GPS track
Escooby asked on theGBA forums if anyone wanted to accompany him on a hike in Almaden Quicksilver (south San Jose). I was the only one to take him up on it. I hadn’t done any serious caching since the end of July and since Karen was feeling quite good, it was nice to get out. I had never met escooby, but I enjoyed our time together and would cache/hike with him again at the drop of a hat (circumstances permitting).
I was a few minutes late getting to the Woods Road trail head. Escooby was patiently waiting, but it didn’t take long to start on the trail, where inititally we were finding a cache about every 0.1 miles. We started hiking around 8:15 AM and were back in the parking lot around 4:00 PM. In between we covered 10.7 miles and found 22 caches and the first stage of The Hobbit multi-cache. Since I didn’t take time to log any details, and my memory is fuzzy of each individual cache, I’ll just list them here in order of finding them.
- Encouragement; 8:22 AM
- You Can Cache!; 8:29 AM
- 500,000 Words; 8:39 AM
- Army ReTIRED; 8:44 AM
- No N.U.T.S. Here!; 8:52 AM
- BTC; 9:00 AM
- Assume Nothing #3; 9:09 AM
- Tick House; 9:18 AM
- Treasure Rock; 9:27 AM
- Miner’s Junk; 9:35 AM
- Not Cinnabar; 9:45 AM
- Shady Vista; 10:01 AM
- We Dig Cemeteries; 10:29 AM
- It’s a Gas; 10:56 AM
- SILVER CACHE; 11:27 AM
- San Cristobal Mine Cache Redux; 12:01 PM
- Victoria Shaft; 12:25 PM
- April Mine Trestle; 12:37 PM
- English Camp; 1:03 PM
- Rocky Start; 1:43 PM
- Cemetery Trees; 2:33 PM
- High Ridge; 3:14 PM
- Secret Trailhead #16–Wood Rd; 4:10 PM