+SamLowrey Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 (edited) I was looking at the history of a finder to one of my recent caches. "Whoa, she was finding caches from 2001?" I don't think so. Finding caches before they were even published! Edited April 26, 2021 by SamLowrey 1 1 Quote Link to comment
+SamLowrey Posted April 26, 2021 Author Share Posted April 26, 2021 I'm sure she chose "2001" as the year but that shouldn't be an option if the cache was approves only in 2008! Quote Link to comment
Keystone Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 There is no functionality which prohibits a geocacher from logging a find dated prior to a cache's publication date. For example, a cache could have been listed previously on a different listing service or as a private cache or offered to a friend for "beta testing." (Not that any of those things occurred here.) Quote Link to comment
+oz_bean_counter Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 Definitely not a bug! I often hide a cache, leave it for a week, and ask a geocaching friend to check it for me. If all is working properly and it hasn't been muggled, I'll write up a cache page for submission. However, my geocaching friend will log it on the date he signed the log - which is going to be before the cache was published. Of course, no one claims FTF under these circumstances, but there is nothing stopping a pre-publication log. In this case, just a new cacher getting confused s/he will find their feet soon enough. 1 Quote Link to comment
+GeoElmo6000 Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 (edited) I have a geocaching friend who would sometimes archive a cache and hide another in the same spot. One time he archived a cache and a couple days later I visited the spot and there was a new cache! So I signed and dated the log, took a photo, and when the cache was published six days later, I logged the cache on the date I found it. FTF! That was fun! Edit to clarify: I didn't have any inside info that the cache would be there, I noticed a pattern of archive / publish in the same spot. So when I got an archive notice I joking thought that there would be another cache there soon. And lo and behold there was! Edited April 26, 2021 by GeoElmo6000 Added clarification note 1 3 1 Quote Link to comment
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