- Various members wrote:
Very excellent responses to my request for your advise. I thank you all for your thoughts. I'll try to respond briefly.
I think it's up to the cache owner to say if you can log it. What cache was it? T.P.&M.
if I don't sign the log I don't log it as a find. ....... If the cache is in a dangerous spot I do think the owner should be contacted. Elkie
Logging the find is up to you .... sounds like you legitamately found it to me. Please let the owner know of the situation, he might want to remove it. I would want to know about it before going there. Georgie
I'd like to know which cache it is so I can avoid going there. I'd say go ahead and log it just as you would do some of the other public caches like those in the zoo. It's definitly one I would not go to. Barramus
IMHO, if you found it (and you did) you should log it. I'd rather have someone do what you did than to log it and show others where the cache is. If it is not a big deal to come back when you can sign it, you should. I see no problem with logging it if you actually spot the container.
Jim Bensman
........you could have people logging caches that they thought they saw when in actuality it was never near. There is no way to ever know if they truly found the cache. I think that that is part of the challenge. To remove this would jeopardize the integrity of the game. ......I feel that you could return with someone to finish the cache. Mike
......you have asked a very good question that has concerned me. Recently there was a cache that I went to twice ( Jon's First Cache). I did not log it as a find, because I did not retrieve it and sign the log. I have also read posts that say they only found part 1 of a multi-cache, but chose to log it anyway, because they felt part 2 was missing? .......others have posted finds, but said they didn't have a pen to sign the log. I think each person has to set their own standards and live with it. I am only competing with myself.
John R -
The kind of people who would log a cache as you suggest will do it anyway and they would not ask a group for advice. I don't log caches I don't sign or find physically but if the situation arose where it was dangerous to log it as is suggested in the previous email and the cache had been seen just not removed and logged in I would say "Yes go ahead and log a find". Dan (Thunder)
I have had to go back to several caches more than once to make it "right". gln
I bet it is that stinking Party Cove cache. I just know it is. gln
Ya can't "reply" while on digest mode. Barramus
Thanks again, Leanman (Mike Chambers)