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rawevil 9 years, 2 months ago.
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Have Pathtags died out?
I haven’t seen them in the wild for a long time. Just wonder what everyone else thinks.
In the days of fewer caches (and fewer cachers) and higher quality swag I think they were more common to encounter. Now with over 2M caches and many casual smartphone cachers, putting pathtags out in the wild is in decline. Just a guess. We love to find them.
pathtags in the wild are rare but there are still many enthusiasts. I believe most tend to trade with others at events more often than drop them in caches as swag.
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I came across almost a half dozen this past spring, but the cache was outside a BSA campground too
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I don’t think pathtags are as popular in Wisconsin as other parts of the country. We bought 100 4 years ago and the first 50 were traded or given away quickly. The last 50 are still gathering dust. It seems like it takes forever now for new cachers to find out everything about geocaching. Events, trackable etiquette, placing hides, pathtags,……….
I also think that the huge popularity of all these drive by power trails has reduced interest in all things trackable. No place to drop them.
We had geocoins made shortly after we first started. What a waste of money for a couple of cachers who aren’t much into the whole trackable business. I’m sure if we went to Geocoinfest we could do a bunch of trading, but….why? All our stuff like that sits in boxes in the attic, or as I’ve been discovering the past couple days, somewhere in my girl cave.
I guess I now have TWO things on my bucket list: To see the final movie installments of The Hunger Games, and to at least catch a glimpse of a MGT & SS pathtag!
The problem is they’re just so expensive! I make the poor girl’s version with bottle caps and resin.
Not all who wander are lost. -J.R.R. Tolkien
We find a few a year in the wild. It is about the same as when we first started.
Beccaday: We have one of your bottle caps on our refrigerator.
Hack 1 of 2: This might be it:
@Braid Beards Gang wrote:
Beccaday: We have one of your bottle caps on our refrigerator.
Awesome!
Not all who wander are lost. -J.R.R. Tolkien
The larger events seem to have a pathtag trading area for those who wish to trade in person. Also, I think more pathtags are traded online in different groups and not dropped in caches like they were probably intended. We like to drop ours in the wild and hand out when we attend events. We have only traded a couple online.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
-Henry David Thoreau
Code Word to a BOD PT at West Bend Cache Ba$h: “Chris Rocks”
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The last time I saw one in the wild was at the BSA cache outside of Hudson over two years ago. Many of the ones listed as being in the cache were AWOL. I haven’t seen any out here in the wild west.
The best sig is no sig.
Code Word to a BOD PT at West Bend Cache Ba$h: “Chris Rocks”
“WalkingAdventure is my favorite”. Let’s see how many of the other BOD we can make ill by hearing it.
All the info was in the WGA Newsletter a couple of weeks ago.
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Make sure you wear clothes that have a lot of pockets WalkingAdventure 😉
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
-Henry David Thoreau
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