Fish-bone Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 Hi Everybody, I finally got around to creating a Geocaching ID today. To give you some history, I have been tagging along with a few of my friends who cache for the better part of 2 years. I enjoyed the hiking aspect of caching but was never interested in actually logging anything. Now, almost 2 years later my friends have talked me into creating an account. Now that I have done so, are there rules or more importantly ethics issues with me going back and logging my finds? For the most part I always put my name in the log book (I used my real name not my caching name). Thanks, F-B Quote Link to comment
+StarBrand Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 No problem - go ahead and log them. Approximate the correct date and add a note that you were with xx and yy while visiting the cache. Quote Link to comment
+baloo&bd Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 Go for it. There are active cachers that don't log for months or even years. No time limits on logging a find. Quote Link to comment
+CacheKidz! Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 What you can do as far as the dates of the finds, go to your friends profile and pull up their geocaches found. Scroll and click through the ones you know you were with them hiking, see when they made their entry, click on log it, change the date and add your comment. I do this with my daughters caches. CacheKidz! Quote Link to comment
+Lil Devil Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 I've been an active cacher for almost 10 years, yet I'm about a year and a half behind in my logging. I love to find 'em, but I don't enjoy logging 'em. Quote Link to comment
mresoteric Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 We found several caches before we created our account. I logged them on the dates we found them. Someone emailed me later and asked about it. I explained why and they said it was ok. In hindsight, I think it would have been better to explain it in the logs. It just didn't occur to me at the time. Quote Link to comment
Clan Riffster Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 I think it would have been better to explain it in the logs. Echoing that. While there's certainly no requirement, it might be good to add a copy/paste blurb to your logs, to the effect of: I did not have a geocaching account when I found this with Bill and Fred, so I signed my real name in the logbook. Now that I have an account, I'm playing catch up. Sorry for the late log! Quote Link to comment
+TerraViators Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 OK in my book. I've heard of cachers having issue with having logs deleted because the CO deemed this as too old. Quote Link to comment
+Sol seaker Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 I think it would have been better to explain it in the logs. Echoing that. While there's certainly no requirement, it might be good to add a copy/paste blurb to your logs, to the effect of: I did not have a geocaching account when I found this with Bill and Fred, so I signed my real name in the logbook. Now that I have an account, I'm playing catch up. Sorry for the late log! Yes this is really good. Also I might add, "contact me for questions" I ended up doing some late logs once, and wrote that in the online log. It seemed to help. A few of the cache owners did contact me but most I never heard from. No one deleted my logs. Quote Link to comment
+lamoracke Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 well, I would say logging caches after you find them is better than before the fact. Quote Link to comment
+hukilaulau Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 Definitely log them. How did you avoid getting hooked right away? Quote Link to comment
4wheelin_fool Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 Hi Everybody, I finally got around to creating a Geocaching ID today. To give you some history, I have been tagging along with a few of my friends who cache for the better part of 2 years. I enjoyed the hiking aspect of caching but was never interested in actually logging anything. Now, almost 2 years later my friends have talked me into creating an account. Now that I have done so, are there rules or more importantly ethics issues with me going back and logging my finds? For the most part I always put my name in the log book (I used my real name not my caching name). Thanks, F-B Thats fine. You can figure out the dates from the times that your friends visited. However to bump old threads you need to have an account at least as old as the thread, and be wearing flameproof material. Quote Link to comment
4wheelin_fool Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 We found several caches before we created our account. I logged them on the dates we found them. Someone emailed me later and asked about it. I explained why and they said it was ok. In hindsight, I think it would have been better to explain it in the logs. It just didn't occur to me at the time. I'm just curious, how did you get the coords? Quote Link to comment
mresoteric Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 My brother gave me the coordinates for a few caches around the house. Quote Link to comment
Fish-bone Posted February 23, 2011 Author Share Posted February 23, 2011 (edited) Hi Everybody, Thanks so much for the feedback. KYVVV YIV PPPKY (/2 - .5) I am going to put together a list and start logging. From and newish user, Thanks. FB Edited February 23, 2011 by Fish-bone Quote Link to comment
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