+NYPaddleCacher Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 In some other threads I recently read about a couple of interesting variations on the log book. One mentioned a "log cabin" constructed out of rolls of log sheets. Another was "a cache" that just consisted of a zip tie (let's not debate whether such a cache should have been published). I recently found a cache with a log book constructed from thin sheets of cork. I thought an "unique and interesting log books" thread might be interesting. What are the some of the non-standard log books/sheets that you've encountered? Quote Link to comment
+coachstahly Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 I've come across a log that was actually a log without the bark. I've also found a broom handle (the entire handle) that was the log and cache. GWSX had a real Jeep that was used as a log for an event. One other I can think of off the top of my head was a pine block, about 6 x 6 inches. Quote Link to comment
iWikeCake Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 This one: https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC1X8TD_keeping-santa-cruz-weird?guid=fdab9d77-db12-4095-86f4-283118790c3d It's a large life-like doll who holds a sharpie for you to sign her body. Scary! Read the logs. Quote Link to comment
+Meow&Purr Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 This one: https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC1X8TD_keeping-santa-cruz-weird?guid=fdab9d77-db12-4095-86f4-283118790c3d It's a large life-like doll who holds a sharpie for you to sign her body. Scary! Read the logs. Oh now that's cool. I'd like to see pictures though, didn't see any on the found logs.. Quote Link to comment
+ODragon Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 Many years ago I found a multi cache where the first stage was a toy oven with coordinates and a notepad in it. The notepad was shaped like cookies. You were to take a page and take it to the final coordinates (which was a cookie jar). Quote Link to comment
+Wet Pancake Touring Club Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 This cache (GCHQJHM) doesn't have anything unique about its physical characteristics, it's just a yellow pad inside a wooden box. What I find interesting is that this yellow pad does double duty, as it is also the visitor's log for the kiosk and informational display panels. So, if you are regular visitor, you are unknowingly signing a geocaching log. Quote Link to comment
+Astro_D Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 I came across a cache where the log was a rolled up window shade placed amongst branches. You unrolled it to sign. It was pretty cool. Quote Link to comment
+L0ne.R Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 This one is traditional paper but the cover isn't traditional (found this image in the official Geocaching blog): Quote Link to comment
+secretagentbill Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 I found one with a pair of underwear and a sharpie. Quote Link to comment
+zoothornrollo Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 In our first few months of caching, we found one in New Mexico that had a metal tape measure that you pulled out and signed with a sharpie. (In fact, we stole the idea for one of our own caches.) Our favorite one we signed is the trail log on the Bright Angel Trail at the bottom of the Grand Canyon . . . it also counts as a traditional cache. Quote Link to comment
+L0ne.R Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 A few years ago I visited a leave-something-take-something kiosk in a small island community. The CO asked that we sign the back of the doors on the kiosk. Quote Link to comment
+The A-Team Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 Standard but BIG I own one like that, but it also has a giant pen. Quote Link to comment
+The A-Team Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 One cache I found was a decent-sized box filled with ~100-200 popsicle sticks and a Sharpie, and each cacher signs one stick. Part of the fun (challenge?) is finding a blank stick to sign. Quote Link to comment
+Ringrat Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 I've found a couple that are rolls of film. Pull out & sign the film. Quote Link to comment
+Wet Pancake Touring Club Posted May 6, 2016 Share Posted May 6, 2016 Here's one where the log is the container. You can sign the walls, ceiling or floor. The container is about 12' long, 4' wide, and 7' tall. Check out the gallery. Quote Link to comment
+L0ne.R Posted May 6, 2016 Share Posted May 6, 2016 Standard but BIG I own one like that, but it also has a giant pen. Do you get real messages? Not just trailnames. Has anyone taken a whole page to leave a message? I'm impressed with all the attention to detail - the big logbook, the big pen and all the camo spray paint on that barrel. You must have used up a couple of cans of spray paint. Very generous and fun. Quote Link to comment
+KatnissRue Posted May 6, 2016 Share Posted May 6, 2016 I don't have an actual picture, but I created two logbooks for some anime themed Geocaches that look like death notes. Image of what death notes are below. Quote Link to comment
+OwenfromKC Posted May 6, 2016 Share Posted May 6, 2016 (edited) .Apparently I don't know what I am doing and can't delete a post. Please move along nothing to see here. Edited May 6, 2016 by OwenfromKC Quote Link to comment
+NYPaddleCacher Posted May 6, 2016 Author Share Posted May 6, 2016 Here's one where the log is the container. You can sign the walls, ceiling or floor. The container is about 12' long, 4' wide, and 7' tall. Check out the gallery. I found a similar one that was a large culvert pipe about 6' in diameter that had been removed after the new one was installed. It had a box stuck to the side with magnets containing sticky notes and was a "fridge magnet" themed cache. All the swag was stuck to the inside of the pipe. Quote Link to comment
+The Happy Hodag! Posted May 7, 2016 Share Posted May 7, 2016 I was FTF on a film can in a guardrail. Pretty boring at first glance, until you popped it open to find the logbook was in a roll of film. -The Happy Hodag! Quote Link to comment
+wimseyguy Posted May 7, 2016 Share Posted May 7, 2016 The final stage of this one is an approved graffiti zone on a college campus. You can paint your name right on the wall as big as you want to. Probably wouldn't get published under today's guidelines without special permission from HQ. But there were only 3-4 guidelines back in '03. Quote Link to comment
+speakers-corner Posted May 7, 2016 Share Posted May 7, 2016 I was FTF on a film can in a guardrail. Pretty boring at first glance, until you popped it open to find the logbook was in a roll of film. -The Happy Hodag! I wonder if it was one of mine. I make them all the time. Quote Link to comment
+speakers-corner Posted May 7, 2016 Share Posted May 7, 2016 Hows this for a log book. The Cache is in the bottom left Corner. This was taken at the 1st Giga-Event in München. Quote Link to comment
+JohnCNA Posted May 8, 2016 Share Posted May 8, 2016 (edited) This one had a whole building as the log. http://coord.info/GC2XZER Edited May 8, 2016 by JohnCNA Quote Link to comment
+NYPaddleCacher Posted May 8, 2016 Author Share Posted May 8, 2016 This one had a whole building as the log. http://coord.info/GC2XZER And yet it has 18 DNFs? Quote Link to comment
+The Happy Hodag! Posted May 9, 2016 Share Posted May 9, 2016 This one had a whole building as the log. http://coord.info/GC2XZER And yet it has 18 DNFs? Apparently there's an actual cache there in addition to the building. I found this one last October and simply signed the building. -The Happy Hodag1 Quote Link to comment
JujuBabe Posted May 9, 2016 Share Posted May 9, 2016 This one had a whole building as the log. http://coord.info/GC2XZER Isn't there supposed to be a container and a logbook? Quote Link to comment
+NYPaddleCacher Posted May 10, 2016 Author Share Posted May 10, 2016 This one had a whole building as the log. http://coord.info/GC2XZER Isn't there supposed to be a container and a logbook? Yes, yes there is. However, it was not my intention when starting this thread to identify caches which only included a log book. Nothing to see here, reviewers. Please move along. May I suggest for future response that people don't identify the cache if it doesn't have a container and a physical log. Quote Link to comment
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