Danville Hills

Dan and Janet wanted to hike up into Las Trampas above Danville from the Remington trailhead, so I went along even though I had already found many of the caches in the area. On the hike back down from the ridge we used a small, steep single track that dropped right into San Damiano Retreat Center, where we picked up a cache. Nice trail to come down, but steep to go up, I think. We also found The Human Pretzel Factory in the nearby shopping center that I had not found on a previous attempt (too many muggles).

Trick or Treat

Dan and I did Trick or Treat on Shell Ridge today. We had attempted it a few months ago, but missing stages prevented us from completing it. It is a multi-cache with two options at each stage. One option leads to a dead-end (trick), while the other leads on to the completion. Team Alamo will archive it (he says) at the end of the month, and has provided the coordinates of every waypoint. While this was a clever idea for a cache, it must have been a maintenance nightmare. We visited every coordinate, and found that indeed several stages were still missing (or at least we couldn’t find them).

Mines road

Dan and I made an FTF attempt on Cedar Mtn Cave out on Mines Road. We got just a little bit later start than we anticipated and arrived just a couple of minutes too late to get FTF. We did meet Badwaterboy who claimed the honors.