Tracy, CA
Green Achers emailed today urging me to log a find on Trust Me. Back in November I went there twice and emailed him about where I looked. He concluded I looked in the right place and the cache was gone. I kept waiting for him to replace it, but he has decided to archive it instead. It was a magnetic micro in a truss of a shade structure along the California Aqueduct.
Pleasanton, CA
Dan, Janet, and I had about 3 hours this afternoon to look for some caches, so the first one we tackled was Beneath, Between, and Behind. I had solved this puzzle cache a couple of weeks ago (right after Christmas), and Dan did just recently. I had been to the location a couple of times and decided I didn’t want to try the retrieval I thought was necessary. It turns out I only checked with the GPSr once, and I was not in the right location. After some discussion, we got that straightened out and moved to the other side of the creek. Dan took a short-cut, and by the time we got there, he had retrieved the cache.
From there, we looked at TNLN, I Don’t Think So #2, but I thought there was still too much water to make the attempt. The description does say don’t attempt soon after a storm.
But, staying in the same genre, we went a ways further and hunted TNLN, I Don’t Think So #4. While Dan and Janet tried one approach, I tried a completely different one, and came up with the cache. The description says it’s in plain sight, but it zeroes out on the east side of Foothill, and there’s nothing there. However, on the west side of Foothill, I could access a large drain pipe. Several feet in, a small pipe comes in from the left (running water at the time) and the cache is glued to the top of that small pipe, in plain sight.
San Ramon, CA
There were some other caches in the area, but I wanted to try some in San Ramon. Our first attempt there was Arch You Glad You’re Married. There was a lot of activity going on (maybe getting ready for a wedding or banquet) so we left after some cursory looking. A fairly short walk brought us to Bring Your Baseball Cap. The grass fields were so wet that they were marked closed, and no one was around. I found the cache in a spot where Dan had already checked. One fence post doesn’t have a cap, and this cache uses the trick of hanging a film cannister from monofilament line. If you don’t feel all around the lip, you’ll miss it.
Barrel of Monkeys, on the Iron Horse Trail, was just a quarter mile away. This one was well camoflaged, but the general location was clear. With three of us looking, it was just a matter of time. Janet spotted it. It’s a camoed cannister hung in a redwood tree about 3 feet off the ground.
From here, it was a short drive over to the San Ramon Medical Center, where we had to climb a short, but steep hill side. Again, the general area was very clear, and we let Dan do the dirty work.
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