50sumtin's Big Basin Park HQ to Sea Baker's Dozen! Mystery Cache

I was inspired to place a number of caches along or close to the Big Basin's Skyline to the Sea Trail when I noticed that there were so few caches in the Big Basin Redwoods State Park and that what few there were were rarely visited.

I was finally motivated to actually place my caches when I was invited to join a birthday geocaching hike along the Skyline to the Sea Trail from the Park's Headquarters down to Waddell Beach.

This puzzle cache (besides appropriately having a name so long that it uses every character space available in the title field!) will tie 12 of the caches along the Skyline to the Sea Trail together.

The posted coordinates are NOT the final coordinates for this geocache. You will need to gather clues from 12 established caches along the Skyline to the Sea Trail to solve the puzzle for the location of this "baker's dozen" bonus cache.

This puzzle cache location is N 3A BC.DEF W 12U VW.XYZ

Clues for this puzzle cache will be found at the following caches:

1) GCQGM3: Old Growth Cache (owner: 50sumtin)
2) GCPRKH: Hihney Cache (with permission of Chickasaw) or GC19K1A: Mike Ferguson to the Rescue! Big Basin Edition (50sumtin) edited 6/11/8
3) GCQGM6: Big Basin Cache (50sumtin)
4) GCQGMC: Kelly Timms Creeks Cache (50sumtin)
5) GC107VB: Berry Creek Falls (50sumtin) edited 1/6/7
6) GCQH16: A Crossing Place Cache (50sumtin)
7) GCPEKE: Maden Voyage (with permission of Pawnee)
8) GCA09: Waddell Creek Cache (with permission of Noelle and David)
9) GCQE01: Baldercache (50sumtin)
10) GC93C: Cañada de la Salud (with permission of coralgeo)
11) GC14JBH: Horse Camp Trailhead (50sumtin) edited 7/22/7
12) GCQDZQ: Waddell Beach (50sumtin)

Other caches you may want to look for along the Skyline to the Sea Trail (or relatively close) include:

To qualify as a find, cachers must find this cache after finding the others, and then post a log for this and each of the other baker's dozen caches.

Post either:
A "Found It" for a first-time find for the cache, or
A "Write Note" if you've found the cache previously (or are a cache owner) and are just returning to get the clue or if the cache was unavailable due to external circumstances.

I will delete "Found It" entries for this cache if the other baker's dozen caches do not have appropriate entries.

Enjoy the beautiful trails! And happy caching!

50sumtin

I love to go a-wandering,
Along the mountain track,
And as I go I love to sing
My knapsack on my back.
Val-de-ri,
Val-de-ra,
Val-de-ra, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
Val-de-re,
Val-de-ra
My knapsack on my back.

Oh! may I go a-wandering,
Until the day I die.
Oh, may I always laugh and sing
Beneath God's clear blue sky.
Val-de-re,
Val-de-ra
Val-de-ra, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha
Val-de-ri,
Val-de-ra
Beneath God's clear blue sky.

NOTES:
Bring a map: GPS reception will be poor at best along most of the trails.
One-day hike: arrange to leave vehicles at Waddell Beach and then drive to Santa Cruz. Catch a bus from Santa Cruz Metro Center to BIG BASIN Park HQ. When I last did this (August 2007), the bus left on Saturdays at 8:30 a.m. and arrived at Park HQ at 9:45 a.m. Bus schedules are subject to seasonal changes: check bus schedules ahead of time BEFORE your planned date. Fare was $1.50.
On that August 2007 hike we left Park HQ a little after 10 am and reached the Waddell Beach sometime after 4 pm with a break for lunch at Berry Creek Falls.