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Dan suggested we drive Morgan Territory Road this afternoon. It was a nice day for such a drive. This is a very narrow road, but I think we only met one car. Some of the caches we found were on the east side of Mt. Diablo state park. Those are interesting trail heads and may deserve a hike to check them out. Altogether we found seven caches. Karen and I started at Ikea in East Palo Alto shortly after opening and took the grand tour of the store–even bought a couple of small things. Afterward we drove to the east end of Embarcadero and took a short walk along the shoreline trail and found Flyway Reststop II. Then we drove to an entrance to the Dish Loop trail (around the Stanford Dish) on the northwest corner. We covered 5 miles total and picked up just 2 caches. But I’ll claim Dish Drink as a find in the Palo Alto quad (for the Bay Area quad challenge). So far, I’ve done 12 quads (out of 70) with a total of 34.8 miles. I started with a walk in Oak Hills Park (next to Monte Vista High School on Round Valley Road) where I picked up 7 caches. The hardest one was It’s Alive–the camo just blended in so well. I looked for a long time, then left to go find some others in the park, then returned. Found it after a bit. For now I’ll count this cache for a 2.17 mile hike in the Diablo quad (Bay Area Quad challenge). Maybe I’ll get a longer hike in this quad before I finish all the quads. Next I went to a nearly secret trailhead (Green Valley Trail) close to the end of Round Valley Road and picked up 3 caches in 1.25 miles. Finally, I hiked from the Livorna Road trailhead to pick up Octagon and Twin Pond Loop (4.25 miles). I thought this was in the Diablo quad, but it’s in the Walnut Creek quad (and so is Briones, where I had a longer hike). |
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