“Bruce, the Bat Sign is illuminating the night sky! Shall we head to the Bat Cave?”
Bruce Ward sighed expressively, “I’d been meaning to tell you, but hadn’t had time. The superhero business isn’t what it used to be, and I got hammered in the dot.com bust. I’ve been forced to sell the Bat Cave to a boutique winery for an aging area.”
“Holy Chardonnay! What are we to do?” exclaimed his young ward, Dick Grayson.
“Well, I’ve made an arrangement with Calero County Park to store our things near the Bat Box on the Javalina Loop Trail. Unfortunately it’s about a two mile, strenuous hike to get there, but it’s the best I can do. At least there are three caches along the route from the main parking lot. One of our friends, TeamSpider3, has a calibrated scanned map for ExpertGPS of the park available at:
http://boulter.com/geocaching/maps/maps/us/ca/caleromap.jpg
and
http://boulter.com/geocaching/maps/maps/us/ca/caleromap.map
As I understand it, he used Adobe PhotoShop Elements to convert the park map from the County Parks web site from PDF to a JPEG and then calibrated in ExpertGPS by locating three waypoints on the JPEG map.”
They reached the Bat Box and proceeded to where Bruce had hidden their things.
“Holy food storage containers! All that’s here is Gladware Entrée container, and all that is in it is caching trinkets, a log book and a geocaching note!”
“DRAT, one of our foolishly named archenemies must have gotten wind of the plan and taken our things, replacing them with this innocuous geocache! I guess we can be thankful that there is only a little poison oak near the cache, just don’t stand in the wrong place when getting it out. At least we can log a find.”
“Holy cottonmouth! Why didn’t you tell me there was no water near the site?”
“Dick, there is NEVER water in these parks, you should know that by now,” said Bruce sipping the last of his bottle of Evian. “Let’s head back the way we came, the rest of the Javelina Loop is even tougher than the way we came, but it is lovely. Perhaps another time.”
This is a terrain 3.5 for the hike in, the local area is a terrain 1. The cache is in plain sight if you are near it, and is not on the ground or buried under anything. You've made it this far, it would be mean to have a tricky hide.