Through the Alamo

Karen had an eye doctor appointment this morniing at Park Shadelands in Walnut Creek, so while she was doing that I grabbed a cache. Sacramento Northern Railroad #4 —Spreckels was nearby, and after I found a place to park it was a quick find. The cache is a glass jar on the creek side of a concrete wall. The creek splits the two lanes of traffic here.

On the way home, we stopped in Pleasanton to pick up Just Your Average (Puzzle) Cache, which I solved last night. It was an easy find. The puzzle had me buffaloed for a while. I couldn’t figure out the self-referential hint. Last night it clicked, and I was able to derive a reasonable looking set of coordinates, which turned out to be right.

At lunch-time I debated about going up Pleasanton Ridge, but instead opted for the Tassajara Valley route to Danville and Alamo. The first cache on the way was One-Room School on Finley Road. The school is fixed up better than I last saw it. Don’t know if it was the building and trees or low battery, but I had to search a bit because the GPSr was bouncing around. Found it at 12:48 PM. It’s under the rear steps.

Continuing down Camino Tassajara, I stopped at the nice park and bushwhacked up the hill through the grass and weeds to Ho Ho Huh?. I found this one in the first place I looked at 1:26 PM. Because I approached off trail, I spotted this one immediately—under a piece of wood perched on top of a black culvert pipe. Approach from the trail on top of the culvert, and it might be a bit harder.

I found the right turn off from Diablo Road to get into a subdivision back in a canyon. There are two caches there—the first one I found was The Pits at 2:09 PM. The pits are horseshoe pits. A couple of wild turkeys ran away as I descended to this one. I found this one right away too. It’s a very small micro stuck in a palm tree. It probably should have some palm bark covering it, but it no longer does, so its easy to spot. The second was Wild Turkey, which I found at 2:25 PM. This is an ammo can and it’s easy to find, if not so easy to get to. The fire road gate is locked. There aren’t any no trespassing signs, so I went through the barb wire fence.

Finally I wound back around to Stone Valley Road and just west of Monte Vista High School found Oak Creek Park, the home of The 2 Litl Ps MISadventure Atonement. On the way to the cache I stopped to grab a picture of the bronze statue, which is sort of pointing the way to the cache. This was also a quick find at 2:52 PM. Traffic sure does get bad when school is over. Cache is stuck into a broken off branch. I heard it rattle before I saw it.