"Signature" Log sign?

[+hunter259]

Hey. Me again.

 

I was just curious. What are ways you guys leave your special marks on log books?

I (somewhat recently) started adding a reticle where I sign. (Reticle = my profile pic)

 

I know a lot of people have stamps...

 

 

hunter259

[+fuzzybelly]

I use a purple pen to sign. I mean a pen with purple ink, not a purple pen with blue or black ink.

 

did any of that make since

[DannyCaffeine]

Sometimes I draw a bus if it is a big log book. I cache by public transit since I don't own a car. People call me bus cacher sometimes because I have gotten 305 caches without using a car. Not too many people can do that haha.

[+hunter259]

Sometimes I draw a bus if it is a big log book. I cache by public transit since I don't own a car. People call me bus cacher sometimes because I have gotten 305 caches without using a car. Not too many people can do that haha.

 

That's pretty cool!

[team tisri]

Hey. Me again.

 

I was just curious. What are ways you guys leave your special marks on log books?

I (somewhat recently) started adding a reticle where I sign. (Reticle = my profile pic)

 

I know a lot of people have stamps...

 

hunter259

 

I normally write "team tisri" or "tisri" depending on space in the log. Sorry it's nothing more inventive than that...

[+Ambrosia]

I will add a smiley face if there's room. I used to buy smiley stickers and add them to my own cache log books and some finds, but I haven't done that for a while.

[+Heli Leo]

I sign with R&V if my wife is with me or R&J if my caching buddy is with me. I then mention this in the online log.

[+DoverRamCachers]

I sign DoverRamCachers or DRC if there is limited space. I too would like to have a special signature but I haven't come up with anything creative.

[+The Leprechauns]

In the early days of geocaching, most caches were big enough to hold real log books - notebooks where you could write a sentence or a paragraph. As a newbie, I felt bad that I "wasn't writing enough." So, I came up with the opening phrase of "The Leprechauns found it!" and the closing phrase: "May the luck of the Irish be with you on all your cache hunts." And, for a couple years, I used a rubber stamp: an elf stamp for an average cache, and a shamrock stamp as a secret code that I really liked the cache.

 

Nowadays most logs are micro scrolls so it's hard to do much. I still write my signature phrase from time to time when I find a cache with a decent log book, especially if it's at the end of a good hike and I am sitting down to rest before hiking back. For a smaller log, I'll write "The Leprechauns found it!" or "Leprechauns." For a nano log in my home area, "Lep" is good enough to identify me.

 

I miss the good ol' days. Here is a sample picture of a log for a cache I found with mtn-man back in 2007:

 

Edited December 27, 2013 by The Leprechauns

[+JesandTodd]

I will add a smiley face if there's room. I used to buy smiley stickers and add them to my own cache log books and some finds, but I haven't done that for a while.

 

Haha-me too! Used to buy small smiley stickers and now just toss a smiley at the end of my sig.

[+Ambrosia]

I will add a smiley face if there's room. I used to buy smiley stickers and add them to my own cache log books and some finds, but I haven't done that for a while.

 

Haha-me too! Used to buy small smiley stickers and now just toss a smiley at the end of my sig.

Must be something about Washington.

[+Sharks-N-Beans]

Usually just Sharks-n-Beans. Micro logs get "S-N-B". Sometimes just trying to leave a mark like below:

Forgot to mention in our log that we left the pen in the car and managed to make some field ink from a local plant and signed "SNB" with a stick. If another finder could add some real ink to that before it fades it will be much appreciated. Thanks!

[+popokiiti]

Depending on the size of the log, my full caching name, P.Iti or PI. I try to let the CO know if I have used the last one in my inline log.

[+wmpastor]

I use a purple pen to sign. I mean a pen with purple ink, not a purple pen with blue or black ink.

 

did any of that make since

Yes, now that you explained in detail, we grasp the esoteric nuances of your utterance.

[+wmpastor]

In the early days of geocaching, most caches were big enough to hold real log books - notebooks where you could write a sentence or a paragraph. As a newbie, I felt bad that I "wasn't writing enough." So, I came up with the opening phrase of "The Leprechauns found it!" and the closing phrase: "May the luck of the Irish be with you on all your cache hunts." And, for a couple years, I used a rubber stamp: an elf stamp for an average cache, and a shamrock stamp as a secret code that I really liked the cache.

 

Nowadays most logs are micro scrolls so it's hard to do much. I still write my signature phrase from time to time when I find a cache with a decent log book, especially if it's at the end of a good hike and I am sitting down to rest before hiking back. For a smaller log, I'll write "The Leprechauns found it!" or "Leprechauns." For a nano log in my home area, "Lep" is good enough to identify me.

 

I miss the good ol' days. Here is a sample picture of a log for a cache I found with mtn-man back in 2007:

 

 

Some of us will make the online log entry detailed like that. You've got to remember that computerization wasn't as far along way back in 2007!

[+hunter259]

These are all pretty neat, thanks for sharing.

[+Dogmeat*]

I turn the M and E into one letter, and draw a scribble for the *.

