I had hoped to get over to San Jose early for a full day of caching before going to the Little Shop of Horrors event. However, there were too many things to do around the house, so I didn’t leave until noon.
I had a general idea of where to go (Camden Avenue near Blossom Hill) but I haven’t been in that area for 30 years when we used to go see Chris Christopherson. So, I wandered around a bit before I settled on a parking lot that seemed like it must be close to the Alamitos Creek trail. I parked and got on the bike and headed for the closest cache, which was about 0.25 miles away since its a cache dense area.
I started out on a bike path in a long, skinny park under power lines, and the first find was an easy one called Dollar Tree, which I found at 12:55 PM.
Next, I found 101 TFTs — One Pair at 1:24 PM, but when I started to log it noticed that it had some prerequisites. In other words, it’s not really a regular cache.
In between the first and second find, I had searched for a while for Trapped by Victor, but couldn’t come up with it. On the way back, I stopped again, read the description, and realized immediately where the cache was, and found it at 1:34 PM.
Blinker is a nano-cache hidden by Marky and Joani. Once the GPSr really settled down, it wasn’t too hard to spot (1:50 PM).
Oak Trail Kid’s Cache was off a trail in a grove of oaks. Easy find at 2:01 PM.
Duck Blind was finally along the Alamitos Creek trail, where I wanted to go in the first place. Found this one at 2:30 PM.
Further along the trail was Treasure Chest, a small, tin chest. Found at 2:49 PM.
Next up on the trail was Creekside Trunk Cache at 3:03 PM.
Pfeiffer Stone House was near the location of an old stone quarry. The cache itself is well cammoed, but I found it at 3:17 PM. It’s a painted styrofoam plug in the end of a guard rail. Has a couple of bolts in it to add realism.
Blend-in-tree was one I almost didn’t want to get. A PO branch was growing next to and over the coffee can container. I carefully grabbed it at 3:30 PM.
Bicycle Primes was tough–finally found it at 3:59 PM.
I found The Cache with the ReallyReallyReally Long Name at 4:08 PM.
I couldn’t find The Big Fat Cache. Perhaps it’s missing, or I searched on the wrong side of the tree.
Carrabelle Cache was in a park near picnic tables. Found at 4:21 PM.
Quickwood Microwood was quickly found at 4:50 PM. This was where I decided to turn around and retrace my path on the Alamitos Creek trail.
Just before getting back to the truck I found Ultimate Battleship: Shrinking Battlefield at 5:20 PM.
After all this I went to the Little Shop of Horrors: the Sequel event at Worker of Wood’s house. Met lots of friendly people with familiar geocaching names, but only a couple had I ever seen before. WoW had a drawing to give away a number of 2005 Jeep travelbugs, but I didn’t score one.
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