A Point Of Order.

[+3wise]

When two registered Geocachers go out together and find a cache, what is the etiquette for reporting ? Should just one log the visit and claim the find, or can both add to their score by logging the visit ?

[+WeightMan]

If I was in on the find, I will log a find. Every time I have been with a group of cachers each person has logged the find.

[+IV_Warrior]

You both found it, why wouldn't you both log it?

[+Team Tigger International]

If you both want the chance of finding the cache, you can always use the 'walk away'. When one of you finds the cache, you just walk 20 or so feet away and tell the others you found it. This gives everyone a chance to find the cache before anyone retrieves it.

 

Wulf

[+Thot]

I’ve only found a cache with other cachers once and all three of us claimed the find.

 

Read some logs and you'll see that lots of people cache together and they all claim the find.

 

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Edited April 17, 2005 by Thot

[+Kai Team]

I've only cached with another geocacher once, and we used the "walk away" approach described by Team Tigger and both claimed the finds. I also don't see a problem with both people logging it if they work together on the find (my wife and I do that all the time, and we log it once as a "team" find). If you regularly cache with the same people, some create a team account to log team finds and an individual account to log individual finds when caching alone.

 

The number of finds is best seen as a target and/or sense of accomplishment for yourself, rather than a competition with others. If you look at it this way, the question is: what do you want to see represented when you look at your stats?

[+Robespierre]

Sometimes we have 6, once at an event there were a dozen because it took so long and people kept arriving. The walk-away just isn't gonna work with a dozen, but people still claim it . I was ftf after a good 45 min. and a woods full of deadfall with 100' of inaccuracy. Those coords got changed before the day way up. I think two more small groups got a fair find after I walked away, then several saw the action.

[+Prime Suspect]

If you both want the chance of finding the cache, you can always use the 'walk away'. When one of you finds the cache, you just walk 20 or so feet away and tell the others you found it. This gives everyone a chance to find the cache before anyone retrieves it.

 

Wulf

That's the "Huckle Buckle Beanstalk" method (named for the children's game). When someone spots the cache, they walk away a bit, and then call out "Huckle Buckle Beanstalk!". Continue until everyone's found it, or given up, then retrieve the cache.

[+Renegade Knight]

If you both want the chance of finding the cache, you can always use the 'walk away'.  When one of you finds the cache, you just walk 20 or so feet away and tell the others you found it.  This gives everyone a chance to find the cache before anyone retrieves it.

 

Wulf

That's the "Huckle Buckle Beanstalk" method (named for the children's game). When someone spots the cache, they walk away a bit, and then call out "Huckle Buckle Beanstalk!". Continue until everyone's found it, or given up, then retrieve the cache.

I've been needing a name for that method.

 

We use the three muskateers method. All for one and one for all. Whoever finds it, we all found it. Unless of course we want a good laugh, then we use the Hucklebuckle method.

[+The Commissar!]

We usually establish if we are using the Huckle Buckle Beanstalk or Three Muskateer method before we conduct the hunt...that way no one is disappointed at the moment of truth. Which method chosen depends on the schedule for the day and the cache(s) in question, and of course there is weather...

 

The Commissar!

[+Prime Suspect]

If you both want the chance of finding the cache, you can always use the 'walk away'.  When one of you finds the cache, you just walk 20 or so feet away and tell the others you found it.  This gives everyone a chance to find the cache before anyone retrieves it.

 

Wulf

That's the "Huckle Buckle Beanstalk" method (named for the children's game). When someone spots the cache, they walk away a bit, and then call out "Huckle Buckle Beanstalk!". Continue until everyone's found it, or given up, then retrieve the cache.

I've been needing a name for that method.

 

We use the three muskateers method. All for one and one for all. Whoever finds it, we all found it. Unless of course we want a good laugh, then we use the Hucklebuckle method.

Some people don't feel right about the Three Musketeers method, since they think they shouldn't claim a find if they weren't the ones who actually spotted it. But everyone hunting for a cache is contributing to the find, if only by eliminating areas to be searched.