Sunol, on the trail of Venona

To retrieve a clue for a geocaching/cipher solving puzzle game the bay area geocachers have been doing the last few years, I hiked up the hill in Sunol Regional Park. Erstwhile communist spy Venona annually issues a challenge. This year he has stolen the Venonium 263 cache. The previously decrypted message was an image of a location using Google Earth. Someone matched it to Sunol and we had approximate coordinates. It was very close to Sunol Vista.

I found Sunol Vista easily, and after a short search turned up the clue cache. It had a single piece of paper in it giving a code word NEKULTURNY in visible ink and BELGOROD in invisible ink (UV flourescent). On the way back to the car I picked up Shari’s Birthday Cache.