Halloween decoration on the
burned hillside
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Note from pianofab: The cache is now a camoed tea tin
container. You may need a TOTT to open it, and a pen to sign the
log.
Note from paleolith: On August 26, 2008, just before I
adopted the Little Toy Box, the Lost Fire burned both the
original cache location and the substitute location where others
had put replacement containers, as well as virtually all
possibilities for hiding a regular size cache nearby. Details of
the change are in
this maintenance log entry. birddroppings' original description
is there also, since I had to rewrite it considerably due to the
changes in conditions.
Looking up the hill
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You will hike a wide, worn trail up the hill behind the roller
hockey rink, to the edge of the area burned on August 26, 2008.
This trail is steep but also pretty short. Coming down will be the
trick as a butt plant will be almost likely at some point.
Lost Hills Road, looking
north from the cache site
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Two alternate routes are less steep, though also less
dramatic. Instead of near the roller hockey rink, park at the
corner of Lost Hills Road and Calabasas Hills Road. From there, you
can see a broad track going roughly west up the hill -- it's very
steep but not as steep as the roller hockey trail. This will take
you to the top of the ridge.
You can also head almost directly for the cache, going up
a draw -- look for a social trail just left of the draw, not the
more visible one farther left which goes more directly to a low
ridge. This is the easiest route (and paleolith's favorite).
The original theme of the cache was toys. This had been
diluted over the years to the point of being unrecognizable.
Beautiful view across the
canyon, especially at sunset. The start of the Bark Park Trail is
visible in the lower left.
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