What is an item you wouldn’t mind finding that someone might consider rude to leave?

I’d be okay to find a Bobby pin since I carry sanitizer and never have one when I need it, but would others think it’s gross to put hair accessories in a cache?

Oppositely, I personally don’t love finding business cards, but I respect the hustle! Does anyone actually look at the business cards left in caches?

I’m hiding some caches since my area is dry and would love ideas for items to put in the cache! (Small, like spice & pill bottle sizes)

My friend took a part for a normal meeting event, they went to the place on the map, signed the logbook that was clearly accessible etc.

The rating for the event cache was D1/T5. I later checked my friend’s D/T-grid and it seems that event caches count towards the grid.

Was the event organizer trying to ”cheat”? Or is there a some sort of reason why event would be marked T5? Can these sort of events be reported if they exist to exploit the grid count?

I started geocaching with my bf a few months ago, he has been doing it longer than me, but so far we've found quite a few in our area. I decided to make my own cache and i gotta go check it soon, but we've been trying to find more as we go. We live out in the Georgia area, but we have very few out where we are. Should we just start hopping to different states at this point?

I've been caching since 2007. And during that time, I have done many rounds of caches with friends, family, and other groups. One core aspect of this hobby has always been "signing the log".

Find a cache, crack it open, sign the log, put it back where you found it. For physical container caches, this has been the staple.

But, I am sure all of us have been in situations where you have found a cache, and for whatever reason, were unable to sign the log. Log is too wet and no replacement, container is froze shut, etc.

Did you log it as found? Or did you just leave it? Did you take a picture and send it to the owner? What did you do?

I've always done my best to sign the log as that is supposed to represent the "proof" that you were actually there. Lots of people can create a GC account and start logging finds without ever having left the house. So by signing the log, it proves you were there.

But, from my perspective, the intention is for the player to "find" the cache. If you found it, regardless of whether you signed any log, you did find the container so should that not be enough to be able to log a find?

And if signing is a requirement, then what happens in group settings? I've been on plenty of outings with friends and one person finds the cache, and signs the log for us. Sometimes it's all of our names, or a group name. But I might not even see the container if I hear one of my buddies yell out "I got it!".

I've always done everything I can to sign it, but in those ultra-rare cases where I can't, I still log the find, and depending on who the owner is (someone I know vs someone I don't) I will ping them and give them more details.

I'm curious what folks opinions are on the log signing aspect is. No judgement either way. I'm just curious what the general consensus tends to be.

I woke up this morning to several new logs across quite a few hides I have in a certain hiking area.

I then received a message that said "Good day, we are at your cache [insert cache name here] and we haven’t been able to find it. We are at Ground Zero and there’s only a couple of places we figure it could be going by the hint eye level. We have decided to drop a temporary cache here. Please let us know if this is okay. We placed it between the tree trunk and the board."

There's a group of them caching together, and so far two of them have logged it as found.

My question is, if they didn't actually find it and just replaced it, can they actually log it as found? Whenever I can't find a cache, I don't just throw a new container down and log it as a find.

I highly doubt it's actually missing just based on where it's located and how long it's been there.

Would it be frowned upon if I removed their logs? They didn't actually find it...

Thanks for the help!