Logging your own cache hides as finds?

[cheezehead]

Is this a common practice? I know for a lot of people it is about the numbers. For me it’s not. I have logged 2 caches that I adopted and had not found yet and have a about 6 more that I adopted from Lil Otter that once I do find them, I will log as a find cuz they are new cache finds for me.
But to log your cache as a find for dropping off a TB or coin or maintenance, that’s just not the premise of the game ……is it?

I just think it’s a form of cheating and all you are doing cheating yourself.

No. I’m am not the caching police, but I just think it cheating. It just like logging a cache that you could not find, but I as in the right area so that’s close enough for a find. I dunno. It’s just bothers me is all.

[Lostby7]

I have never logged my own caches (seems silly) but couldn’t care less how other people log….events, temps, multis I really do not care one iota. So long as you follow the wishes of the cache owner and do not place fake “found it” logs I say have at it.

…now where is that “Beating a Dead Horse” gif?

[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

@Lostby7 wrote:

I have never logged my own caches (seems silly) but couldn’t care less how other people log….events, temps, multis I really do not care one iota. So long as you follow the wishes of the cache owner and do not place fake “found it” logs I say have at it.

…now where is that “Beating a Dead Horse” gif?

here ya go…

[zuma]

@Lostby7 wrote:

I have never logged my own caches (seems silly) but couldn’t care less how other people log….events, temps, multis I really do not care one iota. So long as you follow the wishes of the cache owner and do not place fake “found it” logs I say have at it.

…now where is that “Beating a Dead Horse” gif?

In agreement here. Logging one’s own’s caches as finds is not meant to be part of the game, and I havent really seen this done much, except maybe by newbies who dont know better.

z

[RSplash40]

I’ve seen the TB drops logged as finds a few times, mostly newbies.

[Team Hemisphere Dancer]

I have adopted 2 caches from Lil Otter. One I found before adopting and the other I have not yet found. I don’t know what to do when I do find it. On one hand it is a new find for me but yet it somehow seems wrong. I guess I will cross that bridge when I get there.

[Trekkin and Birdin]

We were wondering about logging those we adopted from her, too. The actual caches are ones we’d already done, but we took on a few of the virtuals, too, and hadn’t done those. I mean, do we email ourselves the correct answer? 😯 In the case of one of them, I guess it’s the ONLY cache in Menominee County, so if we ever chase that goal, can we even achieve it?

I guess that’s one we’ll worry over if we actually need to, though.

[LightningBugs Mum]

@Trekkin’ and Birdin’ wrote:

We were wondering about logging those we adopted from her, too. The actual caches are ones we’d already done, but we took on a few of the virtuals, too, and hadn’t done those. I mean, do we email ourselves the correct answer? 😯 In the case of one of them, I guess it’s the ONLY cache in Menominee County, so if we ever chase that goal, can we even achieve it?

I guess that’s one we’ll worry over if we actually need to, though.

Interesting conundrum. What I would do is email Lil Otter with the answers and explain why you are doing it – so that you can log the find legitimately. I’m sure she wouldn’t mind and would probably find it funny. I would put the fact that you did that in your log so people will see it. That’s what I’d do anyway.

[Lostby7]

@LightningBugs Mum wrote:

@Trekkin’ and Birdin’ wrote:

We were wondering about logging those we adopted from her, too. The actual caches are ones we’d already done, but we took on a few of the virtuals, too, and hadn’t done those. I mean, do we email ourselves the correct answer? 😯 In the case of one of them, I guess it’s the ONLY cache in Menominee County, so if we ever chase that goal, can we even achieve it?

I guess that’s one we’ll worry over if we actually need to, though.

Interesting conundrum. What I would do is email Lil Otter with the answers and explain why you are doing it – so that you can log the find legitimately. I’m sure she wouldn’t mind and would probably find it funny. I would put the fact that you did that in your log so people will see it. That’s what I’d do anyway.

Thats a good idea…I logged the one I adopted from her a few years ago…in fact it was one of my first caches.

[CinemaBoxers]

I always say theres an exception to every rule…

Technically – if I WANTED to log some of our hides as finds, it would be valid.

Heres my take..

For some of our plants, I have NEVER been to the location, seen the container, and have literally no clue where they are. 🙂

Jim planted them when I was not around. So, if I went to the coords, it would be the same as any other person making a find. Now… I have NOT gone to them, or logged them, but TECHNICALLY my logging them would be the same as anyone else who had to find the cache, right?

Again, I know not the norm – but just one of those ‘techncally, it could happen’ situations!

~P

[Timberline Echoes]

I can echo Cinema Boxer exactly… even hubby Jim…LOL~!!!!
Mrs. TE

[Sagasu]

The reviewers say that it’s o.k. to log your own caches for any good reason. I have one that I logged before the family moved and asked me to adopt it so it is kind of funny when it comes up on maps with the star for an owned cache and a smiley face for a found cache as well.

In the case of “Spirit Rock” anyone who maintains that cache as the only one in the county and takes on the responsibility of communicating with the tribal personnel to keep it there in good standing should be able to log it to get that county done.

I have also seen a number of collaborations naming multiple partys as owners logged by other owners whether they placed the container or not, so it seems a common practice, maybe not for the numbers (that would be a lot of work to get extra finds), but perhaps to get them off their closest to home searches and still be able to keep them on their watch list. l am contemplating doing that with one that is close to home that I partnered with someone on part of.

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