Logs for shadow101 

This took some poking around. But since the temps were climbing over 100, we weren't at our best. And the story about "The Outlaw" taking several years for approval is just that: a story. Hughes deliberately withheld the movie from release to build up interest in what was actually a pretty lousy movie. TFTC 

Hadn't seen this guy in a while, but bumped into him again at the Saturday 10 year event. Good to see he's still holding up well. 

You find the strangest things while at a CITO event. We're lucky that it didn't get tossed. TFTC! 

Probably the most difficult cache in history. I rest on my laurels. TFTC 

Every once in a while you hit one of those caches that all through the process you are saying to yourself 'This is totally cool'. And this is one of those caches. Maybe the fact that I wasn't on a numbers run helped, but after completing the find I found myself wanting more. A lot more. Perhaps not involving the (terrific!) watercolors, but a longer excursion through the back alleys of the city would be a blast. I was starting to flash on Sam Spade a bit here. Anyway, this is an instant addition to my must-do list. Many thanks for the fun. 

It was still foggy when I came by here, so the muggle factor wasn't high. I had forgotten the description and hint, so I just poked around until I found something out of place. TFTC 

Even the local 'residents' were in a foggy Friday mood, so grabbing this was a snap. TFTC 

Marky and Joani were kind enough to bring it to tonight's unevent. TFTC 

As a fan, I knew what this was right off the bat. TFTC

 

One of the easier multis that I've seen. Almost got run over bu the same SUV both coming and going. TFTC 

This one took me a while, because the GPSr did not want to settle down. I finally had to do a triangulation from about 100' away. Then I found the old location and new that I was close. I finally found the cache from the 'wrong side'. TFTC 

I liked this one. With a bit of logic I found this in less than 5 minutes. TFTC 

Reading that transcript was a lot of fun. We get kind of focused on caching, and overlook some of the other dimensions of GPSr use. TFTC 

This is now the oldest cache that I've found so far. THe log showed signs of some serious muggling, so I camo'd the cache a little bit. TNLN TFTC 

This sucker is huge. Maybe two dozen muggles went by while I was at the cache, and I swear that none of them gave me a second look. And replacing the camo was not easy. TNLN TFTC 

Quick find, but this should be at least terrain 1.5 for lack of wheelchair accessability. TFTC 

N 37° 16.573 W 122° 09.107
Elevation 2276 feet. This unnamed dam is near the headwaters of Peters Creek, which drains into Pescadero Creek, itself the primary watershed for the southern part of San Mateo County. The reservoir (when full) covers almost five acres, and is listed as a vital resource for flood control for San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties. The dam and reservoir are both on land owned by Jikoji Zen Retreat Center, but an easement is granted to the Mid Peninsula Open Space District, for a hiking trail that runs across the top of the dam. It is difficult to tell from the photos, but the height of the dam at the highest is almost 70 feet. Jikoji can be visited here: (visit link) and somewhere within these photos is the vicinity of cache GCG77M. 

Camp Stuart, Saratoga, California.
This location has been grabbed before, but the poster did not have any of the required info, so I'm grabbing it too. Camp Stuart was for a number of years the property of the Santa Clara County Council, and was a wonderful place for a quick weekend campout. I spent many a weekend here in the late 60s and early 70s, and had wondered how the place was doing. The pictures show that the property now belongs to the Santa Clara County Parks Department, and is undeveloped. A web search gave the following entry on the Opentopia Encyclopedia: "Camp Stuart is a defunct Boy Scout camp in Saratoga, California. It was sold to Santa Clara County in 1989, just days before several buildings were damaged in the Loma Prieta earthquake. The county has not demolished or developed the camp, and has no apparent plans for the area." Proceeding up the road a ways reveals that much of the land has been sold piecemeal for expensive housing. An unfortunate end to a wonderful place.