Went with Dan and Janet today. They let me choose where, so I picked Lake Chabot. There is a new series of 10 caches along the Ten Hills trail and the trailhead is easy to get to on Redwood Road. In fact, it turns out that Dan has run these trails many times during his high school cross country season.
Trees and Stones (Big Ones)! is a multi that starts right at the parking lot. Dan got suckered in by a decoy indicator and believed that the coordinates we needed were missing, but Janet calmly retrieved them right under his nose. We set a waypoint and started off up the trail.
Ten Hills Trail #1 was the first one we came to and found at 11:22 AM. This was an introduction to most of these–lot’s of poison oak around, some pretty close the hiding spot. I know I walked through PO on several occasions, but I had long pants. Dan and Janet did not. This cache was hidden at the base of a pile of sticks—varmint nest of some kind.
The next cache we came to was the hiding spot for Trees and Stones (Big Ones)!. The Bay tree (I believe) is a massive one. I found it at 11:40 AM behind the tree in the rocks. Covered well.
All the rest we found were Ten Hills caches. We found them in this order:
- #2 at 11:47 AM
- #4 at 12:06 PM
- #5 at 12:34 PM. We made this one very hard by approaching from the wrong trail and traversing lots of poison oak.
- #8 at 1:31 PM
- #7 at 1:48 PM
- #6 at 2:02 PM
- #9 at 2:30 PM
- #10 at 2:45 PM
On the way back to the car we searched for #3, but could not find it in a reasonable amount of time.