Pathtags!

[SammyClaws]

I believe the intent is to see who’s paths have crossed yours. So we leave a tag behind for someone to pick up and keep, period. Our hope is that it gets logged and we can see who found the tag and where.

The fact is some people have picked them up and moved them to another cache to be found. Other were picked up and then logged and then placed in another cache (that had us scratching our heads for a bit). But most grab the tag, keep and log it.

We looked at it this way – since so many geo coins go missing, we’d beat them to the punch and go with the ones people can keep. We’re enjoying ours so much that we are working on another set.

[The Crippler]

My daughter has been collecting pathtags for about a year now. She has well over 500 different ones in her collection. We have only found a few in caches, Sammy Claws, Froggers and one at last years Cache Bash. She enjoys trading them online and in person at events. If you are going to be at the Happy Hollow event this weekend they will be there to see. This is very popular in Michigan and Indiana but it is gaining traction here. We put a few of our tags in caches we really enjoy and we have put a set of our tags in caches a FTF prizes.
We are also part of two “games” where we wait for a package of tags to arrive in the mail, trade for tags we are interested in and send the package off to the next person on the list. If you want anymore info feel free to ask my daughter via our email contact.

[gotta run]

This is all good info. Basically our daughter, who rarely finds any swag in a cache that interests a 10-year-old, really likes the pathtag and wanted to tether it to her hiking stick or backpack or something. But, she doesn’t want to be a coin thief.

So it sounds like these can be considered as regular trade items, or even as “take” items, but the best protocol for actually collecting them is to have a batch of personal ones made so that even swaps can be made.

Looks like I may need to help design (and fund) a pathtag production.

On the Left Side of the Road...

[Mister Greenthumb]

Sunshine collects them and has them attached to a loggable trackable charm bracelet that she wears to events. There is a picture of it on the trackable coin page (KS8K30) that she won at an event. The coin is what you are logging for this and not each pathtag that’s on the bracelet. Sometimes she removes them and makes trades. We met a geocacher from Michigan named Jellyfish who came to an event in Wisconsin just to try and coax a pathtag away from Sunshine that was very sought after. He gave her two pathtags and his own personal really cool jellyfish coin in trade. L’dove has a necklace that has enough pathtags attached to it to be considered a weapon.

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