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Mr. Ranger's Good View from Monterey to Santa Cruz Traditional Cache

Hidden : 8/2/2003
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
3.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

This cache is well up into the Santa Cruz mountains, near where Mr. Ranger used to live. Summit Road is a good starting point.

Original Cache Description with minor edits.

The cache itself was an old 3 1/2 inch floppy disk box painted sort of camo colors, it was under the southish side of a somewhat lonely Chamise (Adenostoma fasciculatum) plant, although there are many others nearby. The dead lower branches make good cover.

I rated this a 2 for difficulty primarily because of the terrain. You can park within a few hundred yards of the cache, once you pick/find the trail, it is steep in places and covered with loose, gravel (and thanks to miscreant, presumably underage drinkers, glass), climbing gear isn't needed; although, open toed shoes are probably not a good idea. Strollers, bikes, little kids and people not fairly steady on their feet may not be good to bring to this cache either.

On a clear day you can easily see from Monterey to Santa Cruz, on a clear night with a telescope you can see for a few thousand light years; although hiking to a good view point with a telescope is much easier on the other side of the road.

Contents are:

Log book
Orange mechanical pencil
Cache note
Blue rubber lizard
Multi-colored heart bracelet
Yellow smiley face lock
Yellow smiley face slinky key chain
Wind-up walking teeth
Purple "beener" key chain
Mutil-colored mini frisbee
Multi-colored super ball

Revision Note: September 6, 2006 by 50sumtin

Today I replaced and relocated this cache. I had offered to adopt and accepted the adoption from Mr. Ranger after reading that the cache had been muggled. To my surprise I found the muggled cache container and the ziploc baggie of trade items. I took the old cache container and I left a larger black-painted tea tin container in its place (which should not have the water problems the old cache container had), and I relocated the hide about 20 feet east to a spot more hidden by the brush nearby. I also piled light brown stone about the container for more appropriate camoflage as well.

Another pleasant surprise was that the drive wasn't that bad along Summit Road to the cache. Park at the nearby benchmark disk (HS5215 - E 1457) to the southeast, and then do a very short scramble up to the "trail" and head over for the views!

Enjoy! And happy caching!

50sumtin

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Vs lbh pna frr n arneol ubhfr, lbh ner gbb uvtu hc.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)