My first stop of the day was Take a Picture to verify that I had in fact signed the log (I did). I realized today that I had never logged it (found it on January 29, 2005).
Took Cull Canyon Road, and immediately stopped at Bay Trees Park. Found The Balls of Bay Trees Park fairly quickly. It’s under a bay tree, stuck underneath a tennis ball. Right now it’s rather obvious. There are several tennis balls under the tree, but the cache is in the newest looking one.
At the other end of this park I found CITO at Bay Trees Park. The trail is very tree covered, so the GPSr wasn’t very accurate when I arrived and it was pointing into an area where I really didn’t want to go. After looking around for quite a bit, I spied the cache. Then I took the GPSr out into the open, let it acquire all the satellites, and it pointed to the right area.
From here, I drove farther up the canyon to Cull Canyon Regional Park. I hiked to several caches from here. The first was Clunky Coplanar #38. I had to hike up the hill to get access to the right trail (walked up Columbia). I missed the trail and got onto Center Street, but finally got access from there. Probably walked a bit more than necessary. Had to look and poke around for this one for a while. I poured the water out of the container. The log was only damp.
As I backtracked toward the parking lot I came to Clunky Coplanar #17. This one actually didn’t take too long to find. This log was soaked. The cache is about 8 ft up in an old tree stump. I can still do it.
Then I headed north to Cull Tech. The trail was slippery in spots, but the real killer was the last 200 ft bushwhacking up a very slippery, steep slope. Once I got up, I found the ammo can cache in short order. This hillside collects golf balls—it’s littered with them. I thought the climb was worth it just to get these pictures of colorful fungi.
I hiked up farther north, trying for Clunky Coplanar #43. Alas, I was on the wrong side of the creek, and with the rains I didn’t see how to cross the creek. So I went back to the parking lot, and drove up Cull Canyon to this location. I had to search here for quite a while, even though the description says the cache is a magnetic key holder.
As I was driving back I thought I could get on Center Street by taking Columbia. Well, I didn’t. But, I got close enough to Iridomyrmex humilis to go look for it. Looked in 4 or 5 places before I found it. Apparently it refers to an ant species. It was tucked into the base of a tree.
I also looked for Clunky Coplanar #59, but the approach was through a meadow that is now a marsh. Spent quite a bit of time checking on Juan Pickens (revived). I have an idea, but it will have to wait for another time. I think there is too much water to retrieve it right now.
When I got back to Livermore I stopped and made a quick grab of Fast Food VI. It’s in the base of a light pole, what else?
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