Karen and I had some time to walk and cache today, so we went to Garin Dry Creek Regional Park in Hayward. We parked at the Tamarack trail head and immediately found Tamarack Gate at 10:19 AM. It wasn’t attached correctly and had more or less fallen into plain sight.
After a false start up a wrong trail, we got going on the way to Nerfertiti’s Pyramid: Shrine. While some have found this one difficult, I made a quick find of it at 10:38 AM. Rather than try to write down the info for the final cache in the series, I just took a picture of it.
Nefertiti’s Pyramid: Underworld wasn’t very far away on the same trail, and I spotted its hiding place easily at 10:53 AM.
I had mixed feelings about going on to hunt for Igor, but we decided to do it. The last 100 feet are pretty steep with nasty thistles and then some brush including PO. I thought I was looking for a 3 gallon tupperware container, but finally spotted some tell tale signs of a cache and found a 1 gallon jar container. Turns out this very old cache (from 2000) had just recently been replaced by Walruz. Got this one at 11:21 AM.
The rest of the hike was a loop up and around the hill with no caching. We covered about 3.5 miles.
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