This is one of a short series of caches on a newish trail for which
COSCA has recently taken over the maintenance. We helped do some
work on this trail on the 2006 Trails Day, and came back the next
day to hide a few caches on it. This trail used to be private, but
it is now another public-use trail in the Dos Vientos area
Did you realize that at least a
couple of COSCA rangers are active geocachers? BTW: we left
room at either end of this series for one of the local Masters
of Camo to hide one of their devious little surprises
Please see the listing for Rotten Rooftops, in this series, for
information on trailheads. If you use the given TH waypoint,
this'll be somewhere in the middle, depending on how you go when
you reach the first trail split. If you haven't done the two
long-standing caches on the older trail to the east, you can get
them from that first split. No matter which way you turn, however,
you'll be able to reach this cache, and all the others we hid up
here. New trails have been cut to link up older sections, so
there's a lot of exploring you can do And now all the trails (eventually)
connect up to all the others.
No matter how you go to get to this cache, you'll wind up on a
wide trail that's almost a fire road. The cache will be up a short
hill. PLEASE do not bushwhack your way up it! The waypoint given
below this description is for a wide area on the east side of the
hill. A game trail leads up the hill; it's very open and easily
climbed. The obvious hiding spot at the top is *too* obvious; the
cache isn't there, but it isn't too far off. Again, look for
openings in the chaparral to get to it. You are looking for a
largish camo-duct taped rectangular plastic container, with a
locking lid. It'll hold about as much as an ammo can can. What a
mental picture: ammo doing the can-can Anywaaaay... it was seeded with all
kinds of odds-and-ends, thisses and thats, for young and old.
We put in two Travel Bugs and a geocoin, too. And a copy of
the first book in "A Series of Unfortunate Events" is
enclosed, for anyone who hasn't read them, but would like to
see what all the to-do is about. We think they're fun, and
pretty funny 
As you might guess, the view from this hill could be better, if
you like wild views and open lands, and especially if you grew up
around here and can remember it when there were almost no homes in
the area. We haven't lived in VC long enough for that, but we can
remember places where we *did* grow up that aren't the open land
that they were decades ago 
On the other hand, the huge
development here has made it more likely that the trails will
be maintained properly; we have to take what good we can from
"progress".
Hope you enjoy this "new" trail area