Logging your own cache?!

[cacheseekers]

I guess I should clearify what I saw. I had seen a cache that someone placed themselves, had been logged by the owner after about 10 or 15 other logs were logged. Now, I can’t say i’m 100% sure they placed it, but the first ‘notes’ written in the log area were by the owner of the cache so I assumed they were the original owners. I believe their log stated “they were in the area and decided to do their own cache.” Something along those lines.

I wish I would have written down the specific cache that made me ask this question.

In either case, it’s not very important if someone does or doesn’t. It’s not like we get prize for having 1000 cache finds or something. We recently surpassed the 100 mark late last month after over 2 years of caching and sometimes find it hard to comprehend how people have time to get the number of finds that they have. However, now that our lives have settle down some we have found it is much easier to go find a cache here and there through out the week. Previously we had to make special plans for hunting 😛

Our goal was 100 by the end of the year, we reached that goal before September. So we jokingly made another goal of 200 by the end of the year, we’ll see where we get This will be our first year doing caches in the winter, and I am looking forward to it!

Nick

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[Miata]

Heres one that logged their own 4 times.
Link

Never would have found it except they said Brett Farve didn’t play for the Packers any more and went to move a Brett Farve travel bug as far away from Green Bay as possible.

[This message has been edited by Miata (edited 09-18-2004).]

[cacheseekers]

Wow! I’ve never seen someone log their own that many times.

I could see how they may have done it by accident with what they say in the logs. Kudos to them for keeping an eye on the cache and area around it though.

[Linus4Cache]

Okay, so in all fairness to these people…they only have 119 finds (115 if you subtract their own cache)…and this is their only hide. Maybe they just didin’t know what they were doing would affect their cache counts. I sent them a note:
— Copy of email sent to sweetlife —
Hi…I see by your numbers that you are relatively new to the sport of Geocaching, and that you have only one hide. There was some conversation on a recent forum thread in WI about people logging their own cache hides as finds. Are you aware that you logged your own cache as a find on four seperate occasions? When you go in to drop a bug, pick something up, or do maint. on the cache you should post it as a note. Then your message gets out, but you don’t play with your cache find totals. I wasn’t sure if this is something you meant to do, or if you knew it would affect the count, or if you even cared. I just wanted to send a note of question. Thanks for your time. Keep on hiding ’em…we all love the hunt! Happy Caching!
~Linus
I don’t know if it matters, but I sent it anyhow.
~Linus

[greyhounder]

I’ve actually noticed a couple folks that mark their geocaches as found once they’ve released them to be found. It sort of makes sense, I guess. It also would take that cache off their not found list….

my opinion: whatever floats your boat…

Bec

[The Troops]

When we log anything on our own cache, we post it as a note.

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