Pathtags are yet another way to spend your money when Geocaching. Actually they are little iron disks about the size of a quarter, maybe a little smaller, and are a handy way of saying "I was here" by simply leaving one at the desired location or cache. They are one of those items you never heard of before and then find out there is an entire subculture of Pathtag enthusiasts busy designing, buying and trading them around the world. The little round white circle represents a hole in the Pathtag so that they can be hung on a display of some sort.
I had my tag professionally designed, yes there are even professional designers for these things--who knew. The design price was not at all expensive ($25.00) and the results much more pleasing than I could ever have done.
My trailname for Geocaching and a lot of other activities is "woodhick803", a name that harks back to the early days of logging & logging railroads in WV. A woodhick was a common, ordinary, everyday lumberjack. The 803 is used because many woodhicks came from countries like Poland, Russia, and Italy and therefore bore names largely unpronounceable to the average West Virginian. These foreign workers were simply issued numbered brass tags in order for the company time and record keepers to be able to record the work hours and days of each individual. Thus "woodhick803" to honor both the lumberjacks from an earlier day and my Russian grandfather, who, while not a woodhick but rather a coal miner, was probably issued more than one brass check tag during his life.
Pathtags, another way to enrich Geocaching, who knew.
That's pretty cool, Woody. I never got to the pathtag level.
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