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Bennycams 7 years, 4 months ago.
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So, I know I’ve gotten on this soapbox a few times, but I still believe, even in this power trail/numbers era, that writing a nice log is a great way to thank cache placers. We were completely taken by surprise the other day when we received a notification through groundspeak that tupacthepug had gifted us with a year’s premium membership because “the dog” chose our log from all those on one of their caches that year to receive this pay it forward. They do this every year. What a great idea, one we hope to follow. Just have to pick which cache to target. We’ve been archiving away as they vanish, as it’s been really disheartening to get mostly minimal logs these days, along with thefts of several ammo cans.
What a great idea. While we ourselves don’t always leave the longest logs we do at least try to tell a little story. Power trails are a little different, especially after the umpteenth one, but we at least try to change them up a little while trying to remember some subtle difference about the find. We’ve seen a lot of three and four word logs recently on many of our caches. Disheartening is right.
We were completely taken by surprise the other day when we received a notification through groundspeak that tupacthepug had gifted us with a year’s premium membership because “the dog” chose our log from all those on one of their caches that year to receive this pay it forward. They do this every year.
That happened to us one year also. What a nice thing to do. We had never met the cacher and only knew them by seeing their name on logs and cache pages. Then got a chance to meet them at an event and they explained it to us.
A writer I am not, and I do not have a way with words but I try to write better logs than tftf. If we do power trails and I use cut and paste logs I try to add a little something to each of them to make them a little different.
While I did do the “TFTC” only logs earlier in my caching, I’ve since tried to say at least a little something about the experience. Even on power trails, I’ll at least say, “Out caching on a beautiful day…” or something similar. What I need to start doing is saying something when logging trackable visits for TBs that aren’t mine, instead of just batch logging them or doing a “.” when logging them through the app. That, and start making the ones for caches I give favorite points to more legendary.
Who all has seen The Geocaching Vloggger’s video this morning? He has issued the Geo Challenge of the month, and that is to write a log of 250 words or more. Need more incentive? There are prizes involved.
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I’d love to write something 250 words or longer, however almost all the caches I’ve found in the past month have been the “pill bottle stuck into a stop sign post” variety with very little effort put into the CO to camo or describe.
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Who all has seen The Geocaching Vloggger’s video this morning? He has issued the Geo Challenge of the month, and that is to write a log of 250 words or more. Need more incentive? There are prizes involved.
Piece of cake. I did a 100+ word log for a skirt-lifter I found in the Dells this weekend. I can do 250 on a better quality cache. 🙂
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