DON’T DO THIS When Geocaching! Trackables Trouble.

[@LeeLuker]

Hi Carlo, amazing coincidence. My wife and I were listening to the Aug 17, 2024 episode of Caching in the North West podcast where you are the guest and I wanted to check out your videos. We have been caching since 2002 and started here on Vancouver Island. I randomly picked this video to watch to see what you cover in them and when you started showing shots from Geo-woodstock 2022, I was thinking, hey we were there too! Then when you were introducing Ken at 6:02, that is my wife and I just beside and behind Ken wearing our masks! Amazing that you took the video of this great moment reuniting the TB with its owner, that it had us in the background, then you created a KZbin video about it and posted it, then we heard about you on a podcast a year later, then I picked this video of yours to watch, and finally that I recognized us in it. Small world. Enjoying your videos, so far. We always appreciate a good geocache that someone spent time and effort creating. Hope to get some good inspiration from your tutorials. Lee and Bev, (Go Play Outside)

[@JustCarloGeocaching]

I love this! It really is a small world. GWXVIII was such a great learning experience, and I felt so lucky to have met Ken. Maybe we’ll run into each other out there in the wild! Thank you for watching :)

[@truneilson]

I find lost TBs. Found one after 5 years out of the game at a flee market, I stole it and sent a message to the owner, back into the game it went. I grabbed one from a friend's car he had it for 3 years... put it back into the game, now I'm friends with the owners in Germany. Found one at a thrift store and put it back into the game.

[@JustCarloGeocaching]

You’re like TB search and rescue!

[@scottherndon5563]

Nice to see a fellow cacher with such integrity. I love sending out Trackables but soooooooo many go missing or get picked up by cachers who log them in and then never go caching again. :( I usually try to contact the caher after a couple years and after three years will grab the trackable from them and relaunch. Wish all players actually tried to be helpful like you. Thank you!!

[@arlingtontrains7]

Thank you for this great story sir! I’ve had a few I’ve held onto for quite a while, not intentional, but life changed and I fell out of the game for a while, and not once was I contacted by any of the travel bug owners, but recently I got my head back in the game and finally sent the trackable’s on their way 😎

[@JustCarloGeocaching]

It’s an aspect of the game I wasn’t familiar with when I started, and still getting used to. I still don’t do much with trackables but hoping to send one out soon!

[@GeoRick]

Found one in our backpack a year after finding it! Time sure can fly.

[@cachetheline]

Yeah it's great you were conscious of the inherent value of the TB by its owner; I think so many just think they're cheap little things no one will notice if goes missing. Nice job :) Glad it showed up again. 6 months is probably pretty short in the average missing-then-found age of TBs, but it could still feel like forever! hehe

[@Komikino]

My daughter and I picked up a trackable in November 2019 and it was wanting to go back home to Astoria (or something like that). The trackable looked cool and we decided to take it with us and drop it off at the 2020 Anniversary because I knew we could drop it off in a bin for Europe to get it home easier. As we know, COVID happened and the trackable stayed at home. I had it in my inventory so whenever I logged a cache find, it was logged on the trackable's page. After a couple years of this, the owner contacted me and wanted to know why I wasn't dropping it off. I apologized for the amount of time we held onto it and did nothing. I explained what I was wanting to do with it; take it to a Block Party and release it there to have a better chance of returning home. I said we could drop it off in any old random cache out here but couldn't guarantee anything because I've had trackables go missing. The owner said they would be ok with waiting for the next Block Party. When the 2022 Anniversary happened, we managed to FINALLY drop it off. It did eventually get back home to the owner. :) I am glad we were able to get it to get back home. That story was explained in the 2022 Anniversary video of ours.

[@halemeister]

Great trackable story and explanation about trackables in general and their basic functions.

[@houstontxdave6876]

Great story about trackables, troubles and the cool people you meet along the way because of geocaching

[@JustCarloGeocaching]

Definitely! The community is great, and something I did not expect when I first started.

[@1bowmaniam]

I create (bland) trackable proxies that have a tag attached, that explains what to do with it, and NOT to do. I avoid anything "cute" attached to them, so they aren't so tempting to keep. Seems to help keep them in the game.

[@JustCarloGeocaching]

Some good tips 👍. Thanks for watching :)

[@Tamika03]

My trackable sadly got lost in 2018 and i kinda gave up my hope to ever see it wander again. But it is so cool that you had such a great encounter bc of a trackable😊

[@Werido23]

Hi tito carlo its maki Thx for telling us about trackables I love your geocaching videos Its pretty cool how you can find so many geocache Keep it up!

[@Randy.E.R]

Thank you for this video. In the last 13 years I have released 31 trackables, some of them were very nice and unique. Of the 31 I released, only three are still actively moving around. The others have all but vanished. I have reached out to a few of the people that last logged them, but few ever respond. My most active trackable has been to Europe and back which is kind of cool. I never set any goals for them, but am just happy to see any of them make their rounds.

[@JustCarloGeocaching]

Thanks for watching and for your comment. I guess once they’re out in the wild, we just have to let them be? I still haven’t released any trackables, but maybe this year it will be the year.

[@TSGAdventures]

I carried a trackable for 3 years. I had permission from the trackable owner to add miles to it as we had plans for a trip to New orleans and several other places. I kept in touch with the owner and added a few thousand miles to it. The issue came when we moved. The geocaching bag was packed into a box and put in the basement after we moved. Needless to say it was lost for well over a year or so. I told the trackable owner that i would keep looking for it as i knew it had to be in the new house. I did eventually find the bag and trackable. It just so happened we were planning another trip ti new orleans. The trackable owner said add the miles which we did. When qe returned i mailed it back to him as it was a really nice geocoin. I have put out several trackables over the 14 years of geocaching but not anymore as they all have come up missing. With that said, i still grab trackables and move them on.