Miscellaneous in San Ramon

Today I picked up three in San Ramon, particularly one that’s eluded me for some time. Dan recently found Arch You Glad to be Married? and just hinted that now was a good time to hunt it because the vegetation had been trimmed. Aghhh! It’s an ivy hide (2:42 PM).

Then I went over to the library and hunted for a long time for the first stage of Libraries Rule #3. It wasn’t quite where I was expecting it. The second stage took a bit of hunting too (3:47 PM).

Finally, made a quick grab on Cigam Reserves a Room (4:06 PM).

Pacific Grove 2006

We had some time this afternoon during the retreat, so we first walked in Rip Van Winkle park to hunt for Cache Some Zzzzs. (2:40 PM) Boy, was it interesting/hard. First, we missed the bridge across the creek and had to walk a ways past the cache to a road, cross the creek, and then come back. Then, the final 100 ft into the cache location was off trail through small plants of poison oak. I couldn’t find a clear path, so finally just walked in on the PO.

In the same park, we couldn’t find Baseball Cache. The GPSr was inaccurate because of tree cover, it was starting to sprinkle, and there was enough PO around that I didn’t want to paw around in the plants.

I’m sure I looked for A Refuge By The Sea (3:30 PM) last year, but this year we found it.

Kashta’s Rock (4:13 PM) was a quick find, because we went during low tide. I also found A Crespi Hide (4:28 PM) quickly too. Good thing. Just as I got the log out it started to rain in earnest.

Asilomar

After arriving at Asilomar for the retreat, we took a quick walk between the rain drops to find The Old Tracks (5:22 PM). Never realized there was an old railroad through here that’s now been converted to a trail.