Dan and I decided to go to Garin Regional Park–north part–this afternoon, even though it was the hottest part of the day. Luckily it wasn’t really hot, and it was a bit cooler in Hayward. We started from the Zeile Creek trailhead.
Our first hunt was for Trail View Cache. We had to climb up some steep, dry grass covered slopes, and it seemed more slippery than mud in the winter. Footing felt treacherous. We found it at 2:46 PM.
Zeile Creek #1 was close, so we took a trail that appeared to be blocked off. Had a tough creek crossing, not because of water, but because of vertical sides that were hard to climb. We needed to find the coords for stage 2. Not sure what we were looking for. Finally used the only thing we could find that had numbers on it. A round disk with the numbers 772 and 725 on it. We plugged the numbers in, and that took us to an area requiring serious bushwhacking through a jungle of over our heads weeds, a thicket of thistles, and a steep hill. Dan wasn’t wearing bushwhacking clothes so elected not to go, and I chickened out when the going got very steep. I just wasn’t very confident of the numbers. I should go back and really check it out. Other find logs could correspond to the area.
Our next stop was for Fungus Humungus, a pretty quick find at 3:29 PM. Then we had to do a bit of hill climbing to Top of the World. This one had us searching around for a while, but we finally located it at 4:04 PM.
Bay Tree Bay View was a little confusing. The cache description was incorrect, but it made so little sense that I just decided to ignore it and look for it. Found it at 4:26 PM. The next closest cache was Kansas City A’s, and we made a poor choice on how to approach it. It was right off a trail, but we bushwhacked down to it. Dan especially chose a tough route. Hope the PO doesn’t get him. We found this one at 4:44 PM.
We hunted for Rock Jungle for a long time. I’m not sure we were hunting in the right place. Not all the conditions of the description were met where we were hunting.
We also couldn’t find Oak Tree Cache. I wonder if we were on the wrong trail and wrong gate. Our GPS may have led us slightly astray. After these 2 DNFs, it was after 6 PM, and we were tired and hungry, so called it a day.
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