[+BBWolf+3Pigs]

I've been trying to sign all my logs with a blaze orange (fluorescent orange) Sharpie.

[team tisri]

Sometimes I draw a bus if it is a big log book. I cache by public transit since I don't own a car. People call me bus cacher sometimes because I have gotten 305 caches without using a car. Not too many people can do that haha.

 

I've got several hundred without using a car, but then I live in an urban area where caching by bicycle is not only viable but probably easier than using a car in many ways.

[+OZ2CPU]

well in the old days I wrote more in the paper log and less in the online log,

then I realized the paper log got a much shorter life, and much less people sit and read in it,

so today I write as little as possible in the paper log, and as much as I feel is needed in the online log,

this way I share more, with more people.

I also write funny faces and smily faces and such

if I feel the size and time call for it.

 

(if I power cache, I use my stamp)

 

Date and time is not required, but can be fun to add some times,

I find it funny to know another person found the same cache 14 mins ago :-)

if you do add date (or time) make sure it is correct..

Edited January 3, 2014 by OZ2CPU

[+The Lazy Sunbathers]

When I started my profile it was set up as a family account hence the lazy sunbatherS. Now I just use Sunbather Adam or Sunbather Eliza and so on for who nabs it. For nanos and micros it's a simple TLS.

 

I do often think of getting a custom sticker or stamp at times though but I'm way to cheap.

[+jellis]

Mine is a small stamp just simply

jellis

since 2006

I know I really wasn't but that's when I started.

[+beauxeault]

 

If there's room I'll add this after "beauxeault."

 

Oops, sorry. It looks like my dropbox link is not working. The image is a simple line drawing of a circle (representing a clown's nose) wrapped on the bottom with a "hotdog" shape with a smile in it (representing a clown's painted smile).

Edited January 14, 2014 by beauxeault

[+TheHarleyRebel]

If there is space "TheHarleyRebels" or is not "TheHarley"

[+TrinIzzyCar]

TrinIzzyCar or TICwith micro logs a smiley face when there is room

[+TopHatSnake]

I always sign with green ink (I'm a gardener). I've actually walked away from caches, leaving them unsigned and with smiley unclaimed because I didn't have a green pen. If there's room I'll also leave my snake-wearing-a-top-hat insignia. I draw a lowercase Y with a forked tail, and give it two eyes and a top hat. If there's more space I'll also leave a note about my adventure, and express appreciation for the cache.

[+geodarts]

I have a stamp that is based on my caching avatar. I use that for letterboxes (both hybrid caches and traditional letterboxes listed on separate sites). When there is room I will stamp a log book for other caches, but the old style log books are a rarity these days.

 

I sometimes sign with a couple of circles and something that might be a dart going through them, along with my initials (GD), given my sloppy writing in general, the symbol could be mistaken for an OK, but that probably works as well,

 

Other than that, my normal signature borders on being illegible so I tend to use my initials (or if I lost my pen, a scrawl using a leaf). I used to use my last name as my user name on this site and sign logs with my first name. One cacher that came after me felt compelled to state that he only saw a scrawl that looked like an A on the previous log. Today, I suppose someone like that would note that all they saw on the log was a squiggly drawing and writing of some sort.

Edited January 17, 2014 by geodarts

[+Pork King]

I used to carry address labels with a previous avatar (pig sitting on a throne) saying "Pork King was here!" and the # find it was.

 

Nowadays I go by the sig of "Pork King was here!", also known in these precincts as just "Pork King" or, to those who're pressed for time, "PK", tout court.

[+SoonerCardsFan]

Since so many of my finds are bisons/nanos I started abbreviating to SS. Now I sign everything SS. In red ink of course, the color of the Sooners.

[+TerraViators]

I rarely date log sheets/books and usually sign my full username or TV.

[+Johnnyhotcakes]

I sign "Johnnyhotcakes was here" and leave my calling card

[Luckless]

I usually sign the logs: Luckless was here, as Kilroy used to do.

[+PurpleCatPaws]

I always sign in purple ink, plus if there's room I use a small paw print rubber stamp (with purple ink of course)!

[+elrojo14]

I always try to sign in red ink.

[+wv-yen]

I sign wvyen (short for West Virginian) and either draw a star or leave a glow in the dark star sticker. In larger caches I leave a plastic glow star. If Paul is with me then it's Wvyen and PTpapa or just WV & PT with a star for nanos.

[+beauxeault]

I think I've fixed the problem I had earlier with posting a picture. If so, here's what I use sometimes when there's room on the log sheet.

[+hobgoblinkiteflier]

I usually handwrite my username (I wish someone had told me when I chose it - but "hobgoblin" and "kiteflier" had already been taken ). If there's lots of room I use my stamp, and if there is hardly any, I use "HGKF".

[Andronicus]

I sign with my caching name (Andronicus) and the data in dd MMMM, yyyy format. On new caches I include the time.

[+Lloyd & Harry]

I usually see stamps or really tiny printed labels with their image and name on it.