Bye Bye Birdie Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 3/2/2003
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

"Sprint"ed to this cache on the way to others.. do your research!

Welcome to Briones Regional Park! (visit link)

This is one of my favorite local parks to hike, cache, and spend time with my friends in.

With its rolling, grassy hills and secluded, shady canyons, Briones is a secret wilderness surrounded by the towns of central Contra Costa County. Although the park is close to Lafayette, Walnut Creek, Pleasant Hill, Concord, and Martinez, there are peaks within it from which you can see only park and watershed lands for miles in every direction.

From Briones Peak, the highest point in the park, there are panoramic views of Mount Diablo and the Diablo Valley to the east, the Sacramento River and Delta to the north, the East Bay hills and Mt. Tamalpais to the west, and Las Trampas Regional Wilderness to the south.

Briones' 5,756 acres are home to many animals and birds, which forage on the grasslands or find shelter among the oaks and bays. You may see black-tailed deer, coyotes, squirrels, red-tailed hawks, turkey vultures, and, if you are lucky, other more reclusive creatures. There are gorgeous wildflower displays in season.

Briones is an ideal park for hikers, runners, and horseback riders. There are five major access points, of which the two most developed are the Alhambra Creek Valley Staging Area off Reliez Valley Road near Martinez, and the Bear Creek Road Staging Area near Orinda and Lafayette.

Both of these have picnic areas (Bear Creek has more), water, and toilet facilities.

we parked at the Bear Creek Staging Area and walked in from there.

Feel free to bring the kids here since the cache's terrain is suitable for all. Just get to Mott's Peak Trail and you will be in good shape. The cache is near the most beautiful trees in the park. just beginning to blossom, with strikingly Orange moss like stuff on them.

This Cache is a Log only Cache, but feel free to drop in a penny if ya like, one for each cacher.

GOOD LUCK!

Team Bench.

p.s. thanks to Karly for naming this one

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