Confusing find count

[+Cacher_Penguin]

On geocaching.com - it says i have 212 finds.  Your Geocaching Logs (Filtered by Log Type) and filter it to 'found', it shows 206 'found' logs and my personal count, and in GSAK my find count is 208.

 

Please can someone help me make sense of this confusion

[+Hügh]

You have 213 finds, consisting of:

• 5 Adventure Lab caches
• 2 events (which are logged using the "Attended" log type, not the "Found it" log type)
• 206 geocaches

When you filter to the "Found it" log type, you have the 206. GSAK gives you the 206 caches + 2 events = 208 non-AL caches you've found.

Edited October 3 by Hügh

[+thebruce0]

Think of the number next to the smiles as "Smilies", not physical geocache 'finds' as implied by, well, "finds". The smiley count consists of multiple things, as Hugh mentions above.  I stopped calling them finds some time back because of this confusion...

[+gimligliders]

When we started caching in '09 (I sound like a geezer....), I decided to start a caching journal to document our finds. I notate the GC code, name of cache, D/T rating, size and CO's name. Sometimes I will write a few lines describing something funny, amazing or dramatic that happened while seeking the find. I indicate whether we favourited the cache, what number find it was for us and the day we made the find. This is all done in a little 3 1/2 by 6" hardcover book. Today I just filled up journal #10 after logging yesterday's finds. These journals have come in handy when I've had to determine whether we qualify for a challenge cache and it doesn't have a challenge checker. Once in a while just to reminisce, I will go back through the journals and read some of the accounts that I've written in the past....just narrowly missing an encounter with a nearby bear, how we managed to solve a difficult puzzle cache, encounters with other cachers (or muggles), the time my hubby climbed 20 feet up a tree to find a cache but had to come back down to get a pencil....The list goes on. It is so much fun to read these stories years later. 

 

One other added bonus to journaling our finds: as I log our finds online, I always make sure that the number indicating our finds beside our profile name in the upper RH corner of the webpage matches the number I have entered in the journal. This way I know that my records always match my online profile.

[+Hynz]

13 hours ago, gimligliders said:

Once in a while just to reminisce, I will go back through the journals and read some of the accounts that I've written in the past....just narrowly missing an encounter with a nearby bear, how we managed to solve a difficult puzzle cache, encounters with other cachers (or muggles), the time my hubby climbed 20 feet up a tree to find a cache but had to come back down to get a pencil....The list goes on. It is so much fun to read these stories years later. 

So your online logs do not contain these stories? Why do you exclude owners and other finders from that fun?

Even when some of your stories are only loosely connected to the cache find, as an owner I would be much more interested in those than in an other short and generic logtext.

Edited October 23 by Hynz