I’d say he’s armchairing them. Look at this one.

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December 1, 2008 by Wis Kid (0 found)
Greetings from Geocaching.com.
I am a volunteer reviewer for geocaches in your area. I noticed that this cache has been temporarily disabled for a period of time well in excess of the period of “a few weeks” as contemplated by the cache guidelines published on Geocaching.com. While I feel that Geocaching.com should hold the location for you and block other caches from entering the area around this cache for a reasonable amount of time, we can’t do so forever. Please either repair/replace this cache, or archive it (using the archive listing link in the upper right) so that someone else can place a cache in the area, and geocachers can once again enjoy visiting this location. If you need more time to repair this cache, please post a note to the cache page indicating when you feel you will be able to complete you maintenance obligations, so that other members will be able to guage when the cache will again become available.
If you plan on repairing this cache, please log a note to the cache (not email) so I don’t archive the listing for non-communication.

Wis Kid – Volunteer Reviewer
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November 27, 2008 by Gravehillx4 (53 found)
Did not sign log cool find

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August 18, 2008 by macck95 (85 found)
I am sad to say
this cache has gone away.
I am quite certain
the monster that lurks behind the wooded curtain
has snatched this cache
for his own stash.
Don’t worry,
this slip will be up and running in a hurry

It’s your cache. you can delete the logs if you want. I had a couple of guys last year say they found my cache, I asked them if they were sure, they said yes, I asked them if there was a lookout tower, they said yes, I said then you didn’t find my cache cuz there IS NOT a lookout tower at the location!

Made me giggle though….I’d ignore it, I need the laughs.

Guess I’d cut them a break. only three were “logged” in November. the rest look to be after their membership date. Maybe just a mistake and didn’t know how to edit?

In the logs for cache #3, wis backpacker mentions having his brother-in-law along to geocache. wis backpacker also appears in another log (#1) but not in #2. It looks like a new cacher that is trying to back track the first finds when introduced to the sport. They probably wanted to be accountable on why they didn’t sign the log, even though they found it with wis backpacker. They may have mistakenly “guessed” wrong on one of the finds.
I have cached with my nephew and I don’t let him sign logs because he doesn’t have an account. I told him that when he does get an account, he can return to these caches to sign them and teach someone new about the hunt!

You could e-mail wis backpacker for more info (in my opinion). I personally don’t think it’s “armchair caching”, because of the low number of logged finds. Love a mystery! 😕

Sorry to say this happens sometimes, sometimes it is innocent but other times it is not. I had one where somebody described the cache retrieval in the appropriate fashion for one of my nanos, only problems were the cache was disabled (as the container went missing), he had no finds within 300 miles of my cache (not that good to drive that distance). So I played along and emailed him, he told me he had found the replacement and I must have forgotten to activate the cache. I deleted him right then, the replacement cache was sticking to the front of my refrigerator waiting to be replaced

After reading their logs and looking at their profile picture. I think is was the kids caching with mom and dad. They now have their own account.
If it was my caches logged, I would ignore them. Remember that this is only a game. So have fun with it. Life is to short to take this so seriously.

@JimandLinda wrote:

In the logs for cache #3, wis backpacker mentions having his brother-in-law along to geocache. wis backpacker also appears in another log (#1) but not in #2. It looks like a new cacher that is trying to back track the first finds when introduced to the sport. They probably wanted to be accountable on why they didn’t sign the log, even though they found it with wis backpacker. They may have mistakenly “guessed” wrong on one of the finds.
I have cached with my nephew and I don’t let him sign logs because he doesn’t have an account. I told him that when he does get an account, he can return to these caches to sign them and teach someone new about the hunt!

You could e-mail wis backpacker for more info (in my opinion). I personally don’t think it’s “armchair caching”, because of the low number of logged finds. Love a mystery! 😕

This is exactly what Jacob did when he got his own account. Instead of claiming all those 1000s of finds with the family – he only claimed finds on the caches he went and found or revisited and signed his name into. No backlogging for him! When I asked if he wanted to claim all the caches he found before getting his account, he told me, “I didn’t find all those caches as Duck505, I found them as AstroD”. Gotta love the words of wisdom from a kid!