Round Valley

We did a 5 mile loop hike in Round Valley today with Dan and picked up the new caches (5 caches). The hillsides were still green. It was cool, and in one exposed spot it was quite windy. Last year along this same trail I took my great rattlesnake photo, but we saw no snakes this year.

Knight’s Ferry

Karen and I took the day to head into the Sierra foothills along the Stanislaus River today. Our first stop was at Knight’s ferry, and the wildflowers were incredible. We took a beautiful 5 mile hike along an old ditch above the river looking to two caches. We found one (or rather Karen did)—a nano (ugh, the coords were off by 40’) and DNFd the other (a D5 T4.5 by the same owner, so who knows if the coords were good there).

Huge lupin bush


Stanislaus River above Knight’s Ferry

Links:
2008 Knight’s Ferry photo gallery

Discovery Bay and Tracy

Dan called because he had an itch to do some cache hunting, and he wanted to head out to Discovery Bay. We left about noon and picked up 8 in Discovery Bay (and we DNFd a nano at the entrance to a storage facility—there were several gardeners right in the area checking us out). Then we headed out into the delta area picking up a few more and finally ending right in Tracy. It was interesting that we had a close cache about 2 miles away, but our route to get there was 15 miles because the river was in the way, and there are few bridges. No standout caches, but we had a good time together.