There has been a jailbreak at The Rock Travel Bug Prison! The prison, pictured above, is a fortified compound from which no travel bug has ever escaped...until now. Granted, the prison never actually existed until now, but it still managed to maintain an unbroken track record for a few minutes, at least. Actually, this is just a photoshopped hybrid of the rock at Rock Lake, crossed with Alcatraz Prison, also known as The Rock. The real Rock Travel Bug Prison is concealed at an undisclosed location for security. No one knows where it is or what it looks like, which makes it harder for fellow criminals to find the place and aid the inmates in a jailbreak. Unfortunately, the local law enforcement and prison guards also don't know how to find it, either, which is probably why the prisoners got out in the first place. So, if you do find one of the prisoners, please arrest him and get him to tell you how to find it, because the Sheriff really wants to know. We think we know what it looks like, but that might just be the name and not the appearance.
Eighteen innmates escaped the prison. Each of them is listed below. Each one can lead you back to the prison. Their names and pictures are hereby presented. At the bottom of each profile is the fugitive's last known location, according to our records. Find one of these prisoners and log the capture on this web site (promptly, so as to not mislead future seekers). Then use the prisoner to find the Prison. Please leave the prisoner inside the Prison when you find it (the difficulty of this cache will fluctuate over time. The cache owner will use the opportunity to perform maintenance on the bug before the prison sentence is completed. Please do not jailbreak the innmates). Then sign the guest book. Then log the find online. Of course, any other travel bugs found in the cache are only visitors. They may leave at any time.
At one time, someone had the idea to create something called a travel bug hotel, a large container in a convenient and secure place, to act as an easy place to pick up or drop off travel bugs. Apparently, they were picked up a little too frequently, and the owner felt embarassed at having a hotel that was always vacant. To deal with this problem, the cache owner aggressively scoured the area regularly to collect bugs for his hotel, and he put unreasonable demands on the cache page to restrict the taking of travel bugs. As a result, there were a lot of unhappy travel bug owners wondering why their bugs were languishing for many months in the same place. The subject eventually came to be discussed in the forums, and the hotel was subsequently called a "travel bug prison." This is not one of those prisons. The only bugs imprisoned here are the ones owned by the cache owner...and any that happen to crawl into it while the lid is off and the finder is signing the log, but those are a different class of bug. The creepy crawly kind aren't listed prisoners, and they may go free if you may.
The hike to the cache should be interesting, though the way may be obscure and full of false trails. Actually, the various possible wrong turns are all worth taking, and they all lead to something interesting. Every single spur in the trail can be followed with time to return home for lunch, so it's not a very long hike, really. Keep an eye open for old, unmaintained and overgrown trails, and you just might find the way there. The cache is hidden mostly in plain sight (depending on the acts of nature), not far from the trail, so there's no need to tear up the place, overturning rocks, digging through bushes and all of that. If you've taken a prisoner and you don't get around to finding this cache, then all I ask is that it ends up in a cache somewhere in Sierra County or Plumas County, so that the game can continue. Depositing the prisoner in this cache is not an additional logging requirement, and I will not delete your find if you merely copy the directions from the travel bug and leave it where you found it. Prisoner availability depends on many uncontrolled factors; not every prisoner travel bug will be available at any given time, and they will sometimes be missing from their listed locations. Such is the nature of travel bugs.