The cache is located somewhere not far from the edge of Lake Berryessa. Hmmm there's lots of shoreline to this lake that's not a very helpful clue.
You'll need some form of water transportation. Rumor has it there's a back way in via a road, but it's on private property so I recommend conquering the hunt with a water landing.
We gave the Difficulty/Terrain a rating of 3/2 because you'll need a boat or PWC (that's techno jargon for Jet Ski) to reach the area where the cache is hidden. The hike from where youêll beach your boat isn't anything traumatic but there are lots of fox tails and other assorted prickly things so we highly recommend you bring long pants, socks, and shoes for the hike.
Once you come ashore, you've got about a half mile hike and about a 150 foot change in elevation. Oh, and there are rattle snakes in them thar hills, but in all my years of coming here, I've never seen one. But trust us, they're out there somewhere.
The cache is hidden in a small army ammo box. The contents at the time of hiding included:
Log book with cool green ink pen. (In a large Ziploc bag, unlike the rest of you varmints that squeeze the log book into a sandwich size bag!)
Glass bathroom faucet handle, with attaching screw. (You'll find its mate in one of my other caches. But hurry before someone else snarfs it!)
Marking pen in the shape of a pig. (Way cool.)
- Bottle of Tabasco sauce from Shaw's Crab House, Chicago, IL. (Got this from the cache hidden in Rancho San Antonio Park.)
- Entrance ticket to Chechen Itza. (Sorry, it's used. Cool place to hide a cache.)
- Combination lock for your luggage. (They were a big hit at my daughter's school. After giving away over 50 of them, she began selling them. My daughter, the 6th grade entrepreneur.)
- Party noise maker.
- A nylon bone. (OK, maybe it's not nylon - so sue me.)
- Sea shell
- 3Com Lanyard - handy for hanging your trade show badge around your neck. (Don't go to trade shows? Cut off the clippy thingy and turn it into a Silicon Valley bolo tie.)
- Brass cup hook. (A must have for every avant garde household.)
- A 1977 20 cent Australian coin.
- Sorry, I decided NOT to include my volunteer patch for being the Cookie Chairman for my daughter's Girl Scout troop. I decided to keep it and sew it on my jammies.)