Sunol Regional Park

I went to Sunol Regional Park for the day, with the intent of finding maybe a dozen caches on a big loop hike. I only found 9. In general, I had to do quite a bit of searching (several were micros). After 4 hours I noted that I had been moving for 2 hours, and stationary (searching) for 2 hours.

The first one I looked for was Between a rock and a hardplace. I left all my gear in the car, which was a mistake. I couldn’t find it. After getting back to the car I discovered that I had lost the lens cap to my new Canon camera. Figured I go back at the end of the day and see if I could find the lens cap and the cache.

I headed out on the Canyon View trail. The first one I found was Acorn Woodpecker at 10:38 AM. The next one was Jurcachic Park, which I found at 11:13. I thought this one was just a little east of where the GPSr zeroed out.

Then the Canyon View trail dropped down into the little Yosemite area. I found Cerro Este Pit Stop at 11:45 AM. I went looking for Raging Waters, which apparently is sometimes underwater. I looked a bit, but wasn’t about to start turning over every rock in the stream.

Then I started climbing up the Cerro Este Road to find Burl Ives at 12:31 PM. This was an easy find. It’s made to look like a bee hive hanging from a limb. Farther up the hill I found Ohlone Overlook at 1:02 PM. It’s in and around a big patch of thistles. Even farther up the hill I found Bloodhounds’ Reprise at 1:36 PM. Tree cover slowed me down, but I finally got a good line from the GPSr. I made a trade here, because I thought the kayak.com coin was interesting.

I climbed on up to Crossroads and found it fairly easily at 1:55 PM. I went on up looking for I’m Lichen It… but didn’t find it. Had a herd of resting cows get more and more curious, and come closer and closer. It’s supposed to be easy. It may be that the thistles discouraged my down low searching.

So, I started back down the hill and found The 19th Hole at 2:59 PM. This one was out in the open, so I rehid it.

Back at the parking lot I continued on back to Between a rock and a hardplace. This time I found the cache, but not my lens cap. Needed the flashlight to see in the dark places. Just barely made out the faint writing on a geocaching.com fake rock.

So, hiked about 7.5 miles, found 9 caches (track shown to the right). Grass was still green, wildflowers were still in bloom. It was in the high 70’s today, so the grass is going to turn brown quickly.

Sunol hike track