Some caches in San Ramon

Change is Good is at the end of a creek trail in West Dublin (somewhere up by Valley Christian Center). There is lots of tree cover at the end, and the GPSr lost reception and wouldn’t reacquire without me backtracking to a clear area. On the second try, it maintained reception, although I’m sure the accuracy was lousy. It did point the right direction off the trail at the right location. Found it without too much problem.

It took me a while to figure out how to get to the trailhead for 4wheeler@2K. It’s just a short little trail that crosses a small creek at a steel bridge. That’s where the cache is hidden. The coordinates were dead on, so it didn’t take too long to find.

The cache was a metal CD case with magnets. It was stuck under a truss out of sight, but could be reached right from the top of the bridge.

West of Bishop Ranch business park is a small regional park. Chutzpah is up a steep hill from the trailhead in this park. The trail was a little muddy, and my boots were getting heavy with caked on mud, making the climb even more of a challenge. The cache is very cleverly disguised, but on this cache I used a more methodical search technique, and it worked.

The target oak tree had the big, light, woody balls on it. Many had fallen to the ground. One of the ones on the ground had been drilled out, and a small tube, just large enough for a log, epoxied in. The tube had a nicely sealed cap. I’m not sure how long it will last, or what will happen when someone steps on it.