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Up the Creek Without a Paddle Traditional Cache

Hidden : 6/28/2013
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

A short hike into lower Sibley Park from Old Tunnel Road, accessible from Fish Ranch Rd exit from Hwy 24.  


The hillbillies who set up their quaint lil' homestead at the location marked by the old geocache "There's No Place Like Home" (which has since been archived: a new "Boneyard" cache resides at the homestead now) decided to head upstream for a Sunday Drive.  They didn't get far, but they got further than you would think.  

You can get to the cache either via an animal/social trail from the main trail or via the streambed itself.  The animal trail is the shorter, more direct route but at some times of the year, it is difficult to negotiate without stepping in/through poison oak. As of April 2023, this route appears to be blocked by a large fallen tree. Thus I recommend the streambed. 

Streambed approach: there is a trail down to the streambed near a tree with a cut section of trunk in front of it, north of the cache by about 300 ft. See photo. The trail appears to be semi-regularly used by hikers to get to the creek so it seems to stay fairly open. Walk south along the stream, go over or under 2 or 3 tree branches en route, and you'll finally come to the cache site. There is a lot of vegetation in the area but it's not all PO. You can get to cache site via streambed without much PO danger. There are stinging nettles in the area too so take care.

Terrain rating of 3 applies during the dry season when cache was placed, and reflects the last 100 feet to the cache, as well as the existence of some poison oak at cache site.  A pair of scissors and gloves may come in handy to snip or bend away occasional dangling tentacles of PO that you'd rather not bump up against.
Terrain rating will increase during the rainy season.  

Congratulations to Hunt-n-Jeep on the FTF!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)