19th century loggers cut waist-high notches--still visible today on some old stumps--where they inserted springboards. They stood on the boards to cut higher up on the tree, avoiding the wider base which didn't have lumber quality grain. The boards bounced up and down as they chopped and sawed.
This cache is on a 4.8 mile segment of the Bay Area Ridge Trail that connects Wunderlich and Kings Mountain Road/Huddart Parks. The single-track trail is shady and cool. Near the Wunderlich Park entrance it passes below a subdivision of homes before winding back up close to Skyline Road. It runs through a fenced easement in the California Water Company's Bear Gulch Watershed. The fence is mostly unnoticeable.
Some GPSrs will have trouble with tree cover here, so hide is not tricky.
Hours are 8:00am to sunset (San Mateo County jurisdiction). Please respect trail hours, and use the posted trailheads.
There are no shortcut paths down from Skeggs Point or Methuselah.