Trails Challenge: Hayward Shoreline Traditional Cache
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Trails Challenge: Hayward Shoreline
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Each year the East Bay Regional Park District holds an event known as the Trails Challenge. Park staff and volunteers write descriptions of their favorite trails, which are compiled into a booklet featuring the top 20 trails for that year. People who register for the Challenge (see www. ebparks.org) can earn a pin for completing five trails by December 1st. Those who want a greater challenge can take on the May Marathon, which involves completing 26-miles of trails in the month of May.
In honor of the 10-year anniversary of Trails Challenge, I have placed caches on five of the featured trails.
The Hayward Shoreline trail goes through a restored marsh and is a wonderful place to observe avocets, stilts, egrets, ducks, and other shorebirds. The endangered salt marsh harvest mouse also lives here. Marshlands not only provide a home for animals, they also help cleanse the water and purify the air.
This trail is suitable to hikers and bicyclists. The trail is flat, hard-packed dirt and gravel. No dogs are allowed (sorry dogs).
Be sure to look back along the trail before accessing the cache: you can be seen from pretty far down the trail. I may move the cache if discrete access proves too difficult or if cachers begin to leave a path to the cache. Stay on the trail as long as possible.
The cache is small, so bring only small items to trade.
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