Monster Mountain Traditional Cache
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This hill above San Francisco's historic stadium offers city, freeway, and San Bruno Mountain views. Getting to the cache is the challenge, finding it should be fairly easy.
CACHE REPLACED FOR THE 2nd TIME, WITH NEW COORDINATES, ON 6/29/08!
Please be sure you have the new waypoint and hint before seeking this cache!
San Francisco sports aficionados were outraged in 1995 when the City changed the name of windy Candlestick Park to 3COM Park as part of an endorsement deal. They vowed that true fans would always refer to the home of the football 49ers and (formerly) of the Giants baseball club as Candlestick, or affectionately "The Stick." A mere 7 years later, the old name returned as the tech crash hammered 3COM and dried up its marketing budget.
Then for a few years, the stick had another name, Monster Park. And this Monster is not the dot.com job site, but rather Monster Cable, maker of high-end speaker wire and other audio products. Asian-American entrepreneur and company founder Noel Lee beat out biggies like Oracle, Virgin, and Wells Fargo to secure naming rights and put his firm's name on the map, as well as on Highway 101 off-ramp signs. The name has since reverted to Candlestick Park, but why change a cool cache name just because the staduim can't stick with one name?
In keeping with the renaming frenzy, I thought it was appropriate to rename Candlestick Hill as Monster Mountain. The official trailhead begins at the end of Key Avenue, and takes you steeply uphill before winding around the mountain (I think there is also a trail up from the stadium parking lot). From there you're on your own. A narrow use trail from the west leads to the cache site without any need to rock-climb, although bushwhacking from other directions may work as well. The camo-painted plastic box contains a logbook, a cool FTF prize, and a couple random doodads.
Trivia question: What moptop British quartet played their last official public concert at Candlestick Park, way back in 1966?
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