I headed out to Morgan Territory first thing this morning where two new caches were still unfound. More and more I’m realizing what a narrow road Morgan Territory is and how risky it was to ride my bike down at 30 mph. I went for the two unfound ones first.
I found Rolling Meadow first at 8:20 AM and I was first to find. Had a bit of a search—there were numerous possibilities.
Another FTF was The Black Hole, found at 8:37 AM. This one was pretty straightforward. It’s in a sawed off stump.
Green Briefcase was close by, so I backtracked a bit to grab it at at 9:06 AM. My GPSr was off a bit, but there was a pretty obvious hiding area. This is a pretty old cache. Next I hiked back toward the staging area and hiked down to the pond to pick up Trails Challenge: Morgan Territory at 9:32 AM.
In finding these four caches, I hiked 3.14 miles. I then drove north down Morgan Territory to another trail head and hiked in to get Highland Ridge–Stone Corral Cache at 10:21 AM. Always Coca-Cola was fairly close, so I kept hiking to grab it at 10:34 AM. Survival Cache was only another 0.5 miles (but mostly uphill), so I hiked on and found it at 11:07. This is a really old cache—been out there for more than 4 years. And all this hiking added another 3 miles of hiking.
I realize this is the kind of cache hunting I like, far better than hunting a lamp-post hide in front of fast food drive through window. In fact, I’m coming to the conclusion that it’s OK to not hunt caches in areas I don’t enjoy. My objective is to have fun, not find every cache in an area.
Back in Livermore, I hunted up Altamont Creek Hills (found at 12:33 PM) and Forget me not (found at 12:52 PM). Then it was time for a Caramel Frappaccino and a short drive out to Airport Way where I found FIT N PEPPER at 1:18 PM and IT BEES THIS WAY at 1:55 PM. I had to wait for a guy to finish eating his lunch right at the cache site, so I went looking for Land Rover, but this turns out to be one of those types of cache hide locations I don’t like.
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