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We just had this happen, and I wanted to ask the forum what the proper move is:
Tonight we received a new publish notification and we ran out the door for the FTF. As we pulled up to the site, a fellow cachers was already searching. I assumed we were beat on this one and I asked “find it yet” and I was pleasantly surprise when he said “not yet”. So the wife, the 1.5 year old and I got into speed hunt mode. The wife quickly found it, a very clever hide actually. We were so excited about the find that we kinda didn’t give the other cacher a chance to find it. I politely asked, want us to let you find it, to which he replied no that’s ok. We don’t know him, but we know his cache name and we often hunt the same caches. We felt bad that we kinda ran in and scooped this on him. What’s the etiquette here, should we of found it and then backed off it and announce its been found and allow him to look more? Thanks.P.S. this is only the second fellow cacher we have bumped into in the field ever, and the first one that we did raced to beat us to the find, so I guess we just mimicked what we saw the first experience we had. Any guidance would be appreciated.
The few times that I have bumped into other cachers while searching for an FTF … might have only been once now that I think about it … we made introductions first, then agreed to share the FTF and work together to make the find.
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I’ve had my share of these chance meetings. Call it a CO-FTF and both of you can take credit for it. It’s the fun of the sport and the ability to make a new friend that are important.
Of course I’ve yet to get a CO-FTF with one certain FTF legend here in the area. Every time we’ve arrived at the same GZ for the FTF chase we ended up calling it a CO-DNF. 😆 (thanks a lot Dave) 😆
@codejunkie wrote:
I’ve had my share of these chance meetings. Call it a CO-FTF and both of you can take credit for it. It’s the fun of the sport and the ability to make a new friend that are important.
Of course I’ve yet to get a CO-FTF with one certain FTF legend here in the area. Every time we’ve arrived at the same GZ for the FTF chase we ended up calling it a CO-DNF. 😆 (thanks a lot Dave) 😆
Hrmm… Dave and I never had that problem… 😈
I had a three way once with Dave and John… 😯
@rsplash40 wrote:
@codejunkie wrote:
I’ve had my share of these chance meetings. Call it a CO-FTF and both of you can take credit for it. It’s the fun of the sport and the ability to make a new friend that are important.
Of course I’ve yet to get a CO-FTF with one certain FTF legend here in the area. Every time we’ve arrived at the same GZ for the FTF chase we ended up calling it a CO-DNF. 😆 (thanks a lot Dave) 😆
Hrmm… Dave and I never had that problem… 😈
Let’s see – the conditions – a “Gandering” cache, GZ located at the lakefront during the worst lakefly season ever, …
Thanks all. On this same note, how does the searching etiquette apply at group events or mega events when multiple groups or people are searching for the same cache? Is it a race to get it, or a casual laid back type atmosphere? We havent been to any group events yet, so just curious.
I remember meeting you CJ at a FTF during htis past lake fly season.
Following the signals from space.
@goirish75 wrote:
Thanks all. On this same note, how does the searching etiquette apply at group events or mega events when multiple groups or people are searching for the same cache? Is it a race to get it, or a casual laid back type atmosphere? We haven’t been to any group events yet, so just curious.
It all depends on the folks you run into and the size of the event…at the largest events pretty much everyone at GZ searches and once the cache has been found the group is informed and the cache log is passed around…normally (but not always) the original finder replaces the cache or tells the log holder exactly where it was found.
…and yes in your original scenario, the proper thing to do (at least in my eyes), is to have co-FTF. After a thousand or so finds I stopped going after FTFs…that and the fact that those darn Black Belts always beat me to them anyway.
I went to my first mega-event at West Bend this summer. Often there was a line of people passing the cache container from one to another with instructions on how to re-hide it. On several caches I never experienced a “find,” nor did I re-hide the cache, passing it on to another cacher instead. These were NOT my favorite caches of the event. I found it interesting that there were complaints about the caches at the Cache Bash being too spread out this year, though the farthest caches from downtown were among my favorites. There was even one where I did not see another person for almost half an hour. 😀
All opinions, comments, and useless drivel I post are mine alone and do not reflect the opinions of the WGA BOD.
@walkingadventure wrote:
I remember meeting you CJ at a FTF during htis past lake fly season.
Correct and we were successful because “Dave” wasn’t there. Something about the “Dave” / CJ combo on FTF runs that just doesn’t work so well.
The definition of insanity = What we did trying to get that dang FTF and then standing near GZ afterwards talking.
@goirish75 wrote:
Thanks all. On this same note, how does the searching etiquette apply at group events or mega events when multiple groups or people are searching for the same cache? Is it a race to get it, or a casual laid back type atmosphere? We havent been to any group events yet, so just curious.
FTFs and Events tend to be a different animal.
A bit off subject, but when doing “normal” caching, something to try if you bring a group of friends along caching (especially kids), is to consider doing something that is called “Finders Tree”. You all look for the cache and lets say person X spots it, they don’t say anything and casually walk to a different spot (like maybe lean against some tree away from ground zero) and announce “finders tree”. This means they found it and the rest didn’t. It gives people a chance at the glory of being the first in the group to find it, without giving it away to others. Now if you have a lot of people in your group, after 2 or 3 or 4 “finders tree” announcements, it tends to become obvious by process of elimination where the cache is.
I personally like “finders tree”, as I love to sit back and snicker as other people look for it.
@energysaver wrote:
I personally like “finders tree”, as I love to sit back and snicker as other people look for it.
Especially if you palmed the cache….
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@rsplash40 wrote:
@codejunkie wrote:
I’ve had my share of these chance meetings. Call it a CO-FTF and both of you can take credit for it. It’s the fun of the sport and the ability to make a new friend that are important.
Of course I’ve yet to get a CO-FTF with one certain FTF legend here in the area. Every time we’ve arrived at the same GZ for the FTF chase we ended up calling it a CO-DNF. 😆 (thanks a lot Dave) 😆
Hrmm… Dave and I never had that problem… 😈
Let’s see – the conditions – a “Gandering” cache, GZ located at the lakefront during the worst lakefly season ever, …
Now your nit-picken 😛
Smaller events with newly placed caches are easier to find and log a FTF… for example the recent 10/10/10 Hartford event. Found 2 FTFs… well actually 3 though I shared the find with a fellow cacher.
Heading to the nearest caches from event location often results in several caching teams at GZ the same time. Try grabbing the further away hides… worked for me in Hartford.
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