sassmo

Oh! Thanks for the heads up! I'm fairly new to Geocaching in the area and looked for a club, but couldn't find a site. I'll definitely go there! Thank you!

I'm a guide on the South Fork of the American River, a Class III/III+ section of whitewater located just East of Folsom Lake/Sacramento area. I noticed that there are a lot of high terrain, high difficulty caches along the banks of the river that are usually hiked to. I think most of them can be rafted to with much greater ease. Some of them even claim to only be accessible by raft. None of the commercial outfitters offer a geocaching trip, however, I am a guide for a commercial outfitter AND I just bought my own raft. Rafts are rather difficult to navigate with just 1 person though. Most of my friends would be bored to tears after the first cache so I want to fill my boat with people who will have fun going with me. I have 37 caches bookmarked along a 21-mile stretch of river. I have no idea how close some of these are to the river, but I know a lot of them are fairly close to the water. There are 3 sections on this river that could be broken into 2-3 days. My weekends get filled up with paying commercial trips, but I'm mostly free on weekdays as long as we plan ahead a week or two. Anyone want to go?

Woops... I guess I still have some exploring to do around the site's features as well as on the ground... Thanks for the tip!

The above map is the travel route for one of my bugs (dedicated to traveling to different taverns) after it arrived in Germany. Wouldn't it be cool if our bugs had exportable Google Earth or Google Maps routes that we could open so we could get a good visual of where our bugs have been and where they're going?

I released three classic car TBs in separate caches throughout a local park. Their goal was to race from Seattle to my uncle's house in my hometown just outside Sacramento. A local cacher picked up 2/3 of the bugs and put them in his new cache out in the woods. His cache didn't follow the rules of the national park and it got archived. After it got archived I emailed him about my bugs' fate. He said he'd retrieved the cache and the bugs were in his garage, waiting to go back out. Six months later I looked at his profile, only to find out he'd been caching regularly, but never placed my bugs. I emailed him asking if he still had them. He said to be patient and that he would place them soon. The following week, logs showed up on both bugs, one being placed in the UK and the other being placed in Denmark. C'est la vie, I guess...

I've noticed that some cache owners like to keep MIA bugs logged into the cache because it encourages people like the original poster to go looking for it. That just leaves the local reviewer and the bug owner to remove it from the cache...

January 3rd two of my TBs were placed in a cache that was pending approval. A few days later I found out the owner of the cache improperly placed the cache in a park that has restrictions on where caches can be placed. I sent an email in February requesting the status of the TBs and he said he'd retrieve them soon. I sent another email about 2 weeks ago and another email today, requesting info. I haven't gotten a response. What action should I take? Do you think Groundspeak would give me the coordinates for the cache so I can at least go retrieve my bugs (and possibly remove the cache)?

I just bought this unit on Ebay. I cleared the memory since it was full of the other user's POI's and it powered down. When I powered it back on it gave me the "Unit currently contains no maps" screen. I've seen mention of people getting to a secret screen, but nobody mentions how to do that. Can anyone offer any help?

I'm going to visit my mom in a few days and really want to be able to quickly upload coordinates so I can take her caching in her area. Is there any way to upload waypoints via a Mac? If not, what's the best way to upload waypoints to a Geko 201 via a PC? I can access her PC when I get there.

Sorry if this is a repeat topic, but I searched and couldn't find anyone who's already asked this question. I have a Garmin Geko 201 and a MacBook. I have the serial cable to USB converter and I've been able to download waypoints from the GPSr, but I haven't been able to upload. Has anyone been successful in uploading waypoints to a Geko 201 with a Mac? What programs did you use?