buckyd's Geoblog

Jun 6, 2010

Public Shore

By: Atomsoup Difficulty: 3.0 Terrain: 2.0 Container: Regular

Figured we'd come by again and enjoy the area, since we were toodling on by anyway. Thanks.

May 9, 2010

"Right Wrongs Nobody"

By: Atomsoup Difficulty: 3.0 Terrain: 2.0 Container: Regular

We were out on a Mother's Day numbers run (because I got to choose and the kids could just go stuff it as far as I was concerned). We ended up all the way out here, and WalruZ (since he had time to run his query this morning) had this in his GPSr. What the hey -- the baby needed a bottle anyway, so we hung out and calculated for a while, looking for where the problem in the multi's math could be. I really liked the hide location, and lil'brother loved walking in the breeze (we were between rains) after downing his lunch. Thanks!

Mar 8, 2009

James Lick

By: bullit Difficulty: 1.5 Terrain: 1.5 Container: Micro

We came from the Guadelupe river trail side, noting that there is a gate to allow access between the residential area and the recreational trail. I finally figured out how to project a waypoint with my not-new GPS, and found the cache quickly after that. Enjoyed the area, despite the chain link fences, and stayed to sample the playground for a while.

Feb 15, 2009

John in Bronze

By: Trail Reader Difficulty: 1.5 Terrain: 1.5 Container: Micro

We had to revisit the area to grab the second stage later in the day, after the place opened, so that all those people weren't hanging around the neighborhood doing nothing while waiting for it to open. Thanks.

John Was a Salinas High "Cowboy"

By: Trail Reader Difficulty: 1.5 Terrain: 1.0 Container: Micro

Yeah, I was on that strange jalopy ride through Salinas in the rain with WalruZ. thanks for the cache.

Dec 6, 2008

La Mission San Carlos Borromeo del Rio Carmelo

By: WalruZ Difficulty: 1.5 Terrain: 1.5 Container: Regular

I accompanied WalruZ on his recon mission (pun intended) and we noted a painfully missing sign for stage 1. Hmmm. Nice walk in the preserve, though. Dropped a traveler. TFTC.

Nov 30, 2008

A Senior Moment

By: N2Books2 Difficulty: 1.5 Terrain: 1.0 Container: Micro

We had a nice time walking around the area getting the answers. No one around on a Sunday late morning. Thanks for the cache.

Oct 5, 2008

Been Here: East Java

By: 50sumtin Difficulty: 2.0 Terrain: 3.0 Container: Micro

We've now Been Here too, in homage to 50sumtin. It was a great day for a stroll on the levees, and the weather was just right. Stroll on, Bud, stroll on...

Aug 30, 2008

Childhood Playground 1 & 2

By: roanq Difficulty: 1.5 Terrain: 1.5 Container: Small

We had a lot of trouble with stage 1, and WalruZ ended up locating it after about 40 minutes of searching and trying not to look too suspicious (well, I was, WalruZ doesn't worry his pretty head about other people). At stage 2, we were pointing directly up into the nasty poison oak area and even bashed around in there a bit before I looked in the opposite direction as the arrow and very quickly spotted the cache. I think we were about 40 feet off zero at both stages... Nice to have some new caches in the area this summer, thanks!

Aug 2, 2008

Off the Beaten Path- Greenwood Park

By: fox51and jmunch Difficulty: 1.5 Terrain: 2.0 Container: Small

I had never noticed the mural before, thanks for showing it to us.

Jun 22, 2008

Historic Palo Alto 2

By: Rain734 Difficulty: 2.0 Terrain: 1.0 Container: Not chosen

WalruZ, Geo Baby and I have been chipping at the stages of this one for a couple years now, and today we finally achieved signing the bonus cache's logbook. We loved the bold placement! Exchanged a M & Ms man for a lion stamp to keep Geo Baby occupied for a bit. Thanks.

May 25, 2008

J.J.

By: Cachegeezer Difficulty: 2.5 Terrain: 1.5 Container: Regular

At first there was just two of us that piled out of the minivan to visit stage 1 and the pair of cachers already workin' the area, then two more minicachers piled out to examine, then the driver and the miniest cacher came out. After some time scouring the area (good thing people around here were probably used to seeing this sight after the last few days), I came up with the coordinates (not very easy to determine that was what they were at first). All the minicachers with us appreciated looking at the swag in the regular sized cache. Nice to meet the covina cachers and talk minivan with them. Thanks!

May 23, 2008

Migratory History 2

By: ErSamin Difficulty: 2.0 Terrain: 1.0 Container: Other

We were debating whether to start this multi before arriving at the pre-event, when we joined forces with a few other cachers and made our way to the final. More cachers were attracted over by our little group, and one of the newcomers made the find. It is amazing how long it takes a little clutch of 15 cachers to come up with a little microcache! Thanks.

Apr 27, 2008

Baylands Teamwork

By: bytemobile Difficulty: 3.0 Terrain: 3.0 Container: Regular

We met chasam and co. here looking for stage 1, and were searching where they zeroed out, which was roughly the area I found stage 1 in in 2006. I see now, reading through the November logs and checking with the coords in WalruZ's gps that he hand-entered from chasam's printout, that we were using the old coords to search. That explains it... I should have been more thorough when checking the info on my Treo -- sorry chasam!

Apr 19, 2008

La Barranca Park

By: 50sumtin Difficulty: 2.0 Terrain: 1.5 Container: Micro

We started this cache in the morning with the first stage, but then were distracted by playgrounds, birdies, duckies, carp, painters, modern sculpture playgrounds, bike ramps, surfers, old boats, AIDSwalk participants, fraternity brothers, doggies, and {whew} finally caught up to the 4th stage in the early afternoon and did the rest backwards. Lots of fun, thanks!

Mar 30, 2008

The Legends of Milpitas

By: GeoBrowns Difficulty: 2.0 Terrain: 2.0 Container: Small

The container needs some attention, or at least a dried-out logbook in a ziploc.

The Legends of Milpitas

By: GeoBrowns Difficulty: 2.0 Terrain: 2.0 Container: Small

Nice sculpture. Signed with permanent pen under the names of jholly and sjkel. Good luck getting the pages of the logbook to separate, though, it's thoroughly soaked and took some doing (and a few rips) to find the last page on which to sign... Didn't want to leave a TB or coin, given the moisture issues.

Jan 26, 2008

Battles of the Arachnoids

By: adeshais Difficulty: 2.0 Terrain: 1.0 Container: Small

I've had the final location for this one for quite some time, after having "cleared out" the areas at each stage over the last year or so. Today, I found myself driving by on this brisk but dry Saturday morning and thought "hey, this would be an excellent time to do this final!". So I did. Thanks for the cache!

Jan 7, 2008

Tickled Pink!

By: Timm and Rick Difficulty: 2.0 Terrain: 1.5 Container: Regular

I managed to work this in during my (all-morning) commute into work today. Nothing like having a half day left of vacation hours to ease one back into the routine. The area that the final was hidden was well worth the visit. Thanks for the cache!

Dec 28, 2007

Cross Over to Ackerman

By: GeoMoosers Difficulty: 1.5 Terrain: 2.0 Container: Small

Nice little cottages they've got around here, eh? I made short work of stage 1, then it was off to stage 2 which Walruz made the grab on. Thanks for the cache.

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