Team Paubon

it is GSAK and Cachemate

For years I used only a little gps and PAPER....tons of it. Got a nice 60CS and love it, but not enough room for enough info. So, as a gift got a little pda and my son set it all up, loaded the 500 closest caches- NOW I NEED TO UPDATE it, and can't figure how. PLEASE, SOMEONE WHO IS PATIENT...one step at a time....slowly please......I read, and I think slowly, I comprehend even slower! Bonnie (just made the Kilo club in May!!!!!)

Retired RN - Intensive Burn Unit, Bachelors and Masters in Family Nurse Practitioner....

Thanks Toz! Yes! That is the cache....RFO's Firewood Anyone? and the worst part is there was a cable fence on the street side with large NO TRESSPASSING SIGNS, we divided the challenge, Paul watched for cops, while I went under the cable and found where the cache should have been, tangled with a thorn bush, and came back covered with blood. TMI????? The rest of you have really been helpful too, DIDNT RESOLVE MY DILEMNA, but helpful....and Toz, the link to the other thread was very helpful. Now, if I understand correctly, I should CHECK THE CACHE PAGES FOR ARCHIVES OR TEMP DOWN CACHES, THEN go to my pq/gsak/and delete them FIRST BEFORE GOING OUT AND SEARCHING hours for nonexistent caches....right?????

Thanks Toz, I would have posted this on the SO CAL board, but THEY WILL NOT LET ME LOG IN, no matter how hard I try....I have 2 accounts there, and they will not accept either of them, even in Firefox...

Thanks for trying, but that "firewood" is about 100 miles south east of me. The cache pages just do not show either of the caches, yet the queries DO. Weird.

Not archived that I could find. Just did NOT appear on my unfound cache page, yet they did appear on the queries and downloaded from gsak to my gps.

Twice in the last week I have gone to a cache site (let by my paperless old faithful gps queries), only to get back to post and found they did not exist on geocaching.com. One was in Orange, Ca called Firewood. The other in west Orange County called CardsAll (that's all my gps shows, there may have been more letters. I found that one in good condition, I never did find firewood.

At our C.A.C.H.E. meeting of September 17, 2005, a number of Travel Bugs (TAGS ONLY) was anonymously dropped off. Among them was the above Travel Bug, which we believe you are the owner. If you are the owner and you wish to have the TB returned, please e-mail me your mailing address and I will send it to you by return mail. Due to the volume of Travel Bug tags we have to return please allow 3-4 weeks for your tag to arrive. If you do not wish the TB returned or if you are not the owner, please notify me by e-mail at =========== Thank you, Jim McCoskey, C.A.C.H.E. Treasurer --------------------------------------------------------------------------------this sure was a nice thing of Jim to do, considering all the waiting and anger these people had experienced.....in my case, I had written to remorser and offered my post office box and change to ship my tag, but never heard from him...actually the tag belonged to my daughter, so the email went to her

Check this out, took place in COLORADO too C.A.C.H.E. SEPT MEETING AND CHILI COOKOFF by C.A.C.H.E. [profile]

Yes, we got one too, seems like the gathering was CaChE

Thanks Leprechauns, it worked great and I have bookmarked the site.

When a hider encrypts part of his explanation, how the heck does one decrypt it?

Yeah, I just made the same discovery....COLORADO.....and it seems he posted April 30, 05 he posted them. WHAT IS HIS PROBLEM?

Do we all live in the same location? or even state? if not, how is "he" getting to all our caches?

One of our travel bugs has gone missing and when we found it last, it was with a guy who had NO finds and NO hides, just 155 travel bugs. Is this allowed?

Thanks Nature....I found that other source just after posting (of course) and really appreciate the link you took time to post...again, thanks....team paubon

At RFO's event in Orange, I picked up a Calif. token, it is similar to a geocaching coin, but it had its' own page..now I cannot find it...and I left it in a cache today and wanna give it miles. Anyone know where to look? Thanks! Bonnie

Oh my goodness Mike, I just now saw this post and I am speechless! (not on the computer, but just in shock)....what a kind thing to say to us, and YES, WE CERTAINLY GOT A GOOD MUDDY DRENCHING yesterday doing the last three to reach 600! Thanks son, we love you, and we appreciate all the caching friends we have made here in southern California. When we started 2 years ago, we didn't even know how to enter coordinates, but our oldest grandson, Tommy (Mike's son) showed me how during a marathon virtual at Disneyland....thanks Tommy...We are helping put together a Valentine pizza event next month in Orange. God bless you all! Team Paubon

The very first travel bug I launched in a cache of my own disappeared almost immediately. Three logs later, I saw a finder mentioned there was NO bug in the cache. I emailed all the finders who said they all looked for it, but it was never there. Apparently someone took it, never logged it and that was that. If I now send out another bug with the same tag number, what if they eventually both show up?

Eartha, how do I handle my lost travel bug in an Eastern seaboard state if I start it up again here, in Calif using just a paper copy of the tag? What about grabbing a lost bug, or the mileage from there to here when it really did NOT travel but got lost. Thanks...

I planned to do a cache that had a certain bug in it. When I got there, the bug had nothing attached, only its' name written on one side in permanent marker and its' official number written on a piece of paper, attached ....I logged it and it is moving on quite well..another partial one I have now came from a cache that had been muggled...I was able to retrieve only its' cover and passport, but the owner telephoned me that she was sending another replacement bug but had no more tags...she is going to make a laminated card with the number on it for me to attach... sometimes the tags are lost......I know you get two copies of the tags but people like to keep one copy as souveniers or keepsakes. Just wondered how "legal" these things need to be?

One possibility I have used when a travel bug is missing, is to post a note on the last cache it was seen in....funny, both times I did that, it was logged out properly immediately...and placed in another cache.....I think the person just forgot and was too embarrassed to own up to it until after my notes.

Here in So Calif we have travel bug hotels by nearly all airports. I know of at least one near LAX, and one near John Wayne (SNA) and two near Ontario, and I think there is one near Long Beach. These are within walking distance and the turnover is pretty good.

Thanks Hemlock, but is this a Northern California thing only? We did some wonderful No. Ca ones in May but can't seem to get our So Cal ones approved at all.