Just a couple today

I tried looking for Annealed Ovum (again—had a try yesterday), but couldn’t find it. However, I scored a Steel Wheels locationless cache that was right nearby. Very interesting to find an old tractor like this in someone’s backyard.

Old Fordham tractor in Livermore

Old Fordham tractor in Livermore

So after this, I wandered over to another new fizzymagic hide—Growl. There were two ladies at the cache site, so I drove past a block and parked, watching in the rear view mirror. I finally decided they must be geocaching, so I approached and asked. After 30 seconds of awkwardness while they attempted to disguise their intent from a possible muggle, they revealed they were hunting the cache (well, at least one of them was). Turns out it was SARCRZY. As we were talking, she called a help-line, walked over and made the find. She had kind of figured the hide out, but even so, it is very well hidden. After she signed the log, she handed it to me. I signed it, but I’m still thinking about it. I guess I’ll log it. It’s not much different than caching with Dan and logging a find when he finds it (except, in this case, I had no time to make any effort at searching).

A little later in the day, I went back to Pleasanton for another try at Mars Cope Rift. This time I walked right up and made the find. I don’t know why I didn’t see it before. Maybe because it was sprinkling before, I was in too much of a hurry.

With that success, I decided to give another shot at California Quail. Again, I found it in short order. In this case, I know the rain last time I looked discouraged me from a complete search.

Finally, I found the first leg of Dog Years. Boy, did I find it hard to read the coordinates, but I think I got them right. Computing where the second cache should be, I get a very reasonable location. I’ll finish it another time—it was getting late in the day.

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