I had the pickup worked on yesterday, and the intermittent misfire was fixed by replacing a faulty spark plug. So… I ventured out to Pleasanton.
It was also my first day of using the routing functions with the Garmin 60csx. First up was IHT Chugs into Pleasanton (1:00 PM), which was just off Valley and the new Iron Horse Trail.
Marky hid Nielsen Nano (1:30 PM) in a park that was deserted except for 3 guys practicing fly casting.
I looked for IHT Chugs #2, but couldn’t find it. Somebody else did get FTF on it today however. If it’s in the thick foliage, it’s as bad as an ivy hide.
California Towhee (2:36 PM) is a multi that starts in downtown. I easily gathered the info and then carefully did the math. I wasn’t sure about the location, but the cache was there.
Found Kids Rule-North (2:51 PM), an ammo can in a nice park. I approached via a back entrance, and an observant neighbor wasn’t sure why I left and then rather quickly came back.
For the final cache today, I again looked for RTH @ BMX (3:33 PM). Stage 2 was really hard to find, but finally I got it, a twig stuck in a hole in a parking barrier with the coords written on it. Stage 2 had just been replaced and it didn’t take much figuring to see that there was an obvious error. I knew the final couldn’t be more than a few hundred feet away and the coords put it over a mile away. So, I tried to brute force find it, and did. I must have almost stood on top of it last time I searched. I mark the final at N 37 40.158 W 121 51.215 while what was given at stage 2 was N 37 41.157 W 121 51.215.
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