Oldest logbook still in use

[+duncanhoyle]

Having recently visited the 10th oldest cache in the UK (according to several bookmark lists) I was surprised to see that the logbook is still the original one from 2001. Not surprising really as it's only been found 68 times

 

Is there an older logbook still in use in the UK?

 

At the time I visited Scotland's First it still had the original logbook but I believe that this is now full and that there's a replacement.

[+Delta68]

GCF0 (oldest cache in UK) has the original logbook and container

 

 

Edited to add

Oh yeah, I just noticed that you mentioned that cache in your post

Edited June 17, 2013 by Delta68

[+duncanhoyle]

GCF0 (oldest cache in UK) has the original logbook and container

 

When I visited that cache in 2012 the log only had a few pages left. This log - http://coord.info/GLAPP6W5 mentions removing the original (because it was soaked) and says that they'll contact the owner to get it back to them. I doubt this happened as the owner hasn't logged into the site since 2004, hasn't logged any finds and has just this one hide.

 

I forgot to add a link to the old one I found - http://coord.info/GC132F in Reivers Revenge on the Scottish/English border

[+Delta68]

 

When I visited that cache in 2012 the log only had a few pages left. This log - http://coord.info/GLAPP6W5 mentions removing the original (because it was soaked)

 

That's a shame

In that case, yes Reivers is the oldest original log.

(We've found the 14 of the 15 oldest UK caches)

[+Eclectic Penguin]

I adopted a cache back in 2009 that had a log book that went back to September 2002 in it and ran continuously to 2009. It was in dire condition - one stage removed from pulp - but with a little bit of TLC, I recovered it. As I felt this is quite an important historic document charting how we log our finds over the first decade of Geocaching, I photographed every page and put them online at:

http://www.eclectic-penguin.org.uk/CCCLogBook/

 

I have since taken over another early Welsh cache and it's logbook went back to 2001 (I don't have its date to hand). That may well get the same treatment at some point but in 2001, folk were leaving their email address along with other personal details so it would have to be an edited version of that log - and that's only 4 pieces of paper stapled together before being replaced by another book.

[+duncanhoyle]

GCF0 (oldest cache in UK) has the original logbook and container

 

When I visited that cache in 2012 the log only had a few pages left. This log - http://coord.info/GLAPP6W5 mentions removing the original (because it was soaked) and says that they'll contact the owner to get it back to them. I doubt this happened as the owner hasn't logged into the site since 2004, hasn't logged any finds and has just this one hide.

 

I forgot to add a link to the old one I found - http://coord.info/GC132F in Reivers Revenge on the Scottish/English border

 

Also forgot to say - it was still in good condition (except for a little mould on the cover) and wasn't even 1/4 the way through.

[+Eclectic Penguin]

Sorry to bring back an old topic, but in Ireland, I recently came across The Flying Dutchman (GC6689), placed on 20th of June 2002 on Sheep's Head Peninsula, west Co. Cork. It still has its original log book in place as of November 2014 with space to continue for a while yet. IF GCF0 no longer has its original log book in place, surely this is now a good contender for longest continual log book still in use in the UK and Ireland - and almost certainly Ireland?

 

I left it in place after signing it, but not after photographing each page. I've made the photographic record available here:

http://www.eclectic-penguin.org.uk/flyingDutchman

 

It makes for a very interesting read as to how logging in the field has changed since the early days of Geocaching.

[+Happy Humphrey]

It makes for a very interesting read as to how logging in the field has changed since the early days of Geocaching.

 

Link to the cache page.

 

Very interesting. Thanks for doing that! I see my entry in May 2005 ran to a whole page - I'm rarely that wordy in the field nowadays.

[+duncanhoyle]

GCF0 (oldest cache in UK) has the original logbook and container

 

When I visited that cache in 2012 the log only had a few pages left. This log - http://coord.info/GLAPP6W5 mentions removing the original (because it was soaked) and says that they'll contact the owner to get it back to them. I doubt this happened as the owner hasn't logged into the site since 2004, hasn't logged any finds and has just this one hide.

 

I forgot to add a link to the old one I found - http://coord.info/GC132F in Reivers Revenge on the Scottish/English border

 

Also forgot to say - it was still in good condition (except for a little mould on the cover) and wasn't even 1/4 the way through.

 

A nice idea. I heard that was the plan for the log book removed from Scotland's First (GCF0) and the log was going to be taken to a Mega. Anyone know if this happened or has the log ended up in a pile of rubbish on a cacher's desk?

[+Maple Leaf]

A nice idea. I heard that was the plan for the log book removed from Scotland's First (GCF0) and the log was going to be taken to a Mega. Anyone know if this happened or has the log ended up in a pile of rubbish on a cacher's desk?

 

The orginal log book was returned to the cache during the 'UK Mega Lunch on Scotland's First' event on 30th July 2014 and several people mention in their logs on GCF0 that they signed the original book that had just arrived. - but I am not sure which cacher took it back up.

Edited January 6, 2015 by Maple Leaf