I noticed something peculiar when this team logged Sprocket's 12 Step
Program earlier this week. I had been to the cache that evening and saw
no recent logs. (I could swear their log was originally posted on the
9th but now it has changed to July 10th.) When I checked some of their
other recent logs, I saw that they had logs in about 10 different states
within a period of less than two weeks. Not impossible, for someone who
travels on business a lot. But, to fly into Sky Harbor (from Idaho),
drive the 40 some odd miles to Apache Junction and complete a 12 step
cache and then complete another 8 caches widely scattered throughout
the Phoenix area (none of which are very close to Sky Harbor) seems
far-fetched. These included a couple of 'strenuous' and lengthy
mountain caches on what we all know was a day of extreme heat (around
110 degrees), a feat in itself, especially for someone from D.C. Today,
they're back in Ohio and have logged a couple more caches. The day
before, they logged a cache in Massechusetts and Idaho. The day before
that was California, Wyoming and, get this, New Zealand! These guys
must have their own Lear jet or something.
It sounds to me like they are doing some armchair caching. They're
doing a good job of reading past logs and finding what the cache is like
and then writing something similar in their log. For example,
Malthusian's Club 2400 cache (a 4 mile hike) has this in the description:
'A rather steep hike to a ridgeline with a great view, in the northeast
part of the Phoenix Mountain Preserve. Plan on a couple hours.'
Here is Electric Shavers log:
Yippie, Yahoo, I found it.
Took advice of others & did early this morning.
Everything was fine. Took around 2 hours.
Great hike & place.
Cords were right on, Cache in great shape.
Took & left nothing.
Thanks for the cache
ELECTRIC SHAVERS
Hamilton OH & D of C
Needless to say, I'll be checking my cache today to verify that they did
(or didn't) sign the log.
-- Sprocket
>Some of you may have seen cache finds by a group called Electric Shavers. Please check their finds. There is some discussion on the forums (fora?) that their finds "improperly logged". Those of you who own caches they have hit may just want to verify the log entry.
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