Novato and Petaluma

We started the day in the Novato quad at a trail head on Lucas Valley road very near Skywalker Ranch. We found 11 caches, most of them with a Star Wars theme. It was interesting that the cache logs showed that Mathgen was doing the series earlier in the day, and we did meet at one of the caches. We got in a nice 5.8 miles hike here.

Afterward we drove to Petaluma the slow, windy way and hiked in Helen Putnam Park and picked up another 4 caches in 2.4 miles.

Danville

Picked up four caches today in the Danville/Blackhawk area. I spent a long time searching for Tree Down, but couldn’t find it. It was, however, a nice walk out to the area. The owner replied to my DNF, and I think I looked where he suggested, but I’ll go back some day and check it out.

Pleasanton

Picked up a couple of caches today. One was right along Stanley (missed it before) and one was way out Bernal by the creek. This cache (A Beautiful Oak) was hidden right in a patch of poison oak. I hope it gets relocated.