Can You Do This To Log Caches?

[+AJ of Dunbar]

Im not sure if this is 'over doing it' to prove you visited a cache, but let me ask. Im still kinda new with just under 30 finds, but i am wanting to attempt this urban out of state micro. I am going to with old the name of the cache and such.

 

but its a micro with a log. but the owner also states that you have to send him the name of the street the cache is located on. (the street was once used but is closed and is a walking path now) and the colors of the fences that follow the road/trail.

 

I know with virtuals you have to send them some sorta answer to the owner, but is that over doing it with a cache that you found and signed the log? wouldnt signing the log be proof enough?

 

just curious, it seems like its really over doing it.

 

aj

[+Anonymous']

This cache owner sounds pretty lazy. If he doesn't believe someone found he should go out there and check.

[+mtn-man]

To answer your question, yes, they can do that.

[+TEAM 360]

Actually, giving the name of the street isn't such a surefire way to verify a find on the cache, since it can probably be referenced online and even be seen on the GC maps on the cache page...

 

But cache owners can ask for anything they want for verification, it's their cache after all...(well, kinda... )

[+briansnat]

It's his cache and his rules, but I agree with Anonymous that the owner is just too lazy to check his logs, which is why he's requiring verificaiton.

[+AJ of Dunbar]

i was thinking about the same thing, on one side it is there cache but on the other that just seems over doing it. i mean i guess ill still send him the info but it just seems to be too much.

 

aj

[+Robespierre]

sounds a little hyper, but... oh well, play by his rules. Different people get carried away in different ways, but we all get carried away in some way...huh?

[AC Student]

It may be that there is something interesting or historic about the old street name (and the fence colors?) that the cache owner wants to be sure that visitors notice. I once found a virtual that required emailing the cache owner the street name. It was something like "Dead Cat Alley". When visitors get it right the cache owner emails the story of how the street got its name.

[+AJ of Dunbar]

ill be sure to ask him that AC student! i could say somehitng like, well since i had to tell you the name of the street are you going to tell me what its importance is? lol

 

aj

[+Runaround]

I've done a few like this and also have to vote for owner laziness.

 

I recently found a micro where you had to find the cache, provide information from a nearby object, and upload a photo at the site. Sheesh!

 

I think I'll start asking people to do the hokey-pokey at my cache sites.

[+AJ of Dunbar]

I think I'll start asking people to do the hokey-pokey at my cache sites.

LOL, thats seriously funny, i laughed LOL

[+Muirwoody]

I think I'll start asking people to do the hokey-pokey at my cache sites.

I think lakedawgs beat you to it....

 

Hokey Pokey

[Dinoprophet]

Isn't there a thread around here about cache that wasn't approved because it you had to verify it via email besides signing a log? Since that thread, I didn't think it was allowed.

[+wimseyguy]

I think I'll start asking people to do the hokey-pokey at my cache sites.

Did you ever wonder-What if the hokey-pokey IS what it's all about?

[+CCATBQFM]

J has two caches in which he requested that the finder email us a quote or saying adhered to the lid of the container. However, we do not delete logs if we don't receive confirmation..it's more of an experiment. We have also found a few caches with the same requirement and view it no differently than confirming a virtual cache. We are responsible cachers / cache owners and like to think that everyone else is as well. I think it is all a matter of perspective. After all, if someone logs a cache they did not actually find, whose reputation is at stake? Not mine. .........S.