How do I track human trackables?

[+SomeTrickyDucks]

Ive come across the idea of trackable tattoos and such online. How do i even find them? Do the TBs move on the map in real time? Or do they just have to hang out by a cache until someone shows up? 

[+kunarion]

13 minutes ago, SomeTrickyDucks said:

Ive come across the idea of trackable tattoos and such online. How do i even find them? Do the TBs move on the map in real time? Or do they just have to hang out by a cache until someone shows up? 

 

You're not likely to find a person with a trackable tattoo inside a cache container, so you won't be retrieving those.  The TBs are often designed so that others can make discover logs.  If the person with the tattoo finds a cache, he or she might log a "Visit".  Other people can't obtain the location of TBs in real time.  You may see a tattoo in person (at a cache event or whatever).

 

 

Edited October 7, 2017 by kunarion

[+Touchstone]

The only ones I've run across have been at Events that the owner is attending.  They tend to announce in their "Will Attend" log that they have the trackable (for Discovery only), and will be available for people to log.

Link provided for additional information on tattoo trackables:

https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=41&pgid=315

[+Manville Possum]

21 minutes ago, SomeTrickyDucks said:

Or do they just have to hang out by a cache until someone shows up? 

 

Geocaching events are good places to find them. 

[+cerberus1]

Events are where the most we've seen show up for Discover.  I'd think it'd be a fine line between a person with a trackable tattoo being tracked in real time, and stalking.   

We have  had some success baiting for  them using PB&Js,  and if that doesn't work,  mac n cheese.

[RuideAlmeida]

An easy way to achieve what you want.

I also met a guy with a TB haircut.

[+niraD]

Trackable tattoos are really no different from other personal trackables that are intended to be discovered rather than moved: clothing, jewelry, name tags, vehicle stickers, dog collars, hiking staffs, etc.

If the owner checks such a trackable into caches or into events, then you'll see those locations on the trackable's map. But otherwise, the logs will just be Discover logs, which don't have associated locations.