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Monday 3 September 2012

Unique logs for 100 caches

I know exactly why people post generic logs for power caching trails, and I have no criticism of people doing this, but I like to try and remember the individual caches I've found, and quite often interesting things have occurred or been seen whilst doing a day's worth of caching. So when I set my eyes on the Cranborne Chase Circular (starting here) I wondered just how feasible it would be for me to write 100 unique logs for some quite unremarkable caches... well I did it! But thanks to technology. In the past when I've done twenty or so in a day I've somehow been able to rely on my memory and the hints to help me remember the individual hides, but when you're talking triple figures, they all mush into one! So I took my iPhone caching with me. I don't use my smart phone as a phone; in fact I've removed the SIM card. I was finding it a rather irritating phone for a variety of reasons I won't go into now and the sheer size of all the smart phones on the market is not attractive to me. I happily reverted back to my 2006 "ancient" Motorola V235, and no I don't give a damn that it's not in fashion. I only want it for phone calls, texts and the occasional photo. But my iPhone come iPod Touch (since that is in effect what I use it for) came in very handy with this power trail. After each find I simply recorded a short message to myself reminding myself of how the cache was hidden, where I was at the time, what I could see and what I had encountered on my way to it. A lot of this information didn't end up on the logs, but it served its purpose of helping me jog my memory about individual hides. As a result, I will remember this series with even more fondness. I was quite surprised that the CO was actively encouraging copied and pasted logs but I can't bring myself to do it. Nor can I add photos to a cache that it doesn't apply to. Sorry. 

Record notes in the field on your phone or whatever - it really does make it easier to write up your logs later!

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