Quick caching trips to Pleasanton

On August 1, I finally found IHT Chugs #2 (2:44 PM). I guess I just dislike getting so involved with bushes. It was easy to see once I crawled inside the big tree/bush. From the outside, I may have practically touched it in the past, but could not see it. Afterwards, I drove over to the sports park and found Foul Ball (3:03 PM). Easy to find inside a fence pipe. Lastly, I got Parallel Universe (3:20 PM).

After lunch today I drove over to Pleasanton to find Arroyo, HO! (1:13 PM) and Koll’s Last Stand (2:00 PM). This last was a 3-stage multi-cache and I walked to all the stages, even though it was easy enough to drive to them.

Thomas the Train at Roaring Camp

Today we went with the kids to Roaring Camp for a excursion with Thomas the Tank Engine. Our ride was scheduled for just before lunch, so Karen and I drove over to Felton early to look for some geocaches.

First up was Felton Covered Bridge (8:31 AM). I know we’ve been here before, but it’s now a nice little park with a playground. The description indicated this one was tucked away out of sight, but I saw it from a particular angle. Perhaps it wasn’t replaced correctly.

Noticing that there were several caches along the creek in Mt. Hermon, we found a parking spot and hiked along the creek as we’ve done many times in the past. We first gave a shot at finding Refrain from Bouncing at the fun pedestrian suspension bridge, but it escaped us.

So we continued on up the creekside trail to Meditation Cache (9:16 AM), then Brother, can you spare some cache? (9:26 AM), Camp #4’s secret treasure cache (9:37 AM), and finally The Fairy Harp (10:01 AM). This last one gave me some trouble because of tree cover (or initially bad coords) and I had to use the hint to the letter. Then it was easy.

No GPS

I drove Karen to a Dr. appointment this morning and while I waited I walked over to Peet’s for coffee. Since it was a quiet morning, and I knew from previous visits the general location of Hot Eats Cool Treats (9:15 AM) I gave another look. Found it in an obvious spot. Magnetic on the red pipe riser.