Master Index    Nearest Caches GRS takes care of bad gas by Cacheflyer (1.5/1.5) N33° 36.905  W117° 49.538 (WGS84) UTM  11S   E 423411  N 3719784 Use waypoint: GC1C2HG Size: Small    Hidden on 5/12/2008 In California, United States Difficulty:     Terrain:

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5/15/2008 by Pacholik
Found it. I had looked at this area before. Just too many signs but this we the perfect spot. Thanks

5/13/2008 by Cacheflyer
Back online and available at 230pm. Yeah!

5/13/2008 by Cacheflyer
Just offline for a couple of hours today for some small repairs.

5/12/2008 by mmarmont
FTA and STF.

Grrr... this one should have been mine. I made decent time getting down there from Costa Mesa, but literally as I was getting out of my car, I was approached by a worker who told me I would have to leave because a truck was going to be coming through. I pulled a little ways forward to see if I could out-wait them when the big truck started approaching from one direction and a big white pickup approached from up the hill. A guy gets out of the truck says something to the worker and then starts poking around the large water valve there. I thought to myself "that guy looks like a geocacher", but he wasn't acting like a geocacher and the thing he was holding looked too big to be a GPSr. He also seemed to be inspecting on the water valve, which I already knew was 20 - 30 feet away from GZ, so I assumed that he was there to do some work on it. I didn't want to blow the location of the cache by grabbing it while two or three workers were only feet away, so I decided to give it a few minutes and I left. I circled the block a few times until the white truck left and came back to make a quick grab. I saw that JShults had already been there, but he signed 2PM on his log, which was about 20 minutes before I got there, so I didn't realize that he was the guy in the white truck until I saw his log. The cache looked to be in decent shape, so I guess he did a good job of repairing it.

Oh well. I'll take the STF. I guess that's the price I pay from trying to be stealthy. TFTC!

5/12/2008 by jshults (Rally Dude, Square D Team)
Arrived at the location to find a small crowd.

I noticed one person in a car seemed to be turning around but I suspect it was a cacher that was scared off by the other people. You know, cachers CAN be a shy group. Most are afraid of bright lights or being noticed.

Not being the shy type, I got right out and to talk to the Water District guy. He was waiting at the locked gate for a dump truck to come out. The car drove away.

I proceeded to inspect the Back Flow Valve right near GZ. He mentioned that it had just been serviced. The inspection resulted in finding a violation almost immediately. There was not LOCK or SEAL on the shutoff valves. Someone had just wired the chain ends together. He said the last service guy had removed it to work on it. We sent off to relock the gate now that the truck came out.

As he waved goodbye and left, I proceeded to search the area for the missing lock, thinking it might have been dropped during the recent servicing and was just forgotten.

While searching someone else pulled in to ask directions to Sage Hill Road. Easy answer there, go back one block, you drove by it. Back to CACHE searching but then another guy pulled in (I didn't see the sign that said Driving Directions and Information HERE) to ask how to get to Laguna Hills. It appears he got off the 73 a LITTLE early so I headed him back down the road.

Finally, a little peace and quiet... And FINALLY the cache was in hand, well most of it. Back to the truck for some container maintenance. Signed the empty log and grabbed the Cape Hatterous Lighthouse Coin (really cool).

Thanks for the adventure and the find (#1401)...

5/12/2008 by Cacheflyer
Dropping a coin in.

5/12/2008 by Marko Ramius
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