Tracy caches

15 Nov 2004 12:30 PM Still can’t find these (Tracy, CA)

After a quick stop at the LLNL badge office, I headed east over Patterson Pass Road. I thought there were five caches I could check on without needing a GPSr.

The general location of Oh Grate! is easy to find. However, the general area is fairly large. I looked around the grate but nothing was obvious. I’ll try again with the GPSr to narrow the search (I hope).

I went back to Trust Me and double checked where the cache owner said it should be. I had emailed him that I thought it was missing. I believe my double check verifies the cache is missing.

I also went back to Car vs Train because I had an idea of something I had overlooked. Unfortunately, I still couldn’t find it. I still have this nagging feeling that things in the cache area have been moved around (I know weeds have been recently knocked down by a scraper) and the cache has been knocked loose and lost.

15 Nov 2004 1:30 PM Juan Bautista de Anza (Tracy, CA)

I had visited Juan Bautista de Anza on November 5, but couldn’t get to the cache because there were numerous SBC workers right next to it. Today I found it easily. All of the land around belongs to the state for development of a future vehicle recreation area.

15 Nov 2004 4:34 PM El Camino Viejo Cache (Tracy, CA)

El Camino Viejo is a puzzle cache. The puzzle is:

Solve the following multiplication puzzle:

… F O U N D

x ………… A

__________

= S K I L L

[Note: It turns out there are three possible answers so… I will insist that F may not equal zero. Insignificant numbers are never used in figuring math equations. Bill of Green Achers 12/20/02]

Where:

Like letters equal each other. (L=L)

No number is repeated. (N does not equal D)

There are 10 letters and so each must value 0-9.

Next, use the answer to get the real coordinates…

N37° 38.SFI
W121° 35.LUO

Well, I poked at figuring this out by hand, and luckily chose A correctly so I didn’t have to try too many solutions. Plotting the coordinates on a topo map zeroed it right in for me. Didn’t need a GPSr at all.