Old caches with original logbooks

[marep]

I did periodic maintenance on my oldest cache http://coord.info/GCH7NR and realised it has the original logbook with all logs in it.

 

How many times do you find the cache which is more than 10 years placed and has original logbook? It is hard to filter such caches automatically. It would be interesting if we could make a list of such caches.

 

BR

Marko

[+Uncle Alaska]

I doubt you could filter for it...Would be quite the challenge to build/maintain a list (no doubt)...I just replaced one of my 2003 logbooks last year. The other one is still fine after 12+ years.

Edited March 24, 2015 by Uncle Alaska

[+J Grouchy]

My most recent cache is actually an abandoned ammo can cache: http://coord.info/GC5PBCJ

The history of the log is a little 'muddy'...I don't think the one that is in there is "original", but hopefully the current iteration will last for many more years!

[+coachstahly]

It's been a long time since I found one with an original log book that's more than 5 years old. It does happen, but it's so rare now that I'm thrilled when it happens and spend more time looking through the log than I did actually finding the cache.

[+L0ne.R]

Facebook has a Geocaching Heritage Project Community. It has some nice examples of older logbooks and logs back when people wrote more than just a trailname. Maybe you can contribute.

[Keystone]

Here is a thread from 2010 about original logbooks, which you may find interesting.

[+Fugads]

I've had a pretty good run of finding some old caches with their original logbooks. I suppose a lot depends on your caching area and whether 10 year old caches are even around you. I'm lucky in that nearby is a park with a bunch of caches placed in 2002, and most of them have their original logbooks. A few of those books were totally full, and new books have been added. Even if the logbooks aren't that old, it is just nice to find older caches that are off the beaten path.

Edited March 24, 2015 by Fugads

[+narcissa]

We seek them out sometimes, so we probably find one or two a year.

[+Harry Dolphin]

I've got two ten-year-old caches with the original log books. But they don't get found too often with the mile hike to get to them...

[+Ladybug Kids]

I currently have six ammo cans of more than ten years of age with their original log books in the field with more poised to finish their first decade during 2015. Quality containers placed with the intent of lasting "forever" can last indefinitely without maintenance.

[+Spenny!]

Found a lamp post micro with a log from 2007. oldest i have found. 361 logged visits and its the original...

[+Mudfrog]

Our Boggy Creek Bonanza cache (GC5378) was placed on May 1st, 2002. Due to "progress", the first stage had to be changed up a little but the final is still in it's initial hiding spot and has the original container and logbook. There is some bushwhacking involved so it doesn't get found very often.

[+doc73]

That neat. Love finding the old school caches that still live on.

[+jellis]

I have one that is 8 years old with the original logbook. So many years went by and I wondered why it didn't get full. I had forgotten what the cache even looked like. When I went to check it, it wasn't even half full because it was multiple pages but small. 175 logs and only one favorite. But many of the logs said mostly the same thing. They loved the view. And isn't that what it's all about, sharing a special place. So it's a guardrail cache. It was the only place I could put it.

 

edit:Too bad I will have to go check it and put another one in. Since it now is almost full.

Edited March 25, 2015 by jellis

[+M 5]

I know of 2 2002 caches around the same lake, only a few miles outside of a decent size town that have original logbooks. One is actually pretty close to parking, just off a trail and the other is only .2 from parking. The real interesting thing is looking back about 2007 or 2008 (i forget) in both books, it went from a sentence or 2 with most entries to name and date only. After revisiting them several times with new to the area cachers, and enjoying reading back thru the logbooks, I decided to bring that style back with my own personal logging on caches that can support the logging space

[+NYPaddleCacher]

I know of 2 2002 caches around the same lake, only a few miles outside of a decent size town that have original logbooks. One is actually pretty close to parking, just off a trail and the other is only .2 from parking. The real interesting thing is looking back about 2007 or 2008 (i forget) in both books, it went from a sentence or 2 with most entries to name and date only. After revisiting them several times with new to the area cachers, and enjoying reading back thru the logbooks, I decided to bring that style back with my own personal logging on caches that can support the logging space

 

What came first? Caches that can't support a sentence of two in the log or logs that only consist of a name and a date?

 

I'm guessing that a trend towards smaller container led to shorter logs, but it's yet another case where many aspects of the game are interrelated.

 

 

[+doc73]

I try to do good logs but it is hard to say a lot about a film canister in a p-lot.

[+niraD]

What came first? Caches that can't support a sentence of two in the log or logs that only consist of a name and a date?

FWIW, when I started, micro-size caches were certainly common. Two of the first 4 caches I found were micros. But people still wrote more than a name and date in larger logs. (But then again, I still write more than my name and the date in larger logs, unless I'm in a larger group or have some other time pressure.)

[+FunnyNose]

A couple of my first placed caches that are almost 10 years old that happen to be puzzles still have the original log.

 

B@d B0yz

 

Mystery at Lincoln Park

[+doc73]

I know of 2 2002 caches around the same lake, only a few miles outside of a decent size town that have original logbooks. One is actually pretty close to parking, just off a trail and the other is only .2 from parking. The real interesting thing is looking back about 2007 or 2008 (i forget) in both books, it went from a sentence or 2 with most entries to name and date only. After revisiting them several times with new to the area cachers, and enjoying reading back thru the logbooks, I decided to bring that style back with my own personal logging on caches that can support the logging space

 

What came first? Caches that can't support a sentence of two in the log or logs that only consist of a name and a date?

 

I'm guessing that a trend towards smaller container led to shorter logs, but it's yet another case where many aspects of the game are interrelated.

 

I would write a short sentence or two on the larger logs when I started then do a better more detailed log on the site. As I see it now, and even then, was the online space was the log. I would look in the book but not really. I had always used the online log as the space to see others experience with the hunt, not the book. Originally I know the cache log played a large part in the find. Now, it could probably go away and not be needed other than a check and balance to confirm a find so a name and date are ok. This all because of the online logging.