This is the fifth cache in the California Hilltop series and the first on the east side of Gordon Road. Bac has been meaning to check out that part of the state forest over there for a few years now and a bright sunny morning after a snowy/rainy/miserable day provided the impetus to get out with Freya and explore. He found this part of the forest to be beautiful and unspoiled. The cache is a small lock-n-lock hidden at the crest of the ridge in a manner that should be obvoius to any geocacher. Please do not try to disguise the cache location -- the goal of this cache is to bring people up to a beautiful spot with a relatively easy find. This is not the highest point around -- California Hill #6 is placed at a slightly higher elevation and the top of California hill across the way is a bit higher. Nonetheless, this is one of the highest locations in the vicinity and the views from near GZ were quite good (though foliage will obscure them somewhat during the summer).
Please park at the signed California Hill State Forest parking area on the west side of Gordon Road. This is the same parking area that you would use for California Serenity and the other Taxman417 caches nearby. Then walk a short distance southeast on Gordon Road until you see an old woods road heading into the woods. Please do not try to park at the end of the woods road as Gordon Rd. is quite narrow and there's a perfectly fine parking area nearby. Follow the woods road. It mostly disappears a 1/10 of a mile in though if you know what you're looking for you can follow it quite a ways further. Otherwise, there are no marked trails, but the bushwhacking is very easy (at least with regard to living obstructions) as the forest is open all the way up to this cache. Feel free to stop and pull up any barberry that you see along the way to help keep it that way. With regard to non-living obstructions, well the hike up is steep in places no matter which way you go and you will likely have to do some scrambling over rocks/boulders. There are many ways to reach the top of the ridge where the cache is placed. Find the one that best suits you. Bac encountered a few wet spots lower down and higher up while placing the cache (in the spring).