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08/30/2011 at 6:11 pm #1952756
@gotta run wrote:
It’s hard to fit travelers into bison tubes.
I don’t know, I found a foam bunch of bananas TB that someone just put in the tree next to the bison. 😯
08/30/2011 at 6:51 pm #1952757@kungfuhippie wrote:
@gotta run wrote:
It’s hard to fit travelers into bison tubes.
I don’t know, I found a foam bunch of bananas TB that someone just put in the tree next to the bison. 😯
was it an evil monkey hide?
On the Left Side of the Road...08/30/2011 at 6:56 pm #1952758@gotta run wrote:
@kungfuhippie wrote:
@gotta run wrote:
It’s hard to fit travelers into bison tubes.
I don’t know, I found a foam bunch of bananas TB that someone just put in the tree next to the bison. 😯
was it an evil monkey hide?
no, typical cemetery hide. didn’t look too out of place!
08/30/2011 at 6:56 pm #1952759@gotta run wrote:
was it an evil monkey hide?
😆 :lol3: :lol2: :LOL:
08/30/2011 at 11:56 pm #1952760@gotta run wrote:
It’s hard to fit travelers into bison tubes.
LOL that’s so true! My guess is that there is about the same amount of trackables (or slightly more) than from several years ago but there’s so many more caches out there, so it seems like there’s fewer trackables. We currently have 34 trackables we have released, only three are marked as missing (so far) so I guess we’ve been pretty fortunate. In fact one disappeared at the first cache it was placed in. One thing I have noticed is that the ones that are missing were attractive looking. Maybe we have to put out ugly travel bugs and geocoins…
08/31/2011 at 12:40 am #1952761@hack1of2 wrote:
We currently have 34 trackables we have released, only three are marked as missing (so far) so I guess we’ve been pretty fortunate.
Wow…we have about 10 left out of two dozen. You’re doing well.
@hack1of2 wrote:
One thing I have noticed is that the ones that are missing were attractive looking. Maybe we have to put out ugly travel bugs and geocoins…
Yes, that is definitely the case.
On the Left Side of the Road...08/31/2011 at 1:52 am #1952762Our school kids have released about 200 TBs over the last several years, The mortality rate is way above 50% after 12 months, although I have not done another tally in awhile.
Gram & I personally won’t turn loose any more, ours just have disappeared way too fast. Our TBs don’t get released now, they stay with us – our cars and our hiking sticks. Gram doesn’t have a TB tatoo yet, though.
We’ll do them again at school this year, and ought to have 25 or 30 ready to go by the end of Sept. or early Oct. We use them across several curricular areas in the 6th grade, but the 7th and 8th grade teams do not have much interest. That works out OK though, because by then a lot of the TBs are MIA.
Interestingly, when any of the kids’ TBs get to Europe, they usually move regularly, are well cared for, and don’t disappear.
We still see a few trackables now and then as we find caches. We usually grab them and try to put on some miles and post some appropriate photos. I guess I’d have to agree that there do not seem to be as many these days. But watch for the SetonCachers5 TB’s, that will be a bunch hitting caches in the Fox Valley and Waupaca areas in about a month.
cYa, Jim
08/31/2011 at 3:25 am #1952763We still find quite a few TB’s and almost always move them, but very few coins anymore. When we startes geocaching there were lots of coins. We have 2 bugs across the ocean that are doing well and racking up miles. They have more respect for them there. All but one bug stateside had disappeared.
08/31/2011 at 11:37 am #1952764@Mister Greenthumb wrote:
We still find quite a few TB’s and almost always move them, but very few coins anymore. When we startes geocaching there were lots of coins. We have 2 bugs across the ocean that are doing well and racking up miles. They have more respect for them there. All but one bug stateside had disappeared.
I also have a TB across the huge pond but my proble is the holder right nowhas not placed it in a cache and he has had it since 2010 cache bash. ive emailed and emailed and emailed but nope he is not being a nice person. No return emails nothing. Kinda 👿 me off. I did find a TB yesturday and grabbed it.
08/31/2011 at 1:45 pm #1952765We have had had a few TB’s that have gone to some really cool places. They’ve been to a castle in Ireland, Machu Pichu, Disneyland in France, etc. I really wish I could tag along!
Not all who wander are lost. -J.R.R. Tolkien
08/31/2011 at 2:11 pm #1952766funny thing, I just got another report last night about one of my CITO coins, archived and lost.
08/31/2011 at 2:54 pm #1952767I found 9 caches on Monday this week, and 4 of them had travelers in them. One had two Travel Bugs.
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08/31/2011 at 9:55 pm #1952768@gotta run wrote:
It’s hard to fit travelers into bison tubes.
Yeah, that was my thought as well.
I see a steady decline at least in our area. It seems fewer and fewer listings have TBs in them when I do a general search for caches and the ones that do have TBs listed are usually missing. I find myself not taking TBs as much as I used to as there are long periods between caching and its a PITA to find a container for them to fit in when I do. Coins seem to an endangered nearing extinction. I think the last one I saw was in the wild was on vacation some months ago and that was a photocopy of the coin.
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