The purpose of this cache is to provide First Aid for minor cuts and scrapes from the treacherous trail. This aid station is intended to offer supplies in case you run low at the top. If your looking at this cache page before hand some helpful things to bring and leave would be gauze, tape, bandaids and the like. PLEASE DO NOT LEAVE FOOD. Inside you should find similar First Aid items as well as the usual SWAG.
After 2010 the popularity of Mission Peak boomed. Often new hikers will come for the challenge and while most will make it to the top, some will not. Be aware of your limits and the limits of others. Please be conscientious when hiking here.
Please pick up your trash and leave the place better than when you found it. This is a great park to practice some CITO (Cache in Trash Out). Bring a garbage bag if you can.
Stay on designated trail and don't take shortcuts, for these often cause erosion in the soil. Its interesting to note this trail, when it was opened was intended for a few hundred people on the trail during the weekends. Now numbers tally in the thousands. I remember being in complete shock when I heard about long lines forming to take a picture to the iconic pole up top. Also fun fact, the holes that people use as footholds to stand on top of the pole, actually point to iconic features in the bay like San Jose, San Francisco and Mt Diablo. This cache is being replaced with the same size cache, repurposed mission and a little people proofing on it. I hope this one last a bit longer. Might need long arms to reach the cache.