Foothill View Traditional Cache
Team Castro Valley: It is gone and a homeless camp is at GZ.
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A small/medium cache near downtown Hayward
This cache resides on land that was purchased years ago for an alternate north-south highway that never materialized. It was thought that highway 238 could be extended to parallel 880 above Mission Blvd. so that southern East Bay drivers might have an alternate route for travel (as with 101 and 280 along the Peninsula). Didn't happen, and thus we have our daily congestion between Oakland and San Jose (oh well). If you are here early, go grab a stack of pancakes after the cache!
The best access is via the small parking lot at the entrance to Carlos Bee Park off Grove Way 37 41.050 X 122 04.935. You can also get there by parking in the Safeway lot and going up the hill on the side nearest the tennis courts of the apartment complex 37 40.907 X 122 04.878. Parking at Carlos Bee Park will take you past the play structure and up a small hill to the way up the bigger hill (2nd set of coords above). The old road up the hill is now fenced off (wasn't twenty years ago) and that is the trailhead for hilltop access now. These coords are calculations made from decimal-format coords from Google Earth.
After getting up to the top of the hill behind Safeway and Creekside Apartments, continue northwest around the empty water tank along its left side (right side is fenced off). Area near cache is flat hilltop with some groups of trees and brush, but generally open.
There is an alternate route: Gary Drive dead-ends off Grove Way going uphill. Come through the end and hike around and up (roughly SE).
Cache is to be found among a group of young oaks. Please be sure to replace cache and natural camo as you found it. Cache contains special coin for FTF!
Happy caching!
Update 9/26/10: Replaced and moved. Small camo'd round-ish tupperware type cache. BE SURE TO REPLACE THE NATURAL CAMO TO HELP KEEP THIS CACHE FROM DISAPPEARING! New hint below.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
gehax gb oenapurf