+dadandluc Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 I have a trackable geo coin making the rounds..Somebody logged that they discovered it... Does that just mean they found it in a cache,but left it in the same place?? Thats what im assuming or am I wrong? Quote Link to comment
+Gitchee-Gummee Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 (edited) That is basically what it means, but not necessarily in a cache. If you were to have looked closer, you would see that Bando25 Discovered three trackables all on the same day, at or about the time that all three were in the possession of Catcalls. It would seem to me that they either know one another or met happenstance while out geocaching. Both are newbie cachers... they probably know one another. It would be nice if a "Discoverer" cacher were to say something in the log, but more and more, fewer don't do that. That log-type (I believe) was intended to tell the Owner that the trackable was yet alive and well, though not moved at that time. Now, folks seem to just use that log-type to bump their own stats and little more. Edited February 9, 2014 by Gitchee-Gummee Quote Link to comment
+Chief301 Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 If you come across any kind if trackable in a cache and want to indicate that you found it but don't want to take it and move it along, you log a Discovered and leave it in place. Trackables are also often passed around at events so people can log a Discovered on them. Sometimes these trackables are temporarily in the hands of a cacher while they are moving it along to another cache, and sometimes the trackable belongs to the cacher and is permanently in thier possession, and they bring it out at events for discovery or just log a Visit to caches they find. I have a personal Geocoin I won at the first event I attended, and I Visit it to all the caches I've found since then as a means of tracking the miles I've travelled caching. Quote Link to comment
+dadandluc Posted February 9, 2014 Author Share Posted February 9, 2014 Glitchee-Gummee,Chief301, Thanks for the answers, you both brought up some very good points I had not thought of... Quote Link to comment
+Gitchee-Gummee Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Glitchee-Gummee,Chief301, Thanks for the answers, you both brought up some very good points I had not thought of... Please don't change my name, I like the one I have. I know... I know, those typos just creep up sometimes. Nasty things! Pretty much like a glitch. Quote Link to comment
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