgaws happens to be a TB, so much the better. And I can't remember ever leaving a Travel Bug in cache. So, the idea of logging a TB and then putting it back in the same cache just doesn't resonate with us. Still, a geocaching friend has been toying with the idea of a "personal" TB, which he would "drop, log and pick up" from every geocache he visits, except for maintenance on his own. This is backwards of the idea that started this thread, but the principle is related. I don't see anything wrong with either idea; I just don't know that I would do it myself. Quote Link to comment
+nincehelser Posted January 27, 2003 Share Posted January 27, 2003 ...it's INCREDIBLY lame. I just released 2 more travel bugs in the past week, and I like to see them get up and moving. I thought about how I would feel if someone picked them up and just put it back in the same cache! ARGH! As a TB owner, I'd get a message the bug was retrieved! Cool! Then I see it's right back where it started. Not-So-Cool. I paid money to see this?! Travel bugs are meant to travel. Picking them up and putting them back just defeats the whole purpose. I'd probably delete "pick-up then drop-off in the same cache" logs. Hope I don't see any. George Quote Link to comment
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