No Pencil/pen ...how To Log?

[+Kitch]

Did you know that you could write on a piece of paper with a travel bug tag....the metal leaves a pencil like line when using the edge of the tag to write with.

 

any other ideas on how to log without your pencil/pen because you left it in the car and not one in the cache???

[+Bloencustoms]

I have used a charred twig several times.

[+Dagg]

Dirt and stick

[+Snoogans]

When it's not IN the cache, I will replace it. I carry spare log books, pencils, and pens just for this purpose.

 

Sn gans

[+Halden]

A couple of inventive Cachers signed my log book with squished Berries when I forgot to put in a Pen or Pencil.

[umc]

We use blood here in Detroit

[+eroyd]

Frozen squirrel

[+JMBella]

I usually just stuff a kid in the cache and make him tell everyone I was there when they open it. It's a little tougher with micros.

[+Team Perks]

I just take the cache and log as a DNF. If I can't get credit for it, NOBODY WILL.

[+robert]

I've seen a key was used by a friend when I encountered the cache a few weeks after he found it. Too funny.

[+Johnnie Stalkers]

Steal the log book so no one can prove or disprove your find.

[+MountainMudbug]

My Mom and I recently employed the dirty-stick manuever when I forgot the pen in the car. She did a great job considering the tools - we still took a digital photo with the cache container as extra proof of our visit.

 

She was also smart enough to have brought along one of her signature sticker-label to put in the logbook. Now that I think about it, she spotted the cache, too. Outsmarted me on all counts

[+IV_Warrior]

Poke a series of holes in a page, to spell out your name and "found it".

[+briansnat]

I've used the lit end of a cigar and a twig dipped in mud.

[+Kitch]

oh...thank you for so many ideas....i was getting tired of trying to cut my finger on the edge of a ammo can or trying to find a thorn to prick it.

[+ohgr]

Cache pages signed by a bunch of cut up bloody cachers... Yummy....

 

We went to check on a cache after the fires here in CA, the only thing in the ammo can that survived was the log book, barely charred.... We used a burnt stick, as there were PLENTY of them around.

 

Ohgr

[gm100guy]

All I can say is when you find that cache that has no pencil, the next finder should not eat the yellow snow........

 

And take a picture and post it with your log.

 

That what we do in the Great White North.

 

[+res2100]

All I can say is that any good cacher will always carry a pen\pencil with them, just in case there isn't one in the cache. It is almost just as essential as spare batteries for your GPS.

[+carleenp]

I've used the lit end of a cigar

 

I'm picturing a guy wearing a nice smoking jacket while finding a 5/5 cache.

[+JMBella]

I've used the lit end of a cigar

 

I'm picturing a guy wearing a nice smoking jacket while finding a 5/5 cache.

Yea, that's pretty much what Brian looks like when he caches. How did you know?

[+Divine]

I've used the lit end of a cigar

I'm picturing a guy wearing a nice smoking jacket while finding a 5/5 cache.

Yea, that's pretty much what Brian looks like when he caches. How did you know?

The squid! Don't forget the squid!

 

ObTopic: Also I carry extra pens and pencils with me so I can replace the missing ones.

[Cholo]

How about earwax, it's water proof? In Wisconsin they use cheese, there's always some kind of cheese somewhere on some part of their bodies.

[+sea_dragon]

I haven't used it while caching, but a .44 slug will work. It can be a bit light, but it gets the job done. How'd the cigar work out? Must be a bummer on small log books....

 

Divine, does that mean that you regularly carry squid with you when you cache? Man, I thought that I took the marine bio thing to extremes.

[+Divine]

Divine, does that mean that you regularly carry squid with you when you cache? Man, I thought that I took the marine bio thing to extremes.

LOL, no, I was referring to how briansnat must look like when he's caching. He once posted a picture of himself choking on a squid. Couldn't find the picture anywhere now, but believe me, it ain't a pretty sight.

 

Well, a squid could be handy when there's no pen(cil) in the cache anyway.

[+evergreenhiker!]

Well, I've had to use whatever was at hand a few times. Charred bits of wood for a micro in the mountains. couple of caches I used stick and rotten cedar, and the latest involved using a pointy rock that I rubbed around in mud so I could write my signature...shortened it to EGH for that one though. Haven't had to use my own blood yet though :-)

[Texasair]

The first cache that I found did not have a pen or pencil. I did not have one with me either. I did have my digital camera and my wife took a picture in front of the cache location. I logged it as a find anyway (with the picture posted). To me a picture is as good as a log book entry.

Edited December 11, 2003 by Texasair

[+oneeyesquare]

I just took a picture of one this weekend. No pencil or pen in the cache. About a mile and a half round trip to the truck for a pen. Picture worked... Gonna load the fanny pack with pencil's next...

[+Gargoyle]

In the summer time I pull the little lights off of lightning bugs and spell out "Gargoyle Was Here!"

[+The Leprechauns]

Normally I carry a pen for logging, as well as a cache repair kit, but sometimes pens get borrowed from my cache gear and sometimes I'll skip carrying the cache repair kit (as when the cache is brand new, or when recent find logs state that the cache is in good shape). In circumstances where I've been caught at the cache location with no pen in my pocket and none in the cache, our letterboxing stamps come in very handy. The stamps and stamp pad never leave my cache gear because they have no other use. Anyone geocaching in Western Pennsylvania knows that if there is a green shamrock or a green elf stamped in a logbook, then The Leprechauns visited the cache.

[+Lazyboy & Mitey Mite]

Ya just hawk a huge lugie in there.

 

We bring a pen and our rubber stamp every place we go, usually.

