Caching with other cachers - logging etiquette

[+Lothar69]

I recently started caching and have since encouraged some friends to cache as well. We plan to do some caching together. What's the etiquette in terms of logging our finds? Should we sign the log book once but both log on the cache page to get credit? Should credit only go to the person that actually finds the cache?

 

Obviously this is not a major issue since caching is not inherently a competitive activity but I don't want to trod over precedents that have been set.

 

I am Lothar, King of the Hill people. I have many tails to tell....

[+briansnat]

I've done group hunts before and everybody involved logs the cache, no matter who found it.

 

Depending on who I've gone with, sometimes a person will spot the cache, walk away and announce they found it and let each other person find it on their own. This can be very entertaining, especially if you're the first one to find it. Other times, someone would just announce they found it, pull it out and we'd gather and sign the logbook.

 

In both cases everyone logged them as finds online and I don't think anybody has a problem with that.

 

Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, he'll sit in a boat and drink beer all day" - Dave Barry

[+MtnLion]

We have groups of cachers go out together regularly. They all sign the log at the cache and they all log finds back on the cache page. Noone really seems to find it upsetting in the least.

[DanIAm]

Both my wife and I are new to caching and have found only 3 thus far. Before we even got started we both registered with our own user names. We decided that we would both log our finds on each username. Mainly because I already know I will probably be doing more hunts then she will. This will allow us to keep a more accurate count on our finds. Again we're newbies, but this is what we've done so far.

[+Planet]

Everybody sign!! It's for posterity! Everybody log! Some are funnier, some more creative, some plain and simple, it's for posterity! And each log is another e-mail to the hider. Think how poplular they'll feel.

 

Cache you later,

Planet

 

So many caches, so little time.

[+Harrald]

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Originally posted by BrianSnat:

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sometimes a person will spot the cache, walk away and announce they found it and let each other person find it on their own. This can be very entertaining, especially if you're the first one to find it.

<<SNIP>>

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Except when you're the last of four power cachers to find the cache while your buddies just sit and chuckle!

 

But I'm feeling much better now.

 

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Sydney J. Harris

 

The fool who knows he is a fool is for that reason very wise. The fool who thinks himself wise is the greatest fool of all.

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[+Tsegi Mike and Desert Viking]

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Originally posted by GeocachingGuy:

We decided that we would both log our finds on each username. Mainly because I already know I will probably be doing more hunts then she will. This will allow us to keep a more accurate count on our finds.

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That sounds a bit too competitive within the marriage. My husband and I share credit for all finds even though I may go out alone sometimes. This is a family activity, not a contest between the spouses to see who is better at geocaching.

 

Till a voice, as bad as Conscience, rang interminable changes

On one everlasting Whisper day and night repeated -- so:

"Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges --

"Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!"

 

Rudyard Kipling , The Explorer 1898

[+CYBret]

I saw a log on a cache in our area once....apparently two guys went together, one spotted it first so he got to log a find, the other one only logged a note. That's a lot of work for a note.

 

Usually when we cache in a group we'll do what BrianSnat mentioned above and let everyone take a crack at it...other times it's a group effort to find it so the group gets to log the find...either way works for us.

 

Bret

 

"The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field.

When a man found it, he hid it again." Mt. 13:44

[+robert]

I agree with the "find it and walk away" theory. It's fun for everyone to find the caches, kind of a "moment of discovery" thing. In some instances you really can't do that but if possible, I would recommend it. Gives more of a feeling of accomplishment when you find it on your own.

 

~robert

Notice: Driver carries less than $20 cache.

[Fianchetto]

I count two logs. The paper log in the cache, and the electronic log at the site. The paper log being finite, we generally make one entry, the group each having opportunity for input. Then the "infinite" e-logs. Everyone who was with the group should log the find, because everyone in the group found it. I I find one alone, I say so in my entry, if with a group, I enter their names, too, in a 'we found it ' spirit.

[+Mark 42]

I would never claim to have found a cache I never even saw.

 

When my wife and I cache together (with the dog & kids), I usually will sign for both of us... I do the writing while she helps the kids do the trinket exchange. I usually ask if she wants me to write for her, and she always has the opportunity to add to the entry.

 

When she goes by herself, she will log only herself.

 

When I went by myself, I only logged myself... Then I went with her a few days later and watched her find it on her own (Only giving hints like "Read the log entries again").

 

Here is an Example of one where we went together after one of us had previously found it.

 

But if you were never there, IMNSHO, it's not ethical to log a find.

 

"I'm not Responsible... just ask my wife, She'll confirm it"

[+flask]

when i cache with crashco, we kind of have this code: "don't spare my feelings" means if you find it, let me know. other wise, we step away and shout "huckle-buckle-beanstalk" or simply "do you want to keep looking?".

 

if we are huting with anothe cache (as sometimes happens) we are more explicit in our communication, but the concept is the same. i always write for both crashco and myself. if we are caching with another party, whoever saw it first gets to open the container and sign the book first. the one who saw it first also gets first pick of the trade items, which is hard to swallow if you don't see it first and one of brenda's rocks is in there.

 

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[+Scout65]

Usually when searching with other cachers one of us will just holler out that we’ve found it, except for when we encounter a uniquely camouflaged cache, in that case everyone gets to have a stab at finding it.

If there are young children in the group we’ll find the container and then steer them towards it so they can find it *first*.

No matter who finds it everyone who made the trip (account or no account) signs the log book and the registered cachers log online.