January 13, 2007, 10:08 pm Dan, Janet, and I spent the day in San Jose. We started with an event at the Sonoma Chicken Coop in Campbell and it was fun to see a few of the cacher acquaintances again. We concluded the event with a Venona activity (to rescue a hostage geocaching banner), but interestingly, the folks who know how to do ciphers and stuff didn’t bring their tools (laptops). Fizzy finally gave an answer and with a little work the coords were derived. A bunch of us hiked over to a parking structure to make the recovery. (And I forgot to bring the camera from the car).
Afterward, we found another dozen nearby caches, including the notable AN 2.5 and AN 8 (Assume Nothing caches are known for incredible camoflauge).
We did a 2.8 mile hike along the Los Gatos Creek trail, so I’ll count Where’s the dam cache? as my find for the San Jose West quad in the Bay Area Quad Challenge. That puts me to 10 quads and 26.8 miles total hiking.
January 9, 2007, 10:07 pm After Karen’s appointment in Walnut Creek we continued on to Crockett and hiked a bit in Crockett Hills Regional Park. We’ve never been in this area before. The trail climbs up to a ridge with some good views of Carquinez Strait and the bay over towards Mt. Tam (although it was a bit too hazy today). We didn’t have a lot of time, but we found 4 on a 3.6 mile hike. Mooove Outa Our Way was the one I’ll count towards the Quad Challenge (picking up the Benicia quad). So far I have 9 quads and total hiking of 24 miles.
January 5, 2007, 10:06 pm It was a very clear but breezy and chilly day–seemed like a good day to get a few local caches. First of all I checked on LBT 1. The last two logs were DNFs by experienced cachers. It’s just a hard one to find, probably mostly by misdirection. The cache is not hidden in the most obvious place.
Alien Java turned out to require a short, but steep, hike. This is the area where I was planning to hide a cache, but the grass fire caused me to hold off. Then I just procrastinated. I think there may still be room in this pre-park for another cache.
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