This morning I headed up to Danville for a leisurely look for just a few caches. My first stop was at Diablo Vista Park. Unfortunately, this multi is placed in the playground equipment area. I was the only adult male around with a crowd of moms and kids. Didn’t seem like a good idea to hang around and poke at the playground equipment.
Red Willow Crossing, which I had looked for a few days ago, was just a short walk along a pleasant trail. Along the way I got a couple of ideas for hiding a cache. This time I had a good description and the right coordinates and found it at 11:00 AM. It’s just a little to the south of the bridge nestled behind a tree and covered with leaves.
Then I went to check out It took long enough, and wandered around trying to find access to the park for far too long. When I did, it seemed to busy to me, so I just moved on.
I found the Iron Horse Trail crossing closest to Nuts to all these Iron Horse Caches. As I walked down the trail, I could see that the cache was going to be in the vegetation on the west side. Just as I started to leave the trail and head over, I saw a dog peering out at me. Rather than challenge the dog and/or the dog owner, I continued on down the trail for another 100 yards. An obvious geocacher emerged, but I didn’t know him (although it seemed like I had seen him at an event). As he drove away, I made the quick find at 11:52 AM. The log indicated it was SnoWake and thus the dog was Dingo.
I was curious about Eagle Pride, a cache placed with permission at a school. Even with no one in the office (since school’s out), I felt far too conspicuous searching around the front of a school. The neighbors don’t know the school has given permission, so what would happen if one of the neighbors called the police?
To hunt for Iron This One, I parked at the Park and Ride at Sycamore Valley and 680 and walked a little ways up the Iron Horse Trail. As I neared the cache, I noticed an SUV parked nearby that looked like the one I had seen SnoWake drive away previously. Sure enough, he emerged carrying a bag of trash. After introductions, he went back with me to search for it, since he hadn’t found it. I checked all sorts of likely looking stuff, which SnoWake had already checked. After another lengthy search, he called Team Alamo for a hint. We got one that narrowed the area substantially, and he started looking at one side and I on the other. He got to the cache first at 12:53 PM. A very difficult, misleading cache of a type I’ve never seen before. There is no cache container. The cache log is on the back of a flat piece of iron laying on the ground and mostly covered with leaves.
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