Tracking failure - Page 2

If I get up in the morning and there is a lot of dew on the ground, that's when I like to go tracking.  You kind of have a built in visual trail to follow.

I know, I know, I know guys.... LOL the scent pad thing was totally un planned otherwise I would have come prepared, or at least used a twig to mark the spot... I thought no way will I lose the pad... hahahaa!!! I'm such a dork!
Dougie,
That black bird goes everywhere with me. His name is Frank.
I was hoping he would come down and eat the kibble to give me a clue as to where the scent pad was, considering when I used to  feed kibble to the dogs, the damn things would get right in the dog food bowls



The carpenter's chalk is an excellent idea!! I am new at tracking (obviously LOL) and I had heard before that some dogs will actually look for the flags... Anyone have dogs that do this or is it untrue?
Thanks,
Stacy

"Tracking flags, tracking flags tracking flags. You can make them for pennies."

Make them, hell; I just called the underground utility locator people and they left them all over my yard! 

 They seem to grow wild here.  I find them alongside the road.  The ripe ones come in all sorts of colors but the green ones work just as well.  Some businesses plant whole gardens of them.

Yea where are the pictures of the pink cocktail umbrellas.lol  It is good  to have landmarks to remember where the pad is. It all comes with practice and learning little things that help others. I like the hat idea. A client of mine in one of my tracking classes came up with the idea of painting a rock or a clothes pin to indicate. I thought those were good ideas too. I still would like to see a head on pic of whichever dog you are tracking starting out at a scent pad with a cocktail unbrella next to it.lol

Added: Stacy,you know the dirt ground that is out there? We have the same type of terrain as you do there.Do you have red ant hills? Yesterday I was working with the SAR group in that type of terrain and OMG ants came from all over.They were attacking me as I was standing there watching the pup track.Had to pull him off the track.They are evil ants!!

This is off topic so I apologize Stacy, but I read if you take a shovel and scoop out a load of one ant hill, and switch it with a load of another ant hill, the ants will attack each other and wipe out the ant hills.  I've always wanted to try it and see if it works.