Scott You can hide one now. I had 254 finds before I hid my first cache. You have already exceeded that. Loran (Team Sand Dollar) ----- Original Message ----- From: Scott Nicol To: Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 9:34 AM Subject: RE: [Az-Geocaching] One exception to "signing the log" rule > > > > >From: "Baja Fleg" > >Reply-To: listserv@azgeocaching.com > >To: listserv@azgeocaching.com > >Subject: RE: [Az-Geocaching] One exception to "signing the log" rule > >Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 23:12:56 -0600 > > > >Hey Scott what if someone logs a find on a cache that you own but they say > >for whatever reason that they didn't make a log in the log book. What do > >you do?? > >Yeah, on one of my caches that we own that did happen. > > > >Michael > >Team TJ > > Howdy Michael, > > First, my question to you: what did you do when that situation came up? Did > you allow the log entry to stand? If someone logs a find on one of my caches > and states they only saw it and never really got to it and logged their > visit... I would ask them to change their find log to a note until they can > get back there to log in or have their log deleted. No log... no find. Of > course, that is how I would do it. It is up to the individual cache owner to > decide what rules (if any) there will be. I will state in my cache > description a log entry must be made, just so the cacher knows that up > front. > > I beleive that by reading all the posts on this recent subject... that the > large majority agree that a log should be made in the logbook to count as a > find. As the Roadrunners said... we need to maintain some integrity to this > hobby. If everyone started logging finds that said they saw it and never > logged in and the cache owner goes to retreive the cache log after say a > year and finds not a single log in it... that wouldnt be any fun, would it? > > I have had several situations where I almost could not log into a cache, > even though I saw it. However, we always prevailed and got to the cache. > Urban caches this has happened often. I just be patient and wait for the > right moment to grab the cache or I just come back another time to get to > it. > > I have spoken my .02cents on this thread and will speak no more! This is > just my opinion and everyone is entitled to their own. > > On the subject of hiding our first cache: > > We havent hid our first cache yet (we are trying to break Sand Dollars > record for the most cache finds before placing one! - really bad cache > karma!)... Of course, if someone did do that (no log in the logbook)... I > guarantee they are not going to want to go all the way back to it again to > log in! ;) heheheehehehehhehehhe > > We do have our first cache in my posession! Yes, it is an ammo box. There is > your only hint yall are gonna get! :) We have a special place we want to > put our very first cache and it is not accessible right now until the land > closures are lifted. We have several other places we want to put one > including an urban cache. However, we want this first one to be special and > just cant place it right now. > > I would like to place our first cache hide by balloon. However, we would > probably end up waiting a long time to accomplish that were we want to put > it! When we go out on adventure flights, that ammo box is coming with me and > if I find that perfect spot... I might just land and drop it off! > > Scott > Team Ropingthewind > > Scotts Adventure Flying Web Page (and now geocaching web page!) > http://www.safwp.bravepages.com > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com > > _______________________________________________ > Az-Geocaching mailing list > listserv@azgeocaching.com > http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching > > Arizona's Geocaching Resource > http://www.azgeocaching.com