The trails in the Santa Clara county parks just don't magically
appear overnight by the work of gnomes or dwarves! They are the
result of long months and years in planning and effort by the
county planners, staff, and volunteers. This cache is to
honor all those volunteers that give up a few of their Saturdays
getting hot or cold, dirty or wet, hungry and thirsty building and
clearing the trails we use for hiking and geocaching.
When this cache was placed it wasn't even a trail yet, just a
series of red flags marking the route. I was alerted and led to
this trail by my friend Curt, one of the many park volunteers.
Reading through the proposed master plan for the
Coyote Lake-Harvey Bear Ranch county park you discover that the
trail name will be the Mummy Mountain Trail and is part of
the phase 3 trail building effort. It will be difficult to get to
this cache initially and the terrain difficulty reflects that. When
the trail is finished the difficulty will be bumped down. Watch out
for poison oak, there is plenty in the area but none around the
cache itself, which is about 8 ft from the trail.
It's best to approach this cache from the south from the
Mende Benchmark Rest (GC1PD2P) cache.
The Santa Clara county park "Volunteer
Here" page can get you started in volunteering.