First Cache

[+trackdayguy]

This weekend on the 23rd July myself & DaizyW will place our 1st Cache along with a Trackable.

 

This Trackable along with the attached Alfa Romeo 4C is to promote Safer Roads by encouraging those who want to go fast to join a local Motor Sport Club and drive fast in a safe and controlled environment. Dropped near the Airport in Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada at the SASC “Southern Alberta Solo Club” Championship event on the 23th July 2016.

 

Please only take this Trackable if you intend to pass it on.

 

Is there any tips that we need to think about?

 

Thanks

EVOTELL

[+cerberus1]

Realize that as soon as that trackable leaves your hands, you've lost control of it.

Possible that not one cacher honors any mission or request you have on the trackable's page (if they read the trackable's page at all).

That "Please only take this Trackable if you intend to pass it on" might mean one person visiting every cache they've found for three months, "passing it on" cache-to-cache.

 

If you go into trackables without any expectation that caring & considerate humans are looking out for a toy, you'll be good.

[+redsox_mark]

The only tip I would give is to use an ordinary TB and attach something unattractive to it. It doesn't guarantee anything, but the less appealing it looks the less likely someone will purposely take it.

 

But nothing will stop someone accidentally dropping it down the back of the sofa, or various other ways they can go missing.

[+palmetto]

Please log your trackable into your cache prior to submitting the cache listing for review.

 

You do that as you would for any other cache, use a Write Note log and look down at your Inventory and select "dropped off".

It can also be dropped with a Post Reviewer Note log - a log type only available to players on unpublished caches.

[Pup Patrol]

This weekend on the 23rd July myself & DaizyW will place our 1st Cache along with a Trackable.

 

This Trackable along with the attached Alfa Romeo 4C is to promote Safer Roads by encouraging those who want to go fast to join a local Motor Sport Club and drive fast in a safe and controlled environment. Dropped near the Airport in Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada at the SASC “Southern Alberta Solo Club” Championship event on the 23th July 2016.

 

Please only take this Trackable if you intend to pass it on.

 

Is there any tips that we need to think about?

 

Thanks

EVOTELL

 

Does this trackable belong to you or someone else?

 

The trackables you own are all named the same thing. Is it one of those that you are placing in a new cache?

 

I would recommend renaming each of the trackables that belong to you to something unique for each one.

 

I would also recommend not attaching anything of sentimental value to the dogtags. If you can bear to see it disappear, don't release it.

 

B.

Edited July 21, 2016 by Pup Patrol

[+trackdayguy]

Thanks guys, good advice. As has been said before the game only works when everyone plays by the rules.

 

The other thing we have noticed is there is no point dropping a Trackable in an infrequently visited Cache. A month ago we visited a cache at Gap Lake, it had 2 Trackable which we didn't take and a month later they are still there, we plan on revisiting the Cache picking up the Trackable and dropping it in a more popular location.

[+cerberus1]

Thanks guys, good advice. As has been said before the game only works when everyone plays by the rules.

 

The other thing we have noticed is there is no point dropping a Trackable in an infrequently visited Cache. A month ago we visited a cache at Gap Lake, it had 2 Trackable which we didn't take and a month later they are still there, we plan on revisiting the Cache picking up the Trackable and dropping it in a more popular location.

Thank you !

Been saying this for years, but many still don't get it.

Some actually think it safe. Sure it's safe if it never moves anywhere.

As soon as my rotator's healed, I gotta climb one our "5s" to get a trackable thats sitting in it for over six months now.

[+narcissa]

Thanks guys, good advice. As has been said before the game only works when everyone plays by the rules.

 

The other thing we have noticed is there is no point dropping a Trackable in an infrequently visited Cache. A month ago we visited a cache at Gap Lake, it had 2 Trackable which we didn't take and a month later they are still there, we plan on revisiting the Cache picking up the Trackable and dropping it in a more popular location.

Thank you !

Been saying this for years, but many still don't get it.

Some actually think it safe. Sure it's safe if it never moves anywhere.

As soon as my rotator's healed, I gotta climb one our "5s" to get a trackable thats sitting in it for over six months now.

 

It's a great, passive aggressive way to annoy another geocacher though.

[+captnemo]

One thing I think might help is to put the TB in a zip lock bag with a note about what it is and a plea to log it and pass it on.

 

Of course once you release a TB as other have said, it is best to consider it gone, that way if it is logged that's great and when it disappears that just the way things are.