[+Halden]

What is the preference Pencil or Pen?

 

Should a sharpener be included with Pencils?

[+Stunod]

What is the preference Pencil or Pen?

 

Should a sharpener be included with Pencils?

Pens can freeze in cold weather, so pencils are usually better. A sharpener is nice, but I always carry a pocket knife just in case.

[PM_Thumper]

Um ... I'm relatively new at this ... so forgive the ignorant response ... But when I forgot to carry a pencil to a micro cache, I simply took another walk to the cache the next day (remembering the pencil) and signed it. What's wrong with that??

[+briansnat]

Um ... I'm relatively new at this ... so forgive the ignorant response ... But when I forgot to carry a pencil to a micro cache, I simply took another walk to the cache the next day (remembering the pencil) and signed it. What's wrong with that??

Nothing, but if the cache is a 4-5 mile hike, or 4 star terrain, then it might not be so easy.

 

OL, no, I was referring to how briansnat must look like when he's caching. He once posted a picture of himself choking on a squid. Couldn't find the picture anywhere now, but believe me, it ain't a pretty sight.

 

Yeah, squid does have its own ink

 

Edited December 13, 2003 by briansnat

[+Webfoot]

Carry old magazines, scissors and a glue stick. Cut out individual letters and glue them to the log book.

[mufasa1023]

So I guess sneaking up behind a geo-muggle and stabbing him with a stick and using their blood is a detroit thing?

[+Planet]

OK people, new geocaching guideline!!! No signing the log with bodily fluids and this includes earwax!! Ewww! Bring a pen, bring a pencil, bring a wooden match, chalk, a crayon, a sharpie, anything but that please and thank you.

Edited December 14, 2003 by Planet

[+Team Lyon]

We use blood here in Detroit

hay UMC reminde me to stay away from your caches

oh wait cibpo

cache in body parts out

[+Webfoot]

OK people, new geocaching guideline!!!  No signing the log with bodily fluids  and this includes earwax!! 

Wait a minute. I thought earwax was a solid.

Edited December 15, 2003 by Webfoot

[+RichAromas]

One trick that can work - dogear the page you would have otherwise signed. Document in your log the fact that you dogear'ed the page, and request that the next finder sign you in by proxy after confirming the dogear. Some cache owners may not consider this adequate proof, but many do.

[+ironman114]

We use blood here in Detroit

hay UMC reminde me to stay away from your caches

oh wait cibpo

cache in body parts out

Did that one already Team Lyon. Removed a dead deer carcass from one parking spot and removed the legs and hide and scrapmeat from an elk at another handicap parking spot for a cache on the next day. Called the game dept. to get permission first as I had unfilled hunting tags and didn't want to be cited for poaching.

 

CITO

CIBO

[+Alacrity]

I carry one of these nearly all the time. Just remember to leave it behind before flying....

 

 

http://www.swissarmy.com/webstore/moreinfo...043&category=38

[+thestosh]

I normally keep a few pens in my camera bag that I (almost) always take along for the find. One time I forgot the bag on a night find on a cache run. I don't read the descriptions on most of the caches on these cache runs, so I get surprised from time to time. This cache had a logbook in a bag and no pen or pencil in the bag. Fortunately it was a themed cache even though I could not trade, I could sign the log.

 

WHY?

 

 

There were about 50 pens and just as many pencils in the cache! The only think in the cache that couldn't be used as a writing utensil was the logbook and bag.

[+The Cheeseheads]

In Wisconsin they use cheese, there's always some kind of cheese somewhere on some part of their bodies.

Yeah, the blue kind marks real well...

[+radioscout]

You can put a small piece of a mechanical pencil refill lead into a small platic tubing (i.e. a piece of a drinking straw) and affix it in the batterie compartment of your GPSr. Make sure it is fully covered by the tubing because graphite will cause a short circuit it it gets into the GPS unit!

[+Geo Ho]

Frozen squirrel

 

Frozen squirrel! Ha! That's funny . . .

 

Luckily, this has not yet happened to me. I always manage to have something to write with . . . pen, pencil, frozen squirrel . . . not bad after over 300 caches.

 

 

Happy caching and stuff!

[CoyoteRed]

I'm wondering why this topic continues to come up.

 

You should always have a pen and/or pencil with you.

 

The only time we didn't have either with us was our very first letterbox. We were out and just seeing what it was all about. We found the box, read the log, but couldn't stamp in because was didn't have anything with us. Since then, we've forgotten the logbook, stamp, trades, but two things we've never been without is the GPS and a way to sign the log.

 

I guess a lot of folks do a lot lighter version of caching than we do.

[+sbell111]

It happened to me just the other day.

 

I had to drive to Nashville to visit Estes Kefauver. Delays caused me to blow off an errand that I had intended to run before the meeting. This resulted in my being 35 minutes early to the meeting.

 

I had my camera, pda, and GPSr in the jeep, so I decided to go take a few photos for the Ritz contest and find a nearby micro. Since parking places are tough to find during the day, I left the jeep in the parking spot near the federal building and walked. After all, it was only a mile or so.

 

I had taken my first photo and was walking to the cache location when I realized that I had neglected to grab a pen. I figured that I would have to do the dirty-stick trick as there were no stores on the way.

 

Imagine my surprise when I found a shattered pen at the cache location. It was the first time that I was thankful for Nashville's general filthiness.

[Tahosa and Sons]

Signing with BLOOD is not only done in Detroit. See the log when my Son found this Cache and he's been the only one to find it so far. Even takes a boat to get there so the 3 stars is incorrect.

[+IMLost]

I just use deer droppings.