+StumblinMonk Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 I went to do some cache maintenance tonight, and I cannot find one of my hides. After the recent weather, and the washout in the area of the hide I am not that surprised. Do any of you make any attempt to preserve the original paper log? Would you print the one of the cache page and leave or just start fresh? Quote Link to comment
+Max and 99 Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 3 minutes ago, StumblinMonk said: I went to do some cache maintenance tonight, and I cannot find one of my hides. After the recent weather, and the washout in the area of the hide I am not that surprised. Do any of you make any attempt to preserve the original paper log? Would you print the one of the cache page and leave or just start fresh? Start fresh. I've never seen a replacement log include the online entries. 1 Quote Link to comment
+The A-Team Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 17 minutes ago, Max and 99 said: Start fresh. I've never seen a replacement log include the online entries. That's my vote too. Restoring the older logs could be interesting if there's room to do so, but it certainly isn't necessary. Quote Link to comment
+niraD Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 Yep. The replacement log often has "Replacement" written at the top, but generally doesn't have the names of any of the geocachers who found the cache before the log went missing. 1 Quote Link to comment
+GrateBear Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 Glad to know I'm not the only one who could not find their own cache! Has happened to me twice, so just archived them. I even looked a few times for both, but no luck. Quote Link to comment
+MNTA Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 You may want to move it to higher ground so to speak if the area supports it. Quote Link to comment
+cerberus1 Posted August 21, 2018 Share Posted August 21, 2018 We save all logs, but if we lost one, we wouldn't print out past finders from the cache page, just start from scratch. Quote Link to comment
+StumblinMonk Posted August 21, 2018 Author Share Posted August 21, 2018 12 hours ago, MNTA said: You may want to move it to higher ground so to speak if the area supports it. It is fairly high to begin with. We have been washed out the last month with a ton of rain. It is being replaced with an ammo can, so I hope it will not disappear as easily. Thank you all for the input. Quote Link to comment
+Fugads Posted August 21, 2018 Share Posted August 21, 2018 To throw out a contrary opinion to most of the previous responses: I have seen folks fill in previous finders on a replacement logsheet where the cache is one that requires special effort to find. High D/T ratings, tough puzzle that kind of thing. In these cases, the logsheet becomes a list of the "elite" who went through the effort to find this crazy cache, and I do not fault COs for wanting to maintain the physical list. As a finder of some of these, I appreciate this gesture by the CO, it makes me smile. But it is a pretty silly gesture when you think about it. So I'd say, if you want to have the replacement log show all the previous finders, go for it. Quote Link to comment
+sasquatchlover Posted August 26, 2018 Share Posted August 26, 2018 On 8/20/2018 at 7:30 PM, GrateBear said: Glad to know I'm not the only one who could not find their own cache! Has happened to me twice, so just archived them. I even looked a few times for both, but no luck. Hi. Instead of archiving why would you not just put a new container in the missing cache spot since it's your cache? Did you get tired of missing containers or something? Quote Link to comment
+StumblinMonk Posted August 27, 2018 Author Share Posted August 27, 2018 On 8/21/2018 at 10:07 AM, Fugads said: To throw out a contrary opinion to most of the previous responses: I have seen folks fill in previous finders on a replacement logsheet where the cache is one that requires special effort to find. High D/T ratings, tough puzzle that kind of thing. In these cases, the logsheet becomes a list of the "elite" who went through the effort to find this crazy cache, and I do not fault COs for wanting to maintain the physical list. As a finder of some of these, I appreciate this gesture by the CO, it makes me smile. But it is a pretty silly gesture when you think about it. So I'd say, if you want to have the replacement log show all the previous finders, go for it. This is kind of what I was thinking, but my cache is not one that fits this model. This one is a very simple, off trail cache. Quote Link to comment
+Mudfrog Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 (edited) On 8/21/2018 at 7:11 AM, StumblinMonk said: It is fairly high to begin with. We have been washed out the last month with a ton of rain. It is being replaced with an ammo can, so I hope it will not disappear as easily. Thank you all for the input. I've been in the habit of tethering just about all our hides, even those in dry areas. Trotline string isn't too conspicuous, is easy too work with, and lasts a long time. I have caches placed along a bayou that go under water from time to time and rarely have problems with them going anywhere. Edited August 27, 2018 by Mudfrog mispelling Quote Link to comment
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