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kc9gbo · Geocacher Joined: 26 Jun 2009 Posts: 148

I have a couple folks in the area that like to move trackables, so this area has a fair amount. But, it seems they get trapped here, unfortuneatly it seems alot of folks don't like to move them anymore. I placed a tb hotel to help move them out of the area, but there seems to be more finds and not moving any of the tb's inside.

Trekkin' and Birdin' · Geocacher Joined: 22 Oct 2008 Posts: 97

I don't think we've taken any out of our own caches, but that doesn't bother us if others do. They're meant to travel. I used to worry more about "take a trackable, leave a trackable," but now I drop them where I think they'll be safe, yet move along, where they might work toward completing their mission, whether we've taken a trackable or not. If we find one that's interesting and we can move it, we'll grab it. They aren't trade items, so we've gotten over that hang up.

What does bug me, as is true for any of us, is TB thieves. We've had so many go missing. One has returned from the dead, one completed its mission, but the others? Gone. Gone with the breeze. I only know of one that's still flying around to caches these days. I've tried to track down the errant ones, with no success.

Paul, we've learned not to drop them in TB hotels any more, unless they're quite secure. Our experience has been the TB bandits watch those and clean them out. Same with the State Park caches. Which is pretty sad, isn't it?

kc9gbo · Geocacher Joined: 26 Jun 2009 Posts: 148

I try to move trackables and have taken out of my own cache to help move.
Yeah, hate thieves, I have a coin that has been sitting in a cache down in Georgia for a long time and nobody has mentioned seeing it there lately. That's one thing I do so if the owner of the trackable is looking back through they can hopefully see that it was there at that time.
I can say I've had pretty good luck at hotels, and even mine actually but what bugs me is when someone steals a whole cache and doesn't even leave the remainders behind including the trackables.

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NYSandy23 · Geocacher Joined: 11 Jun 2007 Posts: 162 Location: Eagan

I have an out of state cache which I visit every few months. I usually drop TB's I have accumulated here that want to move east and I bring back any that want to move west. I usually do not move any that appear in any of my MN caches.
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Trekkin' and Birdin' · Geocacher Joined: 22 Oct 2008 Posts: 97

The one that completed its mission went to Australia and still travels around. The other one still out there is staying in the US, which is fine. It just wants to go to tougher caches. It sat all winter in one somewhere in Alaska in the middle of nowhere, which didn't bother us. We knew where it was!