Geocache Description:
If you're familiar with the trails in Santa Teresa County Park, you may have endured the steep Boundary Trail at the southeast edge of the park. You may not know about the trail at the northwest side of the park, even though this is one of the most easily-seen park trails from the neighborhood below. Actually, it's not really a trail. It's not on the park map. There are no trail signs pointing to it. It's because it's a PGE service road for the giant power towers at the edge of the park. While this isn't a trail, it has a wide, hard surface, is usually in good shape, and it is not illegal to use it as a trail. The road branches off to the west and drops down from the Joice Trail near M&J Style: Mint Cage (GCK3V9). There is a main service road, with several side roads branching off to each of the towers. It wraps around the hill and dead ends. There is a volunteer trail that continues up the hill to join the Bernal Hill Loop Trail near Rocky Bench (GCK4QN). You get a spectacular view of the Santa Teresa/South San Jose neighborhood and all of the South Bay from here. They also get a nice view of you, so be discrete. Don't do anything that looks suspicious.
This cache is a camo'd M&M's container. It contains only a pen and log, but it has room for very small, skinny trading items. It can be reached without taking a step off the service road.
Here's the safest and easiest way to get here by following the caches along the trails:
Start at the B-G-J Ranch
Then go up the Joice Trail to Once in a Blue Moon (GCK4QK)
Keep following the trail to Joice-Bernal Corner (GCQN5G)
Where the trail levels off and turns left, turn right and head down the service road leading to the power towers. Bingo, you're there. Absolutely no need to bushwhack.
After that, you're on your own.
Update 2/20/10: the cache was a victim of a natural disaster. It was replaced with another M&M's container. Watch out for spiders and snakes.
Update 2/25/21: I haven't serviced this cache in a long time. The container was fine. Somebody else may have replaced it. The logsheets needed to be replaced. I had a replacement cache already prepared, with a pencil and logsheets, so I substituted it. It's a plastic pill bottle.