Last night I had worked on a puzzle or two, so this afternoon I headed to Pleasanton to try for them, and some other new ones that have popped up recently.
Mars Cope Rift has had me stumped. I could easily figure out some of the coordinate digits, but I didn’t know how to get them all. Recently posted hints clued me in on the method. I’m pretty sure the coordinates I have now are correct. When I got to the site, it seemed like a rift to me, but I didn’t find the cache. As I was leaving this area it began to rain.
Fuzzy Friends #2 was next on my list and it’s just down the street from where Dan works. The animal shelter was not open today, but there were cars in the parking lot and lights on inside. The cache is rather cleverly camouflaged, and just as I had taken it apart and gotten the log out two women arrived and went inside. I’m sure they wondered why I was standing in the rain reading their bulletin board. The answers to the ‘trick’ questions are A=7, B=8, C=5, D=4, E=0. This gives coordinates of N37° 39.785 W121° 52.440. The cache is hidden in a plastic garden windmill shaped like a ladybug. It’s right under the bulletin board.
Then I went looking for n2books2 new cache California Quail. By this time it was sprinkling fairly good. I poked around for quite a while and didn’t find it. Not sure I get along with this terrain and kind of hide.
I was eager to get to Red, Blue, and Green, which is a regular cache that has a geometric puzzle in it. Solve the puzzle (in two different ways) and send Jimswim the pictures and he sends back coordinates to two more caches. By copying the picture of the Green puzzle solution from the cache page and cutting out the puzzle pieces, I was able to solve both Red and Blue puzzles at home. I found the cache in short order, took it to the truck out of the rain and took the required pictures.
Stopped by Peoplesoft (oops, I mean Oracle) to grab LECBIH. Real quick.
Next I went to Tassajara Creek park to get a cache that’s been out of commission for quite a while. Relatively quick to find, but got sprinkled with more rain.
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