A number of CVC cachers decided to come to Alamo to hunt the Wait Until Dark cache. Dan and I decided to go along, even though we had just done it, in order to get acquainted with some fellow cachers. Then, Team Alamo organized a pizza get together afterward, and a lot more Bay Area cachers decided to come.
The hike back up to the cache was interesting. It was foggy, the flashlight beams were clearly visible, just like in spooky movies, and the fire tacks were a little harder to see. There were far more people than I expected. I’m glad we had done it with just 3 of us. There was such a strung out line of people that you could just follow voices and flashlights and find the cache.
One interesting effect was that about 3/4 of the way there we spotted critter eyes off the trail, and then a big cat’s face and audible growls. The only problem was, it didn’t move or blink. A good prank, it caused us to do a double take for a few seconds. Some of the folks coming up didn’t even see it or hear it–making too much noise themselves.
We got to meet (and put faces with) Walruz, Jimswim, DavidT21, Team Alamo, Bill of Green Achers, $ATM$, Camel680, CAhikers2x2, and others I can’t remember. Also of interest, I talked for a while with Norm Stout (father of a cacher), a retired LLNL chemist and we had some common work acquaintances, although we had never crossed paths at the Lab.
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