Does his profile tell you (or us) anything?

@Trudy & the beast wrote:

Johnny Spirit visited many of our (WGA) caches on the night of Nov 20, 2006. After reading his logs, I have come to the conclusion that his finds were virtual finds made from the comfort of his own home. If he has visited any of your caches, check the logs… was he really there?

I have deleted three of his logs from T&tb caches for failure of validity checks. And I will be checking the others.

Johnny Spirit – I don’t play that game.

How can you be sure about that? What are validity checks? Not each log is a rubber stamp. I have found many of my caches that have signed logs but nothing on GC.com. The DNR Land manger that I have worked with on many of my caches looks for them for fun, will sign a log, but never go on line and log them.

While doing a check on one this week, I discovered a log by both DNR personal and the County Forester who stated they found the cache with out the help of the GPSr. There is no way that the could have stumbled upon the cache. It was off the path an din a a deep stump and covered up.

@LightningBugs Mum wrote:

This is the opposite – an online log, but nothing in the cache’s physical logbook. I’m assuming what T&tB are calling a vailidity check is going out and looking at the logbook to see if anything is written there or not. If not, then they shouldn’t be getting a smiley.

We only sign the logbook sometimes, and keep track of our finds with our online logs. Most of the time I see what I can swap & if I had some cool experience I write it in my online log.
Logbooks get wet, lost, stolen, moldy & are not permanent, our online logs are.

I finally found this guy on line, and I have to agree with T&B. His logs are strange.

Normally I would not care one way or another when someone logs one of my caches. I figure they can play the game anyone way they please, since it’s not hurting me.

Like Hogrod, I generally do not sign the paper log. But since I have cached alot in a group setting, others have been forging it for me!!!

However, that said, in two cases that I can remember I did delete logs on some of my puzzle caches. These were instances where cut and paste logs did not …..hmmmm…?! Contain enough enthusiasm for the puzzle? I did verify no signature before deleting. And I had tried to contact the cacher, but the e-mail came back stating the address was invalid. So….

This kind of thing isn’t limited to geocaching, either. Trekkin’ and I used to do volksmarches when our sons were younger, and Trekkin’ did even more with a fellow walker. They kept encountering this guy who claimed an incredible number of walks, and looking at him, it just didn’t compute.
They did the math and he’d have to be doing 2-3 of them every single day. There just aren’t that many out there to do, and you can only get one walk credit for any of the seasonals. You can get as many distance stamps as you want for doing them more than once.

Keeps like interesting!

From the Geocaching.com website….

What are the rules in Geocaching?

Geocaching is a relatively new phenomenon. Therefore, the rules are very simple:

1. Take something from the cache

2. Leave something in the cache

3. Write about it in the logbook

Cachew & Wicket – Out on a Hunt –
ps – we sign!

And another tidbit that came up in a conversation about bomb squads being called out.

The comment was made that if the cache had a Geo-caching sticker on the outside ….. that would have solved the problem.

Hmmm. Terrorist thinks this over, and begins placing geo-caching stickers on ……

Do you want to be the one to open his presents?