[GeoStL] Re: geocaching Digest V2 #22

  • From: "Barramus" <barramus@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 09:34:50 -0600

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Glenn, it's not too late.
You can take a pic the next time you REVISIT all of the caches AGAIN !

Barramus
N   38° 25.081'
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn" <GLNash@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 8:59 AM
Subject: [GeoStL] Re: geocaching Digest V2 #22


> -
> VERY nice pictures pntball.
>
> one thing that i always wished i had done is keep a photo journal of the
> caches i visit.  i never do.
>
> glenn
>
>
>
> At 06:45 AM 1/22/2003 -0800, pntball wrote:
> >-
> >i am going to be in and out all day but i wish i could
> >go caching.hey i have a webpage of pictures of caches
> >i have been to it is
> >http://community.webshots.com/user/pntball
> >it is of the better areas i have been to.pntball
> >
> >
> >--- Glenn <GLNash@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > -
> > > I'll go back with ya.. i kind of like that park and
> > > everybody was real
> > > friendly to me...  :-)
> > >
> > > lemme know if ya wanna go. i am off today
> > >
> > > gln
> > >
> > > At 12:11 AM 1/22/2003 -0600, you wrote:
> > > >-
> > > >Various members wrote:
> > > >
> > > >>
> > > >>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
> > > >Very excellent responses to my request for your
> > > advise.  I thank you all
> > > >for your thoughts.  I'll try to respond briefly.
> > > >I did immediately email the cache owner with a copy
> > > of my note to the
> > > >List, and with a complete detailed description of
> > > the exact cache
> > > >location, so he (or she) could confirm that I did
> > > indeed find it.  I also
> > > >asked them to move it.  And yes, I actually did see
> > > the cache itself.  If
> > > >I hadn't, I wouldn't have posed the question with
> > > you all. I too went back
> > > >twice to Jon's First, and know that I found its
> > > hiding place, but I
> > > >couldn't reach it either, so I didn't log it - and
> > > I won't. Integrity and
> > > >a strong code of personal ethics are extremely
> > > important to me.  If the
> > > >owner contacts me and agrees that I did find it,
> > > I'll think about logging
> > > >it.  There's a good chance that I'll go back (mayby
> > > early on a cold
> > > >morning - with my brother with me) to make another
> > > attempt to actually log
> > > >it, but I'll feel much better about that if the
> > > owner moves it to a safer
> > > >location.  At first, I had no intention of naming
> > > the cache, but several
> > > >people have asked which one it is -  and have
> > > expressed a concern to avoid
> > > >it, so I have decided to let you all know that it
> > > is indeed the Carondelet
> > > >cache (Sorry Glen, it's not "that stinking Party
> > > Cove cache".).  Oh!  And
> > > >yes, Barramus, you can "reply" while on digest
> > > mode.  It just takes a lot
> > > >of considerate editing to eliminate all the
> > > repetive BS.
> > > >
> > > >Thanks again,
> > > >Leanman  (Mike Chambers)
> > > >
> > >
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