Dan Q

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Dan Q found GC55HCZ Take a break!!

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The battery indicator on the eV I’m renting wasn’t confident that I’d make it all the way back home without a top-up, so I stopped for a 45 minute charge and a drink – the former for the car, the latter for me – at the services (pic attached of me at the chargers: this is nowhere near the GZ!) and figured I’d try to find the cache while I was waiting.

Coords took me to an unlikely looking spot and the hint wasn’t much use, so I looked at the logs and noticed that a few people had reported that they had found themselves on the “wrong side of the road”. That could be me, too, I thought… but the wrong way… in which direction? There were two roads alongside me.

I spotted a tall white thing that was different to the others and guessed that maybe that was what the hint referred to? When I got there, I even found a likely looking hiding place, but clearly my brain is still in USA-caching mode (I was caching on California a couple of weeks ago) because the hiding place I was looking at was the kind of “LPC” that just doesn’t happen over here. Damn.

So I stopped and tried to look nonchalant for a while, pacing around and looking for anything else that might fit the clue. Then I saw three things close together on the other-other side of the road and it immediately clicked that I was looking for something like them. I crossed over, sat down on the convenient perch while I waited for some muggles to pass, retrieved the cache and – at last – signed the log in what was basically the only remaining bit of space.

Had my GPSr sent me to the right place to begin with this adventure would have been much shorter, but I got there in the end… and still with 13 minutes of charging time left before I could drive away. TFTC!

Dan and an eV at a charging point

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Dan Q performed maintenance for GC7QG1Z Oxford’s Wild Wolf Three

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Replaced the vandalised note in Waypoint #1. Anybody who logged its absence in the meantime is welcome to message me and I’ll reply with a description of what it says so they don’t have to revisit the GZ.

Vandalism in the cache. "Too late."

Dan Q found GC13FY2 You don’t have to tremor; it’s not your fault.

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My last cache in the USA before I fly home to the UK this afternoon. Seeing the lake (which, aside from human intervention in creating a reservoir, fundamentally exists because of a millenia-old fissure along the fault line) really helps put the scale of the fault into perspective. A delightful walk to the GZ with only a smattering of drizzle plus a chance sighting of a doe and her fawn made this expedition perfect. If I find myself in this part of the world again, I shall try to hire a bike in order to better explore these trails. TFTC; FP awarded for the assistance in putting this world-famous fault line into perspective.

Dan at the San Andreas fault

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Dan Q found GC43DKN SAWYER TRAIL: Gimme a Call–Let’s Go Fishin’

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Took a few minutes to find, a few minutes longer to wait for the muggles to pass, then a few minutes longer still to work out how to retrieve the cache. Got there in the end! TFTC.

Dan Q found GC7H7C3 WarNinjas Kind of a Trailhead Cache

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Finding the cache – easy! Getting the log out, though? That was harder. Eventually I resorted to picking up the entire hiding place and shaking it, which worked.

Shame about the litter here. Wish I’d brought CITO gear.

Right, time for me to go back down the trail, find the car, and get ready to fly back to the UK! TFTC!

Dan Q found GC7G5K0 WarNinja’s Couldn’t find it!

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Even with the hint, I stared for a while before I saw this one. I guess it’s like those magic eye pictures or something. A bird in the tree was not happy that I was stood around for so long!

Dan Q found GC8A7WF Sheep Camp Trailhead (Southern)

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Very quick find on my final morning in the USA. Thanks to previous logs for the poison oak warning; I’d never seen the plant in person before, only in illustrations, and I wouldn’t necessarily have identified it in time without the warning!

Dan Q found GC4EFYR The Faults of Fissure-ing in Sag ponds

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My last morning in the Bay (and, indeed, in the USA) before I fly home to the UK this afternoon, and I was keen to add an Earthcache to the list of my finds while I’d been over here. Parked nearby, found the fissure (coming from a part of the stories with virtually no seismic activity to speak of, this is pretty epic!), sent an email. TFTC!