Sunol with Mark

Since Mark wanted to go to Sunol on a photo shoot, I tagged along. Well, actually I suggested we go up Welch Creek road and hike around a small cache loop. He agreed because he didn’t have any preconceived ideas of where he wanted to take some photos.

Upper Maquire Peak Trail (8:28 PM)

Little Grassy Knoll (8:49 PM)

Post It (9:06 AM). Got an FTF with a nifty coin for prize. Version 2 ckayaks #34

A Grassy Knoll (9:25 AM) Another FTF, another coin prize. 7 Summits geocoin

Cannon Bore (10:31 AM)

Pic, Stik and Log (11:04 AM)

Lodi afternoon

I had grand ideas of driving to Lodi first thing in the morning for a full day a caching, but the pickup didn’t cooperate. It’s intermittent misfire problem hit with a vengeance and didn’t go away as it usually does. I got on the freeway, but got off again at Vasco because it was so bad. Came home and sat around for quite a while, then tried it again, and it ran fine. So I finally got to Lodi at 1 PM. Here’s what I found.

A Taste of Lodi (1:15 PM)

Katzakian Park #2 (1:26 PM)

These next several were all in and around Lodi Lake and the Mokelumne River.

Found Alive! (1:56 PM)

Lodi Lake Walk Up (2:22 PM)

Lodi Lake – Riverview (2:32 PM)

Lodi Lake (Parking Lot) (2:40 PM)

Lodi Lake Rest Area (2:53 PM)

On the Dry Side (3:08 PM)

Winding Stream (3:17 PM)

The Noisy Cricket (3:32 PM)

Triple Digit Heat! (3:44 PM)

The Monster of Pigs Lake (3:51 PM)

These rest were basically drive ups in small parks.

Glaves Park (4:49 PM)

The Hidden Path – Canal #3 (4:58 PM)

Another Lodi Park (5:12 PM)

Inside of Dogtown (5:20 PM)

Cacheing with Dan and Janet

First up was No Good Reason #3 (2:00 PM) which I’m pretty sure was out of position. Found it on the ground. We put it back in the tree.

Next up was North of Marina Park – Northern Micro (2:18 PM). I was pretty sure how it was hidden, and said so, but Janet found it first. We had to carry this off right in front of a guy parked in a car. Cammoed pine cone hanging in the tree.

Stay A-Weigh (Multi-cache) (2:37 PM) is a 2 stage multi, but we couldn’t find the first stage. Others couldn’t either. But given the name, we brute forced the final. After all, there is only one anchor around. We used the clue to narrow it down.

CITO Cache – San Leandro (2:44 PM) Found it quickly.

Marina Park – Northern Micro (2:51 PM) Janet found it.

South of Marina Park – Southern Micro (2:58 PM) Dan found it.

Cardiac Streatch (3:26 PM) After a bit of a walk, we had to use alternate coords to find this one. When we did, it was immediate find.

Mom, that’s where we saw the butterflies… (3:50 PM) Took us a while.

“Mom, what’s for dinner???” (3:56 PM) Quick find.

No Good Reason #1 (4:02 PM) And there wasn’t a good reason.

Prop. of NASA? (4:15 PM) What an interesting piece of junk. Janet finally found it where I thought I’d looked.

4UKC (4:25 PM) Hard to believe how crowded this shopping center parking lot was. Took us 10 minutes to find a parking space. The hiding spot was obvious, but we had to retrieve right in front of who knows how many people.

The End of The Road (4:40 PM) Wow, a well camouflaged large cache. I found it by touch and sound. A hollowed-out 12×12 with a coffee can in it.

It’s the Real Thing (4:46 PM) A quick find, but a leaky lid meant the cache was completely full of water.

Bonaire (5:00 PM) A small park. I was looking in the wrong tree.

Bart: Bayfair Station (5:16 PM) An obvious location.

Bart: Castro Valley Station (5:29 PM) Dan found it.

Two Ps in a Pod (5:45 PM) Hard. I finally found it. In planter vegetation, a vertical buried pipe topped with a naturally looking piece of wood.