27 Dec 2006
7:50 PM
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Hayward, hard ones
Dan, Janet, and I went to Hayward to hunt the Wickander series. Only found 2 out of 5, but it was a neat hike down a creek in an urban area with so many trees and brush you couldn’t tell.
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23 Dec 2006
9:37 PM
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Christmas celebration in Bakersfield
After Christmas brunch at my Mom’s in Shafter, we drove to Kristi’s in Bakersfield to visit with Karen’s family. Around dusk we took the kids out to hunt the two closest caches. Joel seemed to really like it.
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22 Dec 2006
9:28 PM
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Isabella
Another day spent in Shafter, so I drove up the Kern River hunting caches. It was a great day of exploring. Found 8 caches. One DNF was particularly frustrating because it turns the owner blew the coordinates and apparently doesn’t know how to fix them. The cache is actually around Tehachapi. Still, I had a great exploratory drive on a narrow road on a ridge above the lake.
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22 Dec 2006
8:15 PM
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East Bakersfield
Found 8 caches in east Bakersfield, mostly along the Kern River. Interestingly, a couple were up on the ridge above the river, and I saw lots of excavation for fossils (probably shark’s teeth). I used to hunt teeth to the north side of the river, but didn’t know about this area. The strata looked exactly the same.
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20 Dec 2006
3:28 PM
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West Bakersfield
I thought I’d look for a few caches along the south part of the Kern River bike trail. Easily found the first one (a nano), but couldn’t get the second one (apparently a small micro in a pile of rocks). Then I drove into Bakersfield and found For those about to Rock... a cache I had previously DNFd.
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17 Dec 2006
7:30 PM
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Del Valle
Dan and I hiked into Del Valle from the trailhead by the dam (not the usual place we hike into Del Valle). It was a pretty good climb, but very enjoyable. We picked up 3 caches.
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2 Dec 2006
8:28 PM
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Mark’s birthday hike
For Mark’s birthday we hiked in Diablo Foothill’s along the fairly flat creek trail that starts in Walnut Creek near Castle Rock park. It was a great hike (the girls did great), and at the end, just at the entrance gate into Diablo State Park we picniced at a table judiciously placed. Also picked up a couple of caches (Dan got several more, that I had already found).
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