July 22, 2006, 9:06 pm It has been extremely hot. High temp today of 108. In order to go to the Saturday Brunch and do some cache hunting in San Jose, I got up at 5 AM and left home at 6 AM. My first hunt was for Capitol Station (7:00 AM), an easy find on the edge of the VTA parking lot.
Then I was glad for Coffee Anyone #5 (7:16 AM) at a Starbucks. After I found this one, a fake sprinkler head, I grabbed a much appreciated cup of coffee.
After coffee, what’s next? Margaritaville (7:53 AM), of course. Another pretty easy and obvious find.
Started a little hike around some percolation ponds by finding Blossoming River Trail (8:06 AM). Easy with interesting camo. Followed this with Stairway to Fish Heaven (8:23 AM), which took me a while because I was interested in the nearby egret and the container was just hard to spot. Leaving the trail, I found Almaden Station (8:34 PM). It was starting to get hot in the sun, but it was a quick find. Then I looped over and hunted Here’s the Benchmark. This was a tough one. After quite a while I spotted it, and touched it, but couldn’t figure out how to retrieve the container. Not wanting to mess it up, I stopped and figured I’d ask the owner (Marky) at the brunch. On the way back to the car I got “Skid A Ma Rink” (9:17 AM), a camo’d ammo can, which took just a little bit of looking (and sweating).
Saturday Brunch and motogrrl geocoin distribution (9:30 AM) was interesting conversation with escooby, Joani, and British Invasion. I did get Marky to tell me how to retrieve the cache without damage, so after I left the brunch I went back and got Here’s the Benchmark (12:00 PM).
On the way home, on a whim, I stopped in Mission San Jose to look (again) for Assume Nothing #2 (12:49 PM). This time, I guess my assumptions were gone, because I spotted it in not too long a time.
July 20, 2006, 9:00 pm Not having much to do this evening, and thinking Pizza sounded good for dinner, I opted to drive over to a Peninsula un-event at Mountain Mikes in Belmont.
Just after getting off the bridge in Foster City I stopped to hunt for Don’t Feed the Ducks (5:21 PM), which was an easy find. Next I hunted Just a little wooden bridge, which should be easy, but I couldn’t see it.
At the un-event I chatted a bit with NavySparks, Sammydee, and bthomas. Then I walked to the closest cache, Pizza: NOT on the Menu (7:41 PM). Another quick find.
I drove up the hill to Patricia Wharton Park #2 (7:54 PM), a mini-park. Sat on the bench and figured out the cache container pretty quickly. It’s a fake sprinkler head.
I found in R.P. (8:11 PM) easily enough, even though it was right in front of a busy Radio Shack, but had a hard time figuring out how to open the container. I thought it slid open, but it just pulls apart.
Do I Need A New CD or DVD? (8:36 PM) was easy enough to find, but after I had retrieved it the place seemed to get busier and I had a hard time replacing it unobtrusively.
The last of the evening was It’s Easy To Be Organized… (8:48 PM) in a rather empty parking lot. Lamp post, but cover plate is missing so it’s up inside.
July 15, 2006, 8:56 pm Before leaving Reno for the drive home, we stopped for Haunted Cache: the Dr. is Mad! (8:22 AM). This was obviously at a light pole, but it was well hidden. It’s a small, flat container hidden up high in a sign bracket. Another one close by was The Woman with the Bowl (8:40 AM) at a small man-made lake. This one took a little bit of looking. On a large boulder and under some branches, disguised to look sort of like a rock.
As we drove south into the Washoe Valley, we made a quick find at SHM#94 Winter’s Ranch (10:26 AM). Close by was Find it, Fix it (10:37 AM) which required a little hike and poking around in some brush.
We stopped and looked around a bit at SHM#166 Bowers (10:52 AM), a park at the Bowers Mansion. Followed that with another quick drive-up at SHM#114 Franktown (11:06 AM).
The final hunt of the day was at Shot Rock (2:41 PM) at a view point on highway 88. This took me a little while.
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