Travellers

[+Us 4 and Jess]

I have spent a few hours this afternoon clearing out my travellers watch list on our profile

 

I must have removed 100s it is really quite sad there must be literally £1000s of pounds of TBs and especially geocoins that have been stolen, washed away, MIA ect

 

It is no wonder we find very few TBs and even less Geocoins in caches these days, (that being said we don't find many caches these days that are big enough to hold a traveller, but that is another story ) they seemed to be in every other cache in years gone by...

 

I was going to check how many travellers we had released and how many are still going but I don't think I will bother now

 

Does anyone still buy and release coins? Has anyone seen a green, white, red or yellow Jeep in the last few years or one of those Diabetes rings?

 

M

Edited June 8, 2014 by Us 4 and Jess

[+Delta68]

Jeeze! Those diabetes rings used to be in every other cache. Probably haven't seen one since 2008...

[+Malpas Wanderer]

Seems these days most trackables are circulating via people, by moving from event to event rather than being placed in caches, something totally alien to the original purpose of the items IMO.

 

It annoy when someone takes and dips a trackable that is required to locate a cache keeping it for months on end.

[+colleda]

From Australia, we were looking forward to picking up some TBs to move around the world. So far, after about a week and a half and 40-50 finds, we've not come across one TB. A few of the found caches noted TB as being there but reading back through logs it seems most are long gone.

Need to find a TB prison and release the inmates.

[+colleda]

From Australia, we were looking forward to picking up some TBs to move around the world. So far, after about a week and a half and 40-50 finds, we've not come across one TB. A few of the found caches noted TB as being there but reading back through logs it seems most are long gone.

Need to find a TB prison and release the inmates.

 

The count is now up to 101 and still no TBs. Sigh.

[+Pharisee]

 

I was going to check how many travellers we had released and how many are still going but I don't think I will bother now

 

M

 

Hi Mandy... I keep a record of my travellers on an Excel spread sheet... (yeah, I know... )

Over the years I've released 69 of which 24 are still (theoretically) travelling but there's half a dozen of those that I really don't expect to see moving again as they've been held by cachers for over a year. Polite emails have not been responded to.

Between them, they've covered 503, 246 miles. The biggest individual mileage is an European Union geocoin that's covered 31,611 miles and is currently in the hands of a cacher in Ohio, USA. He's had it since April this year so it may still be live!

I probably won't release any more... don't do much caching now, to be honest.

[+Happy Humphrey]

I found 2 last time I went out caching (Tuesday), one of which has been on the go since 2005. So they are there. But I agree that they are severely curtailed nowadays and I've hardly released any for five years or so. I don't see the point when they disappear so quickly. I can't keep up with marking my once-prized coins and tags as missing.

 

There must be a lot of people who got disillusioned when they realised that geocachers are probably the most light-fingered hobby group in the world!

[+Pieman]

I have released 37 coins and TBs since April 2004- mainly between 2004 and 2007. Of these only two are definitely still and strangely these are the second and third TBs I released. Most of the ones that have gone missing seem to end up in the hands of people who stop caching, a fair few were clearly picked up but not logged, some have been lost by people who are still caching but ignore pleasant reminders and a small number were in caches that have gone missing. I doubt that many of them were deliberately stolen but I guess it is possible.

[+colleda]

From Australia, we were looking forward to picking up some TBs to move around the world. So far, after about a week and a half and 40-50 finds, we've not come across one TB. A few of the found caches noted TB as being there but reading back through logs it seems most are long gone.

Need to find a TB prison and release the inmates.

 

The count is now up to 101 and still no TBs. Sigh.

Holiday over and back home. Final tally 118 caches found. TBs found = nil.

[team tisri]

From Australia, we were looking forward to picking up some TBs to move around the world. So far, after about a week and a half and 40-50 finds, we've not come across one TB. A few of the found caches noted TB as being there but reading back through logs it seems most are long gone.

Need to find a TB prison and release the inmates.

 

The count is now up to 101 and still no TBs. Sigh.

Holiday over and back home. Final tally 118 caches found. TBs found = nil.

 

You could always release some of your own?

[+N0hope]

I currently have 15 trackables belonging to other cachers in my inventory. However, this is because I am going to Northern Norway into the Arctic Circle in just over a week and I have contacted every single owner and asked if they want to go. I also find a traveller in an average of 1 in 20 caches but most do seem to be at events. I am also releasing 8 of my own TBs when I am in Norway for them to travel. I have also just put 3 new TBs into an event for when I get back. These will moved into a new series of caches as soon as they are published for that event.

I have seven travelers currently traveling around the world and have had none go permanently missing. From reading the other posts I guess I am just lucky!

[+Malpas Wanderer]

Just looked back at the travellers I've moved in recent weeks;

 

Some remain in the same caches 8 weeks on so can only assume folk don't like the type of caches I visit.

 

Some have moved on quite well but some have been dipped along the way.

 

At least 1 has been with the person that retrieved it for 8 weeks.

 

I'm tending now to give a "visit" to a local owned cache to any I still have in possession at the end of a trip.

Cornwall~Berkshire~Northumberland gives more miles than Cornwall~Northumberland.

 

Keep them out in the caches and moving folks.