A few local caches

I finished the last leg, which I had been hung up on for a couple of days. It wasn’t the puzzle, just finding the last hiding place of this puzzling multi-cache. Counterparts is a multi-step puzzle cache.

1. First, you must figure out the passwords to 3 password protected files that you download.
2. Solve a true puzzle.
3. Get audio clues from the internet and decrypt.
4. Find intermediate stages and decrypt more stuff

I still call this one in Livermore, even though it’s over 6 miles out of town. Appropriately enough, Highland Creek is on Highland Road, a previously favorite bike riding road for me. The coordinates given here are the ones I used, slightly different from those posted on the geocaching website (the given coordinates were in a log report). It was a relatively straightforward find. I have my doubts about finding it after a heavy rain, or in the spring when all the poison oak is leafed out.

I had tried to find this one on Nov 20. It turns out it was missing, and the owner replaced it. I finally got back at 7:30 PM and found it by flashlight.

This is a relatively simple puzzle cache. I had it figured out some time ago, but couldn’t do an effective search because there were too many people around when I was in the area. Tonight worked well, and after quite a bit of searching I discovered it.