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Geocaching Find Log
A free printable geocaching log — date, cache name and code, found or DNF, the published terrain and difficulty, trackables moved and notes on the container.
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One page. Choose your paper size — both versions are laid out identically, so neither one gets shrunk to fit.
Print it and write on it
Fill it in type and save
The fillable versions have real form fields — open them in any PDF reader, type into them and save. Printing help.
What this sheet is for
Keep your own record of finds and did-not-finds, with the trackables you moved written down where you can check them against the ones still in your bag.
Who it is for
Geocachers, caching families and anyone who wants a paper record that does not depend on an app or an account.
How to use it
- Copy the terrain and difficulty from the cache listing rather than judging them.
- Log the code as well as the name — names repeat, codes do not.
- Record a DNF as carefully as a find; it is the more useful line when you go back.
- Write down every trackable you take out and drop off, with its code.
- Note the state of the container, so a report to the owner can wait until you are home.
What is on the sheet
One page, top to bottom:
Printed under the title: One line per cache — the name and code, found or not found, the terrain and difficulty as published, the trackables that moved and what the container was like when you got there.
Copy the published figures. Terrain and difficulty are whatever the cache owner published — copy them across rather than judging them yourself, so the same number means the same thing on every line of the page.
Write-on lines: Caching name · GPS or app used · Year
Table, 14 rows: Date · Cache name · Code · Found / DNF · Terrain · Difficulty · Trackables moved · Notes
Questions
Why copy the terrain and difficulty instead of rating it myself?
Because the figures only mean something if they are the same ones everybody else is using. Copy what the owner published, and put your own opinion of how it went in the notes column.
Why keep this on paper when the app already logs finds?
Signal fails, phones run out of battery and accounts change hands. A paper line written at the cache is also the only record of the DNFs and the container condition that never got typed up.
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