It has been extremely hot. High temp today of 108. In order to go to the Saturday Brunch and do some cache hunting in San Jose, I got up at 5 AM and left home at 6 AM. My first hunt was for Capitol Station (7:00 AM), an easy find on the edge of the VTA parking lot.
Then I was glad for Coffee Anyone #5 (7:16 AM) at a Starbucks. After I found this one, a fake sprinkler head, I grabbed a much appreciated cup of coffee.
After coffee, what’s next? Margaritaville (7:53 AM), of course. Another pretty easy and obvious find.
Started a little hike around some percolation ponds by finding Blossoming River Trail (8:06 AM). Easy with interesting camo. Followed this with Stairway to Fish Heaven (8:23 AM), which took me a while because I was interested in the nearby egret and the container was just hard to spot. Leaving the trail, I found Almaden Station (8:34 PM). It was starting to get hot in the sun, but it was a quick find. Then I looped over and hunted Here’s the Benchmark. This was a tough one. After quite a while I spotted it, and touched it, but couldn’t figure out how to retrieve the container. Not wanting to mess it up, I stopped and figured I’d ask the owner (Marky) at the brunch. On the way back to the car I got “Skid A Ma Rink” (9:17 AM), a camo’d ammo can, which took just a little bit of looking (and sweating).
Saturday Brunch and motogrrl geocoin distribution (9:30 AM) was interesting conversation with escooby, Joani, and British Invasion. I did get Marky to tell me how to retrieve the cache without damage, so after I left the brunch I went back and got Here’s the Benchmark (12:00 PM).
On the way home, on a whim, I stopped in Mission San Jose to look (again) for Assume Nothing #2 (12:49 PM). This time, I guess my assumptions were gone, because I spotted it in not too long a time.
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