Alternate Log Methods

[homedg]

I have been caught a few times with no pen on me, and nothing in the cache to sign the logbook.

To mark my attendance I have used,
i) Charcoal from a burnt stick
ii) Thumbprint dipped in Mud
iii) Thumbprint dipped in Blood
iv) Nearly burned a JKCourtz logbook up while etching my initials with a magnifying glass

Any other similar experiences out there?

[Team Wibble]

Once or twice I've resorted to carefully tearing a "W" out of the side of a logbook page to indicate a Wibble was there

[JABs]

I left one of my kids but the owner told to I had to return to collect because you can't leave food items in a cache.

[Papa Bear_Left]

I have one of these on my keyring, so even if all of the pens in my caching bag are missing or I'm not carrying it, I'll always have one means of signing a log:

[pprass]

Once or twice I've resorted to carefully tearing a "W" out of the side of a logbook page

Similar - tore a piece off the bottom of a page in the log book and kept it for some time in case I was challenged to prove that we had found the cache:

"Here Your Honor is the piece that exactly fits the bottom of that page, proving beyond doubt that pprass had in his posession that piece of paper" - no wait

[Yurt]

I've 'etched' a log using a non-working pen. If the owner wanted to check they could do a 'rubbing'. That's happened more than once. The pen in the cache has been on the fritz and the two I've had have also failed to perform. Goes to show that a pencil wins every time. Except on wet log books.

[homedg]

This is getting interesting

[caughtatwork]

I leave DNA evidence

[Dik:]

spit and rust make a nice red/brown ink applied with a quill

[Tuena]

Lipstick

[Skippy]

I've once logged a note using my blackberry for somebody to attend the cache location with a pen so I could log the FTF

[The Empire]

After I walked from the wrong car park to get one of pocketrocket&friends caches in Melbourne's north, I realised I didn't have a pen. Looked in the bag the log was in... no pencil Then I looked in the swaps section and found a little kids pack of colouring crayons. So I grabbed the red out of that and scribbled something slightly legible down. As usual, I hid the cache and headed back to the car. Then I realised I still had the little crayon with me! Sorry to the little dude who gets the swap and doesn't have a red!

[Captain Terror]

Can't say I've ever forgotten my pen, yet, but I do carry one of them shaped holewith me to supplement a signature in larger logbooks.

[Philipp]

I once walked a dog of a friend of mine (white shepherd - such a beauty: http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak- ... 4751_n.jpg ) but I didn't had a pen while finding the cache ...

But there was an ink-pad in the cache ink-pad >> dog-pad >> there you go

[Yurt]

There's one cacher who has a butterfly shaped ticket punch so there's always a nice little hole in their page with their log. If they forgot the pen they'd be okay!