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07/06/2007 at 12:52 pm #172512207/06/2007 at 1:02 pm #1876717
I for one, will admit I am guilty of this offense. Cookie cutter geocaches get cookie cutter logs.
However….
Fascinating, unique and interesting geocaches get fascinating, unique and interesting logs.
07/06/2007 at 1:05 pm #1876718@rogheff wrote:
I for one, will admit I am guilty of this offense. Cookie cutter geocaches get cookie cutter logs.
However….
Fascinating, unique and interesting geocaches get fascinating, unique and interesting logs.
True a cookie cutter cache may get that kind but a good cache deserves better….
07/06/2007 at 1:30 pm #1876719Oops! I guess I’ll be one of the guilty parties. Once in a while on a caching trip I’ll have a paste-in prefix like “Out caching with so-and-so…” and then add appropriate comments at each cache. It’s just as much a bookmark on my experiences as an expedient. On our honeymoon, every single cache got the same prefix referring to the fact. Vacations always get them too. Logs are just as much for me as the owners.
If I get into a string of park and logs, I can’t say much about guard rail #5 or film can #7. The person who probably gets cheated is the person who has multiple caches that I visited, but for the person who had only one cache on my list, they get a little story when the cache might not have been that memorable.
If it was me that the topic referred to, I’ll have to apologize, but it was 1:00 in the morning and I’m not a night owl, but caches must be logged ;).
07/06/2007 at 1:33 pm #1876720@Team Honeybunnies wrote:
If it was me that the topic referred to, I’ll have to apologize, but it was 1:00 in the morning and I’m not a night owl, but caches must be logged ;).
Any log that ends in “Be cool Honeybunny” can’t be a bad thing.
My topic is not aimed at a single person….07/06/2007 at 1:44 pm #1876721Some caches are just more memorable than others. When i pull into a local park and find a film container hanging from a pine tree 50′ away, there’s just not as much to say as a hike to a nicely themed cache after a mile hike up the Ice Age Trail.
07/06/2007 at 2:10 pm #187672207/06/2007 at 2:14 pm #1876723@One Paddle Short wrote:
Those of you who have a lot of finds in a day- any methods to share?
I hate to say it but that is where caching with paper really helps….I have about 10 caches listed on each sheet of paper and I write a few notes about each cache I find……also revisiting the cache page usually sparks more recall about a particular location…even after 30 finds in a day.
Geobash will be a challenge though as I hope to come away with nearly 100 if the weather holds….there I will for sure keep good notes….
@One Paddle Short wrote:
I used a cut and paste log one night logging a whole bunch of Zuma’s Chippewa Trail caches and they didn’t’t deserve that- and I’ve tried to not repeat that mistake.
I have been guilty of giving short logs on more deserving caches as well; I feel bad about those……I owe a few cachers better logs than what I wrote…..sometimes it’s easy to forget that the log is more than a way to get a smile, it’s also a way to thank the hider.
07/06/2007 at 2:21 pm #1876724Express Logger! You export your found logs into memos on your Palm Desktop, and then save it as a .txt file then go to the Express Logger website, load your .txt file and it will call up a list of your caches IN THE ORDER THAT YOU FOUND THEM (sorry for the caps, but this feature is awesome), and then as you click each one in order, it takes you directly to the log screen rather than the cache page. With my Palm next to me so I can recall details of the cache, the skipping of screens can save a lot of time on a big day.
Express Logger has a one page tutorial, but it’s not a very intuitive process for the technologically challenged such as myself. Try it!
07/06/2007 at 3:00 pm #1876725I have also used the copy and paste method, but I reserve it for when I’m caching in a group, so that I don’t misspell names. Most folks know what a taribel speler I is. But even when I do the copy and paste, if you look close, I change the order of the names from post to post so nobody feels any less/more important than anybody else. Unnecessary I know, but it’s who I am.
Oh, and you can add Rogheff to the list of people with very unique posts!
07/06/2007 at 3:23 pm #1876726Cookie cutter log or not I am just happy the cache was found intact and operational. I personally got more important things to worry than how someone logs my cache. Just log it with FOUND and I will be happy in the knowledge that the cache has survived yet another day.
07/06/2007 at 3:56 pm #1876727@Jay Mills wrote:
Cookie cutter log or not I am just happy the cache was found intact and operational. I personally got more important things to worry than how someone logs my cache. Just log it with FOUND and I will be happy in the knowledge that the cache has survived yet another day.
I myself do “Cookie cutter” logs at times if hitting a few in a day. I do make notes most of the time about caches to add to the “Cookie cutter log” if something different happened or something needed to be said about the cache. Not every cache I do has an experience that is different from the one before.
07/06/2007 at 6:25 pm #1876728When you find 3 caches a day, it’s a lot easier to remember them. You enjoy the journey more, you slow down and take in the scenery. It’s easier to post a nice log.
When I’ve been out on long caching runs, it’s hard to remember one cache from the rest. I cache with lots of paper printouts, so I make a note about each to spark my memory. When you find 20 in a day, you run out of things to say – even me.
07/06/2007 at 6:47 pm #1876729My only complaint, and not a big one, is the person who put a very long cookie cutter post on my caches and I felt as if I had to read each one fully and carefully just in case they said something different on one that might need maintenance.
Lee07/06/2007 at 7:49 pm #1876730I dont have the express logger but know many who do. When you hit 30+ in a day thats a lot of logging to do. So any way to speed that up is nice. But that typically means a lot of duplication.
If its meant to be a “for the numbers” cache, I wouldnt think (as I do on some of mine that are intentionally that way) that the owner was expecting any more than “signed the log”.
Like above, if its a stop and snatch cache I dont put much in the log. However, if its out of the ordinary or something cool about the hide it will be reflected in my logs (when I can remember).